FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BEOWULF -- ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
TO BE RELEASED BY WARNER BROS. RECORDS
Music Composed by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard
Featuring "A Hero Comes Home" Performed by Tony Award(R) Winner Idina
Menzel
(November 13, 2007, Burbank, CA) Warner Bros. Records will release
the BEOWULF Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on November 20, 2007.
The soundtrack CD features original music composed and conducted by
Alan Silvestri (Night at the Museum, Predator, The Polar Express) and
songs performed by Tony Award(R) Winner Idina Menzel and the film's
Robin Wright Penn.
Groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis offers a unique vision of the
Beowulf saga in a way that it has never been told before. Zemeckis
turned to his longtime collaborator Alan Silvestri to compose music
for the epic saga. They first worked together on 1983's Romancing the
Stone. One of the most productive director-composer pairings in the
past 20 years, the duo has produced some of the most beloved films and
soundtracks during that time, including the Back to the Future series,
Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Polar Express and Castaway.
Actress Robin Wright Penn performs two songs on the CD, "A Hero Comes
Home" and "Gently As She Goes". Tony Award(R) Winner Idina Menzel
(Wicked) also performs the track "A Hero Comes Home", which was
composed by Silvestri and Glen Ballard. Her forthcoming album "I
Stand", produced by Ballard, will be in stores January 2008.
In a legendary time of heroes, the mighty warrior Beowulf battles the
demon Grendel and incurs the hellish wrath of the beast's ruthlessly
seductive mother. Their epic clash forges the timeless legend of
Beowulf.
Beowulf stars Ray Winstone in the title role, Anthony Hopkins as the
corrupt King Hrothgar. The film also stars John Malkovich, Robin
Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and
Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother. Neil Gaiman (Mirrormask, the
Sandman graphic novels), and Academy Award(R)-winning screenwriter Roger
Avary (Pulp Fiction) adapted the myth for the big screen.
Paramount Pictures, in association with Shangri-La Entertainment, an
ImageMovers Production, a Robert Zemeckis Film, Beowulf, in theaters
on November 16, 2007. The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be
in stores on November 20.
###
www.beowulf-music.com
http://beowulfmoviemusic.com/
For more information contact: cinemediapromo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
