Metropolis Movie Music has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller Java Heat. The album features the film’s original score composed by Justin Burnett (Dungeons & Dragons, the upcoming Getaway). Also included are four songs by the English rock band Black Submarine. The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Java Heat is directed by Conor Allyn and stars Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke and Ario Bayu. The movie follows a reckless American posing as a grad student who is bent on vengeance following a suicide bombing in Indonesia. The thriller was released in select theaters last month by IFC Films and is also available on VOD.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 10, 2013)
Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki and Amitabh Bachchan. Craig Armstrong who previously scored the director’s Moulin Rouge! and Romeo & Juliet has composed the film’s original score. Interscope Records has released the official soundtrack album, which features Jay-Z’s original track No Church in the Wild, as well as his hit song 100$ Bill. Also included are the original songs Over the Love by Florence + the Machine and Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey, as well as songs by Beyonce x Andre 3000 (collaborating on Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black), Fergie + Q Tip + 
GoonRock, Coco O. of Quadron, Gotye, Nero and Sia, Jack White (who performs U2′s Love Is Blindness), Bryan Ferry and Emeli Sande. Check out our previous article for the full album details. The label has also released a deluxe edition featuring a track from Armstrong’s score, an additional song by Florence + the Machine and an orchestral version of Young and Beautiful. To listen to audio clips and download the deluxe version, visit Amazon. Also visit YouTube for a video featurette on the film’s music, including interviews with Armstrong, Luhrmann and Jay-Z and check out an interview with Armstrong about his work on the film on ASCAP’s We Create Music blog.
Justin Burnett Scoring ‘Getaway’
Justin Burnett is currently scoring the upcoming action crime thriller Getaway. The movie is directed by Courtney Solomon (An American Haunting) and Yaron Levy and stars Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Jon Voight. The film follows a burned out race car driver forced to get behind the wheel for a criminal scheme when his wife is kidnapped. Gregg Maxwell Parker and Sean Finegan wrote the script and Solomon is producing the project with Moshe Diamant (The Black Dahlia, Tristan + Isolde) and Chris Milburn. Joel Silver (The Matrix, Die Hard), Alan Zeman and Steve Richards are executive producing the Dark Castle Entertainment and After Dark Films production.