Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time, Black Adam, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F) & Joshua Pacey have been hired to score the upcoming ITV drama The Hack. The show is created by Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Enola Holmes) and stars David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Dougray Scott, Adrian Lester, Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly, Kevin Doyle, Lara Pulver, Neil Maskell, Pip Torrens, Lee Ingleby and Steve Pemberton. The 7-part series tells the real life stories of investigative journalist Nick Davies who uncovered evidence of phone hacking at the News of the World, and – running parallel – the investigation into the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, led by former Met Police Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe & Joshua Pacey Scoring ITV’s ‘The Hack’
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ITV, Joshua Pacey, Lorne Balfe, The Hack
‘Seaside Serendipity’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Satoko Yokohama, score, Seaside Serendipity, Soundtrack, Zo Zhit
A soundtrack album has been released for the Japanese drama Seaside Serendipity (Umibe é Iku Michi). The album features the film’s original music composed by Zo Zhit (of the experimental hip hop group Dos Monos) who has made his feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the artist’s first two tracks below. Seaside Serendipity is written and directed by Satoko Yokohama and stars Konosuke Harada, Kumiko Aso, Kengo Kora, Koharu Sugawara, Erika Karata, Nobuhiro Suwa, Ayame Goriki, Jun Murakami, Kankuro Kudo and Maki Sakai. The movie takes place in a seaside town with long-term residents of all ages and genders has recently started attracting artists drawn by a project in the area and follows a group of characters during an unforgettable summer. Read the rest of this entry »
Sarah Warne Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Harlan Coben’s Lazarus’
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Harlan Coben, Lazarus, Sarah Warne
Sarah Warne (Des, Time, The Long Shadow, Humans, Dark Money, Hollington Drive, Steeltown Murders, The Drowning) is scoring the upcoming British Prime Video original series Harlan Coben’s Lazarus. The show is based on an original story idea and written by Coben (Missing You, Fool Me Once) & Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic, A Teacher) and stars Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Alexandra Roach, David Fynn, Karla Crome and Kate Ashfield. The 6-part thriller follows a man who returns home after his father dies by suicide and quickly becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the mystery of his father’s death and his sister’s murder 25 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Columbus, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Thursday Murder Club, Thomas Newman
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original film The Thursday Murder Club. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, 1917, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, Wall-E, Bridge of Spies). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 28 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Thursday Murder Club is co-written and directed by Chris Columbus and stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Naomi Ackie, Celia Imrie, Daniel Mays, Tom Ellis, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Jonathan Pryce and Paul Freeman. The crime comedy is based on Richard Osman’s bestselling novel of the same title and follows a group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases who get plunged into a real-life murder mystery. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Ellis & Adrian Utley Scoring Jane Pollard’s & Iain Forsyth’s ‘Broken English’
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Utley, Broken English, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Rob Ellis
Music producer Rob Ellis (best known for his work with PJ Harvey) & Adrian Utley (of the electronic band Portishead) have teamed up to compose the original music for the upcoming British documentary Broken English. The film is directed by Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth (20,000 Days on Earth, Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories) and stars Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Calvin Demba, Zawe Ashton and Sophia Di Martino. The movie is being described as a “portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter and icon Marianne Faithfull.” Pollard & Forsyth also co-wrote the screenplay with Ian Martin. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Soundtrack, Wednesday
The details of the full soundtrack album for the second season of the Netflix original series Wednesday have been revealed. The album features the content of the Season 2, Volume 1 EP (including a cover of Bad Moon Rising, the instrumental Zombie cover and the original song Nevermore Alma Mater), as well as four additional tracks from the second part of the season: Bella Poarch’s cover versions of Zombie (already out now as a digital single) & Don’t Fear the Reaper, an instrumental arrangement of the Blue Öyster Cult track, as well as an alternate Bad Moon Rising cover. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Wednesday, September 3 by Milan Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label will also release the second score album featuring Chris Bacon’s music from the second part of Season 2 on the same day. Read the rest of this entry »
‘No One Will Know’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Delphine Malausséna, Le Roi Soleil, No One Will Know, score, Soundtrack, Vincent Maël Cardona
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French thriller No One Will Know (Le Roi Soleil). The album features the film’s original music composed by Delphine Malausséna (Final Set, Winter in Sokcho, The Blade, LaRoy, Moon, 66 Questions). Also included are three tracks by Gilles Alonzo. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to Malausséna’s final track below. No One Will Know is co-written and directed by Vincent Maël Cardona and stars Pio Marmaï, Sofiane Zermani, Lucie Zhang, Panayotis Pascot, Maria De Medeiros, Joseph Olivennes, Xianzeng Pan, Nemo Schiffman and Claude Aufaure. The movie takes place at a rundown bar on the outskirts of Paris, where an ordinary man discovers he has a winning lottery ticket, only to be shot in a crime that must be swiftly covered up. Read the rest of this entry »
Bella Poarch’s ‘Zombie’ Cover from ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Released
Posted: August 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bella Poarch, Netflix, Wednesday
Milan Records has released the cover version of The Cranberries’ Zombie from the second season of the Netflix original series Wednesday. The track is performed by Bella Poach and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the track after the jump. Wednesday is developed by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar based on The Addams Family characters and stars Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Luis Guzman, Isaac Ordonez, Joy Sunday and Hunter Doohan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Killing Mary Sue’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Sunshine, Killing Mary Sue, score, Soundtrack, Tasos Eliopoulos
Klaatu Records has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller Killing Mary Sue. The album features the film’s original score composed by Tasos Eliopoulos (What Lies Ahead, Prisoner of War). Also included are the songs from the movie by Can’t Tell You, Popstar Nima and Maddie Hogan. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services. Also listen the first score track after the jump. Killing Mary Sue is written and directed by James Sunshine and stars Sierra McCormick, Dermot Mulroney, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jake Busey, French Stewart, Jesse Kove, Kim Whitley, Katie Killacky, Rita Rehn, Maddie Hogan Andy Prosky, Jason Mewes and Martin Kove. The movie revolves around a corrupt senator who arranges for the murder of his erratic burnout step-daughter, only for her to unwittingly discover her natural talent as an untouchable killer. Read the rest of this entry »
Leopold Ross & Nick Chuba Scoring Peacock’s ‘Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy’
Posted: August 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba, Patrick Macmanus, Peacock
Leopold Ross (Shogun, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Book of Eli, Triple 9, Broken City) and Nick Chuba (Shogun, Thelma, Appendage, Operation Varsity Blues) are the composers of the upcoming Peacock limited series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. The show is created by Patrick Macmanus (Marco Polo, Happy!) and stars Michael Chernus, Gabriel Luna, Michael Angarano, James Badge Dale, Chris Sullivan and Marin Ireland. The 8-part crime drama tells the story of one of the world’s most notorious serial killers told through the words of Gacy himself and those his horrific deeds impacted. Read the rest of this entry »
