Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the BBC and HBO mini-series Parade’s End. The album featuring the series’ original score composed by Dirk Brossé. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 2, 2012 and is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Parade’s End based on the tetralogy of novels by Ford Madox Ford stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Roger Allam, Janet McTeer, Stephen Graham and Jack Huston. Susanna White (Nanny McPhee Returns) is directing the series and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Anna Karenina) has adapted the novels for the small screen.
Category: TV Scoring Assignments
James Levine Scoring NBC’s ‘The New Normal’
James Levine is the composer of the new NBC comedy The New Normal. The show is created by Ryan Murphy & Ali Adler and stars Justin Bartha, Andrew Rannells, Georgia King, Bebe Wood, NeNe Leakes and Ellen Barkin. The series follows a gay Los Angeles couple and a cash-strapped waitress who becomes a surrogate to help them have a child. Murphy has directed the pilot episode and is also executive producing the Twentieth Century Fox Television production with Adler and Dante Di Loreto (Glee, Temple Grandin). Levine has been working with Murphy on all of his shows since the premiere of the FX drama Nip/Tuck in 2003, including the hit shows Glee and American Horror Story, both of which will be back with new seasons this fall.
Mychael Danna Scoring ‘World Without End’
Mychael Danna has composed the score for the upcoming epic mini-series World Without End. The series based on Ken Follett’s best-selling novel is directed by Michael Caton-Jones and stars Cynthia Nixon, Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Charlotte Riley, Rupert Evans, Nora von Waldstaetten, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Tom Weston-Jones, Megan Follows and Sarah Gadon. The eight-hour thriller is the follow up to the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth (scored by Trevor Morris) and is set over 150 years after the Pillars events during the start of the Hundred Years’ War and the outbreak of the Black Death.
Scott Starrett to Score FOX’s ‘The Mob Doctor’
Scott Starrett has been hired to score the new FOX drama The Mob Doctor. The show created by Josh Berman and Rob Wright stars Jordana Spiro as a doctor torn between the physician’s Hippocratic Oath and her own family’s mob ties. William Forsythe, Jaime Lee Kirchner, James Carpinello, Jesse Lee Soffer and Zach Gilford are co-starring. Michael Dinner (Sons of Anarchy, The Wonder Years) has directed the pilot episode and is executive producing the Sony Pictures Television production with Berman and Wright.
Anton Sanko to Score ‘Nurse 3-D’
Anton Sanko is scoring the upcoming horror thriller Nurse 3-D. The movie is directed by Doug Aarniokoski (The Day, Highlander Endgame) and stars Paz De La Huerta (Boardwalk Empire) as a nurse who uses her sexuality to indulge a sinister side that finds her punishing dishonest men. Katrina Bowden, Corbin Bleu and Judd Nelson are co-starring in the film. David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) has written the screenplay and Marc Bienstock is producing the Lionsgate Entertainment production. Sanko has most recently scored the horror thriller The Possession starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick for the studio. Nurse 3-D is currently in post-production and no release date has been announced yet.
Soundtracks for ‘Trouble with the Curve’ and ‘Person of Interest’ Announced
Varese Sarabande Records has announced two new soundtrack albums. First up is a soundtrack for the Clint Eastwood-starring drama Trouble with the Curve. The albums features the film’s original score composed by Marco Beltrami, as well as the original song On My Way (To The Big Time) by Randy Brown. The physical version of the soundtrack is set to be released on October 2, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full details will be posted on this site in a few weeks. Trouble with the Curve is directed by Robert Lorenz and also stars Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard and Scott Eastwood.
‘Breaking Bad’ Score Album Announced
Madison Gate Records will release a new soundtrack album for AMC’s critically acclaimed TV drama Breaking Bad. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Dave Porter from all five seasons of the Emmy Award-winning series, as well as never-before-heard music and extended versions of fan-favorite cues. Breaking Bad: Original Score from the Television Series will be released on August 28, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon and iTunes. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. The label has previously released a soundtrack album for the show featuring songs from the first two seasons (click here for the full details). The fifth and final season of Breaking Bad created by Vince Gilligan and starring Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn currently airs every Sunday night on AMC.
Adrian Johnston Scoring ‘Dancing on the Edge’
Adrian Johnston is scoring the upcoming BBC original series Dancing on the Edge. The five-part series is written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince, Shooting The Past) and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wunmi Mosaku, Angel Coulby and John Goodman. The dramatic comedy follows the Louis Lester Band as they find fame amongst the parties and performances of upper class society in the capital. Nicky Kentish Barnes (Match Point, About A Boy) is producing the project and Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits are executive producing.
Robert Duncan’s Submarine Scoring Session for ABC’s ‘Last Resort’
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Robert Duncan is scoring Shawn Ryan’s new ABC drama Last Resort, which follows the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted fugitives after ignoring an order to fire nuclear missiles. The composer recently went down in an actual submarine at San Diego’s Maritime Museum to collect some different sounds sources for the score. Check out a video from the submarine scoring sessions after the jump. Duncan (Castle, The Unit, Terriers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has also just launched his new official website, where audio clips from the show’s score will be added soon. Last Resort stars Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Robert Patrick, Autumn Reeser, Max Adler, Daisy Betts and Dichen Lachman and Michael Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) has directed the pilot episode.
Trevor Morris to Score ABC’s ‘666 Park Avenue’
Trevor Morris has been hired to score the new ABC mystery series 666 Park Avenue. The show is created by David Wilcox (Fringe) is based on a novel by Gabriella Pierce and follows a couple who learns that the Manhattan building complex that they just moved into, including its upscale tenants, might be possessed by a mysterious demonic force. The series stars Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Vanessa Williams, Terry O’Quinn, Mercedes Masöhn, Robert Buckley, Helena Mattsson, Erik Palladino and Samantha Logan. Graves is also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Matthew Miller (Chuck), Leslie Morgenstein (Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries), Gina Girolamo (The Secret Circle) and Alex Graves (Fringe) who also directed the pilot episode.