Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the family comedy Clifford the Big Red Dog directed by Walt Becker and starring Jack Whitehall, Darby Camp, Tony Hale, Sienna Guillory, David Alan Grier, Russell Wong and John Cleese. The film’s original music is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, The Jungle Book, Iron Man 2, Hocus Pocus). Paramount Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today (click here for the full album details). Epic Records has released the original song Room for You performed by Madison Beer last week (click here to listen to the track). The movie opened in theaters on Wednesday and is also available to stream on Paramount+.
Opening semi-wide in around 600 theaters is the drama Belfast written and directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and Jude Hill. Van Morrison has composed the film’s original music, including a few score cues and the original song Down to Joy. No soundtrack album has been announced yet. The movie, which tells the story of a boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s, premiered at this year’s Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and is being released by Focus Features.
