Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the spy thriller The Courier. The album features the film’s original music composed by Golden Globe Award nominee Abel Korzeniowski (A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals, W.E., The Nun, Romeo and Juliet, Escape from Tomorrow). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 19 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music service. The Courier is directed by Dominic Cooke and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan and Jessie Buckley. The movie tells the true story of an unassuming British businessman who, at the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative, forms a covert partnership with a Soviet officer in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Abel Korzeniowski to Score Dominic Cooke’s ‘Ironbark’
Abel Korzeniowski has been hired to score the upcoming British drama Ironbark. The film is directed by Dominic Cooke (On Chesil Beach) and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Merab Ninidze, Angus Wright and Kirill Pirogov. The movie tells the true story of Greville Wynne, a British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear program during the Cold War. Tom O’Connor (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) wrote the screenplay. 42’s Ben Pugh & Rory Aitken (Welcome to the Punch, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) are producing the project with Adam Ackland (Patrick Melrose).
Dan Jones Scoring Dominic Cooke’s ‘On Chesil Beach’
Dan Jones has been hired to score the upcoming drama On Chesil Beach. The film is directed by Dominic Cooke (The Hollow Crown) and stars Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough and Bebe Cave. The movie based on the best-selling novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) is set in the 1960s and how a blissful honeymoon is ruined by a misunderstanding between nervous virgin newlyweds. McEwan also wrote the screenplay. Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol, Made in Dagenham) and Stephen Woolley (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game) are producing the project.