Fincher recruited Reznor and Ross to produce the score; aside from their successful collaboration on "The Social Network", the duo had worked together on albums from Nine Inch Nails' later discography. They dedicated much of the year to work on the film, as they felt it would appeal to a broad audience. Akin to his efforts in "The Social Network", Reznor experiments with acoustics and blends them with elements of electronic music, resulting in a forbidding atmosphere. "We wanted to create the sound of coldness—emotionally and also physically," he asserted, "We wanted to take lots of acoustic instruments [...] and transplant them into a very inorganic setting, and dress the set around them with electronics." Even before viewing the script, Reznor and Ross opted to use a redolent approach to creating the film's score.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Soundtrack
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Mikael Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker.
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Stockholm, Sweden; Uppsala; Zurich, Switzerland; and finally Oslo, Norway.
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The former premiered on KROQ radio on December 2, 2011, and was made available as a download to anyone who purchased the iTunes pre-order of the album. In addition, the file was accompanied with an extended, 8 minute trailer for the film, scored specifically by Reznor and Ross. On December 2, a six-song sampler of the album was made available for free online along with the pre-release of various different formats of the soundtrack. The score was nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe award for Best Original Score – Motion Picture, and won the 2012 Grammy award for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Introduction
A teaser trailer for the film was released online on June 2, 2011, (previously being attached to certain domestic and international films), featuring a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", by Reznor, Ross and Karen O (from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). On August 10, the film's official website was updated to feature background music "She Reminds Me of You", under the filename "Dotcom.mp3". As was the case with "Hand Covers Bruise" from "The Social Network's" official site, this backing music was the first piece from the score to be available for listening. A full-length trailer for the film was released on September 22, featuring music from the score again, the first time the score had been specifically set to footage.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Promotion
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the score album for David Fincher's 2011 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It was released on December 9, 2011, through The Null Corporation in the US and Mute Records outside North America. This is the second soundtrack that Reznor and Ross have worked on together, following the Oscar-winning "The Social Network", also for Fincher. The soundtrack is nearly three hours long, and includes covers of the Led Zeppelin track, "Immigrant Song", featuring Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the Bryan Ferry song, "Is Your Love Strong Enough?", by Reznor and Ross' own band, How to Destroy Angels.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Introduction
At times tender but mostly pretty terrifying, this needs to be heard somewhere loud, and preferably with an exit in easy reach." Conversely professional film music critics like Christian Clemmensen, of Filmtracks, and Jonathan Broxton, of Movie Music UK, dismissed it entirely, the latter considering the score as: "little more than a series of ambient drones, overlaid with various industrial sound effects and staccato rhythms – de-tuned piano chords, plucked bass notes, and the like." He also stated: "When the score isn't jarringly distracting, it's virtually inaudible or indistinguishable from the film’s sound effects, begging the question of why the music is there in the first place."
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Critical reception
Principal photography concluded in Oslo, Norway, where production took place at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Recorded for over fifteen hours, twelve extras were sought for background roles. Filming also took place in the United Kingdom and the United States. In one sequence the character Martin Vanger plays the song "Orinoco Flow" by Enya before beginning his torture of Mikael Blomkvist. David Fincher, the director, said that he believed that Martin "doesn’t like to kill, he doesn’t like to hear the screams, without hearing his favorite music" so therefore the character should play a song during the scene. Daniel Craig, the actor who played Blomkvist, selected "Orinoco Flow" on his iPod as a candidate song.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Filming
After discussing with Fincher the varying soundscapes and emotions, the duo spent six weeks composing. "We composed music we felt might belong," stated the Nine Inch Nails lead vocalist, "and then we'd run it by Fincher, to see where his head’s at and he responded positively. He was filming at this time last year and assembling rough edits of scenes to see what it feels like, and he was inserting our music at that point, rather than using temp music, which is how it usually takes place, apparently." Finding a structure for the soundtrack was arguably the most strenuous task.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Soundtrack
"We weren’t working on a finished thing, so everything keeps moving around, scenes are changing in length, and even the order of things are shuffled around, and that can get pretty frustrating when you get precious about your work. It was a lesson we learned pretty quickly of, 'Everything is in flux, and approach it as such. Hopefully it’ll work out in the end.'"
