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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 15, 2020)

Posted: November 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
Tags: Alan Ari Lazar, Alex Geringas, Amazon, Animaniacs, Christopher Willis, Crazy Not Insane, Disney Plus, HBO, HBO Max, Hulu, I Hate Suzie, James Everingham, Johnny Llyod, Julie Bernstein, Lorne Balfe, Mica Levi, Nathan Coen, Netflix, No Man's Land, Peacock, Run, Rutger Hoedemaekers, Showtime, Small Axe, Steven Bernstein, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, The Reagans, The Real Right Stuff, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse., Torin Borrowdale, TrollsTopia, Will Bates

Premiering tonight is the Showtime docu-series The Reagans directed and executive produced by Matt Tyrnauer about the rise and reign of America’s ultimate power couple, Ronald & Nancy Reagan. The show’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, His Dark Materials, The Crown, Home, Bad Boys for Life) who previously scored Tyrnauer’s features Studio 54 and Where’s My Roy Cohn?. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 4-part series, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime.

Premiering on Wednesday, November 18, is the documentary Crazy, Not Insane directed and produced by Alex Gibney about Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to studying murderers and seeking answers as to why people kill. Will Bates (Unbelievable, Away, I Origins, The Magicians, The Looming Tower, Nightflyers) who has previously scored numerous of Gibney’s documentaries has composed the film’s original music. The movie, which premiered at this year’s Copenhagen International Documentary Festival and also screened at the 2020 Venice Film Festival will debut in the U.S. exclusively on HBO and HBO Max. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex Geringas Scoring Peacock’s & Hulu’s ‘TrollsTopia’

Posted: November 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
Tags: Alex Geringas, Hulu, Peacock, Trolls, TrollsTopia

Alex Geringas is the composer of DreamWorks Animation’s new Peacock and Hulu original series TrollsTopia. The show is inspired by the studio’s Trolls feature films (scored by Christophe Beck & Theodore Shapiro) and features the voices of Skylar Astin, Amanda Leighton, David Flynn, Ron Funches, Kenan Thompson, Megan Hilty, Jeanine Mason, Kat Graham and Kevin Michael Richardson. The series follows Poppy as she bottles up her endless positivity and invites delegates from every Troll tribe in the forest to live together in harmony in a grand experiment she calls TrollsTopia. Matthew Beans serves as executive producer. Read the rest of this entry »

Soundtrack Album for Hulu’s ‘No Man’s Land’ Released

Posted: November 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
Tags: Hulu, No Man's Land, Rutger Hoedemaekers, score, Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original series No Man’s Land. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Rutger Hoedemaekers (Trapped, The Last Berliner). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. No Man’s Land is created Maria Feldman, Eitan Mansuri, Amit Cohen & Ron Leshem and stars Félix Moati, Mélanie Thierry, Souheila Yacoub, Joe Ben Ayed, James Floyd, Dean Ridge and James Purefoy. The 8-part drama directed by Oded Ruskin is set against the backdrop of the Syrian War and follows a young French man who, while unraveling the mystery of his estranged, presumed to be dead sister, ends up joining forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters and travels with them in ISIS occupied territory. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 13, 2020)

Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
Tags: Ammonite, Atticus Ross, Bear McCreary, Ben Salisbury, Benson Taylor, Bruno Coulais, Chick Fight, Come Away, Dara Taylor, David Fleming, Dustin O'Halloran, Echo Boomers, Fatman, Freaky, Hans Zimmer, Hillbilly Elegy, John Debney, Jon Natchez, Kila, Make Up, Mank, Martin Mabz, Mondo Boys, The Climb, Trent Reznor, Volker Bertelmann, Wolfwalkers

The only movie opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror comedy Freaky co-written and directed by Christopher Landon and starring Kathryn Newton, Vince Vaughn, Celeste O’Connor, Katie Finneran, Dana Drori, Misha Osherovich, Uriah Shelton and Alan Ruck. The film’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Happy Death Day, Outlander, Battlestar Galactica). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Blumhouse production, which is being released by Universal Pictures.

