Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) - Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers' latest film, BURN AFTER READING. Longtime composer for the Coens, Carter Burwell (Gods and Monsters, In Bruges), composed the original music which will be available via iTunes and Amazon
Digital on
September 2nd and in stores on
September 16th. The 4 time Oscar winning writing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen, have put together a virtual cornucopia of Academy Award winning and nominated actors.
Composer Carter Burwell began composing for film in the mid-1980s for the Coen Brothers first feature film, Blood Simple. This has lead to a twenty year collaboration on such films as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old Men. Burwell's credits also include Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, Velvet Goldmine, The Spanish Prisoner, and Three Kings.
The dark spy-comedy BURN AFTER READING received its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. At the headquarters of the CIA, analyst Osbourne Cox (Academy Award Winner John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting - where he learns he is being ousted. He returns to his home to work on his memoirs and to drink, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Academy Award Tilda Swinton) is dismayed but not surprised; she is already into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (Academy Award George Clooney) a married federal marshal and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.
A computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Hardbodies Fitness Center Employees Linda and Chad (Academy Award Frances McDormand and Academy Award nominated Brad Pitt) leading to a cascading series of darkly hilarious events.
Focus Features presents BURN AFTER READING in theaters on September 12, 2008. BURN AFTER READING original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes and Amazon digital on September 2nd and in stores on September 16th.