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Soundtrack
An image posted on "Mouth Taped Shut" showed Reznor in the studio, working on the score. On close inspection, however, the monitor of his computer displayed the url, http://www.comesforthinthethaw.com, which when typed in linked to a site featuring an ever-evolving array of further background music accompanied to various film stills.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | "...Comes Forth in the Thaw"
Fincher recruited Reznor and Ross to produce the score; aside from their successful collaboration on "The Social Network", the duo had worked together on albums from Nine Inch Nails' later discography. They dedicated much of the year to work on the film, as they felt it would appeal to a broad audience. Akin to his efforts in "The Social Network", Reznor experiments with acoustics and blends them with elements of electronic music, resulting in a forbidding atmosphere. "We wanted to create the sound of coldness—emotionally and also physically," he asserted, "We wanted to take lots of acoustic instruments [...] and transplant them into a very inorganic setting, and dress the set around them with electronics." Even before viewing the script, Reznor and Ross opted to use a redolent approach to creating the film's score.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Soundtrack
A Tumblr blog entitled "Mouth Taped Shut" was launched on August 20, 2011, releasing behind-the-scenes photographs of the shooting and production of the film. On October 3, the blog posted a YouTube video of custom posters for the film being printed, with backing music by Reznor and Ross. The blog was also used extensively to promote a public preview of the film, and had hosted snapshots of the score in progress.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | "Mouth Taped Shut"
An alternate album "For Your Consideration" (FYC) was sent by Sony Pictures to awarding bodies. It features the actual film cues, which have alternate titles, edits and mixes from the versions on the commercially available soundtrack, along with one composition not on the soundtrack release at all. The same album was made available on the Sony Pictures FYC site as of February 6, 2012. Here, it was presented in chronological order from the film, and did not feature the Led Zeppelin cover performed by Trent Reznor and Karen O:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Award FYC album
The score was composed by Eliza Swenson, who also portrayed Freyja in the film.
Dragon (2006 film) | Soundtrack
Credits for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" adapted from liner notes:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Personnel
The album's art was created by Nine Inch Nails and How to Destroy Angels' creative director Rob Sheridan and Neil Kellerhouse.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Packaging
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film based on the 2005 novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was directed by David Fincher with a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker. A co-production of the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden, Sony Pictures Entertainment began development on the film in 2009.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Introduction
This was supported by Morgenstern, who avouched that Craig "nonetheless finds welcome humor in Mikael's impassive affect". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" said the film was given a more assured quality than the original because of Fincher's direction and the lead performances, although he believed this did not always work to the film's advantage, preferring the original version's "less confident surface" where "emotions were closer to the surface."
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Critical response
I felt I had to really integrate myself into this world to develop a true sense of place for the film. It was not just about understanding the physicality of the locations, but the metaphysics of them, and how the way people live comes out through design." Principal photography began in Stockholm, Sweden in September 2010. Production mostly took place at multiple locations in the city's central business district, including at the Stockholm Court House. One challenge was realizing the Vanger estate. They picked an eighteenth-century French architecture mansion Hofsta located approximately southwest of Stockholm. Filmmakers wanted to use a typical "manor from Småland" that was solemn, formal, and "very Old Money".
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Filming
Critical response to the score was generally favorable, with an average rating of 76% based on 11 professional reviews on Metacritic. Christian Cottingham of Drowned in Sound noticed that, "like the film the soundtrack favours atmosphere over cheap thrill, taking its time to mount a sense of rising dread, layers of drone building overtop machinery echo and worn piano faded between scattered melodies and sparse percussion. In isolation it’s an accompaniment to 3am melancholy or the onset of madness: in context it’s Fincher’s bleached out whites and blacks and murky greens turned to sound, bleaker than their previous work and more ambitious even than NIN’s "Ghosts"." Cottingham asserted that "Dragon Tattoo", "most(ly) recalls Reznor’s soundtrack for "Quake" in the late 1990s, where space and silence played a role as great as any multitrack in conveying tension and unsettling the mood.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Critical reception
The album debuted on the UK Albums Chart on 7 January 2012 at position 199.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Introduction
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" received positive reviews from critics, with particular note to the cast, tone, score and cinematography. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 86%, based on 249 reviews, with an average rating of 7.59/10. The site's consensus states, "Brutal yet captivating, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is the result of David Fincher working at his lurid best with total role commitment from star Rooney Mara." At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score, the film received an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Critical response
The soundtrack was released on 28 September 2010 and was highly praised. On 16 January 2011, they won the award for Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards for their score to "The Social Network". On 27 February, they received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for "The Social Network". Ross and Reznor again collaborated on the soundtrack to Fincher's 2011 film "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". In 2013, the pair won a Grammy Award for Best score soundtrack for visual media for their "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" soundtrack. Ross was slated to work on the 2013 samurai epic "47 Ronin", directed by Carl Rinsch, but was soon replaced by Javier Navarrete.
