Four new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the gothic fantasy movie The House with a Clock in Its Walls directed by Eli Roth and starring Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan, Collen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanessa Anne Williams and Sunny Suljic. The film’s original music is composed by Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, Hostel, Cabin Fever). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and click here for a video featurette about Barr’s music.
Also opening wide is the drama Life Itself written and directed by Dan Fogelman and starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa, Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas. Federico Jusid (The Secret in Their Eyes, Kidnap, Misconduct, The Hunter’s Prayer) has composed the film’s original score. No soundtrack album has been announced. To learn more about the Amazon Studios release, which centers on a couple that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, visit the official movie website.
Paul Cantelon is scoring the upcoming documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts. The film is directed by Susan Lacy (Spielberg) and takes a look at the life, work, activism and controversies of Academy Award-winning actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda. Lacy is also producing the project with Jessica Levin and Emma Pildes. Cantelon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, W., em>Everything Is Illuminated, The Other Boleyn Girl) has previously contributed music to the Lacy-produced American Masters production Woody Allen: A Documentary. 
Paul Cantelon has composed the score for the period drama Effie Gray. The film is directed by Richard Laxton (An Englishman in New York) and stars Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane and Derek Jacobi. The movie centers on the unfortunate marriage between Euphemia Gray and the famed critic John Ruskin in 1840’s London. Thompson stars as Lady Eastlake, an art critic and historian who was also one of Gray’s friends. Thompson also wrote the screenplay and Don Rosenfeld & Andreas Roald (Voyage of Time) are producing the project for Sovereign Films. Effie Gray is expected to premiere later this year. 
Expected to top the weekend box office is the horror thriller The Purge directed by James DeMonaco, produced by Michael Bay and Jason Blum and starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. The film’s original score is composed by Nathan Whitehead. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. For the full album details, visit 
Also opening wide is the comedy The Internship directed by Shawn Levy and starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne and Max Minghella. Christophe Beck (The Hangover, The Muppets) who has previously collaborated with Levy on such films as Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther and Date Night has composed the film’s original score. No soundtrack album has been announced at this point. The comedy follows two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world and who talk their way into a coveted internship at Google. To learn more about the 20th Century Fox release, visit the 
