Milan Records has announced first-ever release of the original score for Spike Jonze’s 2013 sci-fi romantic drama Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Scarlett Johansson. The album features the film’s original score composed by Arcade Fire and their longtime collaborator Owen Pallett (The Box, Spaceship Earth) who received an Academy Award nomination for their music in 2014. The soundtrack will be released digitally and in vinyl and cassette formats on March 19, 2021. Visit Amazon to pre-order the vinyl edition and click here to order the digital version. WaterTower Music has previously released the Oscar-nominated original track The Moon Song by Karen O from the movie.
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Karen O to Perform ‘The Moon Song’ from ‘Her’ on the Oscars
Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that singer-songwriter Karen O will, for the first time, perform the Academy Award-nominated original song The Moon Song for a global television audience on the Oscars on March 2, 2014. The song from Spike Jonze’s romantic drama Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Rooney Mara is one of the four nominated titles in the Best Original Song category. It was previously announced that all the three other songs (Happy from Despicable Me 2, Let It Go from Frozen and Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) will also be performed at the event. Karen O who is the lead singer of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and has previously written songs for Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are is Oscar-nominated for the first time.
‘The Moon Song’ (Music from and Inspired by ‘Her’) Single Released
WaterTower Music has released the single The Moon Song featuring music from and inspired by Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-nominated drama Her. The release includes three recordings of The Moon Song, which is up for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. One version is performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix and is featured in the film and another version is performed by Karen O and plays over the movie’s end credits. The third version is a new recording of the song, which features Karen O in a duet with Ezra Koenig, singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend. To download the single, visit iTunes. Her is written and directed by Spike Jonze and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Scarlett Johansson. The movie about a complex, soulful man who becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right is currently playing in theaters.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 20, 2013)
Two new movies are opening wide this week:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the comedy sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, James Marsden and Kristen Wiig. The film’s original score is composed by Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau (Casa De Mi Padre, Bachelorette). The duo has also composed the film’s original songs, including Doby (co-written with Ferrell and McKay), which is up for an Academy Award nomination in the Best Song category (click here to listen to the track). Republic Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film. For the full album details, check out our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the 3D family action adventure Walking With Dinosaurs directed by Neil Nightingale & Barry Cook and which follows two brothers looking to follow in their father’s footsteps, which leads them to a showdown with dinosaurs in the Arctic. Paul Leonard-Morgan (Limitless, Dredd) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score is in the works and expected to be released in 2014. Check back on this page for the album details. To learn more about the movie, check out our previous news article.
Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ to Feature Music by Arcade Fire
The Grammy-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire is writing the music for Spike Jonze’s upcoming sci-fi romance Her. The film written and directed by Jonze stars Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pratt and Scarlett Johansson. The movie is set in future Los Angeles and follows a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people and falls in love with a new, advanced operating system designed to grant the user’s every command. Jonze is also producing the Annapurna Pictures production with Vincent Landay and Megan Ellison (Zero Dark Thirty, The Master). The director’s previous major features Where the Wild Things Are, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich were scored by Carter Burwell. Jonze has previously collaborated with Arcade Fire on the short film Scenes from the Suburbs. The band also re-recorded the hit song Wake Up for the Where the Wild Things Are trailer.