Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Redfall, My Name Is Pauli Murray, 4400, United Skates, Wedding Season, World’s Best) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Madea’s Destination Wedding. The movie is written and directed by Tyler Perry (The Six Triple Eight, For Colored Girls) and stars Perry himself, Cassi Davis Patton, David Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Tamela Mann, Diamond White, Xavier Smalls, Jermaine Harris, Walnette Santiago and Brandon Sutton. The comedy marks the tenth installment in the Madea feature series and follows the title character as she packs her best floral dresses and a whole lot of chaos when the Simmons family heads to the Bahamas for her grandniece’s whirlwind wedding. Read the rest of this entry »
Jongnic Bontemps Scoring Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea’s Destination Wedding’
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jongnic Bontemps, Madea's Destination Wedding, Netflix, Tyler Perry
‘The Gold’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, score, Simon Goff, Soundtrack, The Gold
Silva Screen Records has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC drama The Gold. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Simon Goff (Waves). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks after the jump. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 back in 2023. The Gold is written by Neil Forsyth and stars Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Stefanie Martini, Tom Cullen, Sam Spruell, Tom Hughes, Joshua McGuire, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tamsin Topolski, Joshua Samuels, Jack Lowden and Rochelle Neil. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 8, 2025)
Posted: June 8, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Cuervo, Amazon, Andrew Skeet, Daniel Pemberton, Deep Cover, Families Like Ours, Lydia Ainsworth, Nathan Klein, Netflix, Revival, Syfy, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, Valentin Hadjadj
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, June 10, is the limited series Families Like Ours (Familier som vores) directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Magnus Millang, David Dencik, Thomas Bo Larsen, Esben Smed and Asta Kamma August. The show’s original music is composed by Valentin Hadjadj (Close, Girl, April and the Extraordinary World, A Bigger World, Under the Stars of Paris, Rialto). 22D Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past January. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the drama, which premiered in several international markets last fall and is making its domestic debut on Netflix.
Premiering on Wednesday, June 11, is the Netflix original documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster directed by Mark Monroe about OceanGate’s Titan tourist submersible that imploded in 2023 on a deep-sea dive to the Titanic. Andrew Skeet (MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, The Body Next Door) & Nathan Klein (Ludwig, The Beast Within, 101 Dalmatian Street) have composed the film’s original music. The movie, which examines CEO Stockton Rush’s quest to become the next billionaire innovator and the doomed underwater endeavor that called into question the price of ambition in the depths of the ocean, just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week and will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sara – Woman in the Shadows’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 8, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Ralf Hildenbeutel, Sara - La Donna nell'Ombra, Sara - Woman in the Shadows, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Sara – Woman in the Shadows (Sara – La Donna nell’Ombra). The album features the selections of the show’s original music composed by Ralf Hildenbeutel (Supersex, Shiverstone Castle, Everybody Loves Diamonds, Maltese – Il Romanzo del Commissario). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main theme below. Sara – Woman in the Shadows is based on the crime novel of the same title by Maurizio De Giovanni and stars Teresa Saponangelo, Claudia Gerini, Flavio Furno, Carmine Recano, Chiara Celotto, Giacomo Giorgio, Antonio Gerardi, Massimo Popolizio, Martina Pia Gambardella and Haroun Fall. The 6-part thriller follows a former internal secret service agent who gets pushed back into action to shed light on the untimely death of her son, investigating a series of crimes that grows increasingly sinister. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan Bingham’s Original Song ‘Dangerous’ from ‘Dangerous Animals’ Released
Posted: June 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dangerous Animals, Ryan Bingham, Sean Byrne
Ryan Bingham has released the original song Dangerous from the survival horror thriller Dangerous Animals. The track is written and performed by the Academy Award-winning songwriter and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. As previously reported, Range Music has released a full soundtrack album featuring Michael Yezerski’s original score from the film yesterday. Dangerous Animals is directed by Sean Byrne and stars Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Ella Newton, Rob Carlton and Liam Greinke. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 6, 2025)
Posted: June 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ballerina, Barron's Cove, Dangerous Animals, Danny Bensi, Gavin Brivik, I Don't Understand You, Jacob Yoffee, Jacques Brautbar, James Newberry, Jason Lazarus, Joel J. Richard, Joseph Trapanese, Michael Yezerski, Resurrection Road, Roahn Hylton, Saunder Jurriaans, The Life of Chuck, The Newton Brothers, The Ritual, Tyler Bates, We Are Guardians
Opening in theaters nationwide today is the action movie Ballerina directed by Len Wiseman and starring Ana de Armas, Gabriel Byrne, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, Keanu Reeves, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Norman Reedus. The film’s original score is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Watchmen, Deadpool 2, 300, X, Atomic Blonde) & Joel J. Richard (John Wick, Quantico, Books of Blood). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ music today (click here for the full album details). Always Never Records has released a separate EP featuring three tracks by Le Castle Vania and Columbia Records has released two digital singles featuring the end credits songs (click here to listen to all tracks and to learn more about the Lionsgate release).
