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Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 30, 2025)

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the martial arts action adventure Karate Kid: Legends directed by Jonathan Entwistle and starring Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Ben Wang, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen and Joshua Jackson. The film’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (The Fall Guy, Bullet Train, The Man in the High Castle, Money Monster, Your Friends & Neighbors,The King’s Man, Violent Night, Spirited). Milan Records 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 Sony Pictures release.

Also opening nationwide today is the upcoming supernatural horror thriller Bring Her Back directed by Danny & Michael Philippou and starring Sally Hawkins, Billy Barrat, Sora Wong,  Jonah Wren Phillips and Sally-Anne Upton. Cornel Wilczek (Talk to Me, Apple Cider Vinegar, Together, Clickbait, Nowhere Boys, These Final Hours, Glitch, The Mule, Cut Snake) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. Click here to check out the project’s music team credits and visit our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the A24 release.

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‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Soundtrack Album Details

ABKCO Records will release the official soundtrack album for Wes Anderson’s comedy The Phoenician Scheme. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water,  The Queen, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King’s Speech, Godzilla). Also included are classical pieces by Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as tracks by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Gene Krupa & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 30 (visit Amazon to stream/download). A vinyl edition is scheduled to come out on July 11 and is now available for pre-order here. Check back on this page for the purchase links. Already out now as a digital single (from Sony Classical) is Stravinsky’s L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (1910 Version). Listen to the piece, as well as Desplat’s first score track below and also click here to check out the project’s music team credits.

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Alexandre Desplat Scoring Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’

Composer Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Queen, The King’s Speech, Philomena, Godzilla) is reteaming with director Wes Anderson on the upcoming comedy drama The Phoenician Scheme. The film starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Hope Davis, Rupert Friend and Benedict Cumberbatch tells the story of a family and a family business. Anderson also wrote the screenplay based on a story by himself and Roman Coppola.

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