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Music will release the soundtrack album for Hail, Caesar!, the new film from four-time Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel & Ethan Coen on February 5 � with the album presale available now on iTunes � it was announced today. The Hail, Caesar! Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack includes new music by Academy Award-nominated composer Carter Burwell, as well as songs featured in the new comedy. A vinyl version of the album will be released by Mondo, available for pre-order later this month.
Hail, Caesar! marks the Coen Brothers 16th collaboration with composer Carter Burwell. Prior collaborations include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man and True Grit. Discussing his work on Hail, Caesar!, Burwell says: "The challenge and the fun of composing the score to Hail, Caesar! is that the it contains scenes from many films-in-the-making, and each of those was scored in a manner authentic to the period� basically MGM in the 1950s. There is an
Esther Williams water ballet, a Hopalong
Cassidy Western, a Roman Christ epic, and all of these are subsumed by a kidnapping mystery, which is itself subsumed by a studio executive's crisis of faith. Melodies are shared between these bits of bright cloth to tie them together into a whole, and some of the recording was even done on the same stage where the MGM classics were recorded."
Burwell has composed the music for more than 80 feature films and received his first Oscar� nomination for Best Original Score for Carol. He was also nominated for a Golden
Globe and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Carol. He received an
Annie Nomination for Outstanding Achievement,
Music in an Animated Feature Production for the stop-motion film Anomalisa. Other award highlights include O Brother, Where Art Thou? (BAFTA Nominee for Film Music) and Where the Wild Things Are (Golden
Globe Nominee for Best Original Score).
Other recent projects for Burwell include the mystery drama Mr. Holmes and the ocean thriller The Finest Hours. Burwell has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University and Harvard University.
About the Film
Four-time Oscar�-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Fargo) write and direct Hail, Caesar!, an all-star comedy fueled by a brilliant cast led by Josh Brolin,
George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes,
Jonah Hill,
Scarlett Johansson,
Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and
Channing Tatum.
When the world's biggest star vanishes and his captors demand an enormous ransom for his safe return, it will take the power of Hollywood's biggest names to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Bringing the audience along for a comic whodunit that pulls back the curtain and showcases the unexpected humor and industry drama found behind the scenes, Hail, Caesar! marks the Coens at their most inventive.
The comedy is produced by Joel and Ethan Coen through their Mike Zoss Productions, alongside Working Title Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (The
Theory of Everything, Les Mis�rables), who have partnered with the brothers since their Academy Award-winning Fargo.
www.hailcaesarmovie.com | www.carterburwell.com
Track List (all tracks by Carter Burwell, unless otherwise noted):
1.) Flat Lux
2.) 5 AM
3.) Hail, Caesar!
4.) Baird Hijacked
5.) Hobie and Whitey
6.) Jonah's Daughter
7.) Comrades Convene
8.) Cattle Call � Eddy Arnold
9.) Malibu Safe House
10.) No Dames! �
Channing Tatum
11.) The Hands of Communists
12.)
Little Eddie
13.) Our Father � Ascension Church Choir
14.) Lazy Ol' Moon Overture
15.) Lazy Ol' Moon � Willie Watson
16.) The Glory of Love
17.) Song of India
18.) In Pursuit of the Future
19.) Slavery and Suffering � Red Army Choir
20.) Soviet Man
21.) Denizens of the City
22.) Silverman Sax
23.) Faith God Damn It!
24.) Back to the Backlot
25.) Behold
26.) Echelon's Song � Red Army Choir