Opening in select theaters today is the comdedy The Climb co-written and directed by Michael Angelo Covino and starring Covino himself, alongside Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godréche. Jon Natchez & Martin Mabz have composed the film’s original score. No soundtrack album has been announced. The movie, which follows two lifelong friends who are out for a bike ride through the mountains in the South of France when one of them confesses that he slept with the other’s fiancé premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and is being released stateside by Sony Pictures Classics. Read the rest of this entry »

‘True to the Game 2’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: 'True to the Game 2, Jamal Hill, Soundtrack

Faith Media Distribution has released a soundtrack album for the drama True to the Game 2. The album features the songs from the movie by artists such as Wheezy Beats Future & Yo Gotti, DeJ Loaf, Jeremih feat. OT Genesis, Tamar Braxton, London on Da Track feat. Derez De’Shon, Freeway & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. True to the Game 2 is directed by Jamal Hill and stars Vivica A. Fox, Andra Fuller, Erica Peeples, Jeremy Meeks, Iyana Halley. The sequel to the original 2017 True to the Game movie picks up a year after the murder of drug dealer Quadir Richards, whose death carries consequences for all who knew him, including Gena who has reinvented herself as a journalist, living and working in New York City and is sent on assignment to Los Angeles for a career-changing story. Read the rest of this entry »

HAIM’s Original Song ‘Feel The Thunder’ from ‘The Croods: A New Age’ Released

Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Ariel Rechtshaid, HAIM, The Croods, The Croods: A New Age

Back Lot Music has released the original song Feel The Thunder from DreamWorks Animation’s feature The Croods: A New Age. The track is performed by HAIM (aka Alana Haim & Danielle Haim) who also co-wrote it with Ariel Rechtshaid. Visit Amazon to stream/download the song and also listen to the full track below. The Croods: A New Age is directed by Joel Crawford and features the voice talent of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, Cloris Leachman, Leslie Mann, Peter Dinklage and Kelly Marie Tran. The animated sequel (scored by Mark Mothersbaugh) follows the title characters as they face their biggest challenge of all: another family. Read the rest of this entry »

Rachel Portman Scoring Disney+ Movie ‘Godmothered’

Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Disney Plus, Godmothered, Rachel Portman, Sharon Maguire

Rachel Portman (Emma, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Never Let Me Go, The Manchurian Candidate) has recently scored the upcoming Disney+ original movie Godmothered. The film is directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones’s Baby) and stars Isla Fisher, Jillian Bell, Jane Curtin, Jillian Shea Spaeder, Willa Skye, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Santiago Cabrera, Artemis Pebdani, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Stephnie Weir, as well as June Squibb and Carlease Burke. The comedy revolves around a young, inexperienced fairy godmother-in-training who upon hearing that her chosen profession is facing extinction, decides to show the world that people still need fairy godmothers. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Wolfwalkers’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Apple TV +, Aurora, Bruno Coulais, Kila, Ross Stewart, score, Soundtrack, Tomm Moore, Wolfwalkers

22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Wolfwalkers. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Bruno Coulais (Coraline, The Chorus, The Crimson Rivers, The Secret of Kells, Winged Migration) and Kila. Also included is the new version of AURORA’s Running with the Wolves (written by herself, Nico Rebscher & Michelle Leonard and newly arranged and recorded for the movie). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon or Apple Music/iTunes, where you can also check out audio samples. Wolfwalkers is directed by Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, written by Will Collins and tells a magical, unlikely friendship between two girls in 17th-century Ireland. Read the rest of this entry »

Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Agatha Christie’s Marple’ Released

Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
Tags: Agatha Christie's Marple, Dominik Scherrer, ITV, Miss Marple, PBS, score, Soundtrack

MovieScore Media has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the ITV series Agatha Christie’s Marple based on books and short stories by Agatha Christie and starring Geraldine McEwan (seasons 1-3) and Julia McKenzie (seasons 4-6) in the title role. The album features selections of the show’s score composed by Emmy Award nominee Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, Ripper Street, Requiem, The Widow, The City and the City, Primeval), as well as the composer’s Agatha Christie’s Marple theme. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Agatha Christie’s Marple premiered in the UK between 2004 and 2013 on ITV and aired in the U.S. (as Miss Marple) on PBS. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey’ Soundtrack Album Details

Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: David E. Talbert, Harvey Mason Jr., Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, John Debney, Netflix, Soundtrack

The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey have been revealed. The album features the songs from the musical performed by Usher feat. Kiana Ledé, Ricky Martin, Marisha Wallace, as well as the movie’s cast. Also included is a score suite by the film’s composer John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf). Harvey Mason Jr. serves as the project’s executive music producer. The soundtrack is being released by Atlantic Records today and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is directed by David E. Talbert and stars Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Hugh Bonneville and Madalen Mills. The movie follows a once-joyful toymaker who – decades after his trusted apprentice betrayed him – finds new hope when his kind and curious granddaughter comes into his life. Read the rest of this entry »

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