Nitin Sawhney (The Namesake, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Breathe, Traitors, The Colour Room, Lila Says, Settlers) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disneynature documentary Orangutan. The film directed by Mark Linfield (Monkey Kingdom, Penguins), co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz (Elephant, Queens) is set high in the treetops of Southeast Asia, where a magnificent and mysterious community filled with playful personalities live. The movie narrated by Josh Gad follows Indah, an inquisitive adolescent orangutan learning how to navigate life as she prepares to leave her family and venture out on her own for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »
Nitin Sawhney Scoring Disneynature’s ‘Orangutan’
Posted: March 3, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Disneynature, Mark Linfield, Nitin Sawhney, Orangutan
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Soundwall’s ‘Another Day in Paradise’ Cover from Hulu’s ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Released
Posted: March 3, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, John Coggins, Paradise, Soundwall
Hollywood Records has released the cover version of Phil Collins’ Another Day in Paradise from the third episode of the second season of the Hulu original series Paradise. The track produced and performed by John Coggins (as Soundwall) is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. Paradise is created by Dan Fogelman and stars Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Krys Marshall, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Enuka Okuma, Percy Daggs IV, Aliyah Mastin and Charlie Evans. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cash Queens’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 3, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cash Queens, Double Dragon, Les Lionnes, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Les Films Entre 2 & 4 has released a soundtrack album for the French Netflix original series Cash Queens (Les Lionnes). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Double Dragon (Julien Bensé & Jil Is Lucky). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composers’ opening title and end theme after the jump. Cash Queens is created by Olivier Rosemberg & Carine Prévôt and stars Rebecca Marder, Zoé Marchal, Naidra Ayadi, Tya Deslauriers, Pascale Arbillot, François Damiens, Steve Tientcheu, Sami Outalbali, Olivier Rosemberg and Jonathan Cohen. The 8-part comedic thriller follows five desperate friends who join forces to find their way out of a tricky situation by robbing a bank disguised as men. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami & Marcus Trumpp to Reteam with Jean-Francois Richet on Netflix Film ‘Quasimodo’
Posted: March 3, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jean-Francois Richet, Marco Beltrami, Marcus Trumpp, Netflix, Quasimodo
Marco Beltrami (Scream, Logan, 3:10 to Yuma, A Quiet Place, The Hurt Locker, The Wolverine, Ford v. Ferrari, Hellboy) has revealed in a recent interview on Film Music Live that he will be reuniting with director Jean-Francois Richet (Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Assault on Precint 13) on the upcoming French Netflix original film Quasimodo. He is teaming up with Marcus Trumpp (Fear Street Part 1 & 3, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Love and Monsters, Turbulence, Clown in a Cornfield) to co-score the movie starring Vincent Cassel, Karim Leklou, Daphné Patakia, Benjamin Voisin, Sébastien Pouderoux, Noémie Lvovsky, Eli Nachmani & Alexis Rosenstieh. The drama, which is set in Paris on the eve of 1830’s July Revolution and reimagines the life of the man said to have inspired Victor Hugo’s iconic character, Quasimodo, follows the title character who gets caught between political turmoil and an impossible love as the cholera epidemic spreads through the city. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Physician II’ Soundtrack Albums Released
Posted: March 3, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Der Medicus 2, Ingo Ludwig Frenzel, Philipp Stölzl, score, Soundtrack, The Physician 2
Northern Artists Outlet has released two soundtrack albums for the German drama The Physician II (Der Medicus II). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ingo Ludwig Frenzel (The Tunnel, The Royal Game, Young Goethe in Love, The Last Supper, Riesending) who previously scored 2013’s original The Physician movie. Visit Amazon (or most other major digital music services) to stream/download the Part 1 album and click here for the Part 2 soundtrack. Frenzel has previously released several digital singles featuring selections of his score over the last couple of weeks. The Physician II is directed by Philipp Stölzl and stars Tom Payne, Emily Cox, Liam Cunningham, Áine Rose Daly and Aidan Gillen. The sequel follows Rob Cole as he finds himself stranded in his old home of London and and must fight once more for the recognition of his work, for the lives of his patients, and against a new challenge: the suffering of the human soul. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Trapanese Scoring BenDavid Grabinski’s ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’
