Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the sci-fi western Cowboys & Aliens directed by Jon Favreau, produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano and Sam Rockwell. The film’s music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score is now available to download on iTunes and will be released on CD on August 16. To check out the details of the album, visit our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, written by Dan Fogelman and starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei. Christophe Beck and Nick Urata composed the movie’s score. A soundtrack album featuring twelve songs from the film has been released on Watertower Music. To listen to audio clips and learn more about the soundtrack, visit our previous article. No score album has been announced at this point.
Christophe Beck has been hired to score the family movie The Muppets. The first film featuring Jim Henson’s creatures since 1999’s Muppets from Space is directed by James Bobin and teams up characters including Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy with actors Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones. Segel also co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Todd and David Lieberman (The Fighter, The Proposal) are producing the project. The film also features numerous cameos by such actors as Emily Blunt, Ricky Gervais, Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Zach Galifianakis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ed Helms, Donald Glover, John Krasinski and Danny Trejo. Previous Muppets movie composers include Hans Zimmer, Ralph Burns, Miles Goodman and Jamshied Sharifian. Walt Disney Records has already announced a soundtrack album for the film to be released on November 22, 2011, but no word yet on if it will contain any of Beck’s score. 
