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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 16, 2011)

Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:

Expected to top the weekend box office is the action adventure sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams,Stephen Fry, Jared Harris and Noomi Rapace. The film’s music is written by Hans Zimmer and produced by Zimmer & Lorne Balfe. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. For the full details, including audio clips, visit our previous article. For a behind-the-scenes video from the recording of the score, click here and also check out two junket video interviews with Zimmer on Trailer Addict. For more recent interviews with the composer talking about his music for the sequel, visit Collider, MTV, ARTISTdirect and The Playlist.

Also opening wide this week is the family movie sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked directed by Mike Mitchell  and starring Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Anna Faris and Christina Applegate. A soundtrack album featuring the movie’s songs performed by The Chipmunks & The Chipettes has been released on Atlantic Records. For more information and audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement. The film’s score is composed by Mark Mothersbaugh and no score album has been released.

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Alexandre Desplat Scoring Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’

Film Music Reporter has learned that Alexandre Desplat has recently scored Roman Polanski’s upcoming black comedy Carnage. We have previously reported that Alberto Iglesias was attached to score the film according to a press release by Sony Pictures Classics in April, but it appears that the composer (who recently finished scoring the thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) never wrote any music for the film. Carnage marks the second collaboration between Polanski and Desplat who worked together on the director’s last movie The Ghost Writer. The movie is based on the Tony-winning play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza and stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.

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Alberto Iglesias to Score Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’

According to a press release by Sony Pictures Classics, Alberto Iglesias has been hired to write the music for the upcoming drama Carnage. The film is directed by Roman Polanski and stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. The movie is an adaptation of the Tony-winning play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza who is also responsible for adapting the play to the screen with Polanski. Carnage centers on two pairs of parents one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos. The movie marks Iglesias’ first collaboration with the Academy Award-winning director who most recently worked with Alexandre Desplat on last year’s The Ghost Writer. 

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