Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Downhill. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Volker Bertelmann (Lion, Adrift, Hotel Mumbai, Patrick Melrose, The Art of Racing in the Rain, A Christmas Carol). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 14 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Downhill is co-written and directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash and stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Zach Woods, Zoë Chao and Miranda Otto. The movie is based on the Swedish 2014 feature Force Majeure and revolves around a married couple that is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other when they barely escape an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps.
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Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) to Score Nat Faxon’s & Jim Rash’s ‘Downhill’
Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) has signed on to score the upcoming drama Downhill. The film is directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (The Way Way Back, screenwriters of The Descendants) and stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Miranda Otto, Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Julian Grey, Ammon Jacob Ford and Kristofer Hivju. The movie is based on the Golden Globe-nominated Swedish feature Force Majeure and follows a seemingly picture-perfect family as they are forced to reevaluate life, and how they truly feel about each other when they barely escape an avalanche during a ski vacation in the Alps.
Rob Simonsen Scoring ‘The Way, Way Back’
Rob Simonsen has been hired to score the indie comedy The Way, Way Back. The film marks the directorial debut of Jim Rash and Nat Faxon and stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Sam Rockwell, AnnaSophia Robb, Allison Janney and Amanda Peet. The movie follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his unattentive mother and cheating stepfather during summer vacation. Rash and Faxon who received an Academy Award for writing last year’s The Descendants have penned the screenplay. Kevin Walsh is producing through his production company and Tom Rice is producing for Sycamore Pictures. It has just been announced that The Way, Way Back will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January.