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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 29, 2025)

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.

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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Soundtrack Album Details

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the superhero comedy The Toxic Avenger. The album features the film’s original score composed by Brooke Blair & Will Blair (Green Room, Rebel Ridge,  I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, The Informer, Hold the Dark, Black Christmas, Blue Ruin, Sweet Virginia). Also included are the original songs The Good Things written by the Blair Brothers and performed by The Whoopsie Dews feat. Vaughn Faison and (We Are) Crazy and Dangerous My Baby Is an Axe written by Brooke, Will & Macon Blair and performed by The Killer Nutz, as well as tracks by The Giraffes and East Hundred. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 29 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the original songs and the score opening titles track below. The Toxic Avenger is written and directed by Macon Blair and stars Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Jacob Tremblay, Julia Davis and Taylour Paige.

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Brooke & Will Blair Scoring Macon Blair’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’

Composers Brooke Blair & Will Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, Blue Ruin, The Informer, Sweet Virginia, Black Christmas) are reteaming with writer/director/actor Macon Blair on the upcoming superhero action comedy The Toxic Avenger. The film starring Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, Julia Davis and Elijah Wood is based on Troma Entertainment’s 1984 cult classic of the same title and follows a struggling everyman who is pushed into a vat of toxic waste and transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.

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‘Mutafukaz’ Soundtrack Details

22D Music will release a soundtrack album for the French/Japanese animated feature Mutafukaz. The album features the film’s original music composed by The Toxic Avenger and Guillaume Houzé (Wakfu). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 23, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The first track, Luna, is already available to download. Mutafukaz is directed by Guillaume Renard & Shoujirou Nishimi and revolves around a deadbeat living in Dark Meat City, a ruthless megalopolis of California, who starts experiencing violent headaches doubled with strange hallucinations as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins.

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