Ben Onono (Missing You, Half of a Yellow Sun, Ridley Road, Safe, Spell, Paranoid, Trust Me) has recently scored the new British Disney+/Freeform limited series The Stolen Girl. The show is developed by Catherine Moulton based on the best-selling novel by Alex Dahl and stars Denise Gough, Holliday Grainger , Jim Sturgess, Ambika Mod, Bronagh Waugh and Michael Workéyè. The 5-part psychological drama directed by Eva Husson (Mothering Sunday, Girls of the Sun) and follows a couple whose mundane existence spirals into chaos when their daughter goes missing after what appears to be a normal sleepover with a school friend and the mother is forced to embark on a cat-and-mouse chase across Europe to discover the shocking truth about her disappearance. Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Onono Scoring Disney+’s & Freeform’s ‘The Stolen Girl’
Posted: April 16, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Onono, Disney Plus, Freeform, The Stolen Girl
‘It Takes Two to Tango’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 16, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aimons-nous vivants, It Takes Two to Tango, Jean-Pierre Améris, score, Soundtrack, Stéphane Moucha
B Original has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic comedy It Takes Two to Tango (Aimons-nous vivants). The album features the film’s original music composed by Stéphane Moucha (The Lives of Others, The Pursuit of Unhappiness, Run Boy Run, The Man Who Laughs, When We Leave). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s first track below. It Takes Two to Tango is directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and stars Valérie Lemercier, Gérard Darmon and Patrick Timsit. The movie follows a famous and disillusioned 70-year-old crooner as he travels to Geneva where he plans to end his life, when he meets and forms a bond with an eccentric fan, derailing his intentions. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney Scoring Derek Drymon’s ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants’
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Derek Drymon, John Debney, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants
Last week, John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, The Jungle Book, Iron Man 2, The Emperor’s New Groove, Hocus Pocus) has started recording his score for the upcoming animated sequel The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants. The film is directed by Derek Drymon (Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania) and features the voices of Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence, Bill Fagerbakke, Mr. Lawrence and Mark Hamill. The fourth theatrical SpongeBob movie based on the series created by Stephen Hillenburg follows the title character as he faces off against “The Flying Dutchman,” a gruff and goofy ghost-pirate. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Faster’ (‘Rapide’) Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Etienne Forget, Faster, Morgan S. Dalibert, Rapide, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the French racing drama Faster (Rapide). The album features the film’s original music composed by Etienne Forget (The Last Journey of Paul W.R., Missions, Victor Hugo – Enemy of the State, AKA, Hero Corp, The Forest). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 16 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Faster is co-written and directed by Morgan S. Dalibert and stars Paola Locatelli, Alban Lenoir, Rik Kleve and Tchéky Karyo. The movie follows a young woman who dreams of winning the Formula 1 championship, but sees no way to break into the male-dominated sports, when she finds an unexpected mentor in a washed-up former driver while simultaneously falling in love with her fiercest rival. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Netflix’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Animated Series
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Bensi, Netflix, Saunder Jurriaans, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Enemy, Speak No Evil, The White Tiger, The Gift, Boy Erased, The Staircase, Tokyo Vice) have been tapped to compose music for the upcoming Netflix animated series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. The show based on the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell espionage video game franchise is directed by Guillaume Dousse & Félicien Colmet-Daage and stars Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, a black ops agent working for the US government division “The Fourth Echelon.” Derek Kolstad (John Wick, Nobody) serves as the project’s head writer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wish You Were Here’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John McCauley, Julia Stiles, score, Soundtrack, Vanessa Carlton, Wish You Were Here
Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music has released a soundtrack album for the romantic drama Wish You Were Here. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton and John Joseph McCauley III (of the rock band Deer Tick) who made their feature scoring debut on the project. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the first three tracks below. Wish You Were Here marks the feature directorial debut of actress Julia Stiles and stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Jimmy Fails, Gabby Kono-Abdy, Jennifer Grey and Kelsey Grammer. The movie is based on Renée Carlino’s novel of the same title follows a woman who searches for meaning in her life until – after a perfect night with a perfect stranger that ends suddenly the next morning – she uncovers a secret that changes everything. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Paramount+ Documentary ‘The Carters’ Released
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Denisse Ojeda, Paramount+, score, Soleil Moon Frye, Soundtrack, The Carters
Denisse Ojeda (Departing Seniors, Bad Press) has released a soundtrack album for the Paramount+ original documentary The Carters. The album features selections of the composer’s original score from the 2-parter and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track below The Carters is directed by Soleil Moon Frye and takes a personal look at the soaring success and heartbreaking struggles of a family propelled into the spotlight by the meteoric rise of the musical careers of two brothers, Nick Carter (of Backstreet Boys) and the late pop sensation Aaron Carter. Read the rest of this entry »
Jesse Eisenberg to Write Music & Lyrics for A24 Movie Musical
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bill Sherman, Jesse Eisenberg
A24 announced today that Jesse Eisenberg wrote the original music and lyrics for the actor’s third feature directorial effort. The (currently untitled) musical comedy will star Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu, Bernadette Peters, Bonnie Milligan, Colton Ryan, Maulik Pancholy and Lilli Cooper. Steven Gizicki (A Complete Unknown, La La Land) serves as the project’s music supervisor and Bill Sherman (In the Heights, tick, tick…BOOM!) is the executive music producer on the film, which follows a shy woman who is unexpectedly cast in a community theater musical production and going to extremes as she loses herself in the role. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Fireworks’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Fireworks, Fuochi d'artificio, Nicola Tescari, RAI, score, Soundtrack
Radiofandango has released a soundtrack album for the Italian limited series Fireworks (Fuochi d’artificio). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Nicola Tescari (Grand Hotel, Euphoria, Lo spazio bianco, Waiting for the Sun). Also included are a number of traditional Italian songs performed by Anonima Frottolisti. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to several tracks from Tescari’s score below. Fireworks is written by Susanna Nicchiarelli & Marianna Cappi based on the bestselling novel by Andrea Bouchard and stars Anna Losano, Luca Charles Brucini, Carlotta Dosi, Lorenzo Enrico, Bebo Storti, Carla Signoris and Gabriele Graham Gasco. The coming-of-age drama is set in 1944 Piedmont and tells the story of four teenagers hoping for the end of the war who secretly help the Italian Resistance in its fight against the the occupying German forces. Read the rest of this entry »
Original Song ‘Love Isn’t Always on Time’ from ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Season 4 Released
Posted: April 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Aimee-Leigh Gemstone, Jennifer Nettles, Joseph Stephens, Megan Mullaly, The Righteous Gemstones
WaterTower Music has released the original song Love Isn’t Always on Time from the sixth episode (Interlude IV) of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Righteous Gemstones. The track written by the show’s composer Joseph Stephens and performed by Jennifer Nettles (as Aimee-Leigh Gemstone) and Megan Mullaly (as Lori Milsap) is now available to stream/download in two different version as a digital single on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to both versions after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring more music from Season 4 is expected to be released in the coming weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
