Film Music Reporter

Benoit Charest is scoring the upcoming sci-fi romance Upside Down. The movie is directed by Juan Diego Solanas and stars Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess. The film centers on a a man searching an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth. James W. Skotchdopole (Man on Fire, Spy Game) is executive producing the big budget French/Canadian production and Alex McDowell (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Watchmen) is the project’s production designer. Charest’s best known film credit is the animated film The Triplets of Bellville, which earned the composer an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the song Belleville Redez-Vous. Upside Down already has distributors in place in several European countries. A domestic distribution deal has yet to be announced and a release later this year is expected.