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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 17, 2020)

May 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 1 comment

Tags: Amazon, Bear McCreary, Dave Porter, DC Universe, Emile Mosseri, Hightown, Homecoming, Michael Andrews, Netflix, Pinar Toprak, Snowpiercer, Stargirl, Starz, The CW, The Lovebirds, TNT

Premiering tonight is the TNT original series Snowpiercer based on the graphic novel series and the filmstarring Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, Susan Park, Iddo Goldberg, Katie McGuinness, Lena Hall, Annalise Basso, Sam Otto, Roberto Urbina, Sheila Vand and Jaylin Fletcher. The show’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, Happy Death Day). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the sci-fi thriller. Also visit the official show website for updates.

Also premiering tonight is the Starz original series Hightown created by Rebecca Cutter, executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and staring Monica Raymund, James Badge Dale, Riley Voelkel, Shane Harper, Amaury Nolasco, Atkins Estimond and Dohn Norwood. Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Blacklist, Preacher, The Disaster Artist) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the drama, which will air every Sunday night on Starz.

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Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘Homecoming’ Season 2 to Be Released

May 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Emile Mosseri, Homecoming, score, Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records will release the first soundtrack album for the Amazon original series Homecoming. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Emile Mosseri (The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Minari, Kajillionaire). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 22 and is now available for pre-order here. Season 2 of Homecoming is created by Eli Horowitz & Micah Bloomberg, directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and stars Janelle Monáe, Stephan James, Hong Chau, Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack. The drama follows a woman who wakes in a rowboat adrift a lake, with no memory of how she got there, and whose ensuing search for identity will lead her into the heart of the Geist Group, the unconventional wellness company behind the Homecoming Initiative.

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Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘ZeroZeroZero’ Released

May 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums 1 comment

Tags: Amazon, Mogwai, score, Soundtrack, ZeroZeroZero

Mogwai (The Returned, Kin, Before the Blood) have released their score for the Sky Atlantic and Amazon original series ZeroZeroZero. The album is now available on Bandcamp for one week exclusively on a pay-what-you-can basis with half of proceeds going to Help Musicians and NHS charities. The album will be available to stream/download on Amazon later this month. ZeroZeroZero is created by Stefano Sollima, Leonardo Fasoli & Mauricio Katz based on the novel of the same title by Roberto Saviano and stars Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan and Gabriel Byrne. The crime drama traces the global cocaine trade by following one shipment on its journey around the world. The series premiered earlier this year in the U.S. Spain and Latin America on Amazon Prime and on Sky Atlantic in several European markets.

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‘Sanctuary’ (‘Santuario’) Soundtrack Released

April 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Alfred Tapscott, Álvaro Longoria, Amazon, Fernando Velazquez, Sanctuary, Santuario, score, Soundtrack

Quartet Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Sanctuary (Santuario). The album features the film’s original music composed by Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Mama, Crimson Peak, Devil, The Orphanage) and Alfred Tapscott (Hasta que la boda nos separe). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also listen to audio clips. Sanctuary is directed by Álvaro Longoria and tells the story of a campaign to preserve the Antarctic Ocean by Greenpeace. The movie is produced by and features Spanish actors and brothers Carlos Bardem and Oscar winner Javier Bardem who currently act as Antarctic ambassadors, to preserve the Southern Ocean and are using the tools at their disposal to achieve mass awareness and support for this initiative.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 26, 2020)

April 26, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 1 comment

Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels created by John Logan and starring Daniel Zovatto, Natalie Dormer, Kerry Bishé, Amy Madigan Lin Shaye, Rory Kinnear, Thomas Kretschmann, Piper Perabo, Brent Spiner, Adam Rodriguez, Michael Gladis, Dominic Sherwood, Lorenza Izzo, Ethan Peck and Nathan Lane. The show’s original music is composed by John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, The Star, Truth Be Told, Almost Christmas). Click here to learn more about the drama, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime.

