Tag: Clint Mansell

Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 26, 2011)

Four new movies are opening wide over Thanksgiving weekend:

Walt Disney Pictures’ Tangled features songs and score by Alan Menken. Check out our previous article announcing the soundtrack album. A short video interview on the score has been uploaded on YouTube. To listen to lenghty audio interviews with Menken talking about his work on Tangled, visit Film Music Magazine’s On the Score and WDW Radio. Entertainment Weekly also featured an in depth interview with the composer worth checking out. Also check out a short interview Menken did with The Wall Street Journal, as well as a recent article about Menken on LA Times’ Music Blog.

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Black Swan soundtrack album coming

Sony Masterworks will release the soundtrack album for Darren Aronofsky’s thriller Black Swan starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Kassel, Mila Kunis and Winona Ryder. The album will include Clint Mansell’s original score from the movie using elements Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. The album will be released on November 30, three days before the movie’s release date on December 3. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon.

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‘Faster’ soundtrack album announced

Lakeshore Records has announced a digital release of the upcoming soundtrack to the action thriller Faster starring Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton. The album will be released on November 23 and features the score by composer Clint Mansell, as well as songs by Iggy Pop, The Heavy among others.

11/18/10 Update:  Check out the Faster soundtrack page on MySpace for audio clips from the soundtrack.

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Clint Mansell going ‘Faster’

Clint Mansell is currently scoring the upcoming action thriller Faster. The movie directed by George Tillman Jr. (Men of Honor, Notorious) is starring Dwayne Johnson, Maggie Grace, Jennifer Carpenter, Tom Berenger, Carla Gugino and Billy Bob Thornton. In the film, an ex-con sets out to avenge his brother’s death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago. The movie marks the third release of CBS Films and is scheduled to come out on November 24.

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