Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original film Heart of Stone. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Steven Price (GravityOur Planet, Last Night in Soho, Baby Driver, Suicide SquadFuryThe Aeronauts, Over the Moon). Also included is Noga Erez’s opening titles song Quiet, which has previously been released as a digital single by Atlantic Records. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 11 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Heart of Stone is directed by Tom Harper and stars Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo, Jing Lusi, Matthias Schweighöfer and Paul Ready. Read the rest of this entry »

Ti Piment has released a soundtrack album for the French drama The Path of Excellence (La voie royale). The album features the film’s original music composed by Audrey Ismaël (Angel Face, Vortex, Germinal, Chacun pour tous, Gloria). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The Path of Excellence is co-written and directed by Frédéric Mermoud and stars Suzanne Jouannet, Marie Colomb, Maud Wyler, Lorenzo Lefebvre, Marilyne Canto, Cyril Metzger, Antoine Chappey and Alexandre Desrousseaux. The movie revolves around a young woman and brilliant student who leaves the family farm to try her chance at the entrance exam for top rated schools by enrolling in a preparatory science class. Read the rest of this entry »

Tips Industries has released a new soundtrack album for the Indian historical epic Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 HoursBlinded by the Light, The Hundred-Foot Journey,Million Dollar Arm, Viceroy’s House). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also check out the first track on the release after the jump. A separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie was released last September. Ponniyin Selvan – Part 1 is co-written and directed by Mani Ratnam and stars Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Karthi, Jayam Ravi and Trisha. Read the rest of this entry »

Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)

Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Robbie Robertson has passed away today at age 80. The songwriter, composer and guitarist who was best known as a member of the rock group The Band and his solo records has worked on numerous films directed by Martin Scorsese over the last couple of decades. He has scored the director’s 1986 feature The Color of Money, as well as his last two movies, 2019’s The Irishman and the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will be released in theaters on October 6. Read the rest of this entry »

Lee Mendelson Film Productions has announced the world premiere release of the complete score from the 1973 animated special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving written by Charles M. Schulz and directed by Bill Melendez & Phil Roman. The album features the original music from the 10th Peanuts special composed by Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Boy Named Charlie Brown), including previously unreleased bonus material. The 50th Anniversary Special Edition will be released digitally and physically on October 20, 2023. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and vinyl editions. Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated series Mech Cadets. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Max Aruj (CrawlThe Ice Road, iBoyThe Tank, Lansky). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 10 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Three first tracks have already been released as a digital single last week. Mech Cadets is based on the Mech Cadet Yu graphic novels created by Greg Pak & Takeshi Miyazawa and features the voices of Brandon Soo Hoo, Aparna Brielle, Victoria Grace, Daniel Dae Kim, Anairis Quiñones, Robbie Daymond, Josh Sundquist and Ming-Na Wen. The animated sci-fi action series tells the story of an underdog teen who joins a group of young Cadets who’ve been chosen to bond with Robo Mechs from space and defend Earth against alien invaders. Read the rest of this entry »

Sony Classical will release a new “extended edition” of the score album for the animated feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The album features the film’s original score composed by Daniel Pemberton (Enola Holmes, Steve JobsKing Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Birds of Prey, Ocean’s 8The Trial of the Chicago 7), including three previously unreleased tracks. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. In related news, a vinyl edition of the score album is scheduled to come out on November 17 and is available for pre-order here. A CD version will be available to order here soon. The label, which has also announced a release of the album in Sony 360RA & Dolby Atmos formats on August 10, has previously released the original score album in June, while Republic Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from and inspired by the movie. Read the rest of this entry »

Composer Philippe Rombi (Swimming Pool, Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, Potiche, War of the Buttons, In the House, Angel) is reteaming with director Yann Gozlan (Burn Out, A Perfect Man) on the upcoming French psychological thriller Visions. The film is written and directed by Gozlan (Burn Out, A Perfect Man) and stars Diane Kruger, Mathieu Kassovitz and Marta Nieto. The movie follows a married airline captain who begins an affair with her a former flame, when she gets recurring visions, nightmares and hallucinations and starts losing grip on reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Hippocampus has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy Paint It Gold (Un coup de maître). The album features the film’s original music composed by Laurent Perez Del Mar (The Red Turtle, I Kill Giants, My Son, The Mystery of Henri Pick, The Kitchen Brigade, Zarafa). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Paint It Gold is co-written and directed by Rémi Bezançon and stars Vincent Macaigne, Bouli Lanners and Bastien Ughetto. The movie follows an unscrupulous art dealer and his radical painter and longtime friend as they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex Belcher (Extraction21 Bridges, Citadel, Made in Italy, The Contractor) has recently scored the upcoming horror thriller All Fun and Games. The film is directed by Eren Celeboglu & Ari Costa and stars Natalia Dyer, Asa Butterfield, Laurel Marsden, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Annabeth Gish. The movie revolves around a group of Salem teens who discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors. Read the rest of this entry »