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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 28, 2020)

Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the horror thriller The New Mutants directed by Josh Boone and starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt and Henry Zaga. The film’s original music is composed by (The X-Files, Millennium, La Femme Nikita, Crazy in Alabama, Smallville). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the 20th Century Studios release.

Also opening wide is the comedy drama The Personal History of David Copperfield directed by and starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw, Paul Whitehouse and Gwendoline Christie. Christopher Willis (The Death of Stalin, Veep, The Lion Guard, Mickey Mouse) has composed the film’s original music. MVKA has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year when the movie opened in the UK. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for mire information about the film, which is being released stateside by Searchlight Pictures.

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‘The Eight Hundred’ Soundtrack Details

Universal Music China & Go East Music Entertainment will release a soundtrack album for the Chinese war epic The Eight Hundred. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan) who provided the main theme and Andrew Kawczynski (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sky Hunter, The Corrupted) who composed the original score. Also included is the song Remembering (in two different versions) based on the traditional Irish folk tune Londonderry Air performed by tenor Andrea Bocelli and Chinese pop star Na Ying. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 21 and will be available to stream on Amazon. The Eight Hundred is directed by Guan Hu and stars Yi Zhang, Chen Yao, Augusta Xu-Holland and Haoming Yu.

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Andrea Bocelli to Perform Theme Song for Guan Hu’s ‘The Eight Hundred’

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is providing the theme song for the upcoming Chinese war epic The Eight Hundred (Ba bai). The film is directed by Guan Hu (Mr. Six, Cow) and tells the story of a group of Chinese soldiers and draft dodgers in 1937 who put up a four-day defense of a Shanghai warehouse complex just as Japanese forces are overwhelming China. Andrew Kawczynski is scoring the film and previously announced composer Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Crown) is writing the theme for the Huayi Bros. production, which marks the first Chinese feature to be shot with Imax digital cameras.

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