Maisie Music Publishing will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit. The album features the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner Carlos Rafael Rivera (Godless, A Walk Among the Tombstones). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 23 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Queen’s Gambit is developed by Scott Frank & Allan Scott and stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Moses Ingram, Rebecca Root, Bill Camp, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Marielle Heller, Harry Melling, Christiane Seidel, Isla Johnston, Chloe Pirrie and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. The 7-part drama, directed by Frank is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis and tells the story of an orphan chess prodigy who struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 18, 2020)
Premiering on Thursday, October 22 is the fantasy adventure comedy The Witches directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock and Jahzir Kadeen Bruno. The film’s original music is composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump. Marvel’s The Avengers, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced this coming week. Check out our previous article to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures production, which was originally set to open in theaters (and is still being released theatrically in several foreign markets next week) and will debut in the U.S. exclusively on HBO Max.
Premiering on Friday, October 23 (following a very limited theatrical release on October 9 we missed in our film music roundup that week) is the Netflix animated film Over the Moon directed by Glen Keane and starring Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Robert G. Chiu, Ruthie Ann Miles, Artt Butler and Sandra Oh. Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad) has composed the film’s original score and Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield & Helen Park have written the original songs. Milan Records will release a soundtrack album featuring both score and all songs this coming Friday. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie.
Carlos Rafael Rivera Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’
Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera is reuniting with writer/director Scott Frank on the upcoming Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit. The show is co-written and directed by Frank (Logan, The Lookout) and stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Moses Ingram, Rebecca Root, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Harry Melling, Isla Johnston, Christiane Seidel, Chloe Pirrie and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. The drama based on Walter Tevis’s novel of the same title is set during the Cold War era and tells the story of an orphan chess prodigy from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.
Carlos Rafael Rivera, Ramin Djawadi & Cyrille Aufort Win Emmy Awards
Carlos Rafael Rivera 
won his first Emmy Award for his main titles theme music from the Netflix limited series Godless at tonight’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony at the Microsoft Theatre LA LIVE in Downtown Los Angeles. Ramin Djawadi was honored with his first Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the episode The Dragon and the Wolf from HBO’s Game of Thrones in the Music Composition for a Series category.
‘Godless’ Soundtrack Announced
BMG has announced a soundtrack album for the Netflix original limited series Godless. The album features the show’s original music composed by Carlos Rafael Rivera (A Walk Among the Tombstones). Grammy Award winner T Bone Burnett served as the executive music producer. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 6, 2018 and will be available to download on Amazon. Godless is written and directed by Scott Frank and stars Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Sam Waterston, Kim Coates, Audrey Moore, Christiane Seidel, Randy Oglesby, Justin Welborn, Christopher Fitzgerald, Samantha Soule and Whitney Able.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 19, 2017)
Premiering on Tuesday, November 21, is the Marvel’s new Hulu original series Runaways created by Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage based on the Marvel Comics property and starring Gregg Sulkin, Rhenzy Feliz, Lyrica Okano, Virginia Gardner, Ariela Barer and Allegra Acosta. The show’s original music is composed by Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, The Royals, The Neighbors). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the show.
Premiering on Wednesday, November 22, is the Netflix original mini-series Godless written and directed by Scott Frank and starring Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Sam Waterston, Kim Coates, Audrey Moore, Christiane Seidel, Randy Oglesby, Justin Welborn, Christopher Fitzgerald, Samantha Soule and Whitney Able. Carlos Rafael Rivera who previously scored Frank’s feature A Walk Among the Tombstones has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 7-parter.
Carlos Rafael Rivera Scoring Netflix’s ‘Godless’
Carlos Rafael Rivera is reteaming with Scott Frank on the upcoming Netflix original mini-series Godless. The show is written and directed by Frank (The Lookout, screenwriter of Minority Report & Logan) and stars Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Sam Waterston, Kim Coates, Audrey Moore, Christiane Seidel, Randy Oglesby, Justin Welborn, Christopher Fitzgerald, Samantha Soule and Whitney Able. The 7-parter centers on an outlaw who is terrorizing the West as he hunts down his partner turned mortal enemy.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 19, 2014)
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the film adaptation of the YA novel The Maze Runner directed by Wes Ball and starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Aml Ameen and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. The film’s original music is composed by John Paesano (Dragons: Riders of Berk, When the Game Stands Tall, Crisis). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to listen to audio clips. Also visit We Are Movie Geeks to check out an interview with Paesano.
Also opening wide is the is the thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones directed by Scott Frank and starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour and Boyd Holbrook. Carlos Rafael Rivera has composed the film’s original music. Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music earlier this week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Universal Pictures release. Also visit YouTube for a short video featurette about Rivera’s music for the thriller.
‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Soundtrack Announced
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carlos Rafael Rivera. The soundtrack will be released physically on September 23, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for audio clips. A Walk Among the Tombstones is written and directed by Scott Frank (The Lookout) and stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour and Boyd Holbrook. The movie is based on Lawrence Block’s bestselling series of mystery novels and follows an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. The thriller will be released nationwide on September 19 by Universal Pictures.