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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 23, 2022)

Premiering tomorrow, January 24, is the HBO original series The Gilded Age created by Julian Fellowes and starring Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Taissa Farmiga, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson,  Simon Jones, Jack Gilpin, Thomas Cocquerel, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski. The show’s original music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Shrek, Mulan, Man on Fire, The Last Duel) & Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan). Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will air Monday nights on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.

Also premiering tomorrow is the ABC drama Promised Land created by Matt Lopez and starring John Ortiz, Cecilia Suárez, Christina Ochoa, Augusto Aguilera, Tonatiuh, Katya Martín, Mariel Molino, Andres Velez and Rolando Chusan. The show’s original music is composed by Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, The Book of Life, Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries) & Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch & Rebels, Peacemaker, City on a Hill, CSI: Miami). Hollywood Records has released a cover version of Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine produced by Santaolalla and performed by paopao for the series last month. Click here to listen to the track and for more information about the drama, which will every Monday on ABC and will also be available to stream on Hulu.

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Gustavo Santaolalla & Kevin Kiner Scoring ABC’s ‘Promised Land’

Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, The Book of Life,The Motorcycle Diaries) & Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars & Rebels, CSI: Miami) are reuniting to co-score the new ABC drama Promised Land. The show is created by Matt Lopez (Race to Witch Mountain, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and stars John Ortiz, Cecilia Suárez, Christina Ochoa, Augusto Aguilera, Mariel Molino, Tonatiuh, Katya Martín, Andres Velez and Rolando Chusan. The series centers on a Latinx family vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.

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Gustavo Santaolalla’s & paopao’s ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’ Cover from ABC’s ‘Promised Land’ Released

Hollywood Records has released the cover version of Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine from the upcoming ABC drama Promised Land. The song produced by Academy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Book of Life, Narcos: Mexico, Finch) and performed by paopao is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Promised Land is created by Matt Lopez and stars John Ortiz, Cecilia Suárez, Augusto Aguilera, Christina Ochoa, Mariel Molino, Tonatiuh, Andres Velez, Katya Martín and Rolando Chusan.

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‘Promised Land’ Soundtrack Details

promisedlandsoundtrackRelativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album for Gus Van Sant’s drama Promised Land. The album features the film’s original score composed by Danny Elfman who previously collaborated with the director on such films as Good Will Hunting, Milk and To Die For. Also included is the original song, Snake Eyes, written and performed by The Milk Carton Kids (Kenneth A. Pattengale and Joseph Edward Ryan). The soundtrack is now available on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Promised Land starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Titus Welliver and Frances McDormand follows a corporate salesman who has his life turned around when he arrives in a rural town with his sales partner.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 28, 2012)

Three new movies have opened nationwide earlier this week on Christmas Day:

lesmiserablesTopping the box office on Christmas Day was the movie musical Les Miserables directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne, Colm Wilkinson, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. Universal Republic has released a soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and produced and arranged by Anne Dudley. Also included is the new original song Suddenly composed by Schonberg and featuring lyrics by Alain Boublil. To find out more about the soundtrack and film, check out our previous article.

django-unchainedAlso performing well in wide release is the western Django Unchained written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. Loma Vista Recording has released a soundtrack album featuring a couple of new original tracks, including 100 Black Coffins by Rick Ross and produced by and featuring Jamie Foxx, Who Did That To You?  by John Legend, Ancora Qui by Ennio Morricone and Elisa, and the duet Freedom performed by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton. Also included are other tracks from classic soundtracks by such composers as Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, Luis Bacalov and Riz Ortolani. For the full track list, check out our soundtrack announcement.

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Listen to Danny Elfman’s ‘Promised Land’ Score and Jeremy Sams’ Music from ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’

Focus Features has published the complete scores of its major awards contenders this season. Among the titles is Gus Van Sant’s drama Promised Land, which features music composed by Danny Elfman. To listen to the score, visit Focus Features’ For Your Consideration website. The film starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Titus Welliver and Frances McDormand also features an original song, Snake Eyes, written by Kenneth A. Pattengale and Joseph Edward Ryan, which is being pushed for awards consideration. No soundtrack release has been announced yet.

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Danny Elfman to Score ‘Hitchcock’ Biopic and Gus Van Sant’s ‘Promised Land’

Danny Elfman has signed on to score the upcoming biographical comedy drama Hitchcock. The film is directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil, screenwriter of The Terminal) and follows the iconic director’s struggles during the filmmaking of the horror classic Psycho. Anthony Hopkins stars in the title role, alongside Scarlett Johansson and James D’Arcy who portray Psycho stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, as well as Helen Mirren as Hitchcock’s wife Alma. Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jessica Biel and Danny Huston are also starring. Actor Paul Schackman appears as Psycho‘s composer Bernard Herrmann. John McLaughlin (Black Swan) has written the film’s script and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), Joe Medjuck (Disturbia, Old School), Tom Pollack and Tom Thayer are producing the Montecito Picture Company and Fox Searchlight Pictures production.

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