Atticus Ross | Film and television
The score was composed by Richard Bodgers, whilst several bands local to the Oxford area where the film was shot also contributed to the soundtrack.
The Butterfly Tattoo (film) | Music
In 2011, Reznor and Ross won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score for their work on "The Social Network". For their work on "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo", Reznor and Ross were nominated for the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Neither man was present to accept the award; Reznor, who has a contentious history with the Grammys, simply tweeted, "Why thanks, y'all." Ross and Reznor's "Gone Girl" score was nominated for Best Original Score in a Feature Film at the 5th Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA)—the award was eventually won by Antonio Sanchez for "Birdman" on November 4, 2014.
Trent Reznor | Awards
Argentinian musician Lalo Schifrin composed the film's musical score. While Schifrin was widely known at the time for his jazz scores, he also incorporated funk and traditional film score elements into the film's soundtrack. He composed the score by sampling sounds from China, Korea, and Japan. The soundtrack has sold over 500,000 copies, earning a gold record.
Enter the Dragon | Soundtrack
In 2011, Fincher followed the success of "The Social Network" with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", a psychological thriller based on the novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson"." Screenwriter Steven Zaillian spent three months analyzing the novel, writing notes and deleting elements to achieve a suitable running time. Featuring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it follows Blomkvist's investigation to solve what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared four decades ago. To maintain the novel's setting, the film was primarily shot in Sweden. The soundtrack, composed by collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, was described by A.
David Fincher | 2011–present
John Powell returned to DreamWorks Animation to score "How to Train Your Dragon", making it his sixth collaboration with the studio, following his previous score for "Kung Fu Panda" (which he scored with Hans Zimmer). Powell composed an orchestral score, combining bombastic brass with loud percussion and soothing strings, while also using exotic Scottish and Irish tones with instruments like the penny whistle and bagpipes. Additionally, Icelandic singer Jónsi wrote and performed the song "Sticks & Stones" for the film. The score was released by Varèse Sarabande on March 23, 2010. Overall, the score was well received by film score critics.
How to Train Your Dragon (film) | Music
In one instance, Blomkvist is strangled by strips of newspaper, a metaphor for the establishment squelching his exposes.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Title sequence
The total international gross for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was $130.1 million. MGM, one of the studios involved in the production, posted a "modest loss" and declared that they had expected the film to gross at least 10% more.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Box office
A screening for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" took place on November 28, 2011, as part of a critics-only event hosted by the New York Film Critics Circle. Commentators at the event predicted that while the film would become a contender for several accolades, it would likely not become a forerunner in the pursuit for Academy Award nominations. A promotional campaign commenced thereafter, including a Lisbeth Salander-inspired collection, designed by Trish Summerville for H&M. The worldwide premiere was at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on December 12, 2011, followed by the American opening at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 14 and Stockholm the next day.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Pre-release
Principal photography began in June 2013 in Chinatown, New York City. Scenes were filmed in some parts of Queens and Brooklyn, New York such as Elmhurst. On November 2, 2013, Mark Kilian was hired to score the film. Varèse Sarabande released the original soundtrack album on October 27, 2014.
Revenge of the Green Dragons | Production
Originally, after reading the script, Jerry Goldsmith personally requested Johnson to let him score "Dragonheart" when Johnson was set to direct the film. However, Goldsmith never got to write any music for the film as things fell through during "Dragonheart"'s production and left the project when Johnson was let go. The score was composed by Randy Edelman. The main theme song, "The World of the Heart" and "To the Stars", were used in film trailers such as "Two Brothers", "Mulan", "Anna and the King", and "Seven Years in Tibet", clip montages at the Academy Awards, "numerous" other film trailers, and the closing credits of the U.S.
Dragonheart | Music
The film was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2011 and was a candidate for numerous awards, winning, among others, the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, while Mara's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Introduction
She also has a song titled "Strange Love" on the album "Frankenweenie Unleashed!" O collaborated with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" for the soundtrack to the 2011 film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", for which Reznor and Ross composed the score. In December 2011, it was announced that the song would open the soundtrack album, be released as the opening single, and be available free to all who pre-ordered before the official release date of December 9.
