Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 26, 2023)

Posted: March 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Premiering today is the Paramount+ original series Rabbit Hole created by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Charles Dance, Enid Graham, Meta Golding, Walt Klink, Jason Butler Harner and Rob Yang. The show’s original music is composed by Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us, Runaways, Queenpins, Looking for Alaska, Your Place or Mine). Check out our previous article to learn more about the thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.

Also premiering today is the FX/BBC limited series Great Expectations developed by Steven Knight based on Charles Dickens’ novel and starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Johnny Harris, Ashley Thomas, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Tom Sweet and Matt Berry. Keefus Ciancia (Killing Eve, True Detective, Made for Love, London Spy, Nashville, Diana, The Fall) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 6-part drama, which is premiering in the UK on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »

Eoin O’Callaghan Scoring BBC’s ‘Blue Lights’

Posted: March 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Eoin O’Callaghan (Quinn Country, Heyday – The Mic Christopher Story) is the composer of the new BBC drama Blue Lights. The show is created by Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson (The Salisbury Poisonings, Rogue Agent) and stars Siân Brooke, Nathan Braniff, Katherine Devli, Richard Dormer, Martin McCann, John Lynch, Joanne Crawford, Hannah McClean, Jonathan Harden and Andi Osho. The series in set in Belfast and follows three PSNI recruits as they fight against criminal gangs, undercover agents, their own communities and even their own police force. Read the rest of this entry »

Christopher Gunning (1944 – 2023)

Posted: March 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Christopher Gunning has passed away at age 78. The British composer has written numerous scores for film and television over a four decade-spanning career. Among his best known credits is his score for Olivier Dahan’s 2007 biopic La Vie en rose, for which he received the (BAFTA) Anthony Asquith Award. He composed the music for the first nine seasons of the long-running TV show Agatha Christie’s Poirot, for which he was honored with a BAFTA TV Award. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Shrinking’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: March 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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WaterTower Music has released the first soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Shrinking. The album features the original score from the show’s first season composed by Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Daisy Jones & The Six, Early Man, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women). Also included is the main title theme song Frightening Fishes (by Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard & Tom Howe), which has previously been released as a digital single. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon and most other major digital music services. Shrinking is created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence & Brett Goldstein and stars Segel himself, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller, Michael Urie and Lukita Maxwell. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenji Kawai Scoring Netflix’s ‘Ooku: The Inner Chambers’

Posted: March 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Netflix announced today at Anime Japan that Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, Ip Man, Resident Evil: Vendetta) is scoring the streamer’s upcoming original anime series Ooku: The Inner Chambers. The show is based on the manga of the same title by Fumi Yoshinaga, directed by Noriyuki Abe (Bleach) and written by Rika Takasugi. The Studio Deen production is inspired by the historic women’s quarters of the Edo Castle and follows the nation’s women as they are forced to take up the central roles of authority in Edo society when a mysterious plague causes a rapid decline in the male population. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 24, 2023)

Posted: March 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action thriller John Wick: Chapter 4 directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Rina Sawayama, Bill Skarsgård, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick, Laurence Fishburne and Ian McShane. The film’s original score is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, 300, Deadpool 2, Watchmen) & Joel J. Richard (Quantico, Books of Blood). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score, as well as two original songs by Sawayama and In This Moment & more. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Lionsgate release.

Opening semi-wide in around 750 theaters is the British comedy drama The Lost King directed by Stephen Frears and starring Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Mark Addy and Harry Lloyd. Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Queen, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Queen) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last fall when the movie opened in the UK. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for more information about the dramedy, which is being released in the U.S. by IFC Films. Read the rest of this entry »

‘1 Night’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: March 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Sean Giddings has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2016 romantic drama 1 Night written and directed by Minhal Baig and starring Anna Camp, Justin Chatwin, Isabelle Fuhrman and Kyle Allen. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. 1 Night tells the intertwining stories of a thirty-something woman who must decide whether to salvage a disappointing relationship and a worrisome teenager who reconnects with her introverted childhood friend at their high school prom. Read the rest of this entry »

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Travesía’ Album Announced

Posted: March 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Milan Records has announced Travesía, a new album featuring music by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Little Buddha, Femme Fatale, Snake Eyes), curated by five-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Bardo, Biutiful). The album features twenty tracks handpicked by Iñárritu, including selections of the Sakamoto’s solo work such as Thousand Knives, the title track of the musician’s 1978 debut album. Also included is a new, never-before-heard mix of The Revenant Main Theme (written for Iñárritu’s 2015 feature) by Sakamoto’s long-time collaborator Alva Noto. Travesía will be released digitally and on vinyl on May 5. Visit Amazon to pre-order the vinyl edition.

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Rae Khalil’s Song ‘Ain’t No Other Day’ from Disney Channel’s ‘Saturdays’ Released

Posted: March 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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Walt Disney Records has released the song Ain’t No Other Day from the new Disney Channel original series Saturdays. The track written by Jason Mater, William Behlendorf & Brandon C. Rogers and performed by Rae Khalil is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full track below. Saturdays is created by Norman Vance Jr. and stars Danielle Jalade, Daria Johns, Golden Brooks, Jermaine Harris, Omar Gooding, Peyton Basnight and Tim Johnson Jr. Read the rest of this entry »

Leonardo Heiblum & Jacobo Lieberman Scoring Adrian Grunberg’s ‘The Black Demon’

Posted: March 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Leonardo Heiblum & Jacobo Lieberman (Maria Full of Grace, Prayers for the Stolen, The Silence of Others, I Am Vanessa Guillen) have teamed up to compose the original music for the upcoming shark thriller The Black Demon. The film is directed by Adrian Grunberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) and stars Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Venus Ariel, Julio Cesar Cedillo and Carlos Solórzano. The movie follows a family whose idyllic vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Read the rest of this entry »

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