Atli Orvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Vantage Point, The Edge of Seventeen, The Eagle) is scoring the new CBS drama FBI: Most Wanted. The show is created by Dick Wolf & Rene Balcer (Law & Order) and stars Julian McMahon, Kellan Lutz, Roxy Sternberg, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Nathaniel Arcand. The series focuses on the Fugitive Task Force, which relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Read the rest of this entry »
Atli Orvarsson Scoring CBS’ ‘FBI: Most Wanted’
Posted: January 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, CBS, FBI, FBI: Most Wanted
‘Zombies 2’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Channel, Soundtrack, Zombies, Zombies 2
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disney Channel original movie Zombies 2. The album features the songs from the sequel to the 2018 film performed by cast members including Meg Donnelly, Milo Manheim, Kylee Russell, Trevor Tordjman, Carla Jeffery, James Godfrey, Emilia McCarthy, Noah Zulfikar, Pearce Joza, Chandler Kinney and Ariel Martin. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on February 14, 2020 and is now available for pre-order here (digital version) and on Amazon (CD version). Zombies 2 is directed by Paul Hoen, written by David Light & Joseph Raso and follows Seabrook High students Addison and Zed whose budding romance is threatened by the arrival of werewolves. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Showtime’s ‘Our Cartoon President’ to Be Released
Posted: January 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Gabriel Gundacker, Our Cartoon President, Showtime, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release the first soundtrack album for the Showtime original series Our Cartoon President. The album features the original songs from the first two seasons of the show written by series composer Gabriel Gundacker and performed by the comedy’s cast, including the end titles theme Donald Trump is the President. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 17, 2020 and is now available for pre-order here. Our Cartoon President is created by Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Matt Lapin, Tim Luecke & R.J. Fried and featuring the voices of Jeff Bergman, Cody Lindquist, William Sadler, Emily Lynne, as well as Gundacker himself. Read the rest of this entry »
‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jed Kurzel, Justin Kurzel, score, Soundtrack, True History of the Kelly Gang
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the western True History of the Kelly Gang. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Kurzel (Alien: Covenant, Macbeth, The Babadook, Assassin’s Creed, The Mustang, The Snowtown Murders). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 10 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. True History of the Kelly Gang is directed by Justin Kurzel and stars George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam, Russell Crowe, Orlando Schwerdt, Thomasin McKenzie, Sean Keenan, Earl Cave, Marlon Williams and Louis Hewison. The movie is based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize–winning novel and tells the story of the life and crimes of infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Read the rest of this entry »
Matthew Herbert Scoring BBC’s ‘Noughts + Crosses’
Posted: January 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Matthew Herbert, Noughts + Crosses
Matthew Herbert (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell, The Cave) has composed the original music for the upcoming BBC series Noughts + Crosses. The show is based on Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel series of the same title and stars Jack Rowan, Masali Baduza, Paterson Joseph, Bonnie Mbuli, Kike Brimah, Helen Baxendale, Ian Hart and Josh Dylan and Shaun Dingwall. The sci-fi drama adapted by Toby Whithouse (Being Human), Lydia Adetunji, Nathaniel Price and Rachel De-Lahay follows two young people who are divided by their color but united by love. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Spinning Out’ to Feature Music by Brendan Canning & Ohad Benchetrit
Posted: January 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brendan Canning, Netflix, Ohad Benchetrit, Spinning Out
Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning & Ohad Benchetrit are the composers of the new Netflix original series Spinning Out. The show is created by Samantha Stratton and stars Kaya Scodelario, Evan Roderick, January Jones, Will Kemp, Willow Shields, Amanda Zhou, Svetlana Efremova, Mitchell Edwards and Jonathan Van Ness. The drama follows a figure skating Olympic hopeful who struggles to balance love, family and fragile mental health as her dream of winning takes a dizzying hold. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Coyote Lake’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Coyote Lake, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Sara Seligman, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the crime drama Coyote Lake. The album features the film’s original score composed by Fabrizio Mancinelli (The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice). The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Coyote Lake is co-written and directed by Sara Seligman and stars Camila Mendes, Adriana Barraza, Charlie Weber, Neil Sandilands and Manny Perez. The movie is set in a deserted Texas town near the border of Mexico and follows a young daughter and her overbearing mother who run a makeshift motel out of their home, where they kill the unsuspecting drug runners and human traffickers who spend the night. Read the rest of this entry »
Natalie Holt Scoring Channel 4’s ‘Deadwater Fell’
Posted: December 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Channel 4, Deadwater Fell, Natalie Holt
Natalie Holt (Journey’s End, The Honourable Woman, Knightfall, Beecham House) has composed the original music for the new Channel 4 original series Deadwater Fell. The show is created by Daisy Coulam (Grantchester) and stars David Tennant, Cush Jumbo, Anna Madeley and Matthew McNulty. The 4-part thriller centers on two families in the aftermath of a tragedy that claims the lives of a woman and her three children. Lynsey Miller (The Boy with the Topknot, Eve) is directing the project, which is executive produced by Coulam, Tennant, Emma Kingsman-Lloyd (Humans, Grantchester) and Karen Wilson (Utopia, The Tunnel). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Grímur Hákonarson’s ‘The County’ Announced
Posted: December 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Grímur Hákonarson, score, Soundtrack, The County, Valgeir Sigurdsson
Bedroom Community will release a soundtrack album for the Icelandic comedy drama The County. The album features the film’s original music composed by Valgeir Sigurðsson (An Acceptable Loss). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 10, 2020. Check back on this page for the pre-order link. The County is written and directed by Grímur Hákonarson (Rams) and stars Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson and Sigurður Sigurjónsson. The movie follows an Icelandic woman who takes on the corruption of her local co-op and the outdated, exploitative system that supports it. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Peters Scoring Bryan Fogel’s ‘The Dissident’
Posted: December 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Peters, Bryan Fogel, The Dissident
Composer Adam Peters (Savages, Snowden, The Yellow Birds) is reuniting with director Bryan Fogel on the upcoming documentary The Dissident. The film centers on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul and follows his fiancée and dissidents around the world as they are left to piece together clues to his brutal murder. Fogel is also producing the project with Jake Swantko, Mark Monroe and Thor Halvorssen. Read the rest of this entry »