Spin Master Entertainment, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures announced today that Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, The Lost City, Stargirl, Krypton, Slumberland) has been hired to score the upcoming animated sequel PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie. The film is directed by Cal Brunker (Escape from Planet Earth) who previously helmed the 2021 original movie and features the voices of Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell, Christian Convery, Lil Rel Howery, Mckenna Grace, James Marsden, Finn Lee-Epp, Serena Williams, Marsai Martin, Ron Pardo, Callum Shoniker, R Alan Kim, Brice Gonzalez, North West and Kim Kardashian. Read the rest of this entry »

Atlantic Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series Daisy Jones & The Six. The album, entitled Aurora, features eleven songs from the show written and produced by Grammy Award nominee Blake Mills and a number of other co-writers (including Marcus Mumford, Jackson Browne & Phoebe Bridgers) and performed by the titular band with vocals by lead actors Riley Keough & Sam Claflin. The soundtrack will be released on March 3 and is now available for pre-order here. A vinyl edition is available to order exclusively on Amazon. A first song/single (Regret Me) is already available now and can be checked out after the jump. Daisy Jones & The Six is created by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber based on the bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid and also stars Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse, Nabiyah Be, Sebastian Chacon, Tom Wright as Teddy Price, as well as Timothy Olyphant. Read the rest of this entry »

Grand Musique Management has released a soundtrack album for the drama Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul). The album features the film’s original score and songs composed by Jérémie Arcache & Christophe Musset (Diamond Island). Also included is the song Dream by Lee Jee Hyang & Cho Young Hae. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Return to Seoul is written and directed by Davy Chou and stars Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han and Kim Sun-Young. The movie follows a young woman who returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France, and suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about. Read the rest of this entry »

We Are Dark Angels (aka Deantoni Parks & Nicci Kasper) have composed the original score for the upcoming action thriller Ambush. The film is directed by Mark Earl Burman and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Connor Paolo, Jason Genad and Aaron Eckhart. The movie follows a US Army Squad fighting in the Vietnam War who must take the battle below ground on a high-stakes mission when their small outpost is ambushed. Burman also wrote the screenplay with Johnny Lozano, Michael McClung and Dillon Slack. Read the rest of this entry »

Planets in Alignment will release a soundtrack album for the British action/crime thriller Renegades. The album features the film’s original music composed by Chris Hurst & Robert Geoffrey Hughes (Nemesis, We Still Steal the Old Way, Pentagram). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Renegades is directed by Daniel Zirilli and stars Nick Moran, Lee Majors, Ian Ogilvy, Louis Mandylor and Danny Trejo. The movie follows a group of Special Forces veterans whocome together to avenge a fallen comrade – a former green beret, who is murdered in London by a ruthless drugs gang. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Howe (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: FarmageddonEarly Man, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, The People We Hate at the Wedding) is scoring the new Apple TV+ original series Shrinking. The show is created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town) & Brett Goldstein (Soulmates) and stars Harrison Ford, Segel himself, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller and Lukita Maxwell. The comedy revolves around a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks and finds himself making huge changes to people’s lives – including his own. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the French crime thriller Overdose. The album features the film’s original score composed by Erwann Kermorvant (36th PrecintA Gang Story, Rogue City, A Ticket to Space, CarbonThe Clearstream Affair). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Overdose is directed by Olivier Marchal and stars Sofia Essaidi, Assaad Bouab, Alberto Ammann and Nicolas Cazalé. The movie follows captain at the judicial police in Toulouse who is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers and is forced to collaborate with a Paris cop with diametrically opposed methods. Read the rest of this entry »

95th Academy Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: January 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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oscars9 This morning, the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of the last year will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 12, 2023 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center and will be televised live in the U.S. on the ABC Television Network at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Here are the music-related nominations: Read the rest of this entry »

Gaumont has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy drama Neneh Superstar. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jean-Bohémond Leguay. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Neneh Superstar is directed by Ramzi Ben Sliman and stars Oumy Bruni Garrel, Maïwenn, Steve Tientcheu, Aïssa Maïga and Cédric Kahn. The movie follows a 12-year-old girl who comes from a loving family in a disadvantaged area and dreams of attending the ballet school at Opera de Paris. Read the rest of this entry »

Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1981 slasher movie The Funhouse directed by Tobe Hooper and starring Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Sylvia Miles, Kevin Conway and William Finley. The album features the expanded original score from the film composed and conducted by John Beal (Killer Party, Zero to Sixty, Terror in the Aisles). The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »