WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the Riverdale special episode Hedwig and the Angry Inch the Musical. The album features the songs from the musical episode performed by cast members KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Madelaine Petsch, Cole Strouse, Marisol Nichols, Mark Consuelos, Martin Cummins, Skeet Ulrich, Charles Melton, Vanessa Morgan and Madchen Amick. The songs were originally written by Stephen Trask for the stage musical. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released multiple soundtracks featuring the songs and the original score from the series. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ‘Riverdale’ Special Episode ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch the Musical’ Released
Posted: April 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hedwig and the Anrgy Inch, Riverdale, Soundtrack, The CW
Kris Bowers to Score Malcolm D. Lee’s ‘Space Jam 2’
Posted: April 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kris Bowers, Malcolm D. Lee, Space Jam, Space Jam 2
Kris Bowers (Green Book, Dear White People, When They See Us, Monsters and Men) has been hired to score the upcoming sports comedy sequel Space Jam 2. The film is directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip, Undercover Brothers) and stars LeBron James as himself, as well as Don Cheadle, Sonequa Martin-Green and Ceyair J. Wright. The movie follows the NBA superstar as he teams up with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes James is also producing the project with Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed), Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , Oblivion) and Maverick Carter (Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker). Read the rest of this entry »
Emile Mosseri Tapped as Composer of Amazon’s ‘Homecoming’ Season 2
Posted: April 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Emile Mosseri, Homecoming
Composer Emile Mosseri (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) has joined the crew of the Amazon original series Homecoming. He is scoring the second season of the show created by Eli Horowitz & Micah Bloomberg and starring Janelle Monáe, Stephan James and Hong Chau (who reprising their roles from the first season), Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack. Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison Experiment) is directing all episodes. Horowitz & Bloomberg are also executive producing the project with Julia Roberts, Sam Esmail & Chad Hamilton (Mr. Robot, Briarpatch), Alex Blumberg & Matt Lieber & Chris Giliberti (Alex, Inc.) Read the rest of this entry »
John Paesano to Score ‘Leonardo’ TV Series
Posted: April 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Frank Spotnitz, John Paesano, Leonardo, Steve Thompson
John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, When the Game Stands Tall, The Star) has been tapped to score the upcoming Leonardo. The show is created by Frank Spotnitz (The Man in the High Castle, The X-Files) & Steve Thompson (Jericho) and stars Aidan Turner in the title role of Leonardo da Vinci, as well as Freddie Highmore as a fictional young detective named Stefano Giraldo, Giancarlo Giannini as Leonardo’s master Andrea del Verrocchio and Matilda De Angelis as Caterina da Cremona, his dearest friend and mysterious muse. The drama tells the story of the 15th/16th century Italian genius. Daniel Percival (The Man in the High Castle) and Alexis Sweet are directing the limited series. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘The Innocence Files’ to Feature Music by Justin Melland, Jay Wadley & Peter Nashel
Posted: April 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jay Wadley, Justin Melland, Netflix, Peter Nashel, The Innocence Files
Justin Melland (Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, The Force, Dark Net), Jay Wadley (Indignation, Tales of the City, Adam) and Peter Nashel (I, Tonya, Book Club, Marco Polo) are the composers of the new Netflix docu-series The Innocence Files. The show executive produced and directed by Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) & Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated) tells the untold personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the nonprofit organization the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have uncovered and worked tirelessly to overturn. Read the rest of this entry »
Lisbeth Scott to Score Marc Meyers’ ‘All My Life’
Posted: April 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: All My Life, Lisbeth Scott, Marc Meyers
Lisbeth Scott (Tumble Leaf, American Son, Justine, I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story) has signed on to score the upcoming romantic drama All My Life. The film is directed by Marc Meyers (My Friend Dahmer, Human Capital) and stars Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr., Michael Masini, Chrissie Fit, Greg Vrotsos, Jay Pharoah, Marielle Scott, Kyle Allen, Mario Cantone, Keala Settle, Ever Carradine, Josh Brener and Jon Rudnitsky. The movie tells the true story of Solomon Chau and Jennifer Carter, a young couple planning their wedding when they receive the news that Chau has liver cancer. Todd Rosenberg wrote the Black List-honored screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baghdad Central’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Baghdad Central, Channel 4, H. Scott Salians, Hulu, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the Channel 4/Hulu series Baghdad Central. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by H. Scott Salinas (A Private War, The Banker, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Cartel Land, Warrior, Birth of the Dragon) . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and iTunes/Apple Music, where you can also check out audio clips. Baghdad Central is created by Stephen Butchard based on the novel of the same title by Elliot Cola and stars Waleed Zuaiter, Bertie Carvel, Clara Khoury, Leem Lubany, Neil Maskell, July Namir and Corey Stoll. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Rennicks Scoring BBC/Hulu’s ‘Normal People’
Posted: April 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Death of a Ladies' Man, Hulu, Lenny Abrahamson, Normal People, Stephen Rennicks
Stephen Rennicks has composed the original score for the new BBC/Hulu limited series Normal People. The show is based on Sally Rooney’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same title and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal. The drama centers on the complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small town in the west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. Rooney is also executive producing the Element Pictures production with Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth), Mark O’Rowe (Boy A), Ed Guiney (The Favourite, The Lobster), Andrew Lowe (Shadow Dancer, Ripper Street), Emma Norton (Rosie), Anna Ferguson (A Discovery of Witches), as well as Lenny Abrahamson who also directed the first six episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lodgers’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: April 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian O'Malley, David Turpin, Kevin Murphy, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Shannon, The Lodgers
Burning Witches Records will release a soundtrack album for the Irish supernatural thriller The Lodgers. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Turpin with Stephen Shannon and Kevin Murphy. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 1, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Lodgers is directed by Brian O’Malley, written by Turpin and stars Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley, Moe Dunford, Deirdre O’Kane and Roisin Murphy. The movie follows two orphaned twins who are forbidden from leaving their haunted home and must face the deadly outcome when one of them falls for an outsider and rebels against their family curse. Read the rest of this entry »
Joachim Horsley Scoring ABC’s ‘The Baker and the Beauty’
Posted: April 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Joachim Horsley, The Baker and the Beauty
Joachim Horsley (Spirit Riding Free, Big City Greens, 2307: Winter’s Dream, Rapture-Palooza) is scoring the new ABC comedy drama The Baker and the Beauty. The show is developed by Dean Georgaris (The Meg, The Manchurian Candidate) based on the hit Israeli show created by Assi Azar and stars Victor Rasuk, Nathalie Kelley, Carlos Gómez, Dan Bucatinsky, Lisa Vidal, David Del Rio, Belissa Escobedo and Michelle Veintimilla. The series revolves around a blue-collar baker whose life moves into the spotlight when strikes up a relationship with an international superstar. Read the rest of this entry »