Film Music Reporter

ESKMO has signed on to score the upcoming Showtime original series Billions. The drama is created by Brian Koppelman & David Levien (Ocean’s Thirteen, Runaway Jury, Rounders) & Andrew Ross Sorkin (Too Big To Fail) and stars Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile and Condola Rashad. The show revolves around politics and power in the world of Wall Street and New York investment firms and follows a hard-driving U.S. attorney who clashes with a hedge fund titan. Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless, Insurgent) is directing the pilot episode and is also executive producing the project with Koppelman, Levien and Sorkin. ESKMO aka Brenden Angelides is best known as an electronic music producer and composer and has released several records, including his latest album SOL. He is also part of the Echo Society, a Los Angeles-based collective of artists and musicians, alongside other film composers including Joseph Trapanese, Rob Simonsen and Nathan Johnson. Billions marks his first major scoring assignment. The show is set to premiere on January 17, 2016 and will air every Sunday night on Showtime.