The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, Bad Boys for Life & Ride or Die, The LEGO Batman Movie, Top Gun: Maverick). Harold Faltermeyer has written the original Beverly Hills Cop themes used in Balfe’s score. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Wednesday, July 3 by Netflix Music (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). La-La Land Records will release CD version (limited to 3,000 copies). Click here to check out the project’s music team credits. A first track from Balfe’s score (Axel’s Return) is already available to stream/download now and available separately as a a digital single is Lil Nas X’s “theme song” Here We Go!. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: July 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop 4, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Harold Faltermeyer, Lorne Balfe, Mark Molloy, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer Scoring Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’
Posted: July 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Blitz, Hans Zimmer, Steve McQueen
Composer Hans Zimmer is reuniting with director Steve McQueen on the upcoming historical drama Blitz. The film is written and directed by McQueen (Shame, Small Axe) and stars Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan, Harris Dickinson, Kathy Burke, Benjamin Clementine, Paul Weller, Leigh Gill, Stephen Graham, Mica Ricketts, Alex Jennings, CJ Beckford, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman and Sally Messham. The movie follows a 9-year-old boy in World War II London who – after being sent to safety in the English countryside – is determined to return home and finds himself in immense peril, while his distraught mother searches for her missing son. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Blue Lights’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Blue Lights, BritBox, Eoin O'Callaghan, score, Soundtrack
Amelia Records has released the first soundtrack album for the BBC drama Blue Lights. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Eoin O’Callaghan. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track below. Blue Lights is created by Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson and stars Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin, Martin McCann, Joanne Crawford, Hannah McClean, Andi Osho, Paddy Jenkins, Desmond Eastwood, Andrea Irvine, Jonathan Harden, Frank Blake, Seána Kerslake, Seamus O’Hara and Dearbhláile McKinney . The series is set in Belfast, Northern Island and follows three PSNI recruits as they try to quell a loyalist feud in the city. Read the rest of this entry »
Colapesce Scoring Fabio Grassadonia’s & Antonio Piazza’s ‘Sicilian Letters’ (‘Iddu’)
Posted: July 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antonio Piazza, Colapesce, Fabio Grassadonia, Iddu, Sicilian Letters
Sicilian singer/songwriter Colapesce is making his feature scoring debut on the upcoming Italian biographical drama Sicilian Letters (Iddu). The film is written and directed by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza (Sicilian Ghost Story, Salvo) and stars Elio Germano, Toni Servillo, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova and Tommaso Ragno. The movie centers on Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro (known as “the last godfather”) and focuses on the period when he was at the peak of his nefarious powers as a fugitive from Italian justice. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Geek Girl’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 1, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Geek Girl, Netflix, Nikhil Seetharam, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for British/Canadian Netflix original series Geek Girl. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Nikhil Seetharam (Children Ruin Everything, Utopia Falls). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Geek Girl is created by Holly Smale & Jessica Ruston based on Smale’s novel of the same name and stars Emily Carey, Emmanuel Imani, Liam Woodrum, James Murray, Tim Downie, Jemima Rooper, Sarah Parish and Rochelle Harrington. The comedy drama centers awkward teen who has always wanted to fit in and whose life is turned upside down when she gets scouted by a top London model agent and is thrust into the world of fashion. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 30, 2024)
Posted: June 30, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, John Debney, Space Cadet
Premiering on Thursday, July 4, is the comedy Space Cadet written and directed by Liz W. Garcia and starring Emma Roberts, Tom Hopper, Gabrielle Union, Poppy Liu, Desi Lydic, Sebastián Yatra, Kuhoo Verma, Andrew Call, Troy Iwata, Yasha Jackson, Josephine Huang, Dave Foley, Sam Robards and Joshua Harto.. The film’s original music is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf, Horizon: An American Saga, Iron Man 2, Hocus Pocus, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty). Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video.
Tokio Hotel’s Original Song ‘Home’ from Netflix’s ‘Kaulitz & Kaulitz’ Released
Posted: June 30, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Kaulitz & Kaulitz, Netflix, Tokio Hotel
Netflix Music has released the original song Home from the German Netflix original reality series Kaulitz & Kaulitz. The track written by Tom and Bill Kaulitz and performed by Tokio Hotel is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen check out the official lyric video after the jump. Kaulitz & Kaulitz is directed by Michael Schmitt & Annika Blendl, produced by Otto Steiner and follows the Kaulitz brothers and as the musicians offer a glimpse into their private lives in LA and Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
‘ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Channel, Soundtrack, Zombies: The Re-Animated Series
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for the Disney Channel original animated series ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series. The album features show’s the main title theme, My Year (The Re-Animated Remix), written by Mark Wong, Jack Kugell & Hanna Jones (listen to the track after the jump), as well as other songs written by Doug Rockwell, Tova Litvin Chantry Johnson, Michelle Zarlenga, Kugell, Wong & Jones and performed by the series’ voice cast. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services . ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series is based on Disney’s Zombies live-action movies and features the voices of Meg Donnelly, Milo Manheim, Chandler Kinney, Carla Jeffery, Kylee Russell, Trevor Tordjman, Terry Hu, Kahyun Kim and Pearce Joza. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 28, 2024)
Posted: June 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Family Affair, A Quiet Place: Day One, A Sacrifice, agehasprings, Alexis Grapsas, Ariel Marx, Daddio, Dickon Hinchliffe, Horizon: An American Saga: Chapter 1, Janet Planet, John Debney, June Zero, Kenji Tamai, Siddhartha Khosla, The Imaginary, Volker Bertelmann
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror prequel A Quiet Place: Day One written and directed by Michael Sarnoski and starring Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou. The film’s original music is composed by Alexis Grapsas (Pig, Monday, Teacher, Trigonometry, Big Shot). Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the western Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 co-written and directed by Kevin Costner and starring Costner himself, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Tatanka Means, Jena Malone, Owen Crow Shoe, Danny Huston, Ella Hunt, Michael Rooker, Abbey Lee, Luke Wilson, Will Patton, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Glynn Turman, Angus Macfadyen and Giovanni Ribisi. John Debney (The Passion of the Christ,The Jungle Book, Elf, Iron Man 2, Liar Liar, The Garfield Movie, Hocus Pocus) has composed the film’s original music. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joshua Weigel, score, Sean Philip Johnson, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, Soundtrack
Sony Classical has released the official soundtrack album for the drama Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sean Philip Johnson (Sight, The Blind, All Those Small Things, Full of Grace). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Finding Terri) below. Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot is co-written and directed by Joshua Weigel and stars Nika King, Demetrius Grosse, Elizabeth Mitchell and Diaana Babnicova. The movie is inspired by a true story and follows Donna and Reverend Martin as they ignite a fire in the hearts of their rural church in East Texas to embrace kids in the foster system that nobody else would take. Read the rest of this entry »