Also opening wide this weekend is the survival horror thriller Dangerous Animals directed by Sean Byrne and starring Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Liam Greinke, Rob Carltonand Ella Newton. Michael Yezerski (The Tax Collector, Blindspotting, The Devil’s Candy, The Vigil, Corporate Animals, Feel the Beat) has composed the film’s original music. Range Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by the Independent Film Company & Shudder. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Resurrection Road’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ashley Cahill, Jacques Brautbar, Resurrection Road, score, Soundtrack
Jacques Brautbar (Skywalkers: A Love Story, Bob Trevino Likes It, Ravage, Supercool, Black as Night, It Ain’t Over, Phobias, Kings of Beer) has released a soundtrack album for the period horror thriller Resurrection Road. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream exclusively on Spotify. Resurrection Road is written and directed by Ashley Cahill and stars Malcolm Goodwin, Furly Mac, Okea Eme-Akwari, Triana Browne and Michael Madsen. The movie follows an elite squad of six Black soldiers who are sent deep into the Arkansas woods to destroy a Confederate fort’s long-range guns and – outnumbered and hunted – must fight to complete their mission and change history. Read the rest of this entry »
Blanck Mass Scoring Nick Rowland’s ‘She Rides Shotgun’
Posted: June 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blanck Mass, Nick Rowland, She Rides Shotgun
Composer and electronic recording artist Blanck Mass (aka Benjamin John Power) (Ted K, The Rig, Gazza) is reteaming with director Nick Rowland on the upcoming crime thriller She Rides Shotgun. The film is based on based on Jordan Harper’s novel of the same title and stars Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang, John Carroll Lynch, David Lyons and Odessa A’zion. The movie follows a newly released ex-con who is marked for death by unrelenting enemies and must now protect his estranged eleven-year-old daughter at all costs. Read the rest of this entry »
Le Castle Vania’s Electronic Music Tracks from ‘Ballerina’ Released
Posted: June 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ballerina, John Wick, Le Castle Vania, Len Wiseman
Always Never Records has released a digital EP featuring three tracks by electronic music artist and composer Le Castle Vania (Dylan Eiland) from the John Wick spinoff movie Ballerina. The EP, entitled Ballerina Code, is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to all three tracks below. Eiland has previously contributed music to all four John Wick installments and also appeared as himself in the infamous concert-meets-shoot-out scene in John Wick: Chapter 2. As previously reported, Lakeshore Records has released the original soundtrack album featuring Tyler Bates’ & Joel J. Richard’s score, as well as an additional track (Become the Assassin) by Le Castle Vania today, while Columbia Records has released two original songs from the film as digital singles. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Phineas and Ferb’ Season 5 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dan Povenmire, Disney Channel, Disney Plus, Phineas and Ferb, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Disney Channel original animated series Phineas and Ferb. The album features the songs from the fifth season of the show written by the show’s creators Dan Povenmire & Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, as well as Olivia Olson, Martin Olson, Sunny Karnan, Oscar Lemus, Whitney Avalon, Sophia James, Jon Colton Barry & Kim Roberson and performed by the animated comedy’s voice cast. Also included is Bowling For Soup’s theme song. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to several tracks below. Phineas and Ferb stars Vincent Martella & David Errigo Jr. in the title roles, alongside Ashley Tisdale, Caroline Rhea, Dee Bradley Baker, Alyson Stoner, Povenmire & Marsh themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
