RIGHTEOUS KILL
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Edward Shearmur

Robert De Niro
Al Pacino

After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk (Robert De Niro) and Thomas Cowan (Al Pacino) should be ready for retirement, but aren’t. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.

Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four-line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own — take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

Composer Edward Shearmur has contributed a forceful and rhythmic score for guitars and orchestra.

Overture Films opened RIGHTEOUS KILL on over September 12.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 935 2
Release Date: 11/04/08

FLASH OF GENIUS
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Aaron Zigman
Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’ (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash Of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win.

The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and, by their mid-thirties, had six kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob’s creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it.

Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. He becomes a man obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life’s work — or for that matter, anyone’s work — be acknowledged by those who stood to benefit. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees.

The exquistely beautiful and emotional score is from Aaron Zigman.

Universal Picturess opens opens the Spyglass film Flash Of Genius on October 3.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 933 2
Release Date: 11/04/08

CHANGELING
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Clint Eastwood
Angelina Jolie

A thematic companion piece to Mystic River but more complex and far-reaching, Changeling impressively continues Clint Eastwood’s great run of ambitious late-career pictures. Emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed, this true story-inspired drama begins small with the disappearance of a young boy, only to gradually fan out to become a comprehensive critique of the entire power structure of Los Angeles, circa 1928. Graced by a top-notch performance from Angelina Jolie, the Universal release looks poised to do some serious business.
— Todd McCarthy, Variety

Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a provocative thriller based on actual events: Changeling. In the film, Christine Collins' (Jolie) prayers are met when her kidnapped son is returned. But amidst the frenzy of the photo-op reunion, she realizes this child is not hers. Facing corrupt police and a skeptical public, she desperately hunts for answers, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her forever.

As she pushes authorities to keep looking, she learns that in Prohibition-era L.A. women don't challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit, Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy. Based on the actual incident that rocked California's legal system, Changeling tells the shocking tale of a mother's quest to find her son, and those who won't stop until they silence her.

In addition to directing, Clint Eastwood provides what may be his most beautiful, touching and compelling score.

Following its acclaimed premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Universal Pictures will open CHANGELING in limited release on October 24, widening on November 7.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 934 2
Release Date: 11/04/08