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Nightmare on Elm Street Soundtrack details

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WaterTower Music will release Steve Jablonsky’s score for the horror remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The album will be released on April 27. The movie is a re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality. The movie directed by Samuel Bayer and produced by Michael Bay stars Jackie Earle Haley and will be released in theaters on April 30.

APRIL 8 Update: For soundclips from each track, check out the soundtrack section on the official movie webpage.

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New Badelt scores available

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Two new scores by composer Klaus Badelt have just been made available. Die Jagd nach der heiligen Lanze (The Lance) is a German TV fantasy adventure which just premiered on German TV earlier this week. The music was co-written by Klaus Badelt, Christopher Carmichael and Ian Honeyman. To watch a short interview with the composers about the scoring process, check out this video clip on YouTube. The score album can be downloaded from Klaus Badelt’s online store.

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Prince of Persia soundtrack announced

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Walt Disney Records will release the soundtrack album for Price of Persia: The Sands of Time on May 25. The album includes 18 track of Harry Gregson-William’s score, as well as the song I Remain performed by Alanis Morissette. The movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley will be released  on May 28.

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Two new Varese Sarabande soundtracks

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Varese Sarabande has announced two new CD releases to be released in May. The label will release Marc Streitenfeld’s score for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. The movie stars Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett and opens in theaters on May 14. The movie marks Streitenfeld’s fourth collaboration with director Ridley Scott after American Gangster, A Good Year and Body of Lies. The album will be released on May 11.

On the same day, Varese Sarabande will also release Edward Shearmur’s score for the drama Mother and Child. The movie stars Naomi Watts, Annette Benning, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and Jimmy Smits and reunites Shearmur with director Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives, Passengers). The movie will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on May 7. Tracklisting and album cover will follow soon.

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Straw Dogs score released

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Intrada Records announced today the world premiere release of Jerry Fielding’s score for Straw Dogs. The movie from 1971 directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) stars Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, a young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Intrada is releasing the complete score limited to 2000 copies including about 42 minutes of music. To listen to sound clips and order the CD, check out Intrada’s CD page.

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Death at a Funeral score album coming

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Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Christophe Beck’s score for the comedy Death at a Funeral on April 13. The album will be available as a download and CD-R release on Amazon. No tracklisting is available yet. To find out more about the movie, check out our previous news article.

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Expanded Eraser score released

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La-Land-Land Records has released an expanded score album for Alan Silvestri’s Eraser earlier this week. The CD includes almost 80 minutes of the score, including more than 30 minutes of unreleased material. The album is limited to 3000 copies. Eraser centers around a Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons. The movie directed by Chuck Russell stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams and James Caan. Click here to listen to soundclips and order the CD.

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Clash of the Titans Score Update

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Sound clips from Ramin Djawadi’s score for Clash Of The Titans have been uploaded on iTunes (click here to check them out). The album will be released this coming Tuesday, March 30 by WaterTower Music. Apart from Djawadi’s score, the album features the song The Storm That Brought You to Me, credited to Djawadi, Tina Dico & Neil Davidge. Djawadi reportedly wrote about 90 minutes of music for the score in about 4 weeks when he came in as a replacement composer for Craig Armstrong.

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The Back-up Plan score album announced

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Lakeshore Records has announced a score album for the upcoming romantic comedy The Back-up Plan. The film scored by Stephen Trask centers on a woman who conceives twins through artificial insemination, only to meet the man of her dreams on the very same day. The movie stars Jennifer Lopez and Alex O’Loughlin and will be released by CBS Films on April 23. The score album will come out on April 13 and Lakeshore Records will also release a song soundtrack album on the same day. A tracklisting will be added soon.

Beltrami takes over Jonah Hex

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Film Music Reporter has learned that Marco Beltrami has taken over scoring duties on the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex. He is replacing John Powell, who reportedly was working on the score with the heavy metal band Mastodon last fall. No word yet if any of Mastodon’s music will stay in the picture. Jonah Hex is set in the Wild West, where a scarred bounty hunter tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead. The movie is directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears A Who!) and stars Megan Fox, Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Michael Shannon. Warner Bros has the movie scheduled to be released on June 18.

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