The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Purple Hearts have been revealed. The album features the original songs from the movie co-written and performed by Sofia Carson (who also stars in the lead role). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 29 by Hollywood Records and will be available to stream/download here. A first song (Come Back Home) has already been released earlier this month. Purple Hearts is directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum and also stars Nicholas Galitzine, Chosen Jacobs, Linden Ashby, Kat Cunning, Anthony Ippolito and John Harlan Kim. The romantic drama follows an aspiring musician who agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
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Blake Neely Scoring Netflix’s ‘Keep Breathing’
Blake Neely (The Flight Attendant, The Flash, Greyhound, Arrow, You, The Pacific, The Mentalist) has recently scored the new Netflix limited series Keep Breathing. The show is created by Martin Gero & Brendan Gall (The Lovebirds) and stars Melissa Barrera, Jeff Wilbusch, Austin Stowell, Florencia Lozano, Juan Pablo Espinosa and Mike Dopud. The 6-part survival thriller follows a lone survivor and New York lawyer who must battle both an unforgiving wilderness and past personal demons to stay alive after her private plane crashes in the remote Canadian frontier.
‘The Bureau of Magical Things’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Brett Aplin (Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, The Longest Shot, The Gloaming Surviving Georgia) has released a new soundtrack album for the Australian family comedy series The Bureau of Magical Things. The album features selections of the composer’s original score from the show’s second season and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Aplin has previously released a soundtrack featuring music from Season 1 last year. The Bureau of Magical Things is developed by Jonathan M. Shiff & Mark Shirrefs and stars Kimie Tsukakoshi, Elizabeth Cullen, Julian Cullen, Mia Milnes, Rainbow Wedell, Jamie Carter and Christopher Sommers.
Tamar-kali Scoring John Ridley’s ‘Shirley’
Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Josephine Decker’s Shirley, The Assistant, Palmer, The Lie, Come Sunday) is scoring the upcoming Netflix original film Shirley. The movie is written and directed by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) and stars Regina King in the title role, alongside Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges, Christina Jackson, André Holland, Michael Cherrie, Dorian Missick, Amirah Vann, W. Earl Brown and Terrence Howard. The biographical drama tells the story of trailblazing political icon Shirley Chisholm, the first Black Congresswoman and the first Black woman to run for President of the U.S.
Ray BLK to Serve as Executive Music Producer on BBC’s & Netflix’s ‘Champion’
British singer/songwriter Ray BLK (aka Rita Ekwhere) will serve as the music executive producer on the upcoming BBC/Netflix series Champion. The show is created by Candice Carty-Williams and stars Déja J Bowens, Malcolm Kamulete, Nadine Marshall, Ray Fearon, Jo Martin, Kerim Hassan, Adeyinka Akinrinade, Genesis Lynea, Tom Forbes, Francis Lovehall, Karl Collins, Corey Weekes and Rachel Adedeji. Ray BLK will also star in the musical drama, which is set in south London and centers on the rivalry between a rap sensation who is home from prison and his dutiful younger sister whose own talent is discovered and steps out of her brother’s shadow.
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Shania Twain – Not Just a Girl’ Documentary Announced
Mercury Nashville will release the official soundtrack companion album for the Netflix documentary Shania Twain – Not Just a Girl. The album features the Shania Twain songs (including hits such as Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, That Don’t Impress Me Much, You’re Still The One, as well as the new title track) in order of appearance in the movie. Not Just A Girl (The Highlights) will be released digitally on this Tuesday, July 26 and physically on September 2. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. Shania Twain – Not Just a Girl directed and produced by Joss Crowley traces the singer/songwriter’s emergence as a crossover artist and takes viewers through her vision during Come On Over to become a global pop phenomenon.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 24, 2022)
Premiering on Tuesday, July 26, is the Argentine limited series Santa Evita developed by Marcela Guerty & Pamela Rementaria and starring Natalia Oreiro, Ernesto Alterio, Francesc Orella, Diego Velázquez and Darío Grandinetti. The show’s original music is composed by Federico Jusid (The Secret In Their Eyes, Watership Down, Kidnap, The Head, Loving Pablo, Life Itself). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream in the U.S. on Hulu.
Premiering on Wednesday, July 27, is the Disney+ documentary series Light & Magic directed by Lawrence Kasdan, executive produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Justin Wilkes, Kathleen Kennedy & Michelle Rejwan about Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm. James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, King Kong, The Fugitive, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Sixth Sense, Maleficent) has composed the show’s original music. The 6-parter will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
Cliff Martinez, Peter Peter & Julian Winding to Compose Music for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Netflix Series ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’
Netflix announced today that Cliff Martinez (Traffic, Contagion, Solaris, Game Night), Peter Peter (Antboy, Over the Edge) and Julian Winding are composing the original music for the upcoming Danish Netflix neo-noir series Copenhagen Cowboy. The show is created and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and stars Angela Bundalovic, Lola Corfixen, Zlatko Buric, Andreas Lykke Jørgensen, Jason Hendil-Forssell, Dragana Milutinovic, Li Ii Zhang, Mikael Bertelsen and Mads Brügge. The 6-parter revolves around a young heroine who travels through Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld.
Jeremy Holland-Smith Scoring Netflix’s ‘Scrooge: A Christmas Carol’
Netflix announced today that Jeremy Holland-Smith (The Passing, The League of Gentlemen, The Dumping Ground, Frankie) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix animated feature Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. The composer has also arranged and produced the re-imagined songs written by late Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse for the movie, which is directed by Stephen Donnelly (Monster High: Welcome to Monster High) and features the voices of Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Fra Fee, Giles Terera, Trevor Dion Nicholas, James Cosmo and Jonathan Pryce.
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Stories of a Generation – with Pope Francis’ Released
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary series Stories of a Generation – with Pope Francis. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Valerio Vigliar (Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to check out the track list and to stream/download the soundtrack. Stories of a Generation – with Pope Francis follows a number of inspiring women and men over 70 around the world (including Martin Scorsese, Jane Goodall and Pope Francis) as they share their stories, poignant life lessons and pivotal choices from their remarkable journeys with young filmmakers under the age of 30.