The music production house Bleeding Fingers Music has taken over scoring duties on the Fox animated series The Simpsons. Hans Zimmer and Russell Emanuel serve as score producers and Steven Kofsky is credited as the score executive producer. The composers are replacing Alf Clausen who has scored most of the episodes of the previous 28 seasons of the series. Danny Elfman’s main titles theme for the show is still being used. Zimmer has previously scored 2007’s The Simpsons Movie.
Month: October 2017
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 1, 2017)
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Ten Days in the Valley created by Tassie Cameron and starring Kyra Sedgwick, Felix Solis, Erika Christensen, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kick Gurry, Ella Thomas and Emily Kinney. The show’s original music is composed by W.G. Snuffy Walden (The West Wing, Friday Night Lights, Nashville, Under the Dome). Check out our scoring assignment announcement and visit the official show website to learn more about the series, which will air Sunday nights on ABC.
‘Better Watch Out’ Soundtrack to Be Released
A soundtrack album will be released for the horror thriller Better Watch Out. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brian Cachia (The Osiris Child, Infini, Undocumented). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 6, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Better Watch Out is directed by Chris Peckover and stars Levi Miller, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Patrick Warburton and Virginia Madsen. The movie follows a babysitter who, one snowy night on a quiet suburban street, must defend her twelve-year-old charge from intruders but quickly learns that this is an extraordinary home invasion that demands an equally extraordinary response.