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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 28, 2025)

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror comedy Death of a Unicorn written and directed by Alex Scharfman and starring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani and Jessica Hynes. The film’s original score is composed by Dan Romer (Luca, Station Eleven, Beasts of No Nation, Maniac, Superman & Lois, Beasts of the Southern Wild) & Giosuè Greco (Didi, Welcome to Wrexham, Notice to Quit, Let the Right One In). A24 Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week and a digital single featuring St. Vincent’s original song DOA today. Click here for the details of the score album and click here to listen to the song and for more information about the A24 release.

Also opening wide is the action thriller A Working Man co-written and directed by David Ayer and starring Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Peña,  Jason Flemyng, Cokey Falkow, Merab Ninidze, Emmett J. Scanlan, Arianna Rivas, Maximilian Osinski, Noemi Gonzalez and Eve Mauro. Jared Michael Fry (The Beekeeper, Safehouse) has composed the film’s original music. Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which is being released by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Federico Jusid Scoring Peter Cattaneo’s ‘The Penguin Lessons’

Federico Jusid  (The Secret In Their Eyes, The English, A Gentleman in Moscow,  Watership Down, Misconduct, The Head, Life Itself)  is scoring the upcoming comedy drama The Penguin Lessons. The film is directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty, The Rocker) and stars Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Vivian El Jaber, Alfonsina Carrocio, Björn Gustafsson and David Herrero. The movie is based on Tom Michell’s nonfiction book of the same title and the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who travels to  in Buenos Aires in 1976 to take up a teaching position at a prestigious English boarding school and whose life is turned upside down when he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil-slicked beach..

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