Will Bates (The Path, The Looming Tower, I Origins) has recently scored the upcoming documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Alexis Bloom and charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames […]
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Will Bates Scoring ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’
Posted: August 29, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, Alexis Bloom, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, Will Bates
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 27, 2018)
Posted: July 27, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Dustin O'Halloran, Hot Summer Nights, Jane Antonia Cornish, Jared Faber, Jeff Beal, Lorne Balfe, Mark Korven, Martin Todsharow, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Our House, Puzzle, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, The Bleeding Edge, The Captain, Will Bates
Opening in most theaters is the action thriller Mission: Impossible – Fallout directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Kirby, Sian Brooke, Angela Bassett and Sean Harris. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (The LEGO Batman Movie, Home, Terminator Genisys, The Crown, Genius). Paramount […]
Will Bates to Score Syfy’s & Netflix’s ‘Nightflyers’
Posted: July 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Nightflyers, Syfy, Will Bates
Will Bates is composing the music for the upcoming Syfy original series Nightflyers. The show is developed by Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary, Jacob’s Ladder) based on George R.R. Martin’s novella and the 1987 film of the same name and stars Eoin Macken, David Ajala, Sam Strike, Maya Eshet, Angus Sampson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Brian F. O’Byrne […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 6, 2018)
Posted: May 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: All Night, Ben Onono, Germaine Franco, Hauschka, Hulu, Jake Monaco, Netflix, Patrick Kirst, Patrick Melrose, Safe, Showtime, Starz, Sweetbitter, The Kissing Booth, Vida, Will Bates
Premiering tonight is the new Starz original series Vida created by Tanya Saracho and starring Melissa Barrera, Mishel Prada, Karen Ser Anzoategui, Chelsea Rendon, Carlos Miranda and Maria Elena Laas. The show’s original music is composed by Germaine Franco (Dope, Tag). To learn more about the drama, which follows two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 11, 2018)
Posted: March 11, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Benji, Blake Neely, Deception, For the People, Kostas Christides, Kris Bowers, Nathan Blume, NBC, Netflix, Rise, Will Bates
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Deception created by Chris Fedak and starring Jack Cutmore-Scott, Ilfenesh Hadera, Amaury Nolasco, Lenora Crichlow, Justin Chon, Vinnie Jones and Laila Robins. The show’s original music is composed by Blake Neely (Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Riverdale, Life As We Know It, The Pacific) and Nathan Blume (The Seventies, Vixen). Check out our scoring […]
Will Bates Scoring Starz’s ‘Sweetbitter’
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Starz, Sweetbitter, Will Bates
Will Bates is composing the original score for the upcoming Starz original series Sweetbitter. The show is created by Stephanie Danler based on her bestselling novel of the same title and stars Ella Purnell as a 22-year-old woman who arrives in New York City ready to pursue a new life and is quickly intoxicated by the […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 25, 2018)
Posted: February 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, B: The Beginning, Bobby Krlic, Franz Kirmann, Good Girls, Hulu, Joseph Trapanese, Les Affamés, McMafia, Michael Penn, NBC, Netflix, Seven Seconds, The Looming Tower, Tom Hodge, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac & The Notorious B.I.G., USA, Will Bates, Yoshihiro Ike
Premiering tomorrow, February 26, in the U.S. is the BBC & AMC series McMafia created by Hossein Amini & James Watkins and starring James Norton, Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, Faye Marsay and Juliet Rylance. The show’s original music is composed by Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann. Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score from the drama’s […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 28, 2018)
Posted: January 28, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Futile and Stupid Gesture, A.P. Bio, Absentia, Altered Carbon, Amazon, Craig Wedren, Dirty Money, Jeff Cardoni, Jeff Russo, NBC, Netflix, Ofer Meiri, Step Up: High Water, Will Bates, YouTube Red
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, January 30, is the German television series Babylon Berlin co-created and -directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Matthias Brandt, Hannah Herzsprung, Karl Markovics, Lars Eidinger and Sebastian Urzen. Tykwer also co-scored the show with Johnny Klimek (Run Lola Run, The International, Cloud Atlas, Sense8). BMG […]
Hulu’s ‘The Looming Tower’ to Feature Music by Will Bates
Posted: January 16, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hulu, The Looming Tower, Will Bates
Will Bates is composing the music for the upcoming Hulu original series The Looming Tower. The show is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title by Lawrence Wright and stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck and Sullivan Jones. The […]
NBC’s ‘Rise’ to Feature Score by Will Bates
Posted: January 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jason Katims, NBC, Scott Riesett, Tom Kitt, Will Bates
Will Bates is the composer of the upcoming NBC drama Rise. The show is created by Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) and stars Josh Radnor, Rosie Perez, Auli”i Cravalho, Damon J. Gillespie, Marley Shelton, Rarmian Newton, Ted Sutherland, Amy Forsyth, Casey Johnson, Taylor Richardson, Joseph Tippett and Shirley Rumierk. The series follows a dedicated teacher […]