Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Mank), Leopold Ross (Triple 9, Dispatches from Elsewhere) & Claudia Sarne (Shining Girls, Earthquake Bird) have composed the original score for the new FX documentary series Dear Mama. The show is directed by Allen Hughes and explores the life and legacy of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur and his mother, the Black Panther activist Afeni Shakur. The 5-parter features archival footage and intimate conversations with those closest to the subjects.
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Soundtrack for HBO’s ‘The Defiant Ones’ to Be Released
Interscope Records will release a soundtrack album for the HBO docu-series The Defiant Ones. The album features the show’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Leopold Ross & Claudia Sarne (The Book of Eli, Broken City). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 28 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The Defiant Ones is directed by Allen Hughes and tells the stories of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, their improbable partnership and their leading roles in a series of transformative events in contemporary culture.
Atticus Ross Scoring Allen Hughes’ ‘Broken City’
Atticus Ross is scoring the upcoming crime thriller Broken City. The film is directed by Allen Hughes (From Hell, Menace 2 Society) and stars Mark Wahlberg as a Brooklyn detective who is hired by a powerful politician, played by Russell Crowe, to identify his wife’s lover, who is subsequently found and killed. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kyle Chandler, Barry Pepper, Natalie Martinez, Alona Tal, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Chambers, James Ransone and Griffin Dunne are co-starring. Brian Tucker has written the screenplay and Wahlberg and Hughes are producing the New Regency and Emmett/Furla Films co-production with Randall Emmett & George Furla (16 Blocks, Righteous Kills) and Stephen Levinson (Contraband, Entourage). Allen Hughes has previously collaborated with Ross on the 2010 post-apocalyptic film The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington and on the TV series Touching Evil. Broken City is set for a domestic release on January 18, 2013.