Christopher Lennertz (The Boys, Sausage Party, Lost in Space, Ride Along, Tom & Jerry, Agent Carter, Supernatural) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Back in Action. The movie is directed by Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters) and stars Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Glenn Close, Kyle Chandler, Andrew Scott, McKenna Roberts, Jamie Demetriou, and Rylan Jackson. The action comedy follows a couple who – years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family – are pulled back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Lennertz Scoring Seth Gordon’s ‘Back in Action’
Posted: November 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Back in Action, Christopher Lennertz, Netflix, Seth Gordon
‘Say Nothing’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: FX, Hulu, Say Nothing, score, Sion Trefor, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the FX limited series Say Nothing. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Sion Trefor. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 15 and will be available to stream/download on any major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s first track (A Mother’s Influence) below. Say Nothing is created by Joshua Zetumer based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s best-selling book of the same name and stars Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Maxine Peake and Josh Finan. The 9-part thriller opens with the disappearance of a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again and tells the story of several Irish Republican Army (IRA) members during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Salve Maria’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mar Coll, Salve Maria, score, Soundtrack, Zeltia Montes
Zeltia Montes (Bird Box Barcelona, The Good Boss, Adiós, The Wait, Sad Hill Unearthed, Traces of Sandalwood) has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish psychological thriller Salve Maria. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to Montes’ end credits track after the jump. Salve Maria is co-written and directed by Mar Coll and stars Laura Weissmahr and Oriol Pla. The movie is based on the novel Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre and follows a promising young writer and new mother who reads that a French woman has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub and becomes obsessed with the case. Read the rest of this entry »
‘That Christmas’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Powell, Locksmith Animation, Netflix, Richard Curtis, score, Simon Otto, Soundtrack, That Christmas
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated film That Christmas. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Shrek, Solo: A Star Wars Story, United 93, Happy Feet, Rio, Bolt, Don’t Worry Darling). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 4. The streaming/download link will be added to this article soon. That Christmas is directed by Simon Otto and features the voices of Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Macqueen, Lolly Adefope, Katherine Parkinson, Sindhu Vee, India Brown, Bill Nighy and Rhys Darby. The Locksmith Animation production based on the trilogy of children’s books by Richard Curtis (who also co-wrote the screenplay) follows a group of townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea as they experience the worst snowstorm in history that alters everyone’s Christmas plans, including Santa’s. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mr. Plankton’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Choe Jeong In, Junha Park, Kim Yeon Jeong, Mr. Plankton, Netflix, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean Netflix original series Mr. Plankton. The album features the show’s original music composed by Choe Jeong In, Junha Park, Kim Yeon Jeong, as well as Yoon Chae Young, Shin Hyun Pill, Lim Mi Hyun and Park Jung Eun. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Mr. Plankton is created by Hong Jong-chan & Jo Yong and stars Woo Do‑hwan, Lee You-mi, Oh Jung-se, Kim Hae-sook and Kim Min-seok. The romantic comedy revolves around a man plagued by misfortune and his ex, the unluckiest bride-to-be, who are forced to accompany one another on the final journey of his life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bad Sisters’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Bad Sisters, PJ Harvey, score, Soundtrack, Tim Phillips
Hollywood Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Bad Sisters. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by PJ Harvey (Peaky Blinders, The Virtues) & Tim Phillips (Becoming Elizabeth, Shameless, Shining Vale), as well as their cover of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the cover and first original track (You’re Getting Nothing) below. The label has previously released an album featuring the score and opening title song Who By Fire from Season 1 back in 2022. Bad Sisters is developed by Sharon Horgan, Brett Baer & Dave Finkel based on the Belgian series Clan and stars Horgan herself, Anne-Marie Duff, Sarah Greene, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson, as well as new cast members Fiona Shaw, Thaddea Graham, Owen McDonnell, Barry Ward and Peter Claffey. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Every Minute Counts’ Soundtracks Released
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Cada Minuto Cuenta, Every Minute Counts, Pedro Osuna, score, Soundtrack
Amazon Content Services has released two soundtracks for the Mexican Prime Video original series Every Minute Counts (Cada minuto cuenta). The first album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Pedro Osuna (Argentina, 1985) . Visit Amazon (or any other major digital music services) to check out the track list and stream/download the soundtrack. Listen to a track from the composer’s music below. Available separately is an EP featuring five songs from the drama by Cada Minuto Cuenta, Silver Rose, Belafonte Sensacional, Myuné and Luisa Almaguer (click here to stream/download). Every Minute Counts is directed by Jorge Michel Grau, Moisés Urquidi & Fernando Urdapilleta and stars Osvaldo Benavides, Maya Zapata, Jesús Zavala, Damayanti Quintanar, Antonio de la Vega and Luis Fernando Peña. The 10-parter is set in 1985 on a typical Thursday that turned into one of the Mexico’s greatest catastrophes when an 8.1 magnitude earthquake shook the nation’s largest city and portrays the people who lived through the tragedy firsthand. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lost Children’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Los Niños Perdidos, Netflix, Orlando von Einsiedel, Patrick Jonsson, score, Soundtrack, The Lost Children
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary The Lost Children (Los Niños Perdidos). The album features the film’s original music composed by Patrick Jonsson (The Boogeyman, The White Helmets, Black Earth Rising, Scrapper, Virunga, Wildcat, On Her Shoulders). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 14 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s opening and title tracks below. The Lost Children is directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, co-directed byJorge Durán & Lali Houghton and tells the survival story of the Mucutuy siblings, four Indigenous children who crash landed in the Colombian Amazon jungle and relied on their ancestral wisdom to survive as an unprecedented rescue mission unfolds. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann Scoring James Hawes’ ‘The Amateur’
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Hawes, The Amateur, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Adrift, Hotel Mumbai, The Old Guard, Patrick Melrose, Ammonite) has recently been scoring the upcoming thriller The Amateur. The film is directed by James Hawes (Slow Horses, Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation/Smithereens) and stars Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jon Bernthal, Holt McCallany, Adrian Martinez, Julianne Nicholson and Danny Sapani. The movie is based on the novel by Robert Littell and follows a brilliant and introverted decoder for the CIA whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Silo’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Atli Orvarsson, score, Silo, Soundtrack
Platoon will release a new soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Silo. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Atli Örvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Vantage Point, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Defending Jacob, The Edge of Seventeen, Rams, The Eagle) who recently received his first Emmy Award nomination and won the BAFTA TV Award for his work on the first season. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 15 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). Listen to to a first track (Save My Silo) from the composer’s score after the jump. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 last year. Silo is created by Graham Yost based on Hugh Howey’s s bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels and stars Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Common, Steve Zahn, Harriet Walter, Avi Nash, Chinaza Uche, Alexandria Riley, Shane McRae, Clare Perkins, Remmie Milner, Billy Postlethwaite, Caitlin Zoz, Rick Gomez, Tanya Moodie and Iain Glen. Read the rest of this entry »