Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
PR: The Iron Lady
0 views
Skip to first unread message
cinemediapromo
Dec 9, 2011, 12:44:45 PM12/9/11
to
SONY MASTERWORKS RELEASES
SOUNDTRACK OF THE IRON LADY
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY THOMAS NEWMAN FOR THE FILM
STARRING MERYL STREEP IN THE ROLE OF MARGARET THATCHER
Soundtrack Recording Available December 20, 2011
Sony Masterworks is pleased to announce the release of the soundtrack
of The Iron Lady on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Award-winning
composer Thomas Newman created the original music for the soundtrack
recording. The Iron Lady opens in theatres on December 30, 2011.
The Iron Lady tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman
who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a
male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is
paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an
extraordinary and complex woman.
The film stars Academy Award-winners Meryl Streep as Lady Thatcher and
Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher. Their young selves are played by
Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd. The rest of the cast of family and
friends, politicians and advisers, is made up of the very best of
British acting talent, including: Olivia Colman, Anthony Head, Richard
E Grant, Iain Glen, Susan Brown, Nicholas Farrell, Roger Allam and
Michael Pennington.
The original soundtrack is the work of Thomas Newman, one of the most
respected composers in the movie business, who has scored over fifty
feature films. Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award on no
less than ten occasions, nine times in the category Best Original
Score and once for Best Original Song. He has won a BAFTA, two Grammys
and an Emmy, and has also been nominated for a Golden Globe. Born in
Los Angeles, Yale-educated Thomas Newman comes from a prominent
Hollywood musical dynasty: his father, brother, sister and uncle have
all composed for the movies, and the singer-songwriter Randy Newman is
his cousin.
His first major work in movies was in 1984 for Reckless. In 1999
Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes’ first feature film, American
Beauty, and has written the music for all but one of Mendes’ later
films, as well as Erin Brockovich and The Good German for director
Steven Soderbergh, and such hits as Finding Nemo and The Horse
Whisperer. Newman has also composed for TV, including the theme music
for Six Feet Under, which won him Grammys for Best Instrumental
Composition and Best Instrumental Arrangement, and has been
commissioned to write orchestral concert music, for example for the
Cleveland Bicentennial in 1996 and for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The film was written by award-winning writer Abi Morgan (The Hour,
Shame, Sex Traffic, Brick Lane), directed by Phyllida Lloyd CBE (Mamma
Mia) and produced by Damian Jones (The History Boys, Adulthood). It
is executive produced by Francois Ivernel and Cameron McCracken for
Pathé, by Tessa Ross for Film4 and by Adam Kulick for Goldcrest.
###
For more information, please contact: cinemed...@yahoo.com or
@cinemediapromo on Twitter
SOUNDTRACK OF THE IRON LADY
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY THOMAS NEWMAN FOR THE FILM
STARRING MERYL STREEP IN THE ROLE OF MARGARET THATCHER
Soundtrack Recording Available December 20, 2011
Sony Masterworks is pleased to announce the release of the soundtrack
of The Iron Lady on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Award-winning
composer Thomas Newman created the original music for the soundtrack
recording. The Iron Lady opens in theatres on December 30, 2011.
The Iron Lady tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman
who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a
male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is
paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an
extraordinary and complex woman.
The film stars Academy Award-winners Meryl Streep as Lady Thatcher and
Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher. Their young selves are played by
Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd. The rest of the cast of family and
friends, politicians and advisers, is made up of the very best of
British acting talent, including: Olivia Colman, Anthony Head, Richard
E Grant, Iain Glen, Susan Brown, Nicholas Farrell, Roger Allam and
Michael Pennington.
The original soundtrack is the work of Thomas Newman, one of the most
respected composers in the movie business, who has scored over fifty
feature films. Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award on no
less than ten occasions, nine times in the category Best Original
Score and once for Best Original Song. He has won a BAFTA, two Grammys
and an Emmy, and has also been nominated for a Golden Globe. Born in
Los Angeles, Yale-educated Thomas Newman comes from a prominent
Hollywood musical dynasty: his father, brother, sister and uncle have
all composed for the movies, and the singer-songwriter Randy Newman is
his cousin.
His first major work in movies was in 1984 for Reckless. In 1999
Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes’ first feature film, American
Beauty, and has written the music for all but one of Mendes’ later
films, as well as Erin Brockovich and The Good German for director
Steven Soderbergh, and such hits as Finding Nemo and The Horse
Whisperer. Newman has also composed for TV, including the theme music
for Six Feet Under, which won him Grammys for Best Instrumental
Composition and Best Instrumental Arrangement, and has been
commissioned to write orchestral concert music, for example for the
Cleveland Bicentennial in 1996 and for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The film was written by award-winning writer Abi Morgan (The Hour,
Shame, Sex Traffic, Brick Lane), directed by Phyllida Lloyd CBE (Mamma
Mia) and produced by Damian Jones (The History Boys, Adulthood). It
is executive produced by Francois Ivernel and Cameron McCracken for
Pathé, by Tessa Ross for Film4 and by Adam Kulick for Goldcrest.
###
For more information, please contact: cinemed...@yahoo.com or
@cinemediapromo on Twitter
0 new messages