Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the FX limited series A Murder at the End of the World. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominees Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Enemy, The Staircase, The Gift, Fear the Walking Dead, Boy Erased) . The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 17 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A Murder at the End of the World is created and directed by Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij and stars Emma Corrin, Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, Marling herself, Raúl Espanza, Jermaine Fowler, Joan Chen, Pegah Ferydoni, Javed Khan, Ryan J. Haddad, Louis Cancelmi and Edoardo Ballerini. The 7-part mystery thriller follows a Gen Z amateur hacker who is invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location and – when one of the other guests is found dead – must use all of her skills to prove it was murder.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 12, 2023)
Making its linear debut tonight is the Showtime original series The Curse created by Benny Safdie & Nathan Fielder and starring Emma Stone, Fielder and Safdie. The show’s original music is composed John Medeski and executive produced by Daniel Lopatin (Uncut Gems, Good Time). Milan Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the score this coming Friday, November 17. Check out our soundtrack announcment for the full album details, to listen to a first track and to learn more about the project. The comedy premiered this past Friday on Paramount+ with Showtime and will air every Sunday night on Showtime.
Also premiering today is the MGM+ original series Beacon 23 created by Zak Penn based on Hugh Howey’s best-selling book and starring Lean Headey and Stephan James. William Marriott has composed the show’s original score. Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Pacific Rim, Westworld, Iron Man, House of the Dragon, Eternals) has contributed the theme and also serves as the project’s music producer. Check out our previous news article for more information about the sci-fi thriller, which will be available to stream on MGM+.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 13, 2023)
Opening in select U.S. theaters today is the French drama Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute) co-written and directed by Justine Triet and starring Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud and Milo Machado Graner. The film doesn’t feature an original score and no soundtrack release is expected. The movie, which tells the story of an author who trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death, premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Palme d’Or, and is being released by Neon.
Opening in New York today before expanding to more markets in the coming weeeks is the sci-fi thriller Divinity written and directed by Eddie Alcazar and stars Stephen Dorff, Moises Arias, Bella Thorne, Jason Genao, Scott Bakula and Karrueche Tran. The film’s original music is composed by DJ Muggs (of Cypress Hill) & Dean Hurley (Looks That Kill). Sacred Bones Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the artists’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Utopia release.
‘Biosphere’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Ghost Talk Records will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi comedy Biosphere. The album features the film’s original music composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Gift, The Outsider, Enemy, Boy Erased, The Staircase, Tokyo Vice, Fear the Walking Dead). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 29 in select digital music stores before becoming available on all major streaming services on October 13 (click here to stream/download). A vinyl edition is also in the works. Check back on this page for the purchase links. Biosphere is co-written and directed by Mel Eslyn and stars Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass. The movie is set in the not-too-distant future and follows the last two men on earth who must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Netflix’s ‘Encounters’
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Enemy, The Staircase, The Gift, Boy Erased) have recently scored the new Netflix documentary series Encounters. The show is directed by Yon Motskin (Generation Hustle) and explores four stories of encounters with otherworldly phenomena: strange lights in the sky over small-town in Texas, an alien encounter with schoolchildren in Zimbabwe, submersible space crafts haunting a coastal Welsh village and non-human intelligence interfering with a nuclear power plant in Japan.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Amanda McBaine’s & Jesse Moss’ ‘The Mission’
National Geographic Documentary Films announced today that Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, The Gift, The Staircase, Enemy, Boy Erased) have written the original score for the upcoming documentary The Mission. The film is directed by Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss (Boys State) and centers on the shocking 2018 event, when a young American missionary, John Chau, was killed by arrows while attempting to contact one of the world’s most isolated Indigenous peoples on remote North Sentinel Island.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 7, 2023)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is supernatural horror sequel Insidious: The Red Door directed by Patrick Wilson and starring Ty Simpkins, Wilson himself, Rose Byrne, Andrew Astor, Sinclair Daniel and Hiam Abbass. The film’s original music is composed by Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Curse of La Llorona, Malignant). Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Blumhouse production, which is being released by Sony Pictures.
Also opening wide today is the comedy Joy Ride directed by Adele Lim and starring Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sabrina Wu, Sherry Cola, Ronny Chieng, David Denman, Annie Mumolo, Lori Tan Chinn and Chris Pang. Nathan Matthew David (Deadly Class, Young Rock, Stephen Curry: Underrated, The Last Word) has composed the film’s original score. Rhino Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as multiple songs from the movie today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Lionsgate release.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring FX’s ‘A Murder at the End of the World’
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Staircase, The Outsider, Enemy, The Gift, Boy Erased) have been tapped to score the upcoming FX limited series A Murder at the End of the World. The show is created and directed by Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij (The East, Sound of My Voice) and stars Emma Corrin, Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Marling herself, Alice Braga, Raúl Espanza, Joan Chen, Jermaine Fowler, Pegah Ferydoni, Ryan J. Haddad, Javed Khan, Louis Cancelmi and Edoardo Ballerini. The 7-part murder mystery follows a Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker who – alongside eight other guests – is invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location and – when one of the other guests is found dead – must use all of her skills to prove it was murder.
‘God’s Creatures’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the psychological drama God’s Creatures. The album features the film’s original music composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, The Gift, The Staircase, Boy Erased, Enemy, Tulsa King, Fear the Walking Dead, Outer Range) . The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 26 and will be available to stream/download here. God’s Creatures is directed by Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer and stars Emily Watson, Paul Mescal and Aisling Franciosi. The movie revolves around a mother who tells a lie for her beloved son that rips apart their family and close-knit Irish town, ultimately testing her own sense of right.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 9, 2023)
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, April 11, is the British comedy drama Am I Being Unreasonable? created by Daisy May Cooper & Selin Hizli and starring Cooper & Hizli themselves, Lenny Rush, Jessica Hynes, Amanda Wilkin, Dustin Demri-Burns, David Fynn, Juliet Cowan, Ruben Catt and Karla Crome. The show’s original music is composed by Morgan Kibby (Mothering Sunday, The Watcher, The Power, Girls of the Sun, Grand Army, Tales of the Walking Dead). The series, which centers on an obsessive friendship and maternal paranoia, premiered in the UK last year on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Hulu.
Premiering on Wednesday, April 12, is the second season of the Freeform original series Single Drunk Female created by Simone Finch and starring Sofia Black-D’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Sasha Compere, Lily Mae Harrington, Ian Gomez and Garrick Bernard. Tony Kanal (Purple Hearts) (of the bands No Doubt and Dreamcar) is the new composer of the show. Check out our previous news article for more information about the comedy, which will air Wednesday nights on Freeform and will also be available to stream the following day on Hulu.