Posted: March 2, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: BenDavid Grabinski, Hulu, Joseph Trapanese, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Composer Joseph Trapanese (The Witcher, Oblivion, Shadow and Bone, The Greatest Showman, David, Straight Outta Compton, The Raid: Redemption, Arctic) is reteaming with writer/director BenDavid Grabinski on the upcoming action comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. The film is written and directed by Grabinski and stars Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza González, Keith David, Stephen Root, Jimmy Tatro, Lewis Tan, Ben Schwartz, Emily Hampshire and Arturo Castro. The movie follows two gangsters and the woman they love as they are trying to survive the most dangerous night of their lives, with one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Howe to Return for Disney Channel’s ‘Zombies 5’
Posted: March 2, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Channel, Paul Hoen, Tom Howe, Zombies, Zombies 5
Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, Dog Man, Shrinking, Knuckles, Early Man, Parenthood, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Daisy Jones & the Six, Book Club: The New Chapter) is set to score the upcoming fifth installment of the hit Disney Channel/Disney+ original movie Zombies franchise. The currently untitled movie is directed by Paul Hoen (who previously helmed the first four films) and will star Malachi Barton and Freya Skye who will return to their roles as Victor and Nova, as well as Trevor Tordjman as Bucky. The sequel follows Nova and Victor as they must unite their groups once more to discover what a band of fierce mermaids who arrive in Rayburn are really after in order to protect the fragile harmony between the between the Daywalkers and Vampires they worked so hard to build. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Romer Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Kevin’
Posted: March 2, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Dan Romer, Kevin
Dan Romer (Lilo & Stitch, Luca, Station Eleven, Superman & Lois, Beasts of No Nation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Maniac, The Good Doctor) has been tapped to score the upcoming Prime Video original animated series Kevin. He also co-wrote the project’s theme song, I’m Coming Home, with Jason Schwartzman who stars in the title role and is performing the track. Check out the title sequence featuring the song after the jump. Kevin is created by Joe Wengert (Big Mouth) & Aubrey Plaza and also stars Plaza herself, Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, Aparna Nancherla, Gil Ozeri and Amy Sedaris. The adult animated comedy follows the the titular house cat as he leaves his human owners and moves into a local pet rescue in Astoria, Queens, where a band of misfit animals helps him discover what he truly wants out of life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bad Boys II’ World Premiere Score Album Announced
Posted: March 2, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Michael Bay, score, Soundtrack, Steve Jablonsky, Trevor Rabin
La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere score album for the 2003 action comedy Bad Boys II directed by Michael Bay and starring Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Gabrielle Union, Jordi Mollà, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle and Joe Pantoliano. The album features the film’s original score composed by Trevor Rabin (Remember the Titans, Armageddon, National Treasure, Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air, Snakes on a Place, I Am Number Four), as well as additional music by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Island, Desperate Housewives). Also included are numerous bonus tracks, including Mark Mancina’s unused demo for the sequel and a rearrangement of his original theme. The 2-CD set is limited to 2,000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the soundtrack. Bad Boy & Universal Records have previously released the original 2003 soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Banksters’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 2, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Banksters, HBO Max, Schallbauer, score, Soundtrack, Stefan Will
recordJet has released a soundtrack album for the German HBO Max original series Banksters. The album features selections of the show’s original songs and score composed by Stefan Will (Freud, Phoenix,4 Blocks, Transit, The State I Am In, Burning Days) & Schallbauer (Crooks, The Net – Promised Land). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the first song from each composer after the jump. Banksters is created by Bernd Lange and stars Vren M. Güvercin, Merlin Goller Von Garnier, Maria Dragus, Michelangelo Fortuzzi, Zoe Fürmann, Momo Ramadan, Anna Bardavelidze and Numan Acar. The thriller takes place after a 20-something is arrested for for a series of bank heists and follows his sister as she attempts to return the money and identify who betrayed him. Read the rest of this entry »
