Film Music Reporter

Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French animated sequel Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (Minuscule – Les mandibules du bout du monde). The album features the film’s original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Mathieu Lamboley (Return of the Hero, I Kissed a Girl, Odd Job, Lolo) and performed by the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and the Children Choir of Francis Bardo.  The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 25 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. A CD version is available to order on the label’s official website.Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away directed by Thomas Szabo & Hélène Giraud is the sequel to 2013’s hit feature Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants and follows a young ladybug who gets trapped in a cardboard box shipped to the Caribbean, his father sets off for Guadeloupe to rescue him and save others from a human construction site. The animated movie premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and will be released in French theaters on January 30. No word yet on a domestic release date.