Posts Tagged ‘HBO’

Varese Sarabande Records has announced a soundtrack album for the second season of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. The album features selections of the score from the show’s second season by composer Ramin Djawadi (Iron Man, Prison Break). The soundtrack will be released on May 29, 2012 and is now available for pre-order […]

Marcelo Zarvos has been hired to score the upcoming and currently untitled HBO movie about Phil Spector. The film is written and directed by David Mamet (Glengarry Glenn Ross, The Untouchables) and stars Al Pacino as Spector and Helen Mirren as his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden. The movie explores the client-attorney relationship between the […]

Jeff Beal Scoring ‘GCB’

Posted: March 4, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Jeff Beal is scoring the new ABC comedy drama GCB (previously entitled Good Christian Belles). The show created by Robert Harling (Steel Magnolia, The First Wives Club) is based on Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches and centers on a recently divorced mother of two who moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she […]

Michael Penn has recently scored the new HBO comedy series Girls. The show is created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) who also stars in the comedy alongside Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams, Adam Driver and Zosia Mamet. The comedy follows the lives of a small group of friends in their early 20’s trying to chart their […]

In our sixth and final part of our fall television series, we are taking a look at the major new shows on the cable networks: One of this fall’s most talked about new shows is American Horror Story created by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk and starring Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, […]

Nathaniel Mechaly has signed on to score the upcoming TV adaptation of Luc Besson’s action franchise The Transporter. The show centers on professional transporter Frank Martin, who opertates in a seedy underworld of dangerous criminals and desperate players. Chris Vance (Prison Break stars in the title role that was played by Jason Statham in the […]

Dickon Hinchliffe has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Shadow Dancer. The movie is directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire) and stars Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Aidan Gillen and Gillian Anderson. The film follows a young mother who is heavily involved in the Irish Republican movement and loses her younger brother at the […]

Mark Mothersbaugh has written the score for the upcoming HBO comedy Enlightened. The show stars Laura Dern as as a health and beauty executive who has a terrible public breakdown and, after some rehab and meditation, must come back from the hardship to try to live a more illuminated existence. Diane Ladd, Luke Wilson and […]

‘Boardwalk Empire’ Soundtrack announced

Posted: August 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Elektra/Asylum Records has announced a soundtrack release for the Emmy-nominated HBO show Boardwalk Empire. The album features songs from the series by such artists as Stephen DeRosa, Regina Spektor, Nellie McKay, Vince Gioardano and the Nighthawks, Kathy Brier, Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III and Leon Redbone. The soundtrack will be released on September 13, 2011 […]

In our final part of our roundup of this summer’s television scores, we’ll take a look at the shows on TNT, Syfy, HBO and Lifetime. Also check out Part 1 and Part 2 of the series for the composers on all the other major network and cable shows of the summer. TNT: The most successful […]