Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Island, Ender’s Game, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor, Skyscraper, DC League of Super-Pets, Desperate Housewives) has composed the original score for the upcoming action thriller Motor City. The film is directed by Potsy Ponciroli (Old Henry, Greedy People) and stars Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Pablo Schreiber, Ben Foster, Ben McKenzie, Lionel Boyce and Amar Chadha-Patel. The movie follows a ’70s-era everyman who is framed by a ruthless local gangster and emerges from prison determined to reclaim his life by any means necessary. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jablonsky Scoring Potsy Ponciroli’s ‘Motor City’
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Motor City, Potsy Ponciroli, Steve Jablonsky
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Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ to Feature Music by Jarmusch & Anika
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anika, Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch has collaborated with singer/songwriter Anika (aka Annika Henderson) to compose the music the original music for the director’s upcoming comedy drama Father Mother Sister Brother. The film is written and directed by Jarmusch and stars Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Greene, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat and Françoise Lebrun. The movie tells three different stories (set in the north-east U.S., Dublin, Ireland, and Paris, France) and explores the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ian Hultquist, Netflix, score, Skye Borgman, Soundtrack, Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ian Hultquist (Assassination Nation, The Walking Dead: Dead City, Dickinson, One of Us Is Lying, Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Turtles All the Way Down, Rosaline, Good Girls). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s end credits track below. Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is directed by Skye Borgman and revolves around a teenage girl and her boyfriend who are viciously cyberbullied by an unknown phone number for months. The movie centers on the investigation into the harassment and reveals how the authorities uncover a shocking secret that upends everything anyone thought they knew about the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch Scoring Philippa Lowthorpe’s ‘H Is for Hawk’
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, H Is for Hawk, Philippa Lowthorpe
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Living, All of Us Strangers, The Agency, The Assessment, The Forgotten Battle, The Strays, Censor) has recently scored the upcoming British drama H Is for Hawk. The film is directed by Philippa Lowthorpe (Misbehaviour, Swallows and Amazons) and stars Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Josh Dylan and Eden Hamilton. The movie is based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir and follows a woman dealing with the loss of her beloved father who finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Emma Donoghue (Room, The Wonder) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicholas Britell’s ‘Jay Kelly’ Theme Released
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jay Kelly, Netflix, Nicholas Britell, Noah Baumbach
Netflix Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for the streamer’s upcoming original film Jay Kelly. Available to stream/download now is Jay Kelly Theme – Quintet written by the film’s composer Nicholas Britell (Succession, Moonlight, The Big Short, If Beale Street Could Talk, Cruella, Don’t Look Up, Vice). Also listen to the theme after the jump. Jay Kelly is co-written and directed by Noah Baumbach and stars George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Stacy Keach, Grace Edwards, Emily Mortimer, Jim Broadbent, Nicôle Lecky, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Thaddea Graham, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny HenryJosh Hamilton and Greta Gerwig. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ‘Parenthood’ Episode ‘Jungles’ Released
Posted: August 29, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Parenthood, score, Soundtrack, Tom Howe
Lakeshore Records has released the fourth soundtrack album for the BBC natural history documentary series Parenthood. The album features the original music from Episode 5 (entitled Jungles) composed by Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, Dog Man, Knuckles, Early Man, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Shrinking, Daisy Jones & the Six) and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. The label has previously released three albums featuring Howe’s score from the episodes The Greatest Adventure, Freshwater & Grasslands and will release one more soundtrack next month. Available separately as a digital single is Sam Ryder’s “theme” song Go Steady produced by Howe. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Strange Brew’ Cover from ‘Alien: Earth’ Released
Posted: August 28, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alien: Earth, FX, Hulu, Jeff Russo, Noah Hawley
Hollywood Records has released the full cover version of Cream’s Strange Brew (teased at the beginning of every episode) from the FX original series Alien: Earth. The track (originally written by Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi & Gail Collins) and performed by the show’s creator Noah Hawley and composer Jeff Russo (who also produced the cover) 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 Russo’s original score from the sci-fi drama was released earlier this month. Alien: Earth is created by Hawley and stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Babou Ceesay, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Lily Newmark, David Rysdahl and Kit Young. Read the rest of this entry »
Claudia Sarne Scoring National Geographic’s ‘Lost in the Jungle’
Posted: August 28, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Claudia Sarne, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Juan Camilo Cruz, Lost in the Jungle, National Geographic
Claudia Sarne (Shining Girls, Triple 9, The Book of Eli, Earthquake Bird, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Broken City) has provided the original score for the upcoming National Geographic documentary Lost in the Jungle. The film is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, Nayad) and Juan Camilo Cruz (In Her Hands) and tells the true story of four young siblings who crash land deep within the Colombian rainforest, and the dramatic rescue mission that unfolds, uniting Indigenous trackers and the military in a race against time. The movie features accounts directly from the children themselves and the rescuers who scoured the Amazon rainforest for a grueling 40 days and nights to find them. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 28, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Michael Chaves, score, Soundtrack, The Conjuring, The Conjuring: Last Rites
WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for the supernatural horror sequel The Conjuring: Last Rites. The album features the film’s original music composed by Benjamin Wallfisch (It,Alien: Romulus, Blade Runner 2049, Twisters, The Flash, Annabelle Creation, Hidden Figures, Mortal Kombat, Shazam!) . The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 29 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first and final track below. The Conjuring: Last Rites is directed by Michael Chaves and stars Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy. The movie takes place in 1986, five years after the events of 2021’s third installment, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and follows Ed & Lorraine Warren as they are investigating the case of the Smurl family haunting. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rome’ Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: August 28, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Jeff Beal, Rome, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the new soundtrack album for the HBO original series Rome have been revealed. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Emmy Award winner Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Pollock, Carnivale, Monk, The Biggest Little Farm, Appaloosa, Rule Breakers, Blackfish, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power), including previously unreleased music. The Expanded Edition soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 29 by WaterTower Music and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s main title theme below. Rykodisc has previously released the original 23-track soundtrack album back in 2007. Rome is created by John Milius, William J. MacDonald & Bruno Heller and stars Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Ciarán Hinds, Tobias Menzies, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon, Kenneth Cranham, Lindsay Duncan, Ronan Vibert, Karl Johnson, Indira Varma, David Bamber, Max Pirkis, Lee Boardman, Nicholas Woodeson, Suzanne Bertish, Paul Jesson, James Purefoy. Read the rest of this entry »
