Christopher Lennertz is the composer of the new Hallmark Hall of Fame production Remember Sunday. The film is directed by Jeff Bleckner (The Russell Girl, Loving Leah) and stars Alexis Bledel and Zachary Levi. The movie follows a waitress who meets a jewelry store clerk who suffers from memory problems. A brain aneurysm three years earlier gives the clerk’s character a blank slate the second his alarm wakes him each day. Barry Morrow (Rain Man, Bill) has written the teleplay based on a story by Michael Kase (co-producer of Pain and Gain). Christopher Morgan (The Makeover) is producing and Brent Shields (Firelight) is executive producing the project.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 31, 2013)
Premiering on Thursday, April 4 is the new NBC drama Hannibal based on the characters from Thomas Harris’ classic novels and developed by Bryan Fuller. The show’s cast includes Hugh Dancy as Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter, as well as Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Eddie Izzard, Gina Torres, Molly Shannon, Gillian Anderson, Ellen Greene and Chelan Simmons. Brian Reitzell (Lost in Translation, Stranger Than Fiction, Boss) has composed the series’ original score. Check out our previous news article for more information about the project. Hannibal will air every Thursday night on NBC. To learn more about the show, visit the official series website.
‘Music of Nashville’ Season 1 – Volume 2 Soundtrack Announced
Big Machine Records will release a second soundtrack album for the ABC drama Nashville. The album features the songs from the second part of the first season performed by the film’s cast including Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Lennon Stella and Maisy Stella. T Bone Burnett serves as the show’s executive music producer. The soundtrack will be released on May 7, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for audio clips. For more information on the first volume, which was released last December, check out our previous news article. Nashville created by Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) currently airs every Wednesday night on ABC.
John Paesano to Score NBC’s Untitled Rand Ravich Project Pilot
John Paesano has been hired to score the pilot for NBC’s untitled Rand Ravich Project. The conspiracy thriller created by Ravich (writer/director of The Astronaut’s Wife, creator of Life) stars Dermot Mulroney, Gillian Anderson, Rachael Taylor, Lance Gross, Halston Sage, Max Martini and Joshua Erenberg. The show follows an unlikely puppeteer who will bring everyone from CEOs to the president of the United States to their knees by threatening the things they hold most dear. Phillip Noyce (Salt, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games) is directing the pilot episode. Ravich has written the script for the pilot and is executive producing the project with Far Shariat (Life). NBC is expected to announce in May if the pilot will be picked up to series.
‘Sinbad’ Soundtrack Details
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the fantasy adventure series Sinbad. The album features selections from the show’s original score composed by Christian Henson (The Devil’s Double, Severance). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 9, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Sinbad starring Elliot Knight, Naveen Andrews, Sophie Okoendo and Timothy Spall follows the Middle-Eastern sailor who is thrown out of his hometown of Basra with a curse on him for having killed a man and, unable to spend more than 24 hours on land, embarks on an quest to rid himself of the curse. The series premiered last summer in the UK on Sky. Syfy has acquired the series for the US.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 24, 2013)
Premiering tonight is the HBO original movie Phil Spector written and directed by David Mamet and starring Al Pacino the t he legendary music producer and Helen Mirren as his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden. Jeffrey Tambor, James Tolkan and Martin Jarvis are co-starring. The film’s original score is composed by Marcelo Zarvos who has previously scored a number of HBO films, including You Don’t Know Jack for Barry Levinson who is executive producing Phil Spector. No word yet on a soundtrack release. Phil Spector premieres tonight on HBO. To learn more about the film, check out our previous article and visit HBO’s official movie website.
Steve Jablonsky to Score Fox’s ‘The List’ Pilot
Steve Jablonsky has signed on to score the pilot for the Fox drama The List. The show is created by Paul Zbyszewski (creator of Day Break, writer on Lost and Hawaii Five-0) and stars Michael Peña as a U.S. Marshal who leads the hunt for the person who stole “the list” – a file with the identities of every member of the Federal Witness Security Program – after people in the program start getting killed. Tamsin Egerton, Hilarie Burton and Gary Cole are also starring. Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) is directing the pilot episode and is executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Zbyszewski. Fleischer has previously collaborated with Jablonsky on this year’s feature Gangster Squad starring Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone and Josh Brolin.
‘Borgia’ Season 2 Soundtrack Announced
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the historical drama series Borgia. The album features selections from the music of the show’s second season composed by Eric Neveux (Intimacy, Flight of the Storks). The soundtrack will be released overseas on April 29, 2013. No word yet on a domestic release. Borgia is created by Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life On The Street, Oz) and stars John Doman, Stanley Weber, Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes, Assumpta Serna and Marta Gastini. The series’ second season will begin in 1494, 8 months after the death of Rodrigo Borgia’s eldest son and will chart the meteoric rise of Prince Cesare Borgia as the family endeavors to keep hold of the papacy.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 17, 2013)
Premiering tomorrow is the new drama Bates Motel executive produced by Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) and starring Freddie Highmore, Vera Farmiga, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Nestor Carbonell and Mike Vogel. The show is contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho and follows Norman Bates during his teenage years. Chris Bacon (Source Code, Smash) is the composer of the show. Bates Motel will air every Monday night on A&E. Check out our scoring assignment announcement article to learn more about the show.
Jeff Toyne Scoring ‘Rogue’
Jeff Toyne is scoring DIRECTV’s first original series Rogue. The drama is created by Matthew Parkhill (The Caller) and stars Thandie Newton as a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective who is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Marton Csokas, Ian Hart, Claudia Ferri, Joshua Sasse, Jonathan Holmes, Sarah Jeffrey, Ian Tracey, Jarod Joseph, Matthew Beard and Martin Donovan are co-starring. Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire) has directed the first episode. Nick Hamm (The Hole, Godsend, Killing Bono) is executive producing the project for Greenroom Entertainment, alongside John Morayniss and Michael Rosenberg for eOne and Steven Marrs.