François Tétaz (The Surfer, Wolf CreekHesherRogueJudy & Punch, Beast of War, The Portal) is scoring the upcoming Australian Netflix original series My Brilliant Career. The show is developed by Liz Doran (Barons) based on the classic novel of the same title by Miles Franklin and stars Philippa Northeast, Christopher Chung, Anna Chancellor, Genevieve O’Reilly, Kate Mulvany, Alexander England, Jake Dunn, Sherry-Lee Watson and Miah Madden. The 6-part period drama tells the story of a writer who breaks every convention of 1900 Australia as she chases a story that could write her way to independence, until she falls in love. Read the rest of this entry »

Dark House Music has released a soundtrack album for the slasher movie Pinocchio: Unstrung. The album features the film’s original score composed by Andrew Scott Bell (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, The Death of Snow White, Psycho Storm ChasersHome Sweet Home See You Next Christmas). Visit Amazon or most any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Pinocchio: Unstrung is written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and stars Richard Brake, Cameron Bell, Jessica Balmer, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, as well as Robert Englund as the voice of the Cricket and Jude-Evan Lloyd as the voice of the title character. The fifth installment in Jagged Edge Productions’ Twisted Childhood Universe feature series is set at an inside an elite London prep school and follows Pinocchio as he launches a violent crusade to carve himself into a real boy like his brother James, one piece at a time. Read the rest of this entry »

Caldera Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1971 western Catlow  directed by Sam Wanamaker and starring Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy, Jo Ann Pflug and Daliah Lavi. The album features first-ever release of the original film recording of the movie’s original score composed by Roy Budd (Get Carter, The Sea Wolves, The Wild Geese, Flight of the Doves, Kidnapped, Paper Tiger, Who Dares Wins). Visit the label’s official website to find out more about the CD and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary A Toxic Love Story. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nick Foster (Thunderbirds Are GoRenegade Nell, Misha and the Wolves, Greatest Days, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Lover, Stalker, KillerThe Twister: Caught in the Storm) & Jessica Jones (The Tinder Swindler, Unfamiliar, One DayAmerican Nightmare, The Crash, Fifteen-Love, Our Universe). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 22 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to a track from the composers’ score below. A Toxic Love Story directed by Alexandra Lacey revolves a young woman living in a glamorous California suburb whose arrest for a violent fantasy plot against her ex-boyfriend’s new wife becomes a sensational scandal. Read the rest of this entry »

Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, Love ActuallyRomeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby, The Incredible HulkRayThe Quiet American) is the new composer of the Channel 4/Peacock original series The Undeclared War. The Grammy Award winner has written the score for the second season of the show written by Colin Teevan (Das Boot, Rebellion) and starring Simon Pegg, Siân Brooke, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Alex Jennings, Danny Sapani, Ed Stoppard and Chloe Pirrie. The 6-part thriller directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) is set immediately after the end of the first season as the team in the Malware Department at GCHQ come to terms with a massive Russian cyber-attack and realize that Russia were not the real architects of the attack. Read the rest of this entry »

Manners McDade has released a soundtrack album for the French/German documentary The Mad Dog of Europe. The album features the film’s original music composed by Aisling Brouwer (The Buccaneers, Pompeii: Out of Time, White RiotLioness: The Nicola Adams Story). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Mad Dog of Europe is directed by Rubika Shah and centers on Herman Mankiewicz’s unproduced anti-Nazi feature project of the same name depicting the destruction of a German-Jewish family at the dawn of Hitler’s rise to power. Read the rest of this entry »

Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White LotusSmileUtopia, Babygirl, The Third Day, Lord of the FliesThe Girl with All the Gifts, National Treasure) has composed the original score for the upcoming Canadian comedy The Stunt Driver. The film is written and directed by Michael Dowse (Stuber, What If) and stars Jay Baruchel, Laurence Leboeuf, Ben Foster, Dan Bakkedahl and Ed Helms. The movie is set in the mid-70s and recounts the true underdog story of Ken Carter, the Canadian world champion stunt driver who battles personal demons and public doubt to attempt what everyone considers impossible – a mile-long jump across the St. Lawrence river in a rocket car. Read the rest of this entry »

ENKA has released a soundtrack album for the French biographical drama Forsaken (L’Abandon). The album features the film’s original music composed by Nicolas Errèra (Hidden Man, Raging Fire, My Mother, God, and Sylvie Vartan, Survive, AdoringShaolinThe Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, The Serpent’s PathMountain Cry). The soundtrack is now available on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Forsaken is co-written and directed by Vincent Garenq and stars Antoine Reinartz, Emmanuelle Bercot, Nedjim Bouizzoul, Azize Kabouche and Emma Boumali. The movie based on Stéphane Simon’s book The Last Days of Samuel Paty chronicles the final eleven days of a French school teacher whose murder triggered by a class on free speech shook France in 2020. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul McCartney has composed the themes for the upcoming animated feature High in the Clouds. The Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter who was previously announced to contribute original songs to the film is also receiving credit for providing the themes to the score (presumably based on his songs) according to producer Nicolas Atlan who shared images from last week’s scoring sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London on social media. Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost, Star Trek, The Incredibles, The Batman, Ratatouille, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Jurassic Worldhas composed the score for the movie directed by Toby Genkel (The Amazing Maurice, Two by Two: Overboard!) and starring Himesh Patel, Celine Dion, Hannah Waddingham, McCartney himself, Lionel Richie, Ringo Starr, Idris Elba, Clémence Poésy, Jimmy Fallon, Pom Klementieff and Alain Chabat. The animated musical tells the story of a teenage squirrel who embarks on an extraordinary journey to set music free after he accidentally sparked a revolution against the bossy diva-owl who has banned all music from his town. Read the rest of this entry »

Cinevox Records has announced the first-ever soundtrack release for the 1983 Italian cult comedy Il Ras del Quartiere co-written and directed by Carlo Vanzina and starring Diego Abatantuono, Lino Troisi, Isabella Ferrari, Lara Nakszyński and Mauro Di Francesco. The 4-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Goblin (Suspiria, Deep Red, Zombi, Contamination, The Heroin Busters). The soundtrack was released as vinyl edition last month (and now available from various speciality stores) and is now also available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to all four tracks, originally composed by Fabio Pignatelli & Marco Rinalduzzi, recorded at Trafalgar Recording Studios in Rome and newly remixed by Pignatelli himself, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »