Composer Jongnic Bontemps (4400, My Name Is Pauli Murray, Wedding Season, United Skates) is reteaming with director Steven Caple Jr. on the upcoming sci-fi action movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. The film starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Tobe Nwigwe, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Dinklage, Liza Koshy, David Sobolov, John DiMaggio, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Cristo Fernández & Pete Davidson marks the seventh installment in Transformers live-action feature series.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 31, 2022)
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remiering on Thursday, August 4, is the Netflix original film Wedding Season directed by Tom Dey and starring Pallavi Sharda, Suraj Sharma, Rizwan Manji, Arianna Afsar, Sean Kleier, Sonia Dhillon Tully, Veena Sood, Manoj Sood and Julius Cho. The movie’s original music is composed by Jongnic Bontemps (4400, United Skates, My Name Is Pauli Murray, The Land) & Raashi Kulkarni. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the romantic comedy.
Premiering on Friday is the Hulu original movie Prey directed by Dan Trachtenberg and starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp and Julian Black Antelope. Sarah Schachner (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, The Lazarus Effect, Assassin’s Creed Origins) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the Predator prequel, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Wedding Season’ to Be Released
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Wedding Season. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jongnic Bontemps (4400, My Name Is Pauli Murray, United Skates, The Land) & Raashi Kulkarni. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 29. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Wedding Season is directed by Tom Dey and stars Pallavi Sharda, Suraj Sharma, Arianna Afsar, Rizwan Manji, Sean Kleier, Veena Sood, Sonia Dhillon Tully, Manoj Sood, Ruth Goodwin, Damian Thompson and Julius Cho. The movie follows two Indian-Americans who pretend to date under parental pressure to find spouses and in order to survive a summer of weddings, but find themselves falling for each other.
Jongnic Bontemps & Raashi Kulkarni Scoring Tom Dey’s Netflix Film ‘Wedding Season’
Jongnic Bontemps (My Name Is Pauli Murray, United Skates, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, The Land, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel) and Raashi Kulkarni have teamed up to score the upcoming Netflix original film Wedding Season. The movie is directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon, Failure to Launch) and stars Suraj Sharma, Pallavi Sharda, Rizwan Manji, Sean Kleiner and Ari Asfar. The romantic comedy follows two Indian-Americans who pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings, but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want them to be.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 19, 2021)
Premiering today is the Paramount+ original series 1883 created by Taylor Sheridan and starring Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen and James Landry Hebert. The show’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Fast & Furious, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Crazy Rich Asians, Thor: The Dark World, Now You See Me) & Breton Vivian (Five Feet Apart, Redeeming Love). Milan Records has released a first track from the soundtrack this past Friday. Check our previous article to listen to the track and for more information about the drama.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 24, 2021)
Premiering tomorrow, October 25, is the new CW drama 4400 developed by Ariana Jackson based on USA’s TV series The 4400 and starring Brittany Adebumola, Joseph David-Jones, TL Thompson, Ireon Roach, Jaye Ladymore, Khailah Johnson, Derrick A. King, Cory Jeacoma, AMARR and Autumn Best. The show’s original music is composed by Jongnic Bontemps (United Skates, My Name Is Pauli Murray, The Land, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, College Behind Bars, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the sci-fi series, which will air every Monday night on The CW.
Premiering on Thursday, October 28, is the Paramount+ animated series Star Trek: Prodigy developed by Kevin & Dan Hageman and starring Rylee Alazraqui, Brett Gray, Angus Imrie, Jason Mantzoukas, Ella Purnell and Dee Bradley Baker. Nami Melumad (An American Pickle, Absentia, Miss Arizona) is composing the show’s original score and Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost, Jurassic World, The Incredibles, Inside Out, Ratatouille, Spider-Man: Homecoming) has contributed the main title theme. Click here to watch the opening titles sequence featuring Giacchino’s theme and for more information about the series, which will be available to stream on Paramount+.
‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Soundtrack Released
Node Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jongnic Bontemps (United Skates, The Land, 4400, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, The People v. The Klan). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. My Name Is Pauli Murray is directed by Julie Cohen & Betsy West (RBG) and centers on Pauli Murray, a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. This movie focuses on their impact as a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world.
Jongnic Bontemps to Score The CW’s ‘4400’ Reboot
Jongnic Bontemps (United Skates, The Land, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, College Behind Bars, The People v. The Klan) has been hired to score the upcoming CW sci-fi drama 4400. The show is developed by Ariana Jackson based on USA’s original TV series The 4400 created by Scott Peters & Renee Echevarria and stars Brittany Adebumola, Joseph David-Jones, Ireon Roach, TL Thompson, Jaye Ladymore, Derrick A. King, Khailah Johnson, Cory Jeacoma, AMARR and Autumn Best. The series revolves around a group of people who vanished without a trace off the face of the planet over the last hundred years as they return in an instant to Detroit, having not aged a day with no memory of what happened to them, and must grapple with their impossible new reality.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 11, 2021)
Premiering tonight is the new HBO original series The Nevers created by Joss Whedon and starring Laura Donnelly, Ann Skelly, Olivia Williams, Tom Riley, James Norton, Rochelle Neil, Amy Manson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Pip Torrens, Denis O’Hare, Nick Frost and Ben Chaplin. The show’s original music is composed by Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time, Miracle, A River Runs Through It, Warrior, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Accountant). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the supernatural drama, which will air Sunday nights on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Also premiering tonight is the CNN docu-series The People v. The Klan written and directed by Donnie Eichar and executive produced by Cornell William Brooks, Donnie Eichar, Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold & Mary Lisio. Ceiri Torjussen (The Canal, Jack Goes Home, All Creatures Here Below, Test, Big Ass Spider!) and Jongnic Bontemps (United Skates, The Land, My Name is Pauli Murray, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel) have composed the original music for the Blumhouse Television production. The 4-part series, which tells the story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan following the brutal lynching of her son in 1981, will air this and next Sunday on CNN.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 24, 2021)
Premiering on Wednesday, January 28, is the Australian drama Penguin Bloom directed by Glendyn Ivin and starring Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver, Griffin Murray-Johnston, Rachel House, Leeanna Walsman, Lisa Hensley, Felix Cameron and Abe Clifford-Barr. The film’s original music is composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder, The Affair, Enough Said, The Good Shepherd, Ray Donovan, The Door in the Floor). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the movie, which premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and will debut in the U.S. and most other markets exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering on Wednesday is the Syfy original series Resident Alien developed by Chris Sheridan based on the Dark Horse comics and staring Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Corey Reynolds and Levi Fiehler. Noah Sorata (Falling Skies, The Gracefield Incident, Jinn, Reverie) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement and visit the official show website for more information about the Amblin Television production, which will air every Wednesday night on Syfy.