Dragon’s Domain Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1972 historical drama Pope Joan directed by Michael Anderson and starring Liv Ullmann, Olivia de Havilland, Franco Nero, Jeremy Kemp, Leslie-Anne Down, Natasha Nicolescu, Peter Arne, Patrick Magee and Maximilian Schell. The album features the newly remastered score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ghost, Gorillas in the Mist, Witness, No Way Out, Jacob’s Ladder).. The soundtrack is now available to order as a limited edition CD on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio clips. Harkit Records has previously released the premiere soundtrack for the title on CD back in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘Pope Joan’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bernard Herrmann, Maurice Jarre, Michael Anderson, Pope Joan, score, Soundtrack, Torn Curtain
‘The Miniature Wife’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Isobel Waller-Bridge, Peacock, score, Sky, Soundtrack, The Miniature Wife
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Peacock original series The Miniature Wife. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Wicked Little Letters, Emma, Vita & Virginia, The Phantom of the Open, Munich: The Edge of War, Three Women, Roar). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s “overture” track below. The Miniature Wife is created by Jennifer Ames & Steve Turner based on the short story written by Manuel Gonzales and stars Elizabeth Banks, Matthew Macfadyen, O-T Fagbenle, Zoe Lister-Jones, Sian Clifford and Sofia Rosinsky. The comedy drama revolves around a woman who is unexpectedly shrunk in a technological mishap, much to the surprise of her husband, and the mismatched pair’s day-to-day turns into a razor-sharp battle for power. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from Finneas O’Connell’s ‘Beef’ Season 2 Score Released
Posted: April 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Beef, Finneas O'Connell, Netflix
A24 Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for the second season of the Netflix original series Beef. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is Vicious Thoughts written by the new season’s composer Finneas O’Connell (Disclaimer, Vengeance, The Fallout). Also listen to the track after the jump and check back on this page for the details of the full soundtrack album. Season 2 of Beef is created by Lee Sung Jin and stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, Charles Melton and Seoyeon Jang. Read the rest of this entry »
Campfire Scoring Hulu’s ‘Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Campfire, Hulu, Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair
Campfire (Shane Eli & Jonny Pakfar) are the composers of the new Hulu limited series Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair. The show is based on the original Malcolm in the Middle sitcom created by Linwood Boomer (and scored by Charles Sydnor & They Might Be Giants) and stars Bryan Cranston, Frankie Muniz, Jane Kaczmarek, Justin Berfield, Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Emy Coligad, Vaughan Murrae, Keeley Karsten, Kiana Madeira and Caleb Ellsworth-Clark. The comedy follows Malcolm who is dragged back into their orbit after shielding himself and his daughter from his family for over a decade when Hal and Lois demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Killing of Sister George’ World Premiere Soundtrack Release Announced
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gerald Fried, Robert Aldrich, score, Soundtrack, The Killing of Sister George
Dragon’s Domain Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1968 drama The Killing of Sister George directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Patricia Medina, Ronald Fraser, Hugh Paddick and Cyril Delevanti. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner Gerald Fried (Star Trek: The Original Series, Roots, Mission: Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Gilligan’s Island). The limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more information about the soundtrack. A digital version is expected to be released on all major digital music platforms in the coming months. Read the rest of this entry »
John C. Reilly’s Original Song ‘Birdie’ from ‘Heads or Tails?’ Released
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Heads or Tails?, John C. Reilly, Matteo Zoppis, Testa o Croce?, Vittorio Giampietro
Folkgang Records has released the original song Birdie from the Italian western Heads or Tails? (Testa o Croce?). The track written by the film’s composer Vittorio Giampietro and actor John C. Reilly (who stars as Buffalo Bill) and performed by Reilly is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. As previously reported, a full soundtrack album featuring Giampietro’s original score from the movie was released last October. Heads or Tails? is co-written and directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis and also stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi, Mirko Artuso, Gabriele Silli, Peter Lanzani and Gianni Garko. Read the rest of this entry »
Dickon Hinchliffe Scoring Olivia Newman’s ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dickon Hinchliffe, Netflix, Olivia Newman, Remarkably Bright Creatures
Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Bone, The Lost Daughter, Leave No Trace, Out of the Furnace, Locke, Daddio, Last Chance Harvey) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Remarkably Bright Creatures. The movie is directed by Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing, First Match) and stars Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney, Joan Chen, Beth Grant, Kathy Baker, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Donald Sales, Brandon McEwan and Mapuana Makia. The drama is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Shelby Van Pelt and tells the story of a widow who bonds with a clever octopus and an adrift young man while working nights at a small-town aquarium. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Shrinking’ Seasons 2 & 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, score, Shrinking, Soundtrack, Tom Howe
WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack album for the Apple TV original series Shrinking. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s second and third season composed by Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, Dog Man, Reminders of Him, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Early Man, , Daisy Jones & The Six, Book Club: The Next Chapter). Also included is co-creator and lead actor Jason Segel’s cover of R.E.M.’s Nightswimming (previously released as a digital single), as well as 2 Padres’ song Level Up and the string arrangement of Sugar Ray’s Every Morning and Wedding March. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the first four tracks after the jump. The label has previously released an album featuring Howe’s music from Season 1 and the theme song Frightening Fishes back in 2023. Shrinking is created by Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein & Segel and also stars Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Luke Tennie and Ted McGinley. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Shapiro to Be Honored as BMI Icon at 2026 BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI, BMI Film TV & Visual Media Awards, Theodore Shapiro
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) announced today that Theodore Shapiro will be honored as a BMI Icon at the 2026 BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards on May 13 in Beverly Hills, CA. The Emmy Award- winning composer will be receiving this honor for his outstanding body of work in some of the most culturally defining films and TV series over the last 25 years. In addition to his music for Apple TV’s Severance, for which he received two Emmy Awards and an additional nomination for his main title theme, the composer’s scoring credits include the features The Devil Wears Prada (and its upcoming sequel), Dodgeball, 13 Going on 30, Bombshell, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and, most recently, last year’s hit thriller The Housemaid. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Big Mistakes’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Big Mistakes, Netflix, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Peaches, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s original series Big Mistakes. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Canadian electroclash artist Peaches (Merrill Nisker) and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (What If…?, Marvel Zombies, Regarding Susan Sontag, Prisoner’s Daughter, Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Don’t Look Deeper, Bird Karma). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 9 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the title track below. Big Mistakes is created by Dan Levy & Rachel Sennott and stars Levy himself, Taylor Ortega, Laurie Metcalf, Jack Innanen, Abby Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Boran Kuzum, Mark Ivanir, Ilia Volok, Jacob Gutierrez, Joe Barbara and Darren Goldstein. The comedy follows two deeply incapable siblings who get blackmailed into working for gangsters and become the most disorganized duo in organized crime. Read the rest of this entry »