Karen O | Soundtrack work
"The Swedish are very good at the modern and the minimal but they also have these wonderful country homes that can be juxtaposed against the modern city—yet both speak to money." Principal photography relocated in October to Uppsala. On Queen Street, the facade of the area was renovated to mimic the Hotel Alder, after an old photograph of a building obtained by Fincher. From December onward, production moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where locations were established at Dolder Grand Hotel and the Zurich Airport. Because of the "beautiful" environment of the city, Fincher found it difficult to film in the area.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Filming
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo () is a 2009 crime thriller film directed by Niels Arden Oplev from a screenplay by Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, the first entry in his "Millennium" series. The film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace. That same year, two sequels, "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest", were released in September and November, respectively.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) | Introduction
Dragon Slayer soundtrack consists of music from various Indie Punk Rock and Rock bands.
Dragonslayer (2011 film) | SoundTrack
On the day of the six-track sampler's launch, Reznor posted about the release on the Nine Inch Nails website:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Release
Specifically the track "An Itch."
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Promotion
Fincher said "And we all almost pissed ourselves, we were laughing so hard. No, actually, it’s worse than that. He said, ‘Orinoco Flow!’ Everybody looked at each other, like, what is he talking about? And he said, ‘You know, “Sail away, sail away...”’ And I thought, this guy is going to make Blomkvist as metro as we need."
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Filming
The film's Academy Award-nominated score was composed by Alex North. The score's linear conception was developed through transparently layered, polyphonic orchestral texture dominated by a medieval-style modal harmony. The score was largely based on five major thematic concepts: North had six weeks to compose the score, which featured music rejected from his score for Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". (The opening sequence of "Dragonslayer" features a reworking of North's original music for the opening of the "Dawn of Man" sequence—which in the final film was played without music—and a waltz representing the dragon in flight was a variation of the cue "Space Station Docking", which in the final cut of "2001" was replaced by "The Blue Danube").
Dragonslayer (1981 film) | Music
Rene Rodriguez of "The Miami Herald" said that the "fabulously sinister entertainment" surpassed the original film "in every way". The film took two and a half stars from "Rolling Stone" commentator Peter Travers, who concluded: "Fincher's "Girl" is gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark." A. O. Scott, writing for "The New York Times", admired the moments of "brilliantly orchestrated" anxiety and confusion, but felt that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was vulnerable to the "lumbering proceduralism" that he saw in its literary counterpart, as evident with the "long stretches of drab, hackneyed exposition that flatten the atmosphere".
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Critical response
The number of theaters slightly increased to 2,950. By the fifth week, the number of theaters shrank to 1,907, and grosses to $3.7 million, though it remained within the national top ten. The film completed its North American theatrical run on March 22, 2012, earning over $102.5 million. The international debut was in six Scandinavian markets on December 19–25, 2011, securing $1.6 million from 480 venues. In Sweden the film opened in 194 theaters to strong results, accounting for more than half of international revenue at the time ($950,000). The first full week in the United Kingdom collected $6.7 million from 920 theaters.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Box office
The score was composed by Mark McKenzie, who previously composed the score for "" and "Dragonheart 3". The film also contains the original themes by Randy Edelman from the first film.
Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire | Music
, 1,478,230 units had been sold, grossing $22,195,069.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Home media
The success of Stieg Larsson's novel created Hollywood interest in adapting the book, as became apparent in 2009, when Lynton and Pascal pursued the idea of developing an "American" version unrelated to the Swedish film adaptation released that year. By December, two major developments occurred for the project: Steven Zaillian, who had recently completed the script for "Moneyball" (2011), became the screenwriter, while producer Scott Rudin finalized a partnership allocating full copyrights to Sony. Zaillian, who was unfamiliar with the novel, got a copy from Rudin. The screenwriter recalled, "They sent it to me and said, 'We want to do this.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Conception and writing
The film grossed more than $10 million in North America in a limited release of 202 theatres. The total gross worldwide is $104,617,430.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) | Box office
Tim Miller, creative director for the title sequence, wanted to develop an abstract narrative that reflected the pivotal moments in the novel, as well as the character development of Lisbeth Salander. It was arduous for Miller to conceptualize the sequence abstractly, given that Salander's occupation was a distinctive part of her personality. His initial ideas were modeled after a keyboard. "We were going to treat the keyboard like this giant city with massive fingers pressing down on the keys," Miller explained, "Then we transitioned to the liquid going through the giant obelisks of the keys." Among Miller's many vignettes was "The Hacker Inside", which revealed the character's inner disposition and melted them away.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Title sequence
Following a hidden clue on "...Comes Forth in theThaw", the website http://www.whatishiddeninsnow.com was found, which led to a series of treasure trails around the world, finding pieces from the film as part of an Alternate Reality Game promotion.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | "What Is Hidden in Snow..."
