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Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 9, 2011)

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Four new movies are opening wide this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the thriller Contagion directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Cranston and John Hawkes. The film’s music is composed by Cliff Martinez. A soundtrack album featuring the score by Martinez has been released by Watertower Music. Check out our previous article for more information and audio clips from the score. Also visit Film Music Magazine for a lengthy audio interview with the composer talking about his recent work.

Also opening wide is the drama Warrior directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison and Noah Emmerich. The movie’s score is written by Mark Isham. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album including Isham’s score, as well as a song by The National. The digital release is already out and a CD version will be released next Tuesday. For audio clips and more details, visit our soundtrack announcement.

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‘Dream House’ Soundtrack Details

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Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the thriller Dream House. The album includes 15 tracks of the movie’s original score composed by John Debney. The soundtrack will be released on September 27, 2011 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. To listen to the main titles and the end credits of the score, visit Debney’s Facebook fanpage. Dream House is directed by Jim Sheridan and stars Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. Universal Pictures will release the movie on September 30.

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‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ Score Album Announced

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Lakeshore Records has announced a score album for the romantic comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It. The score is composed by Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, John Q, the Sex and the City movies). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 20, 2011 and a CD is coming out on October 18. Check back for audio clips to be added to this article within the next two weeks. A separate soundtrack with songs from the movie has previously been announced as reported here. I Don’t Know How She Does It is directed by Douglas McGrath and stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Christina Hendricks, Kelsey Grammer, Seth Meyers and Olivia Munn.

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‘Straw Dogs’ Soundtrack Details

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Madison Gate Records will be releasing the soundtrack album for the thriller Straw Dogs. The album includes the score from the movie by composer Larry Groupé (The Contender, Commander in Chief). The soundtrack will be released on September 13, 2011, both digitally and as an on-demand CD-R on Amazon. To listen to audio clips from the album, check out the box below. Also added below is the press release with more information about the score below. Straw Dogs directed by Rod Lurie and starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, Dominic Purcell, Laz Alonso, Willa Holland and James Woods is a remake of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah film. The movie will be released in theaters on September 16, 2011.

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‘A Dangerous Method’ Soundtrack Details

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Sony Classical will be releasing the soundtrack for David Cronenberg’s new thriller A Dangerous Method. The album features the original score from the movie by composer Howard Shore, as well as Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll performed by Lang Lang. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on September 16, 2011. A release in the US is expected closer to the movie’s domestic opening in LA and New York on November 23. (UPDATE, November 2011): The album is now scheduled for a domestic release on November 21 and can be pre-ordered on Amazon.  A Dangerous Method starring Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassell chronicles the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalyis. The movie premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival.

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‘Machine Gun Preacher’ Soundtrack Details

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The details for the soundtrack release of the upcoming drama Machine Gun Preacher have been revealed. Relativity Music Group is releasing the album on September 20, 2011. The soundtrack includes the movie’s original score by Asche & Spencer, as well as the original song The Keeper by Chris Cornell (visit our previous article for more information). Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album after the jump and visit Amazon to download the soundtrack. Machine Gun Preacher is directed by Marc Forster and stars Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan and Michael Shannon.

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Complete ‘Explorers’ Score by Jerry Goldsmith Released

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Intrada Records has announced a new edition of the soundtrack for Joe Dante’s 1985 fantasy movie Explorers. The album marks the world premiere release of the film’s score composed by Jerry Goldsmith and includes more than half an hour of previously unreleased music. Also included on the soundtack is the track Space Movie by Alexander Courage. The album is available to order on Intrada’s website, where you can also listen to audio clips from the release. Explorers stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory.

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Conrad Pope’s ‘The Presence’ Soundtrack Announced

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Screamworks Records has announced a soundtrack album for the indie horror thriller The Presence. The album features the original score by Conrad Pope (Pavilion of Women, the upcoming My Week with Marilyn). The soundtrack will be released both on CD and digitally on October 4, 2011. The Presence is written and directed by Tom Provost and stars Mina Sorvino, Shane West and Tony Curran. The movie centers on a woman who travels to an isolated cabin where she finds herself stalked by an apparition who has come to inhabit her space as his own. The film will be released in the US on DVD on October 4 by Lionsgate.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 2, 2011)

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Three new movies are opening wide this Labor Day weekend:

Opening in almost 3000 theaters is the horror thriller Shark Night 3D directed by David R. Ellis and starring Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Katharine McPhee, Donal Logue, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz and Joel David Moore. The movie’s score is written by Graeme Revell. A soundtrack album featuring Revell’s music has been released earlier this week by Cutting Edge. To find out more about the album and listen to audio clips from the release, visit our soundtrack announcement.

Already in theater since Wednesday is the political thriller The Debt directed by John Madden and starring Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson. The composer of the film is Thomas Newman. Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album including Newman’s score digitally earlier this week. The full details and audio clips can be checked out in our previous article. Silva Screen Records will also be releasing a physical CD of the soundtrack overseas.

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‘Contagion’ Soundtrack Details

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Watertower Music will be releasing the soundtrack album for the action thriller Contagion. The album includes 20 tracks from the original score by Cliff Martinez. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 6, 2011 and will be available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips from each track on the release after the jump. Contagion is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Cranston and John Hawkes.

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