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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 19, 2012)

Two new movies are opening in wide release this week:

Expected to top the weekend box office is the found footage horror film Paranormal Activity 4 directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, produced by Jason Blum & Oren Peli and starring Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Aiden Lovekamp, Brady Allen, Stephen Dunham, Alexondra Lee and Katie Featherston. As the previous three movies in the series, Paranormal Activity 4 doesn’t feature an original score and no soundtrack has been released. The sequel follows a suburban family who witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in. To find out more about the film, visit the official movie website.

Also opening wide is the thriller Alex Cross directed by Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) and starring Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Edward Burns, Rachel Nichols and Jean Reno. The film’s score is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music will be released next Monday, October 22 by Metropolis Movie Music. For audio clips and the full album details, visit our soundtrack announcement.

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‘The Sessions’ Soundtrack Announced

Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack album for the critically acclaimed drama The Sessions. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award-nominated composer Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, The Hurt Locker). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 16, 2012 and physically on November 13. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. The Sessions is written and directed by Ben Lewin and stars John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. The film centers on paraplegic polio victim who decides to explore his sexuality and hires a sex surrogate and soon develops a relationship that changes both of their lives. The movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it received the Audience Award and was picked up by Fox Searchlight for domestic distribution. The indie production will be released in limited release on October 19, 2012 before expanding to other cities in the following weeks.

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‘Trouble with the Curve’ to Feature Music by Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami is currently scoring the drama Trouble with the Curve. The film is directed by Robert Lorenz and stars Clint Eastwood as an aging baseball scout who is losing his sight and takes a road trip to Atlanta with his daughter to take a look at a hot prospect. Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard and Scott Eastwood are also starring. Robert Brown wrote the film’s script. The project marks the directorial debut of Lorenz who has previously produced most of Eastwood’s movies over the last decade including Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima and Gran Torino. Lorenz and Eastwood are also producing the drama for Malpaso Productions. Trouble with the Curve is set to be released on September 28, 2012 by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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