Financing and investment company Cutting Edge Media Music acquired the full music catalog of U.K.-based media company First Score Music. The acquisition gives Cutting Edge complete master and publishing rights to over 75 film scores, including original music rights to films from Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish‘s Imaginarium Productions. This includes Imaginarium’s upcoming animated version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, as well as its Taika Waititi-directed film Next Goal Wins with a score by Michael Giacchino.

The acquisition gives Cutting Edge complete master and publishing rights to over 75 film scores, including original music rights to films from Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish‘s Imaginarium Productions.

Philip Moross, Cutting Edge CEO

The catalog also includes scores by composers such as Carter Burwell, Christophe Beck, Hildur Guðnadóttir, David Newman and Rachel Portman for films including Sicario: Day of the Soldado; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Midway; and Greenland.

Full article available via Billboard here.