Platoon will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Stick. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s first season composed by Zachary Dawes (The Summer I Turned Pretty, Big Time Adolescence, The Big Door Prize,The Peanut Butter FalconThere’s Someone Inside Your HouseA League of Their Own). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 23 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s first and final score track after the jump. Available separately as a digital single is the opening titles song And It’s Gone produced by Dawes and performed by Caamp (check out the title sequence below). Stick is created by Jason Keller and stars Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Russo Scoring Netflix’s ‘Hostage’

Posted: July 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery Picard, The Night OfRipleyZero Day, The Umbrella Academy, LegionFor All Mankind) is the composer of the upcoming British Netflix limited series Hostage. The show is created by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies, Suite Francaise) and stars Suranne Jones, Julie Delpy, Corey Mylchreest, Martin McCann, Ashley Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones, Isobel Akuwudike, Jehnny Beth, Hiftu Quasem and Sophie Robertson. The 5-part thriller follows the British Prime Minister who is forced to choose between her country and her family when her husband is kidnapped and the French president who is also facing an unimaginable choice when she starts receiving threats . Read the rest of this entry »

‘Good Boy’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: July 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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SSL has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean TV series Good Boy. The album features the songs from the show, as well as selections of the original score by the project’s music director Heo Sung-jin and other composers. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. A CD version featuring a selection of the songs is available to order here. Listen to the title track below. Good Boy is written by Lee Dae-il, directed by Shim Na-yeon and stars Park Bo-gum, Kim So-hyun, Oh Jung-se, Heo Sung-tae, Lee Sang-yi and Tae Won-seok. The action comedy follows a group of former national athletes who reunite more than a decade after their career ended when they are recruited by the police as a special task force to take on major crimes with the grit and skills they honed as athletes. Read the rest of this entry »

Raffertie (The Substance, The Continental: From the World of John Wick, White Dragon, Zone 414One Way, Bull) is scoring the upcoming comedy drama California Schemin’. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actor Jamex McAvoy and stars McAvoy himself, Séamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley. The movie is based on a true story of two Scottish men pretending to be Americans to achieve their dreams of hip-hop stardom. Archie Thomson & Elaine Gracie wrote the screenplay based on Gavin Bain’s autobiography of the same name. Read the rest of this entry »

Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1982 animated feature The Secret of NIMH directed by Don Bluth and starring Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, Peter Strauss and John Carradine. The album features the expanded and newly remastered score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The OmenStar Trek: The Motion Picture, Planet of the ApesPatton, Basic Instinct, GremlinsChinatown), including around eight minutes o of previously unreleased music. The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more information about the release. Read the rest of this entry »

Composer Keefus Ciancia (Killing EveEric, The Radleys, London Spy, Great Expectations, The FallMade for LoveDiana, The Motel Life) is reuniting with writer/director Nic Pizzolatto on the upcoming drama Easy’s Waltz. The film is written and directed by Pizzolatto (The Magnificent Seven, The Guilty) and stars Vince Vaughn, Kate Mara, Al Pacino, Shania Twain, Cobie Smulders and Simon Rex. The movie follows a down-on-his-luck Vegas crooner who’s offered a shot at a comeback by an old-school Vegas personality, but his brother’s schemes and his own penchant for self-sabotage threaten to ruin the deal. Read the rest of this entry »

Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music has released a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Running on Empty. The album the film’s original score by Keith Weidner. Also included are the songs Beautiful Mystery & Got You by Weidner, Jasmine Crowe, Blake Buentelo & Taylr Renee. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to both songs and a score track after the jump. Running on Empty is written and directed by Daniel André and stars Keir Gilchrist, Lucy Hale, Rhys Coiro, Jay Pharoah, Dylan Flashner, Lisa Yaro, Dustin Milligan, Monica Potter and Jim Gaffigan. The movie follows a quirky young man whose life is stuck in neutral as he embarks on an adventure to give his life purpose and find true love. Read the rest of this entry »

Chanda Dancy (Blink TwiceOne of Them Days, Devotion, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, The Defeated) has composed the original music for the upcoming biographical drama Swiped. The film is directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Unpregnant, Valley Girl) and stars Lily James, Myha’la, Jackson White, Dan Stevens, Pierson Fode, Ben Schnetzer, Ian Colletti, Aidan Laprete, Mary Neely, Ana Yi Puig, Pedro Correa, Coral Peña and Hunter Sansone. The movie is inspired by the true story of online dating platform Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd who became one of the youngest self-made billionaires at age 31. Read the rest of this entry »

Atresmedia Música has released a new soundtrack album for the Spanish TV series Mariliendre. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Pablo Lluch & Vic Mirallas. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the first two tracks below. A separate album featuring the songs from the musical dramedy has previously been released last month. Mariliendre is created by Javier Ferreiro and stars Blanca Martínez Rodrigo, Omar Ayuso, Carlos González, Álvaro Jurado and Mariano Peña. The series is set in Madrid’s vibrant gay scene and revolves around a dethroned diva who finds herself bored with her mundane present and unable to move past her glorious past. Read the rest of this entry »

Chris Roe (The Salt Path, Blue JeanAfter Love, Payback, Nine Bodies in a Mexican MorgueTrigger PointWolf, Lancaster) has composed the original score for the upcoming British satirical thriller Bad Apples. The film is directed by Jonatan Etzler (One More Time) and stars Saoirse Ronan, Sean Gilder, Kerry Howard and Eddie Waller. The movie is loosely based on Rasmus Andersson’s debut novel De Oönskare and follows a primary school teacher who forced to take drastic action because of a violent, foul-mouthed student, and uncovers how her community will turn a blind eye to the most outrageous events to preserve harmony and their sense of safety. Read the rest of this entry »