Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 19, 2023)

Posted: February 19, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama The Company You Keep developed by Julia Cohen & Phil Klemmer and starring Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Sarah Wayne Callies,Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Felisha Terrell and Polly Drap. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Garber (Virgin River, Nancy Drew) & Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the series, which will air Sundays on ABC and will also be available to stream on Hulu.

Premiering on Wednesday, February 22, is the British Netlix original film The Strays written and directed by Nathaniel Martello-White and starring Ashley Madekwe, Jorden Myrie, Maria Almeida and Bukky Bakray. Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Living, Rocks, The Forgotten Battle, Censor) has composed the movie’s original music. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the thriller. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Russo Scoring Amazon’s ‘The Consultant’

Posted: February 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Legion, The Night Of, The Umbrella Academy) is the composer of the new Amazon original series The Consultant. The show is created by Tony Basgallop (Servant) and stars Christoph Waltz, Nat Wolff, Brittany O’Grady and Aimee Carrero. The comedic thriller is based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same title and centers on a consultant who is hired to improve the business at an App-based gaming company and makes its employees experience new demands and challenges that put everything into question. Read the rest of this entry »

Gerald Fried (1928-2023)

Posted: February 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Gerald Fried has passed away yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, CT of pneumonia at age 95. The composer was best known for his work on classic TV shows including the original Star Trek series, Gilligan’s Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Lost in Space, Mission: Impossible and Dynasty. He won an Emmy Award (shared with Quincy Jones) for his music for the 1977 mini-series Roots and was Emmy-nominated several other times for the 1980 TV movie The Silent Lovers (1980) and the mini-series The Mystic Warrior (1984) and Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987). Read the rest of this entry »

Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 17, 2023)

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania directed by Peyton Reed and starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer and Bill Murray. The film’s original music is composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Free Guy, WandaVision, The Hangover, Edge of Tomorrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hawkeye). Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our previous article for the full album details.

Already playing in theaters nationwide since this past Wednesday is the noir thriller Marlowe directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, Diane Kruger, Danny Huston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Colm Meaney and Ian Hart. David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Out of Sight, Killing Eve, Analyze That, No Sudden Move, Haywire) has composed the film’s original score. Republic Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score and an original song by Jon Batiste last week. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Open Road Films release. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Ping Pong: The Triumph’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Hangzhou Yuyinniaoniao Culture Media Co. has released a soundtrack album for the Chinese sports drama Ping Pong: The Triumph (aka Ping-Pong of China). The album features the film’s original score composed by Andrew Kawczynski (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Eight Hundred, Sky Hunter, The Corrupted). Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, His Dark Materials) has contributed the main theme. Also included is the “promotional” song The Road to Glory by LuHan. The soundtrack was released in China in January and is now available to stream/download in most major U.S. digital music stores, including Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »

Christopher Stracey Scoring John Trengove’s ‘Manodrome’

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Christopher Stracey (Maid, Cha Cha Real Smooth) has made his solo feature scoring debut on the upcoming thriller Manodrome. The film is written and directed by John Trengove (The Wound) and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young, Sallieu Sesay, Philip Ettinger, Ethan Suplee, Caleb Eberhardt, Evan Joningkeit and Gheorghe Murensan. The movie revolves around an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and begins to lose his grip on reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Soundtrack Album for Cartoon Network’s ‘Teen Titans Go!’ Released

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack album for the Cartoon Network animated series Teen Titans Go!. The album features nine songs from the show written by Jared Faber (Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants) & series producer Peter Michail. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Teen Titans Go! is developed by Michael Jelenic & Aaron Horvath based on the DC Comics characters and stars Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong and Hynden Walch. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Garber & Siddhartha Khosla Scoring ABC’s ‘The Company You Keep’

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Jeff Garber (Virgin River, Nancy Drew) & Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Only Murders in the Building, Runaways) are composing the original score for the new ABC drama The Company You Keep. The show is developed by Julia Cohen and Phil Klemmer (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Tomorrow People) based on the Korean Broadcasting System series My Fellow Citizens and stars Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Freda Foh Shen, Tim Chiou, Sarah Wayne Callies, James Saito, Felisha Terrell and Polly Drap. Read the rest of this entry »

World Premiere Soundtrack Album Announced for ‘Æon Flux’ Animated Series

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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Waxwork Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 90s sci-fi adventure animated series Æon Flux created by Peter Chung and starring Denise Poirier, John Rafter Lee and Julia Fletcher. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Drew Neumann (The Wild Thornberrys, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Scalps, Biohazard, The Tomb). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. A 6-LP and 3-CD edition is available to order on the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Opponent’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Oona Records has released a soundtrack album for the Swedish drama Opponent (Motståndaren). The album features the film’s original music composed by Jon Ekstrand (Morbius, Life, Easy Money, All the Old Knives) & Carl-Johan Sevedag (Borg vs McEnroe, Horizon Line, Red Dot). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Opponent is written and directed by Milad Alami and stars Payman Maadi, Marall Nasiri, Ardalan Esmaili, Björn Elgerd and Arvin Kananian. The movie follows a man who has been forced to flee Iran and – together with his family – ends up in a run-down hotel in Northern Sweden, where he joins the local wrestling club to increase their chances of asylum. Read the rest of this entry »

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