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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 23, 2013)

Three new movies are opening nationwide this week:

mortal-instruments-scoreAlready in theaters since this past Wednesday is the fantasy adventure The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones directed by Harald Zwart and starring Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Durand and Jared Harris. Republic Records has released a soundtrack featuring the film’s songs by artists including Zedd, Jessie J, AFI and Demi Lovato. Check out our previous article for the full details. The film’s original score is composed by Atli Orvarsson (Vantage Point, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score has been released on Milan Records. Click here to learn more about the score release. Check out a video featurette about the score, including footage from the recording sessions at ET Online. Also visit CNN iReport, The Hollywood Reporter and Young Adult Hollywood’s YouTube channel for more interviews with Orvarsson about his work on the film.

the-worlds-endAlso opening wide is the comedy The World’s End directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan. ABKCO Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film by artists including Primal Scream, Blur, The Doors, Kylie Minogue, Soup Dragons, Suede, Pulp, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Soul II Soul (click here for the full details). Steven Price (Gravity, Attack the Block) has composed the film’s score. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our soundtrack announcement to find out more.

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‘The World’s End’ Score Album Released

the-worlds-endBack Lot Music has released a score album for Edgar Wright’s final movie in his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. The album features the film’s original music composed by Steven Price (Gravity) who previously scored the Wright-produced horror comedy Attack the Block and served as music editor on the director’s last feature Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. As previously reported, ABKCO Records has also released a separate soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs today. The World’s End reunites Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are co-starring in the comedy, which opened in the UK earlier this summer and will be released in the US this Friday, August 23 by Focus Features.

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‘The World’s End’ Soundtrack Details

CC-8PG-BKLTThe details of the soundtrack album for the upcoming comedy The World’s End have been announced.The album features the songs from the film by artists including Primal Scream, Blur, The Doors, Kylie Minogue, Soup Dragons, Suede, Pulp, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Soul II Soul, The Sisters of Mercy, The Housemartins and The Sundays. The soundtrack will be released in the UK digitally on July 15, 2013 and physically on July 29 by Polydor. ABKCO Records will release the soundtrack in the US on August 20. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. The World’s End is directed by Edgar Wright and marks the third and final part of the director’s “cornetto” trilogy of comedies written by Wright and Simon Pegg and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are co-starring. The movie will be released in the UK on July 19 and in the US on August 23 by Focus Feature.

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Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ to Feature Music by Steven Price

Steven Price has been tapped to score the upcoming comedy The World’s End. The film is directed by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan. The movie is the third part of the director’s “cornetto” trilogy of comedies written by Wright and Pegg and starring Pegg and Frost, following Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz (scored by David Arnold). The comedy follows five childhood friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier and unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. Nira Park (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Paul) is producing for Big Talk Pictures and Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner (Love Actually, Atonement) are producing for Working Title Films. Price has previously scored last year’s Attack the Block, which was executive produced by Wright.

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