Tag: Mark Mothersbaugh

Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 21, 2024)

Premiering on Wednesday, January 24, is the National Geographic documentary series A Real Bug’s Life inspired by Pixar’s 1998 feature A Bug’s Life, narrated by Awkwafina and executive produced by Tom Hugh-Jones, Grant Mansfield and Martha Holmes. Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The Royal Tenenbaums, The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Last Man on Earth, The Croods: A New Age) has composed the show’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be released on Friday by Hollywood Records. Check back on this page for the full album details and check out our previous news article for more information about the 5-parter, which will be available to stream on Disney+.

Premiering on Thursday, January 25, is the Netflix limited series Griselda created by Doug Miro, Eric Newman, Ingrid Escajeda & Carlo Bernard and starring Sofía Vergara, Alberto Guerra, Martin Rodriguez, Juliana Aidén Martinez and Christian Tappan. The show’s original music is composed by Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless, Hacks, Lessons in Chemistry, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Just Beyond, Chupa). Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the 6-part crime drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring National Geographic’s Disney+ Series ‘A Real Bug’s Life’

Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Royal Tenenbaums, 21Jump Street, The Croods: A New Age) has composed the original score for the upcoming documentary series A Real Bug’s Life. The show is inspired by Pixar’s animated feature A Bug’s Life (scored by Randy Newman) and takes a look into nine different micro bug worlds around the globe, where the forces of nature play out on a miniature scale and where tiny creatures rely on amazing powers and extraordinary alliances to make it through each day. The 5-parter narrated by Awkwafina tells stories of the tiny heroes — from a jumping spider looking for a home on the streets of New York to a Costa Rican orchid bee’s first day on the job making perfume.

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‘Our Flag Means Death’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released

WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack album for the Max original series Our Flag Means Death. The album features selections of the show’s original score from the show’s second season composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The Royal Tenenbaums, The LEGO Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Croods: A New Age, 21 Jump Street, The Mitchells vs. The Machines). Also included is Con O’Neill’s rendition of Edith Piaf’s La Vie en Rose (in both English and French) produced by Mothersbaugh. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The label has previously released an album featuring Mothersbaugh’s score from Season 1 last year.

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Mark Mothersbaugh’s ‘Halloweentown’ Score to Be Released

Walt Disney Records will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the 1998 Disney Channel original movie Halloweentown directed by Duwayne Dunham and starring Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Judith Hoagand and Joey Zimmerman. The album features the film’s original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street, The Croods: A New Age, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Mitchells vs. the Machines). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 1 (click here to stream/download). A limited edition LP is available to order on the Disney Music Emporium website.

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‘Vacation Friends 2’ Soundtrack Album Details

Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Vacation Friends 2. The album features the film’s original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie,  The Croods: A New Age, The Royal Tenenbaums, 21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 25 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Vacation Friends 2 is directed by Clay Tarver and stars John Cena, Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, Meredith Hagner, Ronny Chieng, Steve Buscemi, Jamie Hector and Carlos Santos.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 20, 2023)

Premiering today is the MGM+ original series The Winter King developed by Kate Brooke& Ed Whitmore based on Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell and starring Iain De Caestecker, Eddie Marsan, Ellie James, Nathaniel Martello-White, Stuart Campbell, Daniel Ings, Valene Kane, Jordan Alexandra and Simon Merrells. The show’s original music is composed by Rob Lane (John Adams, A Discovery of Witches, The Damned United, Merlin, Atlantis, Beowulf). Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on MGM+.

Premiering on Tuesday, August 22, is the Disney+ limited series Ahsoka developed by Dave Filoni and starring Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ivanna Sakhno, Ray Stevenson, Diana Lee Inosanto, Lars Mikkelsen, Eman Esfandi and David Tennant. Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars & The Bad Batch, Narcos: Mexico, Doom Patrol, CSI: Miami, Peacemaker, Making a Murderer). Click here for more information about the Lucasfilm production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.

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Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring Clay Tarver’s ‘Vacation Friends 2’

Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, The Royal Tenenbaums, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21/22 Jump Street, The Croods: A New Age) has recently scored the upcoming comedy Vacation Friends 2. The film is directed by Clay Tarver (Silicon Valley, Joy Ride) and stars Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, Meredith Hagner, John Cena, Steve Buscemi, Ronny Chieng, Carlos Santos and Jamie Hector. The sequel picks up a few months after the end of the original Vacation Friends movie and finds newly married couple Marcus & Emily inviting their uninhibited besties Ron & Kyla to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 10, 2023)

Opening in theater nationwide this weekend is the horror sequel Scream VI directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett and starring Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Dermot Mulroney and Samara Weaving. The film’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Fast & Furious, Avengers: Age of Ultron) & Sven Faulconer (Blood Father, The Last Ice, The Elephant Whisperers). Paramount Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.

Also opening wide is the sci-fi thriller 65 written and directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods and starring Adam Driver, Chloe Coleman and Ariana Greenblatt. Chris Bacon (Source Code, Wednesday, Gnomeo & Juliet, Men in Black: International, Bates Motel) has composed the film’s original music. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score (including several tracks co-written by Danny Elfman) today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Sony Pictures release.

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Nicky Youre’s & Diane Warren’s Original Song ‘Found’ from ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Released

Columbia Records has released the original song Found from the Netflix animated film The Magician’s Elephant. The track is written by Honorary Academy Award-winning songwriter Diane Warren and performed by Nicky Youre and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Check out the official lyric music video after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring Mark Mothersbaugh’s original score from the movie has also been released today. The Magician’s Elephant is directed by Wendy Rogers and stars Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Natasia Demetriou, Brian Tyree Henry, Pixie Davies, Benedict Wong, Kirby Howell-Baptiste Miranda Richardson and Dawn French.

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‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Soundtrack Album Details

Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated film The Magician’s Elephant. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, The Croods: A New Age, Cocaine Bear, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21/22 Jump Street, The Royal Tenenbaums). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 10 (click here to stream/download). To be released separately as a digital single is the film’s original song Found written by Diane Warren and performed by Nicky Youre (check back on this page to listen to the track). The Magician’s Elephant is directed by Wendy Rogers and stars Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Tyree Henry, Natasia Demetriou, Pixie Davies, Sian Clifford, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Benedict Wong, Aasif Mandvi, Miranda Richardson and Dawn French.

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