David Sardy (Zombieland, End of Watch, 21, Bright, Premium Rush, Monster Trucks, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) is making his television scoring debut on the new AMC original series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. The show is developed by David Zabel (ER, Stumptown) and stars Norman Reedus in the title role, alongside Clémence Poésy, Adam Nagaitis, Eriq Ebouaney, Anne Charrier, Laika Blanc Francard, Romain Levi and Louis Puech Scigliuzzi. The fifth The Walking Dead spin-off follows Daryl as he washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and tracks his journey across the country as he hopes to find a way back home. Read the rest of this entry »
David Sardy Scoring AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, David Sardy, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
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‘Virgin River’ Season 5 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Jeff Garber, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Virgin River
Netflix Music will release a new soundtrack album for the streamer’s original series Virgin River. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s fifth season composed by Jeff Garber (Nancy Drew, The Company You Keep, No Sleep ‘Til Christmas). Also included is The Band Willa’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 7 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Lakeshore Records has previously released a first soundtrack album featuring Garber’s music from the first couple of seasons. Virgin River is developed by Sue Tenney based on Robyn Carr’s novels of the same title and stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Colin Lawrence, Annette O’Toole, Tim Matheson, Lauren Hammersley, Mark Ghanimé, Sarah Dugdale, Zibby Allen, Kai Bradbury, Benjamin Hollingsworth and Marco Grazzini. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Weston Scoring Lulu Wang’s Amazon Series ‘Expats’
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Weston, Amazon, Expats, Lulu Wang
Composer Alex Weston is reteaming with director Lulu Wang on the upcoming Amazon limited series Expats. The show is written and directed by Wang and stars Nicole Kidman, Brian Tee, Sarayu Blue, Jack Huston, Ruby Ruiz, Ji-young Yoo, Amelyn Pardenilla, Bonde Sham, Flora Chan and Maggie Lee. The 6-part drama is based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s bestselling novel The Expatriates and follows an American family who have moved to Hong Kong and established a community of fellow expatriates, which is fractured after a sudden family tragedy impacts their intersecting lives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Am Groot’ Season 2 Soundtrack Single Released
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Daniele Luppi, Disney Plus, I Am Groot, Marvel Studios, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released a new digital single featuring music from the second season of Marvel Studios’ Disney+ animated shorts series I Am Groot. The 2-track single includes the tracks Everybody’s Groot & Groot Winter Bossa Nova written by the show’s composer Daniele Luppi (Magic City, Assassination of a High School President, Hell Ride) and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to both tracks after the jump. The labels have previously released Luppi’s music from Season 1 last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Ceiri Torjussen Scoring Ole Bornedal’s ‘Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever’
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ceiri Torjussen, Nightwatch, Nightwatch - Demons Are Forever, Ole Bornedal
Ceiri Torjussen (The Canal, Jack Goes Home, All Creatures Here Below, American Night, Delhi Crime) is composing the original music for the upcoming Danish psychological thriller Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (Nattevagten – Dæmoner går i arv). The film is written and directed by Ole Bornedal (The Possession, I Am Dina) and stars Fanny Bornedal, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Kim Bodnia. The sequel to Bornedal’s original 1994 hit movie (scored by Joachim Holbek) follows a young student who has taken the job as the night watch in a forensic department and tries to investigate the dark past of her parents. Read the rest of this entry »
First Song from Netflix’s ‘Neon’ Released
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Neon, Netflix, RMAND, Tainy
Netflix Music has released the first song from the streamer’s upcoming original series Neon. Available to stream/download now is Exagerao produced by Tainy and performed by Santi (played in the show by Tyler Dean Flores, with vocals provided by RMAND). Also listen to the track below. A full soundtrack album will be announced next month. Neon is created by Shea Serrano & Max Searle and also stars Emma Ferreira, Jordan Mendoza, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Jordana Brewster, Courtney Taylor, Genesis Rodriguez, Jhayco and Santiago Cabrera. Read the rest of this entry »
Nate Wonder & Roman GianArthur Scoring Roger Ross Williams’ ‘Stamped from the Beginning’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nate Wonder, Netflix, Roger Ross Williams, Roman Gianarthur, Stamped from the Beginning
Record producers and songwriters Nate Wonder & Roman GianArthur have composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original documentary Stamped from the Beginning. The film directed by Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated, The Apollo, Cassandro) is inspired by Ibram X. Kendi’s book of the same title and explores the history of anti-Black ideas in a way that helps us grapple with present-day racism. The movie uses vivid animations that illuminate figures and moments both well-known and obscure, both historical and contemporary. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Concrete Utopia’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Concrete Utopia, Kim Haewon, score, Soundtrack, Um Tae-hwa
Leeway Music & Media has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean disaster thriller Concrete Utopia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kim Hae-won (Moonlit Winter, Socialphobia). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the title track after the jump. Concrete Utopia is co-written and directed by Um Tae-hwa and stars Lee Byung-hun, Park Bo-young and Park Seo-jun. The movie takes place after an earthquake renders much of Seoul a smouldering ruin and follows a group of survivors who begin efforts to restore order. Read the rest of this entry »
David Wingo & Amman Abbasi Scoring David Gordon Green’s ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amman Abbasi, David Gordon Green, David Wingo, Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders, The Exorcist: Believer
David Wingo (Barry, The Report, Mayans, M.C., Kidding) has teamed up with writer/director & composer Amman Abbasi (Dayveon) to score the upcoming supernatural horror movie The Exorcist: Believer. The film is directed by David Gordon Green (Halloween, Pineapple Express) and stars Leslie Odom, Jr., Ann Dowd, Norbert Leo Butz, Jennifer Nettles, Olivia Marcum, Lidya Jewett, as well as Ellen Burstyn who is reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from William Friedkin’s Academy Award-wining original 1973 original movie. The sequel follows a father who – after his daughter and her friend disappear in the woods, only to return three days later – has to confront the nadir of evil to find out what happened to them. Read the rest of this entry »
Sadie Sandler’s Song ‘Hang the Moon’ from Netflix’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Released
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Katelyn Tarver, Matthew Coma, Netflix, Sadie Sandler, Sammi Cohen, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Netflix Music has released the original song Hang the Moon from the Netflix original film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. The track is co-written (with Matthew Koma & Katelyn Tarver) and performed by lead actress Sadie Sandler and is now available to stream/download now on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. The label has previously released the original song Outside by 3VM as a digital single and a full soundtrack album featuring the movie’s original score by Este Haim & Amanda Yamate last month. Read the rest of this entry »
