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Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 28, 2011)

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Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:

The Rite directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue and Alice Braga features music by Alex Heffes. A soundtrack album has been released digitally on Silva Screen Records and will be available as a physical CD in February. Check out our previous article on the announcement.

Also coming out is Simon West’s The Mechanic starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster. The film is scored by Mark Isham. A soundtrack has been released in three different versions on Isham’ own label MIM Records. The Assassin’s Edition is a six track EP of selections from the score (visit Amazon or iTunes to download and listen to clips from the album). The Complete Collector’s Edition features  the complete underscore that includes bonus tracks not used in the film (visit Amazon or iTunes).

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‘The Mechanic’ soundtrack details

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Mark Isham Music has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming film action thriller The Mechanic. Mark Isham’s original score will be included on the album with more details being announced next week. The soundtrack is expected to be released on January 25 by MIM Records. The Mechanic follows an elite hit man as he teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims. The movie stars Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn and Donald Sutherland and is set to come out on January 28 by CBS Films. The film is directed by Simon West (Con Air, The General’s Daughter, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, When A Stranger Calls). For a short video with Isham and West talking about the score, watch the video below.

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‘No Strings Attached’ soundtracks announced

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Lakeshore Records has announced two different soundtrack albums for the romantic comedy No Strings Attached directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. A score album to be released on February 15, 2011 features the original score from John Debney. Two tracks from the score (Golf Date and I Love You/The Kiss) are currently available on John Debney’s Facebook Fanpage. Visit our previous article announcing the composer on the movie which will be released this Friday on January 21 and check out the film’s trailer below. To pre-order the score album, visit Amazon.

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‘The Rite’ soundtrack details

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Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack for the upcoming horror thriller The Rite directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue and Alice Braga. The album includes 13 tracks of Alex Heffes’ original score and has has a running time of around 56 minutes. The soundtrack will come out on January 25 as a download release, with a physical CD to follow on February 8 (click here to pre-order the CD). To listen to audio clips from all tracks on the album, visit Amazon.

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Heitor Pereira scores ‘A Little Bit of Heaven’

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Heitor Pereira recently recorded the score for the upcoming romantic comedy A Little Bit of Heaven. The movie centers around a guarded woman who finds out she’s dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death. The comedy is directed by Nicole Kassell who previously directed the 2004 indie drama The Woodsman starring Kevin Bacon. A Little Bit of Heaven stars Kate Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg, Gael Garcia Bernal and Kathy Bates. No release date or domestic distribution deal has been announced so far, but the movie is expected to open in 2011.

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Michael Giacchino wins BAFTA Award

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Last Sunday, Michael Giacchino won his first British Academy of Film and Television Award for his original music for Pixar’s animated feature Up. Earlier this year, he already won a Grammy, as well as a Golden Globe Award for the score and he is the frontrunner to go home with an Academy Award as well when winners are announced on March 7.

For a video interview at the BAFTA after his award acceptance, visit YouTube’s BAFTA channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjGbpq7aok

Hans Zimmer promoting Sherlock Holmes score

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For the past few weeks, Hans Zimmer has been busy promoting his Academy-Award nominated score for Sherlock Holmes on various media platforms. He recently did an interview with Jim Svejda for the classical music station KUSC. To listen to the whole audio interview, visit http://kusc.podbean.com/2010/02/18/2010-oscar-best-score-nominee-hans-zimmer-sherlock-holmes/

For more promotional interview material on  Sherlock Holmes, here are just a few other links featuring video and audio interviews with the eight time Oscar nominated composer:

Collider: http://www.collider.com/2010/01/21/excl … inception/

First Showing: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/01/19/ … ns-zimmer/

David Poland’s DP/30: http://www.dp30.com/blog/2010/01/14/sherlock-holmes-composer-hans-zimmer/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/01/16/composer_zimmer_talks_sherlock_holmes_inception_dark_knight_its_complicated/

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/02/04/tsr.xtra.hans.zimmer.bk.b.cn

Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars … video.html