Amie Doherty (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Undone, Happiest SeasonSpirit Untamed, Battle at Big Rock, The High Note) has composed the original score for the upcoming comedy Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. The film is directed by Paul Briganti and stars Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Bowen Yang, X Mayo, Meg Stalter, Conan O’Brien, Cedric Yarbrough, Nichole Sakura, Sunita Mani, as well as John Goodman as the narrator. The movie follows three childhood friends turned deadbeat co-workers who fend off desperate park rangers, hairless bears and a hypocritical cult leader in the hopes of finding a priceless treasure. Read the rest of this entry »

DNA-Productions will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller The Engineer. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lionel Cohen (Mob Town, First We Take Brooklyn, Inside Man, Feral StateBlackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, August 25 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Engineer is directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and stars Emile Hirsch, Tsahi Halevi, Angel Bonanni, Abeckaser himself, Oshri Cohen and Dan Mor. The movie is based on true events and follows a team of agents as they hunt down the terrorist behind a series of bombings in Israel. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul Doucette (1 Mile to You, For All Mankind, The Archer) and Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery/Picard, Legion, The Night Of, Love & Death) have teamed up to score the upcoming documentary Canary. The film is directed by Danny O’Malley & Alex Rivest and chronicles the life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world who found himself on the frontlines of climate change – his life’s work evolving into a salvage mission to recover these historical records before they disappear forever. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Top Boy’ Score Album Announced

Posted: August 16, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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Netflix Music has announced the first score album for the British TV series Top Boy. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Brian Eno (The Lovely Bones, Dune, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 1 and physically (on both CD and vinyl) on September 29. Click here to stream/download the album and visit Amazon to pre-order the vinyl edition. A first track (Cutting Room I) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Top Boy is created by Ronan Bennett and stars Ashley Walters, Kane Robinson, Michael Ward, Simbiatu Ajikawo, Shone Romulus and Jasmine Jobson. The crime drama two seasoned drug dealers who return to the gritty streets of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler. Read the rest of this entry »

Hollywood Records has released the first song from the third season of the Hulu original series Only Murders in the Building. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Look for the Light (as featured in the episode Grab Your Hankies) written by Sara Bareilles and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman) and performed by cast members Meryl Streep & Ashley Park. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Only Murders in the Building is created by Steve Martin & John Hoffman and stars Martin himself, Selena Gomez, Martin Short, as well as new cast member Paul Rudd. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Animalia’ Soundtrack Released

Posted: August 16, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French/Moroccan sci-fi drama Animalia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Amine Bouhafa (Timbuktu, The Summit of the GodsFour DaughtersGagarine, Beauty and the Dogs, The Man Who Sold His Skin). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Listen to the first track (Ouverture) after the jump. Animalia is written and directed by Sofia Alaoui and stars Oumaïma Barid and Mehdi Dehbi. The movie revolves around a young Moroccan woman from a modest rural background who finds herself separated from her privileged husband and new family when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency. Read the rest of this entry »

Mexico City-based DJ, electronic music producer and composer Camilo Lara has provided the original score to the upcoming Amazon original movie A Million Miles Away. The film is directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella (The Good Girls, Northern Skies Over Empty Space) and stars Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Bobby Soto, Veronica Falcón, Sarayu Blue, Julio César Cedillo, Garret Dillahunt and Eric Johnson. The biographical drama is based on NASA flight engineer José Hernández’s book Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut by and chronicles his journey from a devoted family of proud migrant farm workers from a rural village in Mexico, to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, to more than 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. Read the rest of this entry »

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi comedy drama Landscape with Invisible Hand. The album features the film’s original score composed by Michael Abels (Get OutUs, Nope, Bad Education, Breaking, Nightbooks, Allen v. Farrow). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Landscape with Invisible Hand is written and directed by Cory Finley and stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers and Tiffany Haddish. The movie based on M.T. Anderson’s book of the same name is set in the near-future years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth and follows a 17-year-old artist and his girlfriend as they livestream their budding romance when they discover the alien species are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it. Read the rest of this entry »

Anna Meredith (Eighth Grade, Living with Yourself) has composed the original music for the upcoming British survival drama The End We Start From. The film is directed by Mahalia Belo (Requiem, The Long Song) and stars Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Nina Sosanya and Gina McKee. The movie is based on Megan Hunter’s best-selling 2017 novel of the same name and follows a new mother, her partner and their infant as they are driven out of London into the English countryside by cataclysmic flooding. Read the rest of this entry »

Plentiful Organs will release the first soundtrack album for the Canadian TV series Moonshine. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first three seasons composed by Agatha Kaspar (Kodachrome, Ginny & Georgia, Copenhagen). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, August 25 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Moonshine is created by Sheri Elwood and stars Jennifer Finnigan, Emma Hunter, Anastasia Phillips, Corrine Koslo, Tom Stevens, Peter MacNeill and Alexander Nunez. The drama follows a family of dysfunctional siblings as they battling for control of their family business. Read the rest of this entry »