NEW YORK, NY (June 2, 2023) – Milan Records today announces the release of TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) by composer JONGNIC BONTEMPS. Available everywhere Friday, June 9 and to preorder today, the album features music written by Bontemps for the seventh live-action installment in the blockbuster film franchise. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the latest collaboration between director Steven Caple Jr. and Jongnic Bontemps, the duo having previously worked together on Caple Jr.’s directorial debut The Land and 2018’s hit film Creed II. Making its debut today alongside album preorder is the album’s opener track “The Maximals,” giving listeners of what can be expected from the album ahead of its wide release next Friday, June 9 – LISTEN HERE. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts arrives in theaters June 9 from Paramount Pictures.
Of the soundtrack, composer JONGNIC BONTEMPS says, “I wish I could tell my pre-adolescent self that one day the toys that you’re having endless hours of fun with, will one day be a movie series, and that you’ll write the music for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. That might have kept me out of a lot of trouble… Scoring the movie and working with my longtime collaborator Steven Caple Jr. has exceeded my wildest dreams and I’m deeply honored to be a part of the Transformers legacy. We worked tirelessly to honor the musical language of the previous films, and reimagine it through the lens of our current world”.
“We are excited to bring a new sound to Transformers: Rise of The Beasts,” adds director STEVEN CAPLE JR. “To the fans, our music will feel fresh, nostalgic of the 1990s, and it will achieve a reimagining of the musical composition these films are known for. With Jongnic Bontemps as this franchise’s first Black composer, we are proud and excited for audiences to connect with the film and culture through our music.” Paramount Pictures’ President of Music RANDY SPENDLOVE echoes this sentiment, adding, “We are proud and excited to welcome Jongnic Bontemps to the Transformers universe. His music is epic, emotional, and inspired and will be an amazing addition to the legendary franchise.”
ABOUT TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS
Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to join them as allies in the existing battle for earth. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. and starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, the film arrives in theatres June 9, 2023.
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TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
TRACKLISTING –
1. The Maximals
2. Unicron / Scourge
3. Autobots Enter
4. What Are You
5. More Than Meets the Eye
6. Mirage
7. Museum Heist
8. Battle at Ellis Island
9. Fallen Hero
10. Chris Meets Mirage
11. Arriving in Peru
12. Hiding in Plain Sight
13. The Cave
14. Switchback Chase
15. The Village
16. Saving Elena
17. One Last Stand
18. The Final Battle Begins
19. Unicron Approaches
20. Home Team
21. Volcano Battle
22. No Matter the Cost
23. Till All Are One
24. Humans and Autobots United
25. Here’s My Card
26. A Long Time Ago
ABOUT JONGNIC BONTEMPS
Jongnic “JB” Bontemps is a uniquely modern film composer tapped by Paramount Pictures to score the blockbuster, sci-fi action movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Michelle Yeoh for director and longtime collaborator Steven Caple Jr.
JB is known for his fusion of contemporary sound with timeless emotion. He became the go-to composer for director Steven Caple Jr. while scoring his coming-of-age drama The Land, for which he also orchestrated the song “This Bitter Land” performed by Nas and Erykah Badu. The two then went on to collaborate on the acclaimed film Creed II, for which JB provided rousing additional music. JB’s music can most recently be heard in the Netflix romantic comedy Wedding Season, the CW sci-fi series 4400, and the dramatic feature Last Night in Rozzie directed by Sean Gannet as well as the Arkane Studios horror video game Redfall. His soon-to-be-released projects include two for Disney+: the feature film World’s Best for director Roshan Sethi and the 6 part series Choir for director Rudy Valdez and Jagged Mind for director Kelley Kali.
JB has lent his talents to a number of critically acclaimed documentary projects. He initially became known for his hip-hop infused score for the Tribeca-favorite documentary United Skates, and has since gone on to collaborate with multiple award- winning documentarians on their projects, including Julie Cohen and Betsey West’s feature film My Name Is Pauli Murray; his work for which was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award. His other documentary projects include the CNN special The People vs. The Klan, director Sam Pollard’s films Citizen Ashe and Reopening Night, the Netflix documentary projects Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story and We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, and Shonda Rhimes’ Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker.
JB has scored dozens of features, series and video games in all genres, including the Lifetime biopic Clarke Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, the Toni Braxton-led drama, Faith Under Fire, the Sundance selection Leimert Park produced by Charles King (Mudbound), the BET+ original series Boomerang, and additional music for the Epix series Godfather of Harlem starring Forest Whitaker and the award winning game Call of Duty WWII. JB’s scores have echoed at Cannes, the Warsaw Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and the American Black Film Festival, as well as at home on Netflix, CNN, HBO, BET, Lifetime, NBC, Showtime, Netflix, PBS and Disney XD.
Brooklyn born, JB learned the piano and soaked up his gospel and jazz surroundings. He studied music at Yale and later found himself at the heart of the tech industry as a software developer and entrepreneur after selling his startup to HP. He thrived there for several years, but eventually decided to pursue his deeper passion and jumped head- first into the film scoring program at USC and the Sundance Film Music Lab. He apprenticed as a programmer for numerous A-list Hollywood composers before breaking out on his own.
“Film music has to tell a story without words,” JB says. “Its job is to add depth and dimension to the images and words presented on screen. That’s what attracted me to the medium; the opportunity to really express emotion with music.”
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