B Original has released new digital albums/EPs for three scores by composer Philippe Rombi (Swimming Pool, Joyeux Noel, Angel, The Crime Is Mine, Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, Driving Madeleine) for films directed by François Ozon, all of which are available to stream in the U.S. for the first time. Titles include 2013’s Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) starring Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot & Charlotte Rampling, 2014’s The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie) starring Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz & Isild Le Besco, as well as 2012’s In the House (Dans la maison) starring Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Ernst Umhauer & Denis Ménochet. Listen to a track from each score after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Young & Beautiful’, ‘The New Girlfriend’ & ‘In the House’ Digital Soundtracks Released
Posted: February 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dans la maison, Francois Ozon, In the House, Jeune et jolie, Philippe Rombi, score, Soundtrack, The New Girlfriend, Une nouvelle amie, Young & Beautiful
Graham Reynolds Scoring Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’
Posted: February 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blue Moon, Graham Reynolds, Richard Linklater
Composer Graham Reynolds is reteaming with director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Sunrise) on the upcoming biographical drama Blue Moon. The film starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale & Andrew Scott tells the story of lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life unravel during the opening night party for his former partner Richard Rodgers’ hit show Oklahoma!. Robert Kaplow (Me and Orson Welles) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Rain Man’ Score Album Announced
Posted: February 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barry Levinson, Hans Zimmer, Rain Man, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1988 comedy drama Rain Man directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The album features the film’s remastered and expanded original score composed by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Inception, The Dark Knight, Dune, Interstellar, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line) who received his first Academy Award nomination for his work on the movie, including previously unreleased music. Also included as bonus tracks is a 2000 concert suite demo, as well as source and alternate cues. The CD, which is limited to 1,500 copies, will be available to order on the label’s official website at noon today. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Bear Scoring Matthew Shear’s ‘Fantasy Life’
Posted: February 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Bear, Cole Webley, Fantasy Life, Matthew Shear, Omaha
Christopher Bear (of the rock band Grizzly Bear) (Past Lives, Mother, Couch, High Maintenance, Swallowed, The Passenger) has provided the original score for the upcoming comedy Fantasy Life. The film is marks the feature directorial debut of actor Matthew Shear and stars Amanda Peet, Shear himself, Alessandro Nivola, Bob Balaban, Judd Hirsch, Andrea Martin, Holland Taylor, Zosia Mamet, Jessica Harper and Sheng Wang. The movie follows a man who – after an suffering a panic attack after losing his job as a paralegal – stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and develops a relationship with the girls’ mother. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Home Free’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Brown, Adrian Quesada, Home Free, score, Soundtrack
Nine Mile Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie coming-of-age comedy Home Free. The album features the film’s original score composed by Grammy Award-nominated songwriter/music producer Adrian Quesada (of Black Pumas) who recently received his first Academy Award nomination for co-writing the original song Like a Bird from Sing Sin. Also included are songs by artists including Benji Hughes, Ben Kweller and Ghostland Observatory. Visit Amazon to stream/download the soundtrack and to order the vinyl edition. Also listen to Quesada’s first track (Mix Master Mascis feat. J Mascis & Mix Master Mike) below. Home Free is directed by Aaron Brown and stars Ryan Cownie, John Karna, Jashawn Lee, Chau Long, Annie Fox, Annamarie Kasper, Joe Hart and Shaun Benson. The movie is set in 1997 and follows a group of college stoners who invite an unhoused professor to crash on their porch. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Romer Scoring Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Live-Action Movie
Posted: February 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Romer, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Lilo & Stitch
Dan Romer (Luca, Station Eleven, Maniac, Superman & Lois, Beasts of No Nation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Good Doctor) is currently scoring the upcoming live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic Lilo & Stitch. The film is directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) and stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Maia Kealoha, Tia Carrere, Chris Sanders, Courtney B. Vance and Zach Galifianakis. The movie tells the story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Eternal Summer’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Min evige sommer, My Eternal Summer, Patricio Fraile, score, Soundtrack, Sylvia Le Fanu
FatCat Records has release a soundtrack album for the Danish drama My Eternal Summer (Min evige sommer). The album features the film’s original music composed by Patricio Fraile. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s end credits track below. My Eternal Summer is co-written and directed by Sylvia Le Fanu and stars Kaya Toft Loholt, Maria Rossing and Anders Mossling. The movie follows a 15-year-old teenager who spends her summer with her parents at their family’s vacation home, knowing it will be her dying mother’s final summer. Read the rest of this entry »
Original Songs ‘Merry Mission’ & ‘We Go to Work’ from ‘Glisten and the Merry Mission’ Released
Posted: February 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cory Morrison, Damon Elliott, Dionne Warwick, Glisten and the Merry Mission
Songwriter/record producer Damon Elliott has released two original songs from the animated feature Glisten and the Merry Mission. Available to stream/download now on most major digital music services are Merry Mission written and produced Elliott and performed by Dionne Warwick, as well as We Go to Work written and produced by Elliott and performed by the movie’s voice cast. Also listen to both tracks after the jump. Glisten and the Merry Mission is directed by Cory Morrison and features the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr., Chevy Chase, Billy Ray Cyrus and Michael Rapaport. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pol Pot Dancing’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christoph M. Kaiser, Enrique Sánchez Lansch, Julian Maas, Pol Pot Dancing, score, Soundtrack
Oblique Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Pol Pot Dancing. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christoph M. Kaiser & Julian Maas (The People vs. Fritz Bauer, The Silent Revolution, Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything, Two Lives, 3 Days in Quiberon). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Also listen to the composers’ title track below. Pol Pot Dancing is directed by Enrique Sánchez Lansch and interweaves the stories of classical Cambodian dance and the violent Khmer Rouge regime through the lineage and multigenerational legacy of star dancer Chea Samy. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer Wins Grammy Award for ‘Dune: Part Two’ Score
Posted: February 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: American Symphony, Dan Wilson, Dune: Part Two, Grammy Awards, Hans Zimmer, Jon Batiste, Maestro
Hans Zimmer has won his fifth Grammy Award for his score from Dune Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 67th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles. He was previously honored with a Grammy in the same category for his music for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson received the award for the original song It Never Went Away from the documentary American Symphony in the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media category. Read the rest of this entry »
