We’ve written a few times about the soundtrack to Danny Boyle’s latest film, Slumdog Millionaire, while simultaneously referencing the fact that the soundtrack to Boyle’s Sunshine has been stuck in legal hell for quite some time now. In 2007, producer Andrew Macdonald said explicitly that there were “no plans to release” the soundtrack. This was a huge shame, as composer John Murphy put some great work into the film, and Underworld also lent some sublime sounds.
Now comes word via The Playlist that the soundtrack has been released via iTunes! You can download the soundtrack by CLICKING HERE. There are two tracks that I’d strongly recommend: “Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor),” [...]

Right from the chase scene near the beginning of Slumdog Millionaire, I knew that this was a movie whose soundtrack I was going to have to own. The music actually got better as the film went along, from the love theme all the way to the final triumphant Bollywood dance number.
The soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire was finally released on iTunes yesterday, but the CD won’t be out until December 23rd. You can click here to buy it from iTunes but I chose not to exercise this option for two reasons: 1) The quality of songs from iTunes isn’t up to par with that of a CD, and 2) The songs [...]

Warner Bros has put Alexandre Desplat’s entire score for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button online on their For Your Consideration Awards site. Here is the complete tracklisting:
1. Postcards
2. Mr. Gateau
3. Meeting Daisy
4. A New Life
5. Love in Mourmansk
6. Meeting Again
7. Mr. Button
8. Little Man Oti
9. Alone At Night
10. It Was Nice to Have Met You
11. Children Games
12. Submarine Attack
13. The Hummingbird
14. Love Returns
15. Sunrise On Lake Pontchartrain
16. Daisy’s Ballet Career
17. The Accident
18. Stay Out of My Life
19. Nothing Lasts
20. Some Things You Never Forget
21. Growing Younger
22. Dying Away
23. Benjamin and Daisy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button soundtrack two-disc CD set hits stores on December 16th 2008. You [...]

Ever since I first screened Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire at the Telluride Film Festival, I’ve been waiting, and hoping for a soundtrack to be released. The songs have occupied my mind, and I became convinced that a soundtrack might never see the light of day, especially after /Film’s own David Chen explained the fate of the soundtrack to Boyle’s Sunshine.
It’s hard to sit through this film and not admire A.R. Rahman’s unique mix of Bollywood with hip-hop. My favorite track plays within the first 10 minutes of the film — “O… Saya” features an original collaboration with M.I.A. You’ll know the song I’m talking about when you hear it. There [...]

The Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures music branch has ruled that the score for The Dark Knight is disqualified because five names were listed as composers on the music cue sheet. What? Apparently this is a common practice done to ensure that the entire music team is financially rewarded. ASCAP and BMI use the names listed on the cue sheet to distribute royalties to composers.
The names listed include Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard and three other individuals — music editor Alex Gibson, ambient music designer Mel Wesson and composer Lorne Balfe. Variety reports that Gibson, Wesson and Balfe signed an affidavit stating that the score was [...]

As if we didn’t already expect this was going to happen… The soundtrack to Twilight made its debut at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200, beating out AC/DC. With Juno and Mamma Mia, this is the third soundtrack to hit #1 on the album charts this year. 29% of the sales were digital downloads. [THR]

Rumor has it that Quentin Tarantino has enlisted legendary film composer Ennio Morricone to compose the score for his upcoming WWII film Inglourious Basterds, this according to Italy Global Nation. Tarantino is notoriously a fan of Morrisone, having used a a bunch of his Spaghetti Western themes in the Kill Bill films and even his latest, Death Proof.
Tarantino Archives says the story isn’t 100% confirmed. I personally remember Tarantino saying that he wouldn’t be hiring a composer on this film because he likes picking his own soundtracks (and to be fair, he’s really good at that). You might remember that a cool remix of Morricone’s “The Ecstasy of Gold” from [...]

You’ve heard the song, now watch the music video. Jack White and Alica Keys’ Another Way to Die, the theme song for the upcoming James Bond film Quantum of Solace, is now online.

One of the many things I loved about Casino Royale was the kick ass opening sequence featuring Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name”. Coupled with the film’s brutal black and white first scene, Cornell’s song helped introduce Daniel Craig’s grittier Bond to audiences with style to spare. Now we finally have a glimpse at the follow up song for Quantum of Solace, “Another Way to Die”, featuring Alicia Keys and Jack White—and honestly, I’m a bit disappointed.
It’s not a terrible song (see Madonna’s for Die Another Day for a good example of that), but it certainly doesn’t feel like anything new for the series. It seems as if it tries [...]

The reason why Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler has the un-popular position of closing the Venice Film Festival, is because the film is waiting on a new song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. The song was written for the closing credits and is also titled The Wrestler. Aronofsky calls the song “beautiful” … “wonderful acoustic piece”.
“Makes me choke up every time i hear it,” Aronofsky writes on his blog. “He really captured the spirit of the film and Mickey [Rourke]’s character in the piece.”
It has already been reported that Slash (formerly from Guns and Roses) provided some guitar on Clint Mansell’s score.

/Film reader Ricky C snapped some photos of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen shoot in Long Beach today:
Hey guys! I got some really great pictures from the Transformers 2 set in Long Beach. I tried to get more pictures of that grey car but it sped away before i could snap some good pictures. I was literally ten feet away from all of these. It was intense! Later on guys!

AICN has gotten word that Danny Elfman is scoring Universal’s remake of The Wolfman. Elfman has always been hit or miss for me, and I’m not sure The Wolfman will play to his strengths.
Discuss: What is your favorite Elman score? Mine is probably either Pee-Wee Herman’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands or Batman Returns.

The World Soundtrack Awards have announced the nominations for the 2008 Award show. Film Composer of the Year Alexandre Desplat, “The Golden Compass” James Newton Howard, “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “Michael Clayton,” “I Am Legend” Alberto Iglesias, “The Kite Runner” Dario Marianelli, “Atonement” John Powell, “The Bourne Ultimatum” Best Original Score of the Year “3:10 to Yuma” by Marco Beltrami “Atonement” by Dario Marianelli “The Kite Runner” by Alberto Iglesias “There Will Be Blood” by Jonny Greenwood “WALL-E” by Thomas Newman Best Original Song Written Directly for Film “Despdida” from “Love in the Time of Cholera,” music by Antonio Pinto and Shakira, lyrics by Shakira, performed [...]

If Warner Bros asked us for a pull quote for the DVD to Lost Boys: The Tribe, it would say, “Corey Feldman can’t be felled, man. -/Film.” The most prominent Corey, in this sequel and IRL, manages to endearingly synopsize and upstage this laughable production in a single scene. Feldman cracks open a raw egg into a glass, a la Rocky Balboa, filled with garlic and holy water and swallows it. Then he wipes his mouth and the camera lingers on his face, this still youthful lake of resilience, resourcefulness and 1980s radicalness. Feldman’s character, Edgar Frog, labels his novelty cocktail “Frog Juice,” but in my sore eyes, Feldman just [...]

Today brings us, “Pineapple Express,” the sooo ’80s and agreeable theme song for Seth Rogen’s pot actioner of the same name by Huey Lewis and the News (Sports, Patrick Bateman’s Walkman). If you thought Huey might try to imitate the Neptunes, please excuse yourself and go bask in I Love the New Millenium, because this track could have been the adulterated b-side to BTTF’s “Back in Time.” Is it better? No way. Does it make you want to do a cannonball with a joint in your mouth and a hamburger in your left hand? Obviously.
You can stream the film’s entire soundtrack on MySpace, which includes tracks from Cypress Hill (so [...]