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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 21, 2012)

Five new movies are opening wide this week:

Opening today is the thriller Jack Reacher directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Robert Duvall. The film’s music is composed by Joe Kraemer who previously scored the director’s 2000 film The Way of the Gun. La-La Land Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score digitally earlier this week. The release date for the physical version is set for early January. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details.

Also opening today is the comedy drama This is 40 written and directed by Judd Apatow and starring Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, John Lithgow, Megan Fox, Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow, Melissa McCarthy, Jason Segel, Robert Smigel, Charlyne Yi and Albert Brooks. The film’s original score is composed by Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). A soundtrack album featuring one score track by the composer, as well as the film’s songs by artists including Norah Jones, Fiona Apple, Graham Parker and Lindsey Buckingham (all produced by Jon Brion), Wilco and Ryan Adams has been released on Capitol Records. To check out the track list and learn more about the film and music, visit our previous article.

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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Soundtrack Details

Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the political thriller Zero Dark Thirty. The album features the film’s original score composed by Alexandre Desplat and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released on December 19, 2012 and is available to order on Amazon. Listen to the full score after the jump. Zero Dark Thirty is directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and stars Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Nash Edgerton and Jennifer Ehle. The film follows an elite team of intelligence and military operatives who devoted themselves to to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. The movie will be released in New York and Los Angeles on December 19 and expand to additional markets on January 11, 2013.

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Alexandre Desplat to Score Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Alexandre Desplat has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Zero Dark Thirty. The film is helmed by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and stars Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Fares Fares, Jason Clarke, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Nash Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle and Harold Perrineau Jr. Mark Boal who collaborated with Bigelow on The Hurt Locker has written the screenplay and is also producing the film with the director and Megan Ellison. Bigelow has previously worked with such composers as Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker), Mark Isham (Point Break), Klaus Badelt (K-19: The Widowmaker) and Graeme Revell (Strange Days). Zero Dark Thirty is set to be released on December 19, 2012 by Sony Pictures.

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