Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack for the family movie Dolphin Tale. The album includes the original score by composer Mark Isham. The soundtrack will be released on October 11, 2011 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. To learn more about Isham’s score and watch a short video from the recording sessions, check out our previous article. Dolphin Tale is directed by Charles Martin Smith and stars Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Kris Kristofferson and Nathan Gamble.
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New Editions of Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘Forever Young’ and ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’ Soundtracks Released
La-La Land Records has released two new limited editions of Jerry Goldsmith scores from the 90’s. First up is the release of the expanded score for the 1992 romantic fantasy Forever Young. The album is limited to 3000 copies and features almost 75 minutes of Goldsmith’s score, including a significant amount of previously unreleased music. To order the CD and listen to audio clips, visit La-La Land Records’ website. Forever Young directed by Steve Miner and starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood revolves around a 1939 test pilot who asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment.
‘Real Steel’ Soundtrack Details
The details for the soundtrack album for Real Steel have been revealed. The soundtrack will be released on October 4, 2011 by Interscope Records. The album features one track from the score by Danny Elfman, as well as several songs from the movie. Artists featured on the release are Bad Meets Evil, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, 50 Cent, Eminem, Prodigy & Tom Morello, Limp Bizkit and Alexi Murdoch. To pre-order the soundtrack, visit Amazon and check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Real Steel directed by Shawn Levy is set in the near-future where 2,000-pound robots that look like humans do battles.
‘The Thing’ Soundtrack Details
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the horror thriller The Thing. The album includes the original score by Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack will be released on October 11, 2011 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out below. The Thing directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr. and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton is a prequel to the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter. Universal Pictures will release the movie on October 14.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 9, 2011)
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.
‘Dream House’ Soundtrack Details
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.
‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ Score Album Announced
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.
‘Straw Dogs’ Soundtrack Details
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.
‘A Dangerous Method’ Soundtrack Details
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.
‘Machine Gun Preacher’ Soundtrack Details
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.