Announced this week were new composer assignments for Craig Armstrong (Snowden), Junkie XL (Kill Your Friends), Marcelo Zarvos (American Ultra), among many others. For the full list of composer and music supervisor assignments from this week, click here..

There were 33 new soundtrack albums released this week. Click here for the full schedule.

Opening nationwide this week are (with music by): Mad Max: Fury Road (Junkie XL) and Pitch Perfect 2 (Mark Mothersbaugh).

Among all new theatrical releases, we are tracking song credits for:
- Mad Max: Fury Road (4 songs)
- Pitch Perfect 2 (58 songs)
- One Cut, One Life (no songs)
- Animals (9 songs)
- The Film Critic (6 songs)
- Good Kill (16 songs)
- Slow West (6 songs)

Finally, the following composers will be celebrating an upcoming birthday:
- Monday: Reinhold Heil (Cloud Atlas) will turn 61.
- Monday: Mark Mothersbaugh (The Lego Movie) will turn 65.