Inaugural London Soundtrack Festival announced for 2025 – with Jake Shears and Neil Tennant

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Lord of the Rings marathon on March 22, 2025 at the BFI IMAX which will be introduced by three-time Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore.Shore will also join Canadian film director and screenwriter in introducing screenings of the 1996 film Crash as well as 1998’s Dead Ringers.

The two are also set to take part in a Q&A at the Royal Festival Hall that same day.Elsewhere, Oscar-award-winning composer Anne Dudley is set to host a concert titled ‘Great Movie Songs’ on March 25, 2025 with the likes of Pet Shop Boys‘ Neil Tennant, Scissor Sisters‘ Jake Shears, Omar and Monica Mancini and more performing big-screen classic tracks backed by an orchestra.Oscar-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will be introducing IMAX screenings of Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux ahead of an evening in which she will present and perform her movie and TV music that will feature her scores of the two aforementioned films as well as Tár, Chernobyl and others.Both tickets for the festival and a full event program for the weeklong bash can be found via the official website londonsoundtrackfestival.com.In other news, Lady Gaga recently announced the album ‘Harlequin’, a companion album to the movie Joker: Folie à Deux.The album is set for release this Friday (September 27) a week before the movie opens in cinemas worldwide on October 4, the fifth anniversary of 2019’s Joker..