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Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 7, 2020)

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Premiering this coming Friday, June 12, is the fantasy adventure Artemis Fowl directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Tamara Smart, Nonzo Anozie, Josh Gad and Judi Dench. The film’s original music is composed by Patrick Doyle (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Brave, Thor, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Sense and Sensibility). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the movie, which was originally set to be released theatrically on May 29 and will now debut exclusively on Disney+.

Also premiering on Friday is the Netflix original film Da 5 Bloods directed by Spike Lee and starring Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Paul Walter Hauser, Jean Reno, Chadwick Boseman, Danny Bilson, Kevin Willmott, Paul DeMeo, Matt Billingsly, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry Norm Lewis and Jasper Pääkkönen. Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, Inside Man) has composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details.

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Gabriel Yared Scoring Edoardo Ponti’s ‘The Life Ahead’

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Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408, Cold Mountain) has been hired to score the upcoming Italian drama The Life Ahead. The film is directed by Edoardo Ponti and stars Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri and Massimiliano Rossi. The movie is set in seaside Italy and follows a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business who takes in 12-year-old Momo, a Senegalese Muslim street kid who robbed her. Ponti also co-wrote the screenplay with Ugo Chiti (Dogman) based on Romain Gary’s novel La vie devant soi. Nicola Serra & Carlo Degli Esposti (Piranhas, Leopardi) are producing the project.

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Ryan Shore to Score Mark Steven Johnson’s ‘Love, Guaranteed’

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Ryan Shore (Prime, The Shrine, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Harvard Man, Spy Hunter, Julie’s Greenroom) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original film Love, Guaranteed. The film is directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider, Daredevil, When in Rome) and stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Heather Graham and Damon Wayans Jr. The romantic comedy revolves around an earnest lawyer who – in order to save her small law firm – takes a high-paying case from a charming new client who wants to sue a dating website that guarantees love. Elizabeth Hackett & Hilary Galanoy (Falling Inn Love) wrote the screenplay based on the source material by Cook who is also producing the project with Dan Spilo (Back Roads) and Margret Huddleston & Stephanie Slack (Dangerous Lies).

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‘The Platform’ (‘El Hoyo’) Soundtrack to Be Released

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Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the Spanish sci-fi thriller The Platform (El Hoyo). The album features the film’s original music composed by Aránzazu Calleja (Bomb Scares, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, No Controles, Taxi to Treasure Rock). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, June 12 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Platform is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and stars Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale and Alexandra Masangkay. The movie is set in a future dystopia and follows a group of prisoners housed in vertically stacked cells watch hungrily as food descends from above — feeding the upper tiers, but leaving those below ravenous and radicalized.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 31, 2020)

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Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British mini-series Quiz directed by Stephen Frears, written by James Graham and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Sheen, Sian Clifford, Mark Bonnar, Helen McCrory, Michael Jibson and Aisling Bea. The show’s original music is composed by Murray Gold (Doctor Who, Gentleman Jack, Torchwood, Years and Years). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the 3-parter, which premiered in the UK earlier this year on ITV and is making its domestic premiere on AMC. Also visit the official show website for more information.

Premiering on Friday, June 5, is the Apple TV+ docu-series Dear… executive produced by R.J. Cutler, Todd Lubin, Jay Peterson, Jane Cha and Lyle Gamm. Craig Richey (Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing, The September Issue, Girl on a Bicycle) is composing the show’s original music. The series, which takes an inventive approach to biographies of the most iconic figures in society today by using letters written by those whose lives have been changed through their work and profiles internationally recognized leaders including Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Steinem, Spike Lee, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stevie Wonder & others will be available to stream exclusively on Apple TV+.

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‘Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details

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Back Lot Music will release a new soundtrack album for DreamWorks Animation’s Netflix series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. The album features the songs from the show’s second season performed by Karen Fukahara, Sydney Mikayla, John Lavelle, Dan Stevens, Mindy Sterling, Kay Bess and Chris Anthony Lansdowne. Also included are selections of the original score from Season 2 composed by Daniel Rojas. The Season 2 Mixtape will be released digitally tomorrow, May 29 and will be available to stream/download here. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring music from Season 1 earlier this year. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is created by Radford Sechrist and stars Fukahara & Mikayla, alongside Coy Stewart, Deon Cole and Dee Bradley Baker. 

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‘Da 5 Bloods’ Soundtrack Details

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Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Da 5 Bloods. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, Inside Man, Red Tails). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 29 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Da 5 Bloods is directed by Spike Lee and stars Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Paul Walter Hauser, Jean Reno, Chadwick Boseman, Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo, Matt Billingsly, Kevin Willmott, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Norm Lewis, Mélanie Thierry and Jasper Pääkkönen. The movie tells the story of four African American veterans as they return to Vietnam decades after the war to find their squad leader’s remains – and a stash of buried gold.

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Alexandre Desplat Scoring George Clooney’s ‘The Midnight Sky’

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Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech, The Shape of Water, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla) confirmed in a recent interview with Indiewire that he is reuniting with George Clooney on the upcoming Netflix original film The Midnight Sky. The post-apocalyptic drama is directed by Clooney who also stars in the film, alongside Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Demián Bichir, Sophie Rundle, Ethan Peck, Tim Russ and Miriam Shor. The movie is based on the novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton and follows the parallel stories of a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to make contact with the crew of the Aether spacecraft as they try to return home to Earth.

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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 24, 2020)

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Premiering tomorrow, May 25, is the National Geographic limited series Barkskins created by Elwood Reid and starring David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Harden, Aneurin Barnard, James Bloor, Christian Cooke, David Wilmot, Thomas M. Wright, Tallulah Haddon, Kaniehtiio Horn, Lily Sullivan and Zahn McClarnon. The show’s original music is composed by Colin Stetson (Hereditary, Color Out of Space, The First). Check out our previous article to learn more about the 8-parter, which will air every Monday night on National Geographic and will also be available to stream on Hulu every Tuesday.

Also premiering tomorrow is the History docu-series Grant directed by Malcolm Venville and executive produced by Ron Chernow, Jennifer Davisson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Jacob Shea (Planet Earth II, Seven Worlds One Planet, Blue Planet II) has composed the show’s original music, which is produced by Russell Emanuel for Bleeding Fingers Music. The 3-parter examines Grant’s life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction. Visit the official show website for more information about the series, which will air over three consecutive nights on History.

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Solo Piano Version of ‘Toss a Coin to Your Witcher’ from Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Released

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Milan Records has released a new solo piano version of the original song Toss a Coin to Your Witcher from the Netflix original series The Witcher. The track is performed by composer Sonya Belousova who co-wrote the track with Giona Ostinelli. The piano version is now available to stream/download here. Also listen to the full track after the jump. The label has previously released a full soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score from the show’s first season in  January. A double LP version will be released on June 5 (click here to pre-order) and a 2-CD version will also come out next month (visit Amazon to order).

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