It took the company a few months to obtain the rights to the novel, while also recruiting Zaillian and Fincher. The casting process for the lead roles was exhaustive and intense; Craig faced scheduling conflicts, and a number of actresses were sought for the role of Lisbeth Salander. The script took over six months to write, which included three months of analyzing the novel. The film premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London on December 12, 2011. A critical and commercial success, the film grossed $232.6 million on a $90 million budget and received highly positive reviews from critics, who praised Craig and Mara's performances as well as the film's somber tone.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Introduction
John Powell, who composed the previous two films, returned to compose the film's score. In addition, Powell's collaborators Batu Sener, Anthony Willis, and Paul Mounsey are credited as additional composers. Also returning from the previous films, Jónsi wrote a new song for the film, titled "Together From Afar", which was released as a single on January 31, 2019. Jónsi also provided vocals for a track titled "The Hidden World".
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album
A standard physical version is available for US$14 and includes three audio CDs stored in an eight panel digipak with custom "ice" slipcase and a six panel insert, alongside a digital version delivered in 320 kbit/s MP3. A $300 "Deluxe Edition" includes a 6-LP 180 gram vinyl set in a deluxe book package with metal cover in a hard plastic "ice" slip cover, an exclusive custom 8GB metal razor blade USB pendant (inspired by Lisbeth Salander's razor blade necklace) containing the full album in high-fidelity 96k audio, a fold-out poster designed by Neil Kellerhouse, and a HD digital copy in either Apple Lossless, FLAC, or 320 kbit/s MP3 formats.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Release
Similar results were achieved in Australia, where it reached 252 theaters. The film's momentum continued throughout the month, and by January 22, it had hit ten additional markets, including France and Mexico, from which it drew $3.25 million from 540 venues and $1.25 million from 540 theaters, respectively. In its second week in France it descended to number three, with a total gross of $5.8 million. The next major international release came in Japan on February 13, where it opened in first place with $3.68 million (¥288 million) in 431 theaters. By the weekend of February 17–19, the film had scooped up $119.5 million from international markets.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Box office
Red Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was composed by Danny Elfman, and produced by Mark Helfrich and Brett Ratner. Decca Records released it on September 24, 2002, in the United States and Canada.
Red Dragon (2002 film) | Soundtrack
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was well received by critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a normalized score of 85% based on 188 reviews, with an average score of 7.27/10 and declares it "Certified Fresh". The critical consensus is: "Its graphic violence and sprawling length will prove too much for some viewers to take, but Noomi Rapace's gripping performance makes "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" an unforgettable viewing experience." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 76% based on reviews from 36 critics. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film four out of four stars, noting that "[the film] is a compelling thriller to begin with, but it adds the rare quality of having a heroine more fascinating than the story".
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) | Critical response
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film in a DVD and Blu-ray disc combo pack in the United States on March 20, 2012. Bonus features include a commentary from Fincher, featurettes on Blomkvist, Salander, the sets and locations, etc. The disc artwork for the DVD version of the film resembles a Sony brand DVD-R, a reference to the hacker Lisbeth Salander. This caused a bit of confusion in the marketplace with consumers thinking they had obtained a bootleg copy. The release sold 644,000 copies in its first week, in third place behind "The Muppets" and "Hop". The following week, the film sold an additional 144,000 copies generating $2.59 million in gross revenue.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Home media
Icelandic singer Jónsi was brought on to write and record the song "Sticks & Stones", which plays during the end credits of the film. In an interview with "The Wrap"'s Steve Pond, Powell talked about his intent for the score:
How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture | Background
Composer John Powell, who earned his first Academy Award nomination for , returned to score the sequel. Powell described the project "a maturation story" and stated that he too tried to achieve the same maturation in the structure of his music by developing further every aspect of his compositions from the original film. Recording took place during April 2014 at Abbey Road Studios in London with a 120-piece orchestra, a 100-voice choir, and a wide array of ethnic instruments, including celtic harp, uilleann bagpipes, tin whistle, bodhrán, and Highland bagpipes; the latter of which were performed by pipers from the Scottish group The Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Soundtrack
ISA was written and directed for film studio Fluency by Jose Nestor Marquez. The film's tagline is "They stole her dreams. Now she's their nightmare." The picture was shot by Anne Etheridge (who previously shot Liza Johnson's "Return (2011)" with Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon and John Slattery), edited by Harry Yoon ("Drunktown's Finest", "The Newsroom"). The score was composed by Michael Tuller, a longtime collaborator of Trent Reznor who also worked on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)" and "The Social Network". It was produced by Steak House ("Life Partners") and Valerie Stadler ("Sunset Stories"). The soundtrack also features songs by Queens of the Stone Age, Yellow Claw (Mad Decent) and Los Payos.