Premiering tomorrow, April 27, is the Netflix original series Never Have I Ever created by Mindy Kaling & Lang Fisher and starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Poorna Jagannathan, Richa Moorjani, Lee Rodriguez and Ramona Young. Joseph Stephens (Observe and Report, Eastbound & Down, The Righteous Gemstones, Flower, The Last O.G., Vice Principals) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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Will Bates Scoring Mike Cahill’s ‘Bliss’

April 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 1 comment

Tags: Amazon, Bliss, Mike Cahill, Will Bates

Composer Will Bates is reuniting with director Mike Cahill on the upcoming sci-fi drama Bliss. The film is written and directed by Cahill and stars Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson, Madeline Zima, Jorge Lendenborg Jr., Joshua Leonard and DeRon Horton. The movie follows a recently divorced man – whose life is falling apart – as he meets a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. James D. Stern (Looper, I’m Not There, The Brothers Bloom) is producing the Endgame Entertainment production.

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Soundtrack Album for Ritesh Batra’s ‘Photograph’ Released

April 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Peter Raeburn, Photograph, Ritesh Batra, score, Soundtrack

Nowever Records has released a soundtrack album for the romantic drama Photograph. The album features the film’s original music composed by Peter Raeburn (Woodshock, Nancy, The Last Photograph, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also listen to audio samples. Photograph is written and directed by Ritesh Batra and stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra. The movie revolves around a struggling Mumbai street photographer pressured to marry by his grandmother who convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit.

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‘Selah & the Spades’ Soundtrack Details

April 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Aska Matsumiya, score, Selah & the Spades, Soundtrack, Tayarisha Poe

Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the drama Selah & the Spades. The album features the film’s original music composed by Aska Matsumiya (Skate Kitchen, 37 Seconds). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 17 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Selah & the Spades is written and directed by Tayarisha Poe and stars Lovie Simone, Celeste O’Connor, Jharrel Jerome, Gina Torres and Jesse Williams. The follows the leader of a faction of students called the Spades at a Pennsylvania boarding school as she walks the fine line between being feared and loved, often cutting loose whomever she deems a threat to her power.

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Emile Mosseri Tapped as Composer of Amazon’s ‘Homecoming’ Season 2

April 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Amazon, Emile Mosseri, Homecoming

Composer Emile Mosseri (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) has joined the crew of the Amazon original series Homecoming. He is scoring the second season of the show created by Eli Horowitz & Micah Bloomberg and starring Janelle Monáe, Stephan James and Hong Chau (who reprising their roles from the first season), Chris Cooper and Joan Cusack. Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison Experiment) is directing all episodes. Horowitz & Bloomberg are also executive producing the project with Julia Roberts, Sam Esmail & Chad Hamilton (Mr. Robot, Briarpatch), Alex Blumberg & Matt Lieber & Chris Giliberti (Alex, Inc.)

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 12, 2020)

April 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 1 comment

Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British drama Belgravia created by Julian Fellowes and starring Tamsin Greig, Philip Glenister, Harriet Walter, Alice Eve, Tara Fitzgerald, Ella Purnell, Richard Goulding, James Fleet, Adam James, Paul Ritter and Saskia Reeves. The show’s original music is composed by John Lunn (Downton Abbey, The Last Kingdom, Grantchester, Shetland, Jamestown). Check out our previous news article and visit the official show website to learn more about the series, which premiered earlier this year in the UK on ITV and is making its U.S. debut on Epix.

Also premiering in the U.S. tonight is The Missing spin-off Baptiste created by Harry & Jack Williams and starring Tchéky Karyo, Tom Hollander, Jessica Raine, Clare Calbraith, Trystan Gravelle,, Anastasia Hille, Alec Secăreanu and Nicholas Woodeson. Dominik Scherrer (Ripper Street, Requiem, The City and the City, The Widow, Primeval) who also scored all episodes of The Missing is composing the show’s original music. Visit the official show website for more information about the drama, which premiered last fall in the UK on BBC and is making its domestic debut on PBS as part of the Masterpiece series.

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