Endeavor Content & Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the HBO Max original series Tokyo Vice. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The White Tiger, The Outsider, The Gift, Enemy, Boy Erased, The Devil All the Time, Enemy, The One I Love). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 8 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Tokyo Vice is created by J.T. Rogers and stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Hideaki Ito, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Ella Rumpf and Tomohisa Yamashita. The crime drama is inspired by journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat and follows his daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ‘90s.
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Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring HBO Max’s ‘The Staircase’
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Boy Erased, The Gift, Enemy, The White Tiger, Martha Marcy May Marlene) are scoring the upcoming HBO Max limited series The Staircase. The show is created by Antonio Campos and stars Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Dane DeHaan, Juliette Binoche, Olivia DeJonge, Rosemarie DeWitt, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tim Guinee, Sophie Turner, Vincent Vermignon, Odessa Young and Parker Posey. The 8-part true crime drama tells the true story of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 3, 2022)
Premiering tomorrow, April 4 is the Spectrum original series Long Slow Exhale created by Pam Veasey and starring Rose Rollins, Josh Lucas, Ian Harding, Samantha Bartow, Shalini Bathina, Tony Gonzalez, Lyriq Bent and Famke Janssen. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, The Night Of, Lucy in the Sky, The Act) & Perrine Virgile (The Umbrella Academy). The drama, which follows a successful head coach of a competitive women’s college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of a potentially career-shattering sexual abuse scandal, will be available to stream on Spectrum.
Also premiering tomorrow is the HBO docuseries The Invisible Pilot directed by Phil Lott & Ari Mark and executive produced by themselves, Adam McKay, Todd Schulman, Craig Hodges and Jon Bryant Crawford. H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, Warrior, A Private War, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Birth of the Dragon, Cartel Land, Baghdad Central) has composed the show’s original music. The 3-parter, which tells the true story of a charismatic, daredevil husband and father who unexpectedly jumped off a bridge in 1977, despite a seemingly happy home life and a lucrative career as a pilot, will premiere on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring HBO Max’s ‘Tokyo Vice’
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Boy Erased, The White Tiger, The Gift, The Devil All the Time, Enemy, Martha Marcy May Marlene) are scoring the upcoming HBO Max original series Tokyo Vice. The show is created and written by J.T. Rogers (Oslo) and stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Hideaki Ito, Ella Rumpf, Show Kasamatsu and Tomohisa Yamashita. The crime drama is inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat and follows Adelstein’s daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ‘90s.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 18, 2022)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror movie X written and directed by Ti West and starsring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Martin Henderson, Stephen Ure, Owen Campbell and Scott Mescudi. The film’s original music is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool 2, Watchmen, Hobbs & Shaw, John Wick, 300, Dawn of the Dead) and singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe. A24 Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score next Friday, March 25. Already available now is Wolfe’s cover of Oui Oui Marie. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to listen to the song.
Also opening wide is the thriller The Outfit written and directed by Graham Moore and starring Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Simon Russell Beale, Nikki Amuka Bird and Alan Mehdizade. Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, The Imitation Game, The Queen, Godzilla) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details for the full album details and to learn more about the Focus Features release.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Amazon’s ‘Outer Range’
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Boy Erased, The Gift, Enemy, The Devil All the Time, The White Tiger, Martha Marcy May Marlene) have been tapped to score the upcoming Amazon original series Outer Range. The show is created by Brian Watkins and stars Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski, Lewis Pullman, Tom Pelphrey, Noah Reid, Shaun Sipos, Isabel Arraiza, Olive Abercrombie and Will Patton. The drama revolves around a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 27, 2022)
Premiering today is the first installment of the Showtime anthology series Super Pumped, entitled The Battle for Uber, based on the book of the same title by Mike Isaac and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kyle Chandler, Uma Thurman, Elisabeth Shue, Jon Bass, Kerry Bishé, Bridget Gao Hollitt and Babak Tafti. The show’s original music is composed by Brendan Angelides (aka ESKMO) (13 Reasons Why, Billions, Naked Singularity, The Master Cleanse). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday on Showtime.
Premiering on Wednesday, March 2, is the Netflix original film Against the Ice directed by Peter Flinth and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed, Charles Dance, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Sam Redford, Diarmaid Murtagh, Edward Speleers, Frankie Wilson and Nick Jameson. Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, The Old Guard, Ammonite, Patrick Melrose, The Art of Racing in the Rain) has composed the movie’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 6, 2022)
Premiering today is the Starz original series Power Book IV: Force executive produced by Courtney A. Kemp & Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and starring Joseph Sikora, Isaac Keys, Gabrielle Ryan, Lili Simmons, Shane Harper, Anthony Fleming III, Kris D. Lofton, Lucien Cambric and Tommy Flanagan. The show’s original score is composed by Mark Batson (Dude, Sisters on Track). G-Unit Records has released the drama’s opening titles song Power Powder Respect by 50 Cent feat. Jeremih and Lil Durk last month. Check out our previous article to listen to the track and to learn more about the series.
Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, February 7, is the British series Angela Black created by Harry & Jack Williams and starring Joanne Froggatt, Michiel Huisman and Samuel Adewunmi. Stuart Earl (And Then There Were None, Ordeal by Innocence, My Brother the Devil, Rillington Place, The Accident) has composed the show’s original music. The 6-part psychological thriller, which revolves around a woman trapped in a relationship she cannot escape who is approached a private investigator and starts spilling the her husband’s darkest secrets, premiered last year in the UK on ITV and is making its U.S. premiere on Spectrum.
First Track from ‘Ozark’ Season 4 Soundtrack Released
Verve Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for the fourth season of the Netflix original series Ozark. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Byrds On Stage written by the show’s composers Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (The Gift, The Outsider, Boy Erased, The White Tiger, Enemy, The Devil All the Time, The Lodge). Also listen to the full track below. Ozark is created by Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams and stars Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Charlie Tahan, Lisa Emery, Jessica Frances Dukes, Felix Solis, Alfonso Herrera, Damian Young, Adam Rothenberg, Joseph Sikora, John Bedford Lloyd, Bruno Bichir, CC Castillo, Bruce Davison, Katrina Lenk, Ali Stroker and Veronica Falcón.
Saunder Jurriaans & Danny Bensi Scoring BBC’s ‘The Girl Before’
Saunder Jurriaans & Danny Bensi (Ozark, Boy Erased, The Gift, Enemy, The White Tiger, The Devil All the Time, Martha Marcy May Marlene) are the composers of the new BBC limited series The Girl Before. The show is written by JP Delaney based on his best-selling novel of the same title and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Jessica Plummer and Ben Hardy. The 4-part psychological thriller tells the story of a woman who gets the chance to move into a beautiful, ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, with just one catch: the occupants must abide by his list of exacting rules.