MusicHub has released a soundtrack album for the German comedy The Peacock (Der Pfau). The album features the film’s original music composed by Kyrre Kvam (The Ground Beneath My Feet, KBV, How I Taught Myself to Be a Child). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio clips. The Peacock is directed by Lutz Heineking Jr. and stars Lavinia Wilson, Tom Schilling, David Kross, Svenja Jung, Jürgen Vogel, Serkan Kaya and Annette Frier. The movie is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Isabel Bogdan and follows an investment banker and her team who travel to Scotland for a team building seminar, when the country estate’s favorite peacock and goose disappear. Read the rest of this entry »

Raphael Saadiq (Lovecraft CountryInsecure, Underground, The After Party, Black Nativity) has composed the original score for the AMC original series Demascus. The show is created by Tearrance Chisholm and stars Okieriete Onaodowan, Janet Hubert, Caleb Eberhardt, Martin Lawrence, Shakira Ja’nai Paye, Brittany Adebumola, Sasha Hutchings, Tyrel Jackson Williams, Amos Blackmon. The sci-fi comedy centers on a 33-year-old man on a mission of self-discovery who chooses the burgeoning field of digital psychiatry as his penance. Read the rest of this entry »

Miss Piki’s Band Limited has released a soundtrack EP for the New Zealand comedy Red, White & Brass. The 4-track EP features the songs from the film by the reggae band Three Houses Down. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Red, White & Brass is co-written and directed by Damon Fepulea’i and stars John-Paul (JP) Foliaki, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Mikey Falesiu, Onetoto Ikavuka, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, Lupeti Finau, Ilaisaane Green and Lotima Pome’e. The movie executive produced by Taika Waititi follows a superfan who – in an attempt to get tickets to the Tonga vs France 2011 Rugby World Cup game – promises to deliver a brass band for the pre-match entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

Nathan Matthew David (Deadly Class, Young Rock, The Last WordAngie Tribeca, Slice, A Man Named Scott) has recently scored the upcoming comedy Joy Ride. The film marks the directorial debut of screenwriter/producer Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians, Raya and the Last Dragon) and stars Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu. The movie follows four unlikely Asian American friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (The Orville) and Teresa Hsiao (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »

Head Down First Music will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Ghost Within. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Christoph Allerstorfer (The Jack in the Box, The Jack in the Box: Awakening, Breaking Infinity). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 17 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Ghost Within is directed by Lawrence Fowler and stars Michaela Longden, Rebecca Phillipson and Simon Davies. The movie follows a young woman suffering from severe memory loss  who revisits her family home desperate to uncover who killed her sister 20 years earlier and finds herself facing her deepest fears in the house that’s still haunted by her sister’s ghost. Read the rest of this entry »

Robert Duncan is the composer of the new Netflix original series The Night Agent. The show is created by Shawn Ryan (The Shield) based on Matthew Quirk’s novel and stars Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, Hong Chau, D.B. Woodside, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Sarah Desjardins, Phoenix Raei, Eve Harlow and Enrique Murciano. The thriller revolves around a vigilant FBI agent monitoring an emergency line who answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House. Read the rest of this entry »

Music Highlights from 95th Academy Awards

Posted: March 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was held last night. All five nominees in the Original Song category were performed live. Check out the performances of the Oscar-winning Naatu Naatu from RRR by Rahul Sipligunj & Kaala Bhairava, as well as the Oscar-nominated Applause from Tell It Like a Woman by Sofia Carson & Diane Warren, This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once by David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu & Son Lux, Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick by Lady Gaga and Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever by Rihanna after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Shogun Music has released the first soundtrack album for the BBC natural history series Wild Isles. The album features the original music from the show’s first episode, Our Precious Isles, composed by Academy Award nominee George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, Anna and the King, The Blue Planet, Groundhog Day, Hitch, Ever After, Gandhi). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the first track after the jump. More albums featuring the composer’s score from the other four episodes of the series are expected to come out over the next couple of weeks. Wild Isles is presented by Sir David Attenborough, executive produced by Alastair Fothergrill and reveals a previously unseen wild side of the British Isles. Read the rest of this entry »

Volker Bertelmann was honored with his first Academy Award for his score for Edward Berger’s Netflix World War I drama All Quiet on the Western Front at tonight’s 95th Oscar ceremony. Bertelmann who also won his first BAFTA Award last month for his work on the movie has previously been Oscar-nominated for 2016’s Lion (co-scored with Dustin O’Halloran). Check out his acceptance speech after the jump. The other nominated composers in the Original Score category were Justin Hurwitz (Babylon), Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin), John Williams (The Fabelmans) and Son Lux (Everything Everywhere All at Once). Read the rest of this entry »

Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British limited series A Spy Among Friends created by Alexander Cary based on Ben Macintyre’s bestselling book and starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, Stephen Kunken, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Adrian Edmondson. The show’s original music is composed by Dustin O’Halloran (Lion, Like Crazy, Transparent, The Old Guard, AmmoniteThe Essex Serpent). Check out our previous article to learn more about the Nick Murphy-directed 6-parter, which premiered in the UK last fall on ITVX and is making its U.S. debut on MGM+.

Premiering on Friday, March 17, is the Hulu original movie Boston Strangler written and directed by Matt Ruskin and starring Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola, David Dastmalchian, Morgan Spector, Robert John Burke and Chris Cooper. Paul Leonard-Morgan (LimitlessDredd, Dynasty, Tales from the LoopWormwood) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 20th Century Studios production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »