And Lo...The Dark Knight is Upon Us

He has been lurking in the shadows of viral web sites and teasers and trailers and bootlegged soundclips, but he is just about here... The Bat-man. Below you find the official press release regarding the multi-release of THE DARK NIGHT soundtrack by HANS ZIMMER and JAMES NEWTON HOWARD. Included will be the standard soundtrack, a special limited edition, an LP, and now, a digital download version (MP3).

And Lo... you can check out four officially released soundclips here.



For immediate release: July 2, 2008

HANS ZIMMER AND JAMES NEWTON HOWARD
TO PERFORM LIVE AT
THE DARK KNIGHT PREMIERE

In-Store Soundtrack Signings Set For New York and Los Angeles

Burbank, CA: - Two of the world’s most renowned composers, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, will be performing together live for the first time, on stage at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square IMAX Theater prior to the world premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight on Monday, July 14, at 7pm.

These two world-class, award-winning composers teamed for the second time to create the score for this highly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster Batman Begins, which they scored in 2005.

Zimmer and Howard will be signing copies of the soundtrack at Virgin Megastores in New York on Tuesday, July 15, in Times Square at 7pm, and in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 16, at Hollywood and Highland, also at 7pm.

The soundtrack for The Dark Knight will be released on Warner Bros. Records on
July 15 prior to the film’s nationwide opening on July 18.

Warner Bros. Records will release four different configurations of the soundtrack for The Dark Knight: a standard jewel case CD, a 2 LP set of heavy-weight 180 gram vinyl version, a special edition digipack, and a collector’s edition with special artwork to come after release.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy Production, a Christopher Nolan film, The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. Nolan directed the film from a screenplay written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan are the producers, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serving as executive producers. The Dark Knight is based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by Bob Kane. The Dark Knight will be distributed worldwide in theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The film has been rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of violence and some menace.”

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http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/thedarkknight/

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