Isa (film) | Production
The film's music was composed by Fu Liang Chou under the name of Chow Fook-Leung. Similar to other film scores by Fu Liang Chou, excerpts from popular music of that time can be heard interpolated in the score. These excerpts include pieces of John Barry's 1974 score to "The Man with the Golden Gun", Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and Isaac Hayes' theme to "Three Tough Guys", among others.
Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger | Music
The score was composed by Mark McKenzie, after previously composing the score for ", The Sorcerer's Curse," and "Battle for the Heartfire." Like the previous films, the score includes the original "Dragonheart" theme by Randy Edelman from the first film.
Dragonheart: Vengeance | Music
How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack album composed by John Powell for the film of the same name and released by Varèse Sarabande on March 23, 2010. The score earned Powell his first Academy Award nomination and his third BAFTA nomination, which he lost to "The Social Network" and "The King's Speech", respectively. The score also won the International Film Music Critics Association 2011 Awards for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature and Film Score of the Year, and was nominated twice for Film Music Composition of the Year for the tracks "Forbidden Friendship" and "Test Drive".
How to Train Your Dragon: Music from the Motion Picture | Introduction
Cronenweth commented, "It's always an element in the background and it was very important that you feel it as an audience member. The winter becomes like a silent character in the film giving everything a low, cool-colored light that is super soft and non-direct." To get acquainted with Swedish culture, Burt set out on a month-long expedition across the country. He said of the process, "It takes time to start really taking in the nuances of a culture, to start seeing the themes that recur in the architecture, the landscape, the layouts of the cities and the habits of the people.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Filming
Bo Persson is a sound mixer. On 24 January 2012 he was nominated for an Academy Award for the film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
Bo Persson | Introduction
"The Wall Street Journal" Joe Morgenstern praised Cronenweth's cinematography, which he thought provided for glossy alterations in the film's darkness; "Stockholm glitters in nighttime exteriors, and its subway shines in a spectacular spasm of action involving a backpack." Rex Reed of "The New York Observer" professed that despite its occasional incomprehensibility, the movie was "technically superb" and "superbly acted". In contrast, Kyle Smith of "New York Post" censured the film, calling it "rubbish" and further commenting that it "demonstrates merely that masses will thrill to an unaffecting, badly written, psychologically shallow and deeply unlikely pulp story so long as you allow them to feel sanctified by the occasional meaningless reference to feminism or Nazis." The performances were a frequent topic in the critiques.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Critical response
Fincher and Zaillian's central objective was to maintain the novel's setting. To portray Larsson's vision of Sweden, and the interaction of light on its landscape, Fincher cooperated with an artistic team that included cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and production designer Donald Graham Burt. The film was wholly shot using Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED MX digital camera, chosen to help evoke Larsson's tone. The idea, according to Cronenweth, was to employ unorthodox light sources and maintain a realistic perspective. "So there may be shadows, there may be flaws, but it's reality. You allow silhouettes and darkness, but at the same time we also wanted shots to counter that, so it would not all be one continuous dramatic image." Sweden's climate was a crucial element in enhancing the mood.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Filming
The score was composed by Tan Dun, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai National Orchestra, and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble. It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma. The "last track" ("A Love Before Time") features Coco Lee, who later performed it at the Academy Awards. The music for the entire film was produced in two weeks.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Soundtrack
By the weekend of January 6–8, 2012, the film grossed $12.2 million for a total of $29 million; this included its expansion into Hong Kong, where it topped the box office, earning $470,000 from thirty-six establishments. The film similarly led the field in South Africa. It accumulated $6.6 million from an estimated 600 theaters over a seven-day period in Russia, placing fifth. The expansion continued into the following week, opening in nine markets. The week of January 13–15 saw the film yield $16.1 million from 3,910 locations in over forty-three territories, thus propelling the international gross to $49.3 million. It debuted at second place in Austria and Germany, where in the latter, it pulled $2.9 million from 525 locations.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Box office
The score was composed by Hans Zimmer and features contributions from songwriter and actor Rick Garcia, Latin rock band Los Lobos, and hardcore punk/industrial band Lard. Non-original music includes “Finale”, composed by Danny Elfman for the 2007 film "The Kingdom", as well as excerpts of Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” and Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube.
Rango (2011 film) | Soundtrack
She then uses a tattoo machine to brand Bjurman's abdomen with the message "I am a sadist pig and a rapist".
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) | Plot
On January 21, 2014, Trent Reznor announced that he and Atticus Ross would provide the score, marking their third collaboration with Fincher, following "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Fincher was inspired by music he heard while at an appointment with a chiropractor and tasked Reznor with creating the musical equivalent of an insincere façade. Reznor explained Fincher's request in an interview: The overall score is a combination of soothing sounds with staccato electronic noises, resulting in an unnerving, anxiety-provoking quality. NPR writer Andy Beta concludes: "Reznor and Ross relish being at their most beauteous, knowing that it'll make the brutal moments of "Gone Girl" all the more harrowing." Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs sang a cover version of the song "She", which was used in the film's teaser trailer.
Gone Girl (film) | Music
The film's songs were written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. Irwin Kostal composed the score.
Pete's Dragon (1977 film) | Musical numbers
Sony's target demographics were men and women over the age of 25 and 17–34. The film went into general release in North America on December 21, at 2,700 theaters, expanding to 2,974 theaters on its second day. The United Kingdom release was on December 26, Russia on January 1, 2012, and Japan on February 13. India and Vietnam releases were abandoned due to censorship concerns. A press statement from the Central Board of Film Certification stated: "Sony Pictures will not be releasing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in India. The censor board has judged the film unsuitable for public viewing in its unaltered form and, while we are committed to maintaining and protecting the vision of the director, we will, as always, respect the guidelines set by the board." In contrast, the National Film Board of Vietnam insisted that the film's withdrawal had no relation to rigid censorship guidelines, as it had not been reviewed by the committee.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Pre-release
Kameda composed and performed the score for "" In 2010, he partnered with Sam Hale on the film "Yamasong", produced by Heather Henson and shown at the Florida Film Festival; the film garnered awards for Best Fantasy Short Film and Best Animated Film at the 2010 Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival.
Shoji Kameda | Film Work
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was opened for pre-orders online on December 2, 2011, on Reznor's independent label website Null Corporation in a number of different formats at various price points. The digital copy was released on December 9, whilst retail copies of the album were distributed by Mute Records on December 27 in CD format followed by the "Deluxe" edition on February 6. The smallest "Dragon Tattoo" package contains the entire album in 320 kbit/s MP3 format made available for download directly from the website for US$12. A lossless digital version includes a choice of Apple Lossless or FLAC for US$14.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack) | Release
The soundtrack was released on July 3, 2001 through Virgin Records, and consisted mainly of a blend of hip hop and electronic music.
Kiss of the Dragon | Soundtrack
broadcasts of the Olympic Games, making it a well-known film score. MCA Records released the film's soundtrack album on May 28, 1996, which contains 15 music tracks.
Dragonheart | Music
Unaware she is secretly recording one of their meetings, Bjurman brutally rapes her. At their next meeting, Salander tasers Bjurman, binds him to his bed, anally rapes him with a metallic dildo, and tattoos "I'm a rapist pig" across his torso. Using the secret recording she made, she blackmails him into securing her independence and having no further contact with her. Blomkvist explores the island and interviews various Vanger family members, learning some were Nazi sympathizers during World War II. He uncovers a list of names and numbers that his visiting daughter, Pernilla, notices are Bible verse references. Blomkvist discovers that Salander had researched him illegally, but rather than report it, he recruits her as his research assistant.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Plot
David Denby of "The New Yorker" asserted that the austere, but captivating installment presented a "glancing, chilled view" of a world where succinct moments of loyalty coexisted with constant trials of betrayal. To "USA Today" columnist Claudia Puig, Fincher captures the "menace and grim despair in the frosty Scandinavian landscape" by carefully approaching its most gruesome features. Puig noted a surfeit of "stylistic flourishes" and "intriguing" changes in the narrative, compared to the original film. In his three-and-a-half star review, Chris Knight of the "National Post" argued that it epitomized a so-called "paradoxical position" that was both "immensely enjoyable and completely unnecessary".
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Critical response
Gone Girl is the score album for David Fincher's 2014 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The album was released on September 30, 2014, through Columbia Records. It marks as third time that Reznor and Ross have collaborated with Fincher, following 2010's Oscar-winning "The Social Network" and 2011's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The soundtrack was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and also for the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Gone Girl (soundtrack) | Introduction
On December 9, 2008, it was confirmed that the theme song would be "Rule" by Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki. Also featured on the film's soundtrack is American pop artist Brian Anthony, whose remixed song "Worked Up" was released as a single in English territories, and is included on the home video releases as a bonus feature. The film's soundtrack, "", was released in the United States on March 17, 2009 by Varèse Sarabande. The score was composed by Brian Tyler, who recorded the score with an 82-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.
Dragonball Evolution | Music
As a result, Corbel was assigned to write the title song of the film. She was later asked to write more songs. By 2009, she was asked to compose the whole score. This was the first time a non-Japanese composer had worked with the studio. The score combines the musical styles of Celtic folk music, medieval Turkish songs, Baroque madrigals, and Irish marches. It was recorded in France with a small orchestra including acoustic guitar, bass, a string quartet, bagpipes, Irish flutes, bodhrán, percussion instruments, and accordion. The soundtrack album won "Best Original Soundtrack Album" at the 2011 Japan Gold Disc Awards.
Cécile Corbel | Work with Studio Ghibli
The score was composed by Mark McKenzie, who previously composed the score for "Dragonheart: A New Beginning". The film also contains the original themes by Randy Edelman from the first movie.
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | Music
In 2010, Reznor also collaborated with Atticus Ross on the original score for David Fincher's 2010 film, "The Social Network". The duo won a 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture and a 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score. Reznor and Ross again collaborated with Fincher for the official score the American adaptation of the novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", released in December 2011, before going on to score their third Fincher collaboration with "Gone Girl" (2014).
Twenty Thirteen Tour | Background
Royal S. Brown of "Fanfare Magazine" praised the soundtrack as "one of the best scores of 1981".
Dragonslayer (1981 film) | Music
Louis Post-Dispatch", "San Francisco Chronicle", and the "New Orleans Times-Picayune". "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was declared one of the best films of the year by the American Film Institute, as well as the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Accolades
Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore was originally chosen to write the music for the film. He was replaced during post-production by Daniel Hart, who had previously worked with director Lowery on other films, most notably "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" (2013). The soundtrack was released on August 12, 2016 by Walt Disney Records. Candle on the Water was the only original song to be featured on the 2016 soundtrack from the 1977 soundtrack. Though the song was not used in the film, it was re-recorded by Okkervil River for the 2016 soundtrack. The original version, performed by Australian singer Helen Reddy (who played Nora in the original film), was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1977.
Pete's Dragon (2016 film) | Soundtrack
The music was composed by Shantanu Moitra and Shamir Tandon. The lyrics were penned by Swanand Kirkire.
Inkaar (2013 film) | Soundtrack
Dragon Hunters: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film's soundtrack album and film score made by Klaus Badelt and released on April 5, 2008 by Skylark Sound Studios. Klaus Badelt scored the music for the film and on its soundtrack. The soundtrack also contains "Lotus" performed by Jalan Jalan.
Dragon Hunters (film) | Soundtrack
In October 1975, the songwriting duo of Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn were assigned to compose the musical score. The production was directed by British filmmaker Don Chaffey, who had made two smaller films for Disney in the early 1960s between directing larger fantasy adventures ("Jason and the Argonauts", "One Million Years B.C.") for others.
Pete's Dragon (1977 film) | Development
He wrote film music and in 1987, his score for the picture "Dragon Rapide", about Francisco Franco, was nominated as the best original music at the Goya Awards.
Xavier Montsalvatge | Work
Lisbeth calls him again the next day, but when she goes to meet with Bjurman, he handcuffs her to his bed, and beats and rapes her. Lisbeth secretly records the encounter with a hidden device. She later returns to Bjurman, uses a taser to incapacitate him, ties him up, rapes him with a dildo, shows him the hidden camera footage, explains what she really does for a living, and tells him that she is taking back control of her money and her life. If anything happens to her, then the film will be released, and any threat to her will result in the same outcome.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) | Plot
A soundtrack was released on August 22, 2007, with music composed and arranged by Manami Matsumae. Series regular Koichi Sugiyama did not contribute to the game, however some of his previous themes were re-arranged by Matsumae. For this, Sugiyama received a co-composing credit with Matsumae in the staff roll.
Dragon Quest Swords | Music
The original score was composed by Maury Laws. The film's theme song, also entitled "The Flight of Dragons", was written and composed by Jules Bass and Maury Laws, and performed by Don McLean. An official soundtrack was never released. However, multi Emmy Award-winning film and television composer Carl Johnson did recreate several tracks from the animation for the live-action adaptation. Though the film was put on hiatus, 3 of the completed tracks were released online.
The Flight of Dragons | Soundtrack
In addition to numerous awards, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was included on several year-end lists by film commentators and publications. It was named the best film