Hollywood Records will release a new soundtrack album for the FX original series Alien: Earth. The album features the original music from the fifth episode of the show (entitled In Space, No One…) composed by Emmy Award winner Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery/Picard, Legion, Ripley, Untamed, For All Mankind, The Night Of, Zero Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 2 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. The label has previously released an album featuring selections of Russo’s score from the full season, as well as a digital single of the composer’s cover of Cream’s Strange Brew. Alien: Earth is created by Noah Hawley and stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, Adrian Edmondson and Lily Newmark. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ‘Alien: Earth’ Episode ‘In Space, No One…’ to Be Released
Posted: September 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alien: Earth, FX, Hulu, Jeff Russo, score, Soundtrack
Remastered ‘Black Sunday’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black Sunday, John Frankenheimer, John Williams, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1977 action thriller Black Sunday directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Bekim Fehmiu and Fritz Weaver. The album features the newly remastered original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Schindler’s List). The CD is limited to 3,000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Film Score Monthly has previously released the premiere soundtrack release for the movie back in 2010, while Mondo has released a vinyl edition in 2015. Read the rest of this entry »
Ilan Eshkeri Scoring Netflix’s ‘House of Guinness’
Posted: September 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: House of Guinness, Ilan Eshkeri, Netflix, Steven Knight
Ilan Eshkeri (Stardust, Layer Cake, The Young Victoria, Still Alice, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Kick-Ass) has recently scored the upcoming British Netflix original series House of Guinness. The show is created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Eastern Promises) and stars Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn, Jack Gleeson, Fionn O’Shea, Niamh McCormack, Danielle Galligan, Ann Skelly, Michael McElhatton and Seamus O’Hara. The period drama is set in 19th-century Dublin and New York and explores a story inspired by the Guinness Family, beginning immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his will on the fate of his four adult children. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Island’ 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Michael Bay, score, Soundtrack, Steve Jablonsky, The Island
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2005 sci-fi action adventure The Island directed by Michael Bay and starring Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi and Michael Clarke Duncan. The 20th Anniversary Edition album features the remastered and expanded original score from the film composed by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, Ender’s Game, Desperate Housewives, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor, DC League of Super-Pets, Skyscraper, Red Notice), including previously unreleased music, as well as numerous alternate tracks. The 2-CD set is limited to 3,000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
Blair Mowat Scoring BBC’s ‘The Guest’
Posted: September 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Blair Mowat, Matthew Barry, The Guest
Blair Mowat (Nolly, Class, McDonald & Dodds, Doctor Jekyll, Black Dog, Electric Man, After the Flood) has composed the original music for the new BBC drama The Guest. The show is created by Matthew Barry and stars Eve Myles, Gabrielle Creevy, Sion Daniel Young, Bethan Mary-James, Emun Elliott, Julian Lewis Jones, Clive Russell, Joseph Ollman and Catherine Ayers. The 4-part thriller follows a cleaner who gets hired by mysterious businesswoman and whose life is changed forever when they form an unlikely friendship. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Thunderball’ 60th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: James Bond, John Barry, score, Soundtrack, Terence Young, Thunderball
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball directed by Terence Young and starring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Rik Van Nutter, Luciana Paluzzi and Guy Doleman. The 60th Anniversary Edition album features the remastered and expanded original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa, Goldfinger, Somewhere in Time, Body Heat, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), including previously unreleased music. Also included is Tom Jones’ title song written by Barry and lyricist Don Black, as well as the song Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang written by by Barry and lyricist Leslie Bricusse in two different versions performed by Dionne Warwick and Shirley Bassey. The 2-CD set, which is limited to 5,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also find out more about the release and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 31, 2025)
Posted: August 31, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Antony Partos, BritBox, Jackson Milas, Let the Devil In, MGM+, Return to Paradise, Sherri Chung, The Runarounds
Premiering tonight is the MGM+ original documentary series Let the Devil In directed by Danielle Franco and executive produced by Eli Roth, Branden Morgen, Anneka Jones, Jill Burkhart, Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver. The show’s original music is composed by Sherri Chung (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai/The Wild Batch, Kung Fu, Riverdale, Based on a True Story, The Last Husband, Found, Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black, Happiness for Beginners). Check out our previous news article for more information about the 4-parter, which will be available to stream exclusively on MGM+.
Premiering tomorrow, September 1, is the Prime Video original series The Runarounds created by Jonas Pate and starring band members William Lipton, Jeremy Yun, Axel Ellis, Zendé Murdock & Jesse Golliher, as well as Lilah Pate, Brooklyn Decker, Maximo Salas, Kelley Pereira, Hayes MacArthur, Marley Aliah, Mark Wystrach and Shea Pritchard. The titular band has also composed the show’s original music. Arista Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the band’s songs tomorrow. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Fought the Law’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 31, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: I Fought the Law, ITV, Luke Richards, Soundtrack, The Score
Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album for the ITV drama I Fought the Law. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Luke Richards (Stay Close, Six Four, Fool Me Once). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. I Fought the Law is written by Jamie Crichton based on Ann Ming’s book For the Love of Julie and stars Sheridan Smith, Marlowe Chan-Reeves, Olivia Ng, Jake Davies, Kent Riley, Victoria Wyant, Jack James Ryan, Andrew Lancel and Rufus Jones. The 4-part series tells the real-life story of a mother riven by unimaginable grief who finds strength to challenge the centuries-old Double Jeopardy Law to see her daughter’s murderer finally brought to justice after a 15 year battle. Read the rest of this entry »
Sherri Chung Scoring MGM+’s ‘Let the Devil In’
Posted: August 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Let the Devil In, MGM+, Sherri Chung
Sherri Chung (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai & The Wild Batch, Kung Fu, Based on a True Story, Riverdale, Found, The Last Husband, Happiness for Beginners) is the composer of the new MGM+ original documentary series Let the Devil In. The show is directed by Danielle Franco (Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders) and centers on a decades-old tragedy that destroyed one family and ignited the darkest fears of a small New Jersey town. The 4-parter features accounts of witnesses, friends, and community members as they try to make sense of the unthinkable events, some believing that Satan took hold of a vulnerable teen boy, while others believe that far more earthly demons were to blame. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 29, 2025)
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Little Prayer, Brooke Blair, Caught Stealing, Greg Danner, Griffin in Summer, Idles, Joel P. West, Love Brooklyn, Nami Melumad, Rob Simonsen, The Roses, The Toxic Avenger, Theodore Shapiro, Will Blair
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the crime thriller Caught Stealing directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Matt Smith, Vincent D’Onofrio, Carol Kane, Benito A Martínez Ocasio and Griffin Dunne. The album features the film’s original score is composed by Rob Simonsen (Deadpool & Wolverine, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, It Ends with Us, The Way Back, Foxcatcher, The Age of Adaline, Nerve, (500) Days of Summer) and performed the post-punk band Idles who also contributed several original songs to the project. has released a soundtrack album featuring both score and songs today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Sony Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the comedy The Roses directed by Jay Roach and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Belinda Bromilow, Allison Janney, Sunita Mani, Jamie Demetriou, Ncuti Gatwa, Zoë Chao and Kate McKinnon. Theodore Shapiro (Severance, The Devil Wears Prada, Tropic Thunder, Ghostbusters, A Simple Favor, Bombshell, Spy) has composed the film’s original music. Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as two covers performed by Susanna Hoffs, Rufus Wainwright & Eric D. Johnson last Friday. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Searchlight Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
