We Are Dark Angels (aka Deantoni Parks & Nicci Kasper) have composed the original score for the upcoming action thriller Ambush. The film is directed by Mark Earl Burman and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Connor Paolo, Jason Genad and Aaron Eckhart. The movie follows a US Army Squad fighting in the Vietnam War who must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission when their small outpost is ambushed. Burman also wrote the screenplay with Johnny Lozano, Michael McClung and Dillon Slack. Read the rest of this entry »

Planets in Alignment will release a soundtrack album for the British action/crime thriller Renegades. The album features the film’s original music composed by Chris Hurst & Robert Geoffrey Hughes (Nemesis, We Still Steal the Old Way, Pentagram). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Renegades is directed by Daniel Zirilli and stars Nick Moran, Lee Majors, Ian Ogilvy, Louis Mandylor and Danny Trejo. The movie follows a group of Special Forces veterans whocome together to avenge a fallen comrade – a former green beret, who is murdered in London by a ruthless drugs gang. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Howe (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: FarmageddonEarly Man, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, The People We Hate at the Wedding) is scoring the new Apple TV+ original series Shrinking. The show is created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town) & Brett Goldstein (Soulmates) and stars Harrison Ford, Segel himself, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller and Lukita Maxwell. The comedy revolves around a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks and finds himself making huge changes to people’s lives – including his own. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the French crime thriller Overdose. The album features the film’s original score composed by Erwann Kermorvant (36th PrecintA Gang Story, Rogue City, A Ticket to Space, CarbonThe Clearstream Affair). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Overdose is directed by Olivier Marchal and stars Sofia Essaidi, Assaad Bouab, Alberto Ammann and Nicolas Cazalé. The movie follows captain at the judicial police in Toulouse who is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers and is forced to collaborate with a Paris cop with diametrically opposed methods. Read the rest of this entry »

95th Academy Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: January 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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oscars9 This morning, the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of the last year will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 12, 2023 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center and will be televised live in the U.S. on the ABC Television Network at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Here are the music-related nominations: Read the rest of this entry »

Gaumont has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy drama Neneh Superstar. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jean-Bohémond Leguay. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Neneh Superstar is directed by Ramzi Ben Sliman and stars Oumy Bruni Garrel, Maïwenn, Steve Tientcheu, Aïssa Maïga and Cédric Kahn. The movie follows a 12-year-old girl who comes from a loving family in a disadvantaged area and dreams of attending the ballet school at Opera de Paris. Read the rest of this entry »

Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1981 slasher movie The Funhouse directed by Tobe Hooper and starring Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Sylvia Miles, Kevin Conway and William Finley. The album features the expanded original score from the film composed and conducted by John Beal (Killer Party, Zero to Sixty, Terror in the Aisles). The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »

Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield LaneThe Walking DeadBattlestar Galactica) has composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix original film We Have a Ghost. The movie is directed by Christopher Landon and stars David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Tig Notaro, Jennifer Coolidge, Erica Ash, Faith Ford, Isabella Russo, Niles Fitch and Steve Coulter. The supernatural adventure comedy follows a family who finds a ghost with a murky past haunting in their new house and becomes the targets of a shadowy government agency. Read the rest of this entry »

Silva Screen Records will a new soundtrack album for the 1974 thriller The Conversation written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Cindy Williams, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall. The album features the remastered original score from the Academy Award-nominated film composed by David Shire (The Taking of Pelham One Two ThreeAll the President’s Men,  Zodiac, Short Circuit). The reissue is set to be released digitally and physically on March 17. Click here to stream/download the soundtrack and visit the British Amazon store to pre-order the CD as import. Intrada Records has previously released the world premiere soundtrack album featuring Shire’s score back in 2001. Read the rest of this entry »

Clément Ducol (Little TicklesI Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, Maestro) is set to compose the original score for the upcoming musical crime comedy Emilia Perez. French singer/songwriter Camille (Corsage) has written the original songs for the film written and directed by Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, The Sisters Brothers) and will star Karla Sofia Gascón, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña. The movie revolves around a feared Mexican cartel leader who has a sex change to get away from the law and become the woman he’s always wanted to be. Read the rest of this entry »