Premiering tonight is the HBO original documentary series Ren Faire produced and directed by Lance Oppenheim and executive produced by Elara Pictures. The show’s original music is composed by Ari Balouzian (Some Kind of Heaven, Spermworld, They Call Us Monsters, The Giant). The 3-parter, which explores the succession drama at the Texas Renaissance Festival and the power struggle between an actor, a former elephant trainer and a kettle-corn kingpin, all vying to claim the throne of the leader, 86-year-old George Coulams, will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.
Premiering on Tuesday, June 4, is the Disney+ original live-action Star Wars series The Acolyte created by Leslye Headland and starring Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Dafne Keen, CManny Jacinto, Charlie Barnett, Rebecca Henderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Dean-Charles Chapman, Joonas Suotamo and Carrie-Anne Moss. Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope, Us, Bad Education, The Burial, See You Yesterday, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Breaking) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the Lucasfilm production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
Also premiering on Tuesday is the FX limited series Clipped created by Gina Welch and starring Laurence Fishburne, Jacki Weaver, Ed O’Neill, Cleopatra Coleman, Kelly AuCoin, Rich Sommers, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Corbin Bernsen, Clifton Davis and Harriet Sansom. The show’s original music is composed by Wendy Wang (American Born Chinese, Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.). The 6-part drama, which is based on the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs and centers on the NBA owner Donald Sterling’s racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world, will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Premiering on Wednesday, June 5, is the French Netflix original film Under Paris (Sous la Seine) directed by Xavier Gens and starring Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Anne Marivin, Léa Léviant, Sandra Parfait, Aksel Ustun, Nagisa Morimoto and Aurélia Petit. Anthony D’Amario (Incident in a Ghostland), Alex Cortés (Ares) & Edouard Rigaudière (Follow) have composed the movie’s original music. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the shark thriller.
Also premiering on Wednesday is the Netflix original documentary series Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial directed by Joe Berlinger and executive produced by Tim Pastore, Patrick Milling-Smith, Matt Renner and Yoshi Stone. The show’s original music is composed by System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian (I Am Not Alone, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, Truth to Power, Furious) and Vincent Pedulla (Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields & The Time Square Killer). Click here to learn more about the 6-parter, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering in Wednesday is the Netflix original true crime documentary How to Rob a Bank directed by Stephen Robert Morse & Seth Porges and produced by Morse, Porges and Max Peltz. Leo Birenberg (Cobra Kai, Bottoms, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous & Chaos Theory, Son of Zorn, Twisted Metal, Tigtone, Butcher’s Crossing) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous article for more information about the movie, which will also be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Premiering on Thursday, June 6, is the drama Am I OK? directed by Stephanie Allynne & Tig Notaro and starring Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Kiersey Clemons, Jermaine Fowler, Molly Gordon and Sean Hayes. The film’s original music is composed by Craig Wedren (School of Rock, Role Models, Yellowjackets, Wet Hot American Summer, How to Be a Latin Lover, GLOW) & Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) (The Nowhere Inn). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be available to stream exclusively on Max.
Premiering on Friday, June 7, is the French Disney+/Hulu limited series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld based on Raphaëlle Bacqué’s novel Kaiser Karl and starring Daniel Brühl, Théodore Pellerin, Alex Lutz, Arnaud Valois and Agnès Jaoui. Evgueni Galperine & Sacha Galperine (The Undoing, Scenes from a Marriage, Loveless, Wizard of Lies, Radioactive, Happening, The Family) have composed the show’s original music. Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the 6-part drama, which will be available to stream in the U.S. on Hulu.
Also premiering on Friday is Onyx Collective’s Hulu original series Queenie created by Candice Carty-Williams based on her own best-selling novel and starring Dionne Brown, Bellah and Samuel Adewunmi. The show’s original score is composed by British music producer Swindle. The drama, which revolves around a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London as she straddles two cultures and slotting neatly into neither, will also be available to stream on Hulu.
Also premiering on Friday is the HBO original series Fantasmas created, directed and written by Julio Torres and starring Torres, Martine Gutierrez, Tomas Matos and Joe Rumrill. Robert Ouyang Rusli (aka OHYUNG) (Problemista, Test Pattern, Bruiser, Photgrapher) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 6-part comedy, which will air Fridays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.
