La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1986 action classic Top Gun directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt. The 2-CD set features the world premiere release of the film’s original score composed by Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch, The Running Man, Thief of Hearts, Cop Out, Tango & Cash) on the first disc, and the songs from the movie, including Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone and Berlin’s Academy Award-winning Take My Breath Away, on the second disc. The soundtrack, which is limited to 5,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Columbia Records has previously released the original 1986 soundtrack album and an expanded version in 1999 featuring the songs and two tracks from Faltermeyer’s score. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Harold Faltermeyer’s ‘Top Gun’ Score Announced
Posted: March 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Harold Faltermeyer, score, Soundtrack, Tony Scott, Top Gun
‘Predators’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Debney, Nimrod Antal, Predators, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 2010 sci-fi horror movie Predators directed by Nimrod Antal and starring Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins and Laurence Fishburne. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Iron Man 2, Elf, Hocus Pocus, Bruce Almighty). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. La-La Land Records has previously released a CD version when the movie opened in theaters in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Justin Burnett Scoring Renny Harlin’s ‘The Strangers’ Trilogy
Posted: March 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Justin Burnett, Renny Harlin, The Strangers, The Strangers: Chapter 1, The Strangers: Chapter 2, The Strangers: Chapter 3
Justin Burnett (9-1-1: Lone Star, Java Heat, Unit 13) is the composer of the upcoming horror trilogy The Strangers. The feature films series based on Bryan Bertino’s 2008 movie of the same title is directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) and stars Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Rachel Shenton, Gabriel Basso, Richard Brake, Ema Horvath and Ella Bruccoleri. The first installment follows a young couple who are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin in an eerie small town after their car breaks down, when they they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack EP for Netflix’s ‘Furies’ Released
Posted: March 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Furies, Guillaume Roussel, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack EP for the French Netflix original series Furies. The 6-track EP features selections of the show’s original music composed by Guillaume Roussel (Black Beauty, 3 Days to Kill, Expend4bles, Lift, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan & Milday, The Spy, Happy!). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also check out the composer’s main title track below. Furies is created by Jean-Yves Arnaud & Yoann Legave and stars Lina El Arabi, Marina Foïs, Mathieu Kassovitz, Steve Tientcheu, Jeremy Nadeau and Sandor Funtek. The crime drama follows a young woman seeking to avenge her father’s death who becomes entangled in the web of the Fury, peacekeeper of the Paris criminal underworld. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Red Queen’ (‘Reina Roja’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Red Queen, Reine Roja, score, Soundtrack, Victor Reyes
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish Prime Video original series Red Queen (Reina Roja). The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Emmy Award winner Victor Reyes (The Night Manager, Buried, Red Lights, Grand Piano, Perfect Strangers, Down a Dark Hall). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s main titles and end credits tracks below. Red Queen is written by Amaya Muruzábal & Salvador Perpiñá based on the first book in Juan Gómez-Jurado’s hit trilogy and stars Vicky Luengo, Hovik Keuchkerian, Andrea Trepat, Nacho Fresneda, Celia Freijeiro, Karmele Larrinaga and Vicenta N’Dongo. Read the rest of this entry »
Samara Joy’s Original Song ‘Why I’m Here’ from John Ridley’s ‘Shirley’ Released
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Ridley, Netflix, PJ Morton, Samara Joy, Shirley
Verve Records has released the original song Why I’m Here from the Netflix original film Shirley. The track is co-written (with PJ Morton) and performed by Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Samara Joy and is now available to stream on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring Tamar-kali’s original score from the movie will be released next month. Shirley is written and directed by John Ridley and stars Regina King (in the title role of politician Shirley Chisholm), Lance Reddick, Terrence Howard, Lucas Hedges, André Holland, Christina Jackson, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Michael Cherrie. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for National Geographic’s ‘Queens’ to Be Released
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Morgan Kibby, National Geographic, Queens, score, Soundtrack
The details of the full soundtrack album for the National Geographic original documentary series Queens have been revealed. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Morgan Kibby (aka White Sea) (The Watcher, Mothering Sunday, The Power, Girls of the Sun, Grand Army, Wilderness, Tales of the Walking Dead). Also included is Alewya’s main title song Umi, which is already out now as a digital single. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 1 by Hollywood Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Queens is narrated by Angela Bassett and leverages cutting-edge technology to reveal insights into how females in the natural world rise to power, often relying on cooperation and wisdom over brute strength to get ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ to Feature ‘…Baby One More Time’ Cover by Tenacious D
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Dreamworks Animation, John Spiker, Kung Fu Panda 4, Tenacious D
Tenacious D (Jack Black & Kyle Gass) have recorded a new version of the Britney Spears hit song …Baby One More Time for DreamWorks Animation’s sequel Kung Fu Panda 4. The track (originally written by Max Martin) is produced by John Spiker (who co-wrote Black’s original song Peaches from last year’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie) and features an orchestral arrangement by the film’s composers Hans Zimmer & Steve Mazzaro and Òscar Senén. The song is featured during the movie’s end titles sequence and will be included on the movie’s official soundtrack album, which will be released next week by Back Lot Music. Read the rest of this entry »
Adem Ilhan Scoring Thea Sharrock’s Netflix Film ‘The Beautiful Game’
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adem Ilhan, Netflix, The Beautiful Game, Thea Sharrock
Adem Ilhan (Avenue 5, In the Loop, The Ones Below, Cheaters, The Ghost of Peter Sellers) has provided the original score for the upcoming British Netflix original film The Beautiful Game. The movie is directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You, Wicked Little Letters) and stars Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Susan Wokoma, Callum Scott Howells, Sheyi Cole, Kit Young, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robin Nazari, Cristina Rodlo, Aoi Okuyama, Tadashi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama and Valeria Golino. The sports drama follows a team of English homeless footballers who travel from London to Rome to compete in a global annual football tournament – The Homeless World Cup. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Danny Bensi, Max, Saunder Jurriaans, score, Soundtrack, Tokyo Vice
Fifth Season Music & Lakeshore Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Max original series Tokyo Vice. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s second season composed by Emmy Award nominees Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, The White Tiger, The Gift, Boy Erased, Enemy, The Staircase, The Devil All the Time, Tulsa King). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 1. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. A first album featuring Bensi’s & Jurriaans’ music from Season 1 was released back in 2022. Tokyo Vice is created by J.T. Rogers and stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Miki Maya and Yōsuke Kubozuka. Read the rest of this entry »
