The Hollywood Bowl has announced this summer’s season schedule, which includes a number of film music concerts. On July 10, 11 & 12, the Bowl will host Music from the Films of Wes Anderson, a concert featuring Thomas Wilkins conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a celebration of the music from the Academy Award-winning director (click here for more information). On July 21, 22 & 23, the Bowl’s 2026 Composer in Focus Joe Hisaishi will conduct the LA Phil for an evening of his compositions from Studio Ghibli movies and other projects, accompanied by some of his favorite film clips (visit the Bowl’s website for more information). On August 9, How to Train Your Dragon in Concert will make its Bowl debut with the live-to-picture performance of John Powell’s Academy Award-nominated score for the DreamWorks Animation production (click here for more details). Read the rest of this entry »
Hollywood Bowl 2026 Summer Season Schedule Announced
Posted: February 18, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Hollywood Bowl
Jongnic Bontemps Scoring John Burr’s ‘The Gates’
Posted: February 18, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Burr, Jongnic Bontemps, The Gates
Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Boots, Redfall My Name Is Pauli Murray, 4400, Madea’s Destination Wedding, Wedding Season, United Skates, World’s Best) has composed the original score for the upcoming supernatural thriller The Gates. The film is written and directed by John Burr (Muse) and stars Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, Keith Powers and James Van Der Beek. The movie follows three college students on a road trip gone wrong, as the three young men take an ill-advised shortcut through a remote gated community, where they find themselves trapped behind the walls after witnessing a murder. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 18, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Diego Céspedes, Florencia di Concilio, score, Soundtrack, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the drama The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco). The album features the film’s original music composed by Florencia di Concilio (The Five Devils, Calamity, Madame de Sévigné, The Victoria System, The Super 8 Years, Maestro(s), Dark Blood). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s final track after the jump. The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is written and directed by Diego Céspedes and stars Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán and Paula Dinamarca. The movie, which has been selected as the Chilean entry in the International Feature category for this year’s Academy Awards, is set in a dusty Chilean mining town in 1982 and follows a 11-year-old girl raised by a fierce queer community as she faces fear, violence, and love’s transformative power. Read the rest of this entry »
Jason Hill Scoring Roland Joffé’s ‘November 1963’
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jason Hill, November 1863, Roland Joffé
Jason Hill (Mindhunter, Magazine Dreams, Dark Matter, City on Fire, Them: The Scare, Extrapolations, Voir, The Confession Killer, Love, Death & Robots) has been tapped to score the upcoming historical crime thriller November 1963. The film is directed by Roland Joffé (The Mission, The Killing Fields) and stars John Travolta, Robert Carlyle, Dermot Mulroney, Jefferson White, Neil Jackson, Thomas Fiscella, Victoria Baldesarra and Mandy Patinkin. The movie takes place within the 48-hour period surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and explores the crime group Chicago Outfit’s alleged involvement in the events. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Museum of Innocence’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cem Ergunoğlu, Marios Takoushis, Masumiyet Müzesi, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Museum of Innocence
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Turkish Netflix limited series The Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi). The album features the show’s original music composed by Marios Takoushis & Cem Ergunoğlu. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out the track list. Also listen to the first track from each composer below. The Museum of Innocence is created by Orhan Pamuk based on his iconic novel of the same name and stars Selahattin Paşalı, Eylül Lize Kandemir, Tilbe Saran, Oya Unustası and Bülent Emin Yarar. The romantic drama is set in 1970s Istanbul and follows a man whose forbidden love for a shop-girl evolves into a lifelong journey of obsession and longing. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Rennicks to Score Lenny Abrahamson’s Next Feature
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lenny Abrahamson, Stephen Rennicks
Element Pictures has announced that composer Stephen Rennicks (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, The Quiet Girl, Alice & Jack, Rosie, Rebellion) is set to reteam with Lenny Abrahamson on the director’s next, currently untitled, feature. The film is written and directed by Abrahamson and will star Tom Burke, Eve Hewson and Shane Meagher. No plot details have been revealed yet for the movie, which is set in Dublin’s Jewish community in the late 1970s. Abrahamson is also producing the project with Ed Guiney (The Favourite, The Lobster), Andrew Lowe (Poor Things, Bugonia) and Catherine Magee (Small Things Like These). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Do You Believe in Angels Mr. Drowak?, Jan Miserre, John Gürtler, Nicolas Steiner, score, Sie glauben an Engel Herr Drowak?, Soundtrack
Paradox Paradise Berlin has released a soundtrack album for the German/Swiss comedy drama Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? (Sie glauben an Engel, Herr Drowak?). The album features the film’s original music composed by John Gürtler & Jan Miserre (The Outrun, System Crasher, Berlin ER, A Mouthful of Air, For Jojo, Kids Run, Space Dogs). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? is directed by Nicolas Steiner and stars Luna Wedler, Karl Markovics, Lars Eidinger, Dominique Pinon, Thelma Buabeng, Saga Sarkola, Nikolai Gemel, Bettina Stucky und Jan Bülow. The movie follows an optimistic student who applies for a position as a writing coach and gets assigned to a spiteful misanthrope who lives alone in a run-down tower block. Read the rest of this entry »
CHVRCHES’ ‘Such Great Heights’ Cover from ‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 3 Released
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: CHVRCHES, Hulu, Tell Me Lies
Hollywood Records has released the cover version of The Postal Service’ song Such Great Heights from series finale of the Hulu original series Tell Me Lies. The track produced and performed by the synth-pop band CHVRCHES is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. The label has previously released the band’s Addicted to Love cover from Season 3 last month. Tell Me Lies is created by Meaghan Oppenheimer based on Carola Lovering’s novel of the same title and stars Grace Van Patten, Jackson White, Cat Missal, Spencer House, Sonia Mena, Branden Cook, Costa D’Angelo and Alicia Crowder. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sharks’ (‘Squali’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniele Barbiero, Diana Tejera, score, Sharks, Soundtrack, Squali
Maqueta Records has released a soundtrack album for the Italian coming-of-age drama Sharks (Squali). The album features the film’s original music is composed by Diana Tejera (My Poems Won’t Change the World). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Sharks is directed by Daniele Barbiero and stars Lorenzo Zurzolo, James Franco, Francesco Centorame, Ginevra Francesconi, Federica Baù, Greta Fernández, Gabriele Rollo and Francesco Gheghi. The movie is based on the novel Gli squali by Giacomo Mazzariol and follows a 19-year-old on the verge of his high school graduation exams whose plans for a celebratory summer trip are upended when receives an unexpected professional opportunity. Read the rest of this entry »
’56 Days’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 17, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 56 Days, Amazon, Nathan Barr, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series 56 Days. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, The Great,Hostel, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Cabin Fever, Hollywood, Carnival Row). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to to the composer’s title track below. 56 Days is developed by Lisa Zwerling & Karyn Usher based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Howard and stars Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Karla Souza and Dorian Missick. The 8-part thriller executive produced by James Wan revolves around the discovery of an unidentified body in a luxury apartment and follows two detectives as they reconstruct the tenant couple’s deadly romance across the past 56 days. Read the rest of this entry »
