ALEXANDRE DESPLAT

I don't think I'm looking forward to any movies this year quite like this one. Fincher and Desplat and Roth (writer). What a team.

Eric Roth also wrote FORREST GUMP, which this story seems to share some superficial resemblance with.

Would love to see the film and hear the score myself.

LARGO WINCH
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Alexandre Desplat

With neither family nor ties, Largo Winch — maverick ladykiller, adventurer, rebel and fighter — finds himself, aged 26, at the head of a global business empire.

Nerio Winch is dead. The billionaire’s body was found floating just a few yards from his yacht. This drowning appears suspect because the victim is the founder and majority shareholder of the W Group, an empire employing 400,000 people around the globe. The renowned businessman had no family. Who will inherit the group? This question panics the W Group’s board. Without their boss and figurehead, they are incapable of ensuring the company’s survival as it is already under attack from all sides on the world’s financial markets. However, they are unaware of Nerio’s great secret. A son adopted almost thirty years earlier in a Bosnian orphanage and raised in total secrecy by a family of fishermen on the shores of the Adriatic. A certain Largo who, for now, is rotting in a prison in the depths of the Amazon. Even though he claims to be innocent, the young man is accused of drug trafficking.

Nerio’s murder. Largo’s imprisonment. What if these two events were part of a single plot designed to seize control of the Winch empire?

Tomer Sisley stars as Largo in this most expensive French production ever. The international cast being rounded out by Kristin Scott Thomas, Karel Roden, Gilbert Melki and Benedict Wong.

Alexandre Desplat (The Queen) contributes a James Bond-ian action score, full of adventure and intrigue.

LARGO WINCH begins an international rollout in France on December 17.

Our LARGO WINCH release will be an iTunes exclusive until the film's 2009 U.S. release date.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 943 2
iTunes Release Date: 12/16/08

I didn't even know he was scoring it. I must be behind the times.

I remember when I first got onto the internet, the Varese Sarabande "upcoming releases" page was usually how I found out about forthcoming scores. Before the days of IMDB and the like.

Same here.

I saw the preview for CCBB and it was really interesting.
Thomas

My review of Desplat and Zigman's Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, copied and pasted right out of my score reviews blog:

" A magical, soaring score that will hold your heart captive and not let go "


The score to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium threw me for a loop. A big loop. What I thought was going to be a mediocre listen turned out to be a charming, emotionally moving, vast, mysterious, and comical score. Composed as a collaboration between Aaron Zigman and Alexandre Desplat, this score isn't one you'll want to miss.

Though it has a comical, Monsters, Inc.-like opening (Main Title), the soundtrack presents an incredible flurry of motifs, incredibly emotional, and tugging at the heartstrings from all angles. The duo did an excellent job holding a sense of unity and consistency throughout the work.

Regardless of how many styles of writing you hear in this score, the duo manage to tie it all together with unmistakeable motifs, one of which tends to stand out to me a great deal: the gorgeous, sweeping melody often heard on strings, piano, or brass (Mahoney's Debut, The Flight of Magorium, Dancing, Finale). Such a theme is not to be easily forgotten, at least not by me.

Overall, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is an excellent buy, a wonderful addition to a score fan's library, and one that you will return to time and time again. Do not believe your first impressions, or you will be deceived. This is a children's film, but an adults' score. This is pure, unadulterated, raw emotional intensity that is not to be found in too many of today's scores. And aside from that, it's a heck of a lot of fun. Highly recommended.

And I just found out that Paramount has refused the sequencing for the soundtrack to CCBB. Hopefully it will be released before the film which is December 25th in the US.

Waltz!

Wow. Unlike Craig Armstrong's HULK, this looks like a full score release to be excited about!

(And who told Concord that there was money to be made in soundtracks? Well done to them, whoever it was.)

Hmm, interesting news!

Ah yes, right you are. I was surprised that there were two discs worth of score for the film. One and a half discs makes more sense.

The way the tracks are presented on the CD. I'm relaying the information given to me by his agent in the United States. My guess is that they'll be shifted around a bit.
Thomas