Plaza Mayor Company has released for the French comedy drama The Marching Band (En fanfare). The album features the film’s original music composed by Michel Petrossian (And the Party Goes On). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s first track below. The Marching Band is co-written and directed by Emmanuel Courcol and stars Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin and Sarah Suco. The movie follows an internationally renowned conductor who learns that he was adopted and discovers the existence of a younger brother who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a marching band.
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Expanded ‘Out of Africa’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1985 romantic drama Out of Africa directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer. The album features the complete original score from the film composed and conducted by John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger, Somewhere in Time, Moonraker, Body Heat, Mary, Queen of Scots), including previously unreleased music, as well as alternate tracks and source cues. The composer received his fourth Academy Award for his score for the movie. The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. MCA Records has previously released the 1985 original soundtrack album, while Varese Sarabande has released a re-recording featuring additional tracks in 1997.
Jeff Russo to Score Paramount+’s ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’
Jeff Russo (Fargo, Ridley, Legion, The Night Of, The Umbrella Academy, For All Mankind, The Man Who Feel to Earth) has been hired to score the upcoming Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. The show stars Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, Zoë Steiner, Tig Notaro, Robert Picardo, as well as Holly Hunter who plays the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy. Oded Fehr, Mary Wiseman, Gina Yashere, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany will appear as guest stars in the sci-fi drama, which follows the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy.
‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 – Volume 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Lakeshore Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Paramount Network original series Yellowstone. The album features selections of the original music from the second part of the show’s fifth and final season composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Fast & Furious, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Crazy Rich Asians) and Breton Vivian (1883, 1923, Five Feet Apart, Redeeming Love). The Volume 2 soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 6 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released the first volume back back in 2022, as well as three albums featuring the scores from Season 2, Season 3 & Season 4, while Sony Classical has released an album featuring Tyler’s music from Season 1. Yellowstone is created by Taylor Sheridan & John Linson and stars Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Kelsey Asbille, Cole Hauser, Gil Birmingham, Ryan Bingham, Forrie J. Smith, Jennifer Landon, Kathryn Kelly, Finn Little, Ian Bohen, Moses Brings Plenty and Wendy Moniz.
Benjamin Wallfisch Scoring Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’
Composer Benjamin Wallfisch (It, Alien: Romulus, Blade Runner 2049, Twisters, Shazam!, Hidden Figures, Annabelle Creation) is reteaming with director Leigh Whannell on the upcoming horror thriller Wolf Man. The film starring Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matlida Firth, Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast, Benedict Hardie, Beatriz Romilly, Zac Chandler & Milo Cawthorne follows a San Francisco husband and father who returns to his childhood home in rural Oregon with his wife and young daughter, where he gets attacked by an unseen animal and begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
Expanded ‘Phantasm’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Waxwork Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1979 sci-fi/horror cult classic Phantasm written and directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister and Kathy Lester. The album features the premiere release of the film’s complete original score composed by Fred Myrow (Soylent Green, Scarecrow, Hour of the Assassin, Survival Quest) and Malcolm Seagrave, previously unrleased cues from the score recordings sessions, as well as the newly remastered original 1979 score album. The soundtrack, which is being released to coincide with the movie’s 45th anniversary, is now available as a triple LP set on the label’s official website, where you can also find out more information about the release.
‘Queens of Drama’ Soundtrack Released
B Original has released a soundtrack album for the French musical comedy drama Queens of Drama (Les reines du drame). The album features the film’s original score composed by Pierre Desprats (Olga, Rouge, She Is Conann, The Wild Boys, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, Perfect Nanny), as well as the movie’s songs written by Rebeka Warrior, Mona Soyoc, Desprats himself & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to the first two score tracks and several songs after the jump. Queens of Drama is co-written and directed by Alexis Langlois and stars Louiza Aura, Gio Ventura, Alma Jodorowsky, Bilal Hassani, Asia Argento, Nana Benamer, Thomas Poitevin, Dustin Muchuvitz and Raya Martigny.
‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Soundtrack Album Details
The details of the first soundtrack album from Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King have been revealed. The album features the film’s original songs written by Grammy Award & Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana, In the Heights, Encanto) and performed by voice cast members including Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Tiffany Boone, Mads Mikkelsen, Preston Nyman, Kagiso Lediga, Braelyn Rankins and Theo Somolu. Also included is a track performed by Lebo M who provided additional music and performances to the project. The soundtrack will be released on December 13 by Walt Disney Records. A separate “deluxe edtion” album featuring the songs and the film’s original score composed by Dave Metzger is also expected to come out this month. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and vinyl editions.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 1, 2024)
Making its linear premiere tonight is the Showtime original series The Agency developed by Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth and starring Michael Fassbender, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jeffrey Wright, John Magaro, Andrew Brooke, Katherine Waterston, Harriet Sansom Harris, Alex Reznik, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Reza Brojerdi, India Fowler and Richard Gere. The show’s original music is composed by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (All of Us Strangers, Living, The Forgotten Battle, The Strays, Censor). Click here to learn more about the political thriller, which premiered this past Friday on Paramount+ with Showtime and will air every Sunday night on Showtime.
Also premiering today is the MGM+ limited series Earth Abides developed by Todd Komarnicki based on the classic sci-fi novel by George R. Stewart and starring Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes, Aaron Tveit,Luisa D’Oliveira, Elyse Levesque, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Birkett Turton, Hilary McCormack and Jenna Berman. Adam King (Strays, Kim’s Convenience, Popularity Papers) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the 6-part sci-fi drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on MGM+.