Adem Ilhan (Avenue 5, In the Loop, The Ones Below, Cheaters, The Ghost of Peter Sellers) has provided the original score for the upcoming British Netflix original film The Beautiful Game. The movie is directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You, Wicked Little Letters) and stars Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Susan Wokoma, Callum Scott Howells, Sheyi Cole, Kit Young, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robin Nazari, Cristina Rodlo, Aoi Okuyama, Tadashi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama and Valeria Golino. The sports drama follows a team of English homeless footballers who travel from London to Rome to compete in a global annual football tournament – The Homeless World Cup. Read the rest of this entry »
Adem Ilhan Scoring Thea Sharrock’s Netflix Film ‘The Beautiful Game’
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adem Ilhan, Netflix, The Beautiful Game, Thea Sharrock
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Danny Bensi, Max, Saunder Jurriaans, score, Soundtrack, Tokyo Vice
Fifth Season Music & Lakeshore Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Max original series Tokyo Vice. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s second season composed by Emmy Award nominees Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, The White Tiger, The Gift, Boy Erased, Enemy, The Staircase, The Devil All the Time, Tulsa King). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 1. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. A first album featuring Bensi’s & Jurriaans’ music from Season 1 was released back in 2022. Tokyo Vice is created by J.T. Rogers and stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Miki Maya and Yōsuke Kubozuka. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer & James Everingham (feat. Shashwat Sachdev) to Compose Title Theme & Score for BBC’s ‘Virdee’
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Bleeding Fingers Music, Hans Zimmer, James Everingham, Shashwat Sachdev, Virdee
BBC announced today that Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Inception, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Interstellar) & James Everingham (Apollo: Missions to the Moon, The Real Right Stuff) feat. Shashwat Sachdev (Uri: The Surgical Strike, Selection Day) will compose the title theme and original score for the upcoming BBC series Virdee for Bleeding Fingers Music. Trainees from Screen Academy Bradford will also be joining Bleeding Fingers to get a hands-on experience of composing for screen and to assist with the composing of the series score. The show is created by AA Dhand based on his own novels and stars Staz Nair, Aysha Kala, Nina Singh, Kulvinder Ghir, Vikash Bhai and Sudha Bhuchar. The 6-part crime thriller directed by Mark Tonderai (Spell, House at the End of the Street) follows a cop disowned by his Sikh family for marrying a Muslim who must hunt down a serial killer targeting the Asian community. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Iwájú’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Iwájú, Ré Olunuga, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disney+ original animated event series Iwájú. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ré Olunuga (Rise, Girl, Coming from Insanity, Up North). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Iwájú written by Olufikayo Ziki Adeola & Halima Hudson and features the voice talent of Simisola Gbadamosi, Dayo Okeniyi, Femi Branch, Siji Soetan and Weruche Opia. The Walt Disney Animation Studios and Kugali production is set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria and tells the coming-of-age story follows a young girl from the wealthy island, and her best friend, a self-taught tech expert, as they discover the secrets and dangers hidden in their different worlds. . Read the rest of this entry »
‘Inshallah a Boy’ Soundtrack EP to Be Released
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amjad Al Rasheed, Andrew Lancaster, Inshallah a Boy, Jerry Lane, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack EP for the Jordanian drama Inshallah a Boy. The 4-track EP features the film’s original score composed by Andrew Lancaster (The Turning, The Hunter, I Am You) & Jerry Lane (Theeb). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 1 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Inshallah a Boy is directed by Amjad Al Rasheed and stars Mouna Hawa, Seleena Rababah, Yumna Marwan, Hitham Omari and Salwa Nakkara. The movie centers on a widow who pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Life & Beth’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, Life & Beth, Ray Angry, score, Soundtrack, Timo Elliston
Fifth Season Music & Lakeshore Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Hulu original series Life After Beth. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Ray Angry (Descendant, Inside Amy Schumer) and Timo Elliston (Abstract: The Art of Design, Expecting Amy). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 1 and will be available to stream/download here. The label has previously released an album featuring the composers’ score from Season 1 back in 2022. Life & Beth is created by Amy Schumer and stars Schumer herself, Michael Cera, Susannah Flood and Violet Young. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dario Argento Panico’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alessandro Baldessari, Dario Argento Panico, score, Shudder, Simone Scafidi, Soundtrack
Cassis Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Dario Argento Panico. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alessandro Baldessari. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Also check out the composer’s main titles track below. Dario Argento Panico is directed by Simone Scafidi and centers on the life and legacy of the legendary Italian filmmaker, revealing his impact on horror and his lasting influence on cinema. The movie features interviews with filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro, Nicolas Winding Refn, Gaspar Noé & others. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Population 11’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Matt Blackman, Population 11, score, Soundtrack, Stan
Jungle Entertainment will release a soundtrack album for the Stan original series Population 11. The album features the show’s original music composed by Matt Blackman (Colin From Accounts, No Activity, Mr Black). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 29 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Population 11 is created by Phil Lloyd and stars Ben Feldman, Perry Mooney, Darren Gilshenan, Katrina Milosevic, Stephen Curry, Chai Hansen and Tony Briggs. The 12-part crime comedy thriller directed by Trent O’Donnell revolves around a man who goes missing from a tiny outback town of only 12 residents, and his estranged son who journeys from the U.S. to find him. Read the rest of this entry »
David Buckley Scoring CBS’ ‘Elsbeth’ Pilot
Posted: February 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, David Buckley, Elsbeth, Michelle King, Robert King, Siddhartha Khosla
David Buckley (Nobody, Papillon, Angel Has Fallen, The Forbidden Kingdom, Kandahar) is returning to score the new CBS drama Elsbeth. The composer has scored the pilot episode of the show created by Robert & Michelle King and starring Carrie Preston who reprises her role of Elsbeth Tascioni from the network’s The Good Wife and its spinoff The Good Fight, as well as Wendell Pierce, Carra Patterson and guest star Stephen Moyer. Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Only Murders in the Building) is scoring the rest of the season, which follows the title character, an unconventional attorney who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations who – after leaving her successful legal career in Chicago – takes on a new investigative role in New York City. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple TV+’s ‘Manhunt’ to Feature Score by Bryce Dessner & Theme Song by Danielle Ponder
Posted: February 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Bryce Dessner, Danielle Ponder, Manhunt
Bryce Dessner (The Two Popes, Bardo, The Kitchen, A Good Person, Irresistible) (of the rock band The National) has composed the original score for the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Manhunt. Singer/songwriter Danielle Ponder has contributed the theme song (entitled Egún) to the show created by Monica Beletsky based on James L. Swanson’s nonfiction book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer and starring Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison, Brandon Flynn, Damian O’Hare, Glenn Morshower, Patton Oswalt, Matt Walsh and Hamish Linklater. The 7-part thriller tells the story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Read the rest of this entry »
