When singer/songwriter Michael Penn provided the score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film Boogie Nights in 1997, PTA returned the favor by directing the music video for Penn’s song “Try”, which was the opening song of Penn’s 1997 album Resigned.

Released when No Time to Die was going to hit theaters in early 2020, the journey of Billie Eilish’s theme song “No Time to Die” culminated last weekend when it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Along with his various acting roles over the years, including this weekend’s Morbius, Jared Leto has been the lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed in 1998 with his brother Shannon Leto and has gone on to make five studio albums and hit singles like “The Kill” and “Kings and Queens”

The first Hunger Games movie turns 10 this week and one of the major ways it was promoted was via its soundtrack album, The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, which featured the pairing of Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars for the single “Safe & Sound”.

Going back to his early days as a lounge singer, Joe Pesci recorded the album Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You in 1998, which he performed on in character as Vinny Gambini from My Cousin Vinny and which featured the “rap” song, “Wise Guy”, which got an official music video starring Pesci.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary today, Jungle 2 Jungle was the third big collaboration between Disney and Tim Allen following The Santa Clause and Toy Story and featured lots of World Music on its soundtrack, including the song “It Starts in the Heart” from reggae fusion superstar Maxi Priest.

Following up his critical and commercial debut hit Boyz N The Hood, director John Singleton directed Tupac and Janet Jackson in the romantic road trip drama Poetic Justice. Each of the stars has a song on the soundtrack and it also featured tracks from TLC, the first-ever single from Usher, Mista Grimm, and a classic Stevie Wonder song.

The Foo Fighters are paying homage to the horror genre this weekend with their horror/comedy movie Studio 666 but they’ve frequently referenced and parodied movies and pop culture in their music videos, including 2002’s “The One”, which came from the soundtrack for the movie Orange County but pays tribute to the movie/TV series Fame.

Probably better remembered than the Stallone movie it came from, Gloria Estefan’s version of a 1976 disco classic by Vicki Sue Robinson was on the soundtrack for 1994’s The Specialist and became a big dance hit and hit #13 on the Billboard charts.

From working with musical artists like Adele, HAIM, and Childish Gambino to delivering iconic scores for The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Black Panther, and more, Ludwig Göransson is one of the most exciting film and TV composers and record producers working today.

Much like other 80s horror movies like Dream Warriors and Jason Lives, Wes Craven’s 1989 slasher movie Shocker looked to the world of heavy metal for its soundtrack and got a supergroup called The Dudes of Wrath for its title song, which featured the likes of Paul Stanley, Desmond Child, Tommy Lee and more.