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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 9, 2011)

Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:

Expected to top the weekend box office is the ensemble romantic comedy New Year’s Eve directed by Garry Marshall and starring Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Sofia Vergara, Jon Bon Jovi, Hilary Swank, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Josh Duhamel, Seth Meyers, Hector Elizondo, Abigail Breslin, Michelle Pfeiffer and Katherine Heigl. A soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film has been released by WaterTower Music on Tuesday. For the full track list and audio clips, visit our previous article. John Debney has written movie’s score, but no score album has been released so far. Check out two videos from the recording of the score and of a song written by Debney (performed by Alison Sudal and with lyrics by Glen Ballard) on YouTube.

Also opening wide is the comedy The Sitter directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Ari Grayner, Erin Daniels, Jessica Hecht and Method Man. The film’s score is written by David Wingo and Jeff McIlwain. A soundtrack album featuring one track from the score, as well as the songs from the movie by artists including The Sugarhill Gang, Slick Rick, Cluts, Pharcyde, The Jungle Brothers and Raphael Saadiq has been released on Sony Music earlier this week. For the full details and to listen to audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement.

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ to Feature Music by Jonny Greenwood

According to a recent posting on Twitter by Oliver Weindling, founder of the British label Babel (via The Playlist and Cigarettes & Red Vines), Jonny Greenwood has recently recorded music for Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated religious drama The Master. The Radiohead guitarist has previously scored Anderson’s last movie, the 2007 drama There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The Master stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952.  Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Josh Close and Fiona Dourif are co-starring. Anderson is also producing the film with JoAnne Sellar & John Lesher (Magnolia, There Will Be Blood), Bill Pohlad (Into the Wild) and Megan Ellison (Wettest County).

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Jonny Greenwood to score ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jonny Greenwood has signed on to score the upcoming indie drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. The film is directed by Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller. The movie is based on a novel by Lionel Shriver and centers around the mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree and tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility for her child’s actions by writing to her estranged husband. The film marks only third major scoring assignment for the Radiohead member after having previously scored Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood in 2007 and the recent Japanese drama Norwegian Woods.

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