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Dolemite Is My Name is a 2019 American biographical comedy film directed by Craig Brewer and written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The film stars Eddie Murphy as filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, starting with Dolemite in 1975.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, and will be released in a limited release on October 4, 2019, before digital streaming on October 25, 2019, by Netflix.

Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Thunder Force. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Fil Eisler (Revenge, Empire, Superintelligence, The Titan, UnReal, Life of the Party, How to Be Single). Thunder Force is directed by Ben Falcone and starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale, Melissa Leo, Pom Klementieff, Taylor Mosby, Marcella Lowery and Melissa Ponzio. The comedy revolves around two childhood best friendswho reunite as an unlikely crime-fighting superhero duo when one invents a formula that gives ordinary people superpowers. The movie will premiere tomorrow exclusively on Netflix.

Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Man vs. Bee. The album features the show’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, Top Gun Maverick, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Wheel of Time, His Dark Materials, Bad Boys for Life). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 24. The streaming/download link will be added to this page within the next day. Man vs. Bee is created by Rowan Atkinson & William Davies and stars Atkinson himself, Jing Lusi, Greg McHugh, Julian Rhind-Tutt, India Fowler, Claudie Blakley and Tom Basdenare.

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series FUBAR.

The full details of the official soundtrack album for Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Randy Newman (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug’s Life, Avalon, Parenthood, Awakenings, The Princess and the Frog) who previously scored the director’s last feature The Meyerowitz Stories. Marriage Story is written and directed by Baumbach and stars Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Merritt Wever, Azhy Robertson, Alan Alda and Kyle Bornheimer. The comedy drama premiered at several film festivals over the last two months and will be released in select theaters on November 6 before premiering on Netflix on December 6.

Army of Thieves is a 2021 American heist action comedy film, based on the original story by Zack Snyder and Shay Hatten. The film is written by Shay Hatten, directed by Matthias Schweighofer, produced by The Stone Quarry and Pantaleon Films, distributed by Netflix, stars Matthias Schweighofer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Jonathan Cohen, Peter Simonischek, Noemie Nakai, and John Bubniak.