Premiering tomorrow night is the History original mini-series Houdini directed by Uli Edel and starring Adrien Brody and Kristen Connolly. John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, Iron Man 2, Bruce Almighty) has composed the original music for the series about magician Harry Houdini. Lakeshore Records has released two soundtrack albums featuring the composer’s score (and additional music by Sebastian Arocha) digitally earlier this week. CD versions are set to be released on September 30. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full details of both albums and to listen to audio clips.
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Marc Streitenfeld Scoring Marc Forster’s Amazon Pilot ‘Hand of God’
Marc Streitenfeld has composed the music for the Amazon Studios drama pilot Hand of God. The show marks the television debut of director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, World War Z, Quantum of Solace) and stars Ron Perlman and Dana Delany. The psychological drama follows a hard-living married man with a high-end call girl on the side, who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart. Ben Watkins (Burn Notice) has written the pilot’s script and is also executive producing the project with Forster, Perlman, Brian Wilkins and Jeff King (White Collar). Streitenfeld is best known for his collaborations with Ridley Scott on such films as Robin Hood, American Gangster and Body of Lies.
Amazon’s ‘Hysteria’ to Feature Music by Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates has scored the pilot for the Amazon Studios original drama Hysteria. The show is created by Shaun Cassidy (Invasion, Roar) and stars Mena Suvari as a neurologist who returns to her hometown of Austin, Texas to investigate the case of a girls’ competitive dance team that is stricken by a strange, psycho-physiological illness that spreads through social media. T.R. Knight, James McDaniel, Josh Stewart and Ella Rae Peck are co-starring. Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders) has directed the pilot episode and is also executive producing the project alongside Cassidy, Adam Schroeder (The Truman Show, Sleepy Hollow, Chronicle), Sharon Hall, Andrew Kosove & Broderick Johnson (Prisoners, The Blind Side, Insomnia) and Bryan Zuriff (The Details).
Mark Suozzo Scoring Whit Stillman’s ‘The Cosmopolitans’
Mark Suozzo has composed the music for the pilot of Amazon Studios’ dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans. The show is created by Whit Stillman and stars Chloë Sevigny, Adam Brody, Carrie MacLemore, Dree Hemingway, Freddy Åsblom, Jordan Rountree and Adriano Giannini. The comedy follows a group of young American expats in contemporary Paris searching for love and friendship in a foreign city. Stilman has written the script and directed the pilot episode, which was shot on location in Paris and is also producing the project with Alex Corven. Joan Osborne’s cover of What Becomes of the Brokenhearted is the pilot’s opening titles song. Suozzo has previously collaborated with Stillman on numerous features including Barcelona, Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco and most recently, Damsels in Distress.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 9, 2014)
While no new TV shows are premiering this week, Amazon has made a number of new pilots available this past Thursday. Viewers will get to decide whether they want a full season by voting for the shows on the website.
One of Amazon’s drama pilots is the mystery drama The After created by Chris Carter (The X-Files, Millennium) and starring Sharon Lawrence, Jamie Kennedy, Aldis Hodge, Andrew Howard, Adrian Pasdar, Arielle Kebbel, Jaina Lee Ortiz and Louise Monot. John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf) has composed the project’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the assigment. The After centers on eight strangers who are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation. Click here to stream the pilot.
John Debney Scoring Chris Carter’s ‘The After’
John Debney revealed in a new interview with Soundtrax that has recently scored the pilot for the Amazon Studios mystery drama The After. The project is created by Chris Carter and stars Sharon Lawrence, Jamie Kennedy, Aldis Hodge, Andrew Howard, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Adrian Pasdar, Arielle Kebbel and Louise Monot. The drama follows eight strangers who are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation. Carter has also directed the pilot episode and is executive producing the project with Marc Rosen of Georgeville Television. He has previously collaborated with Mark Snow on such shows as The X-Files, Millennium and The Lone Gunmen.
Anton Sanko Scoring ‘Alpha House’
Anton Sanko is composing the score for Amazon’s original series Alpha House. The show is created Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau (A Doonesbury Special) and stars John Goodman, Clark Johnson, Matt Malloy and Mark Consuelos, Cynthia Nixon, Amy Sedaris, Wanda Sykes and Julie White. The political comedy four misfit senators turned unlikely roommates who move into a house together in Washington DC. Trudeau is producing the project with Elliot Webb and Jonathan Alter. Alpha House is one of Amazon’s first two scripted series and is set to premiere on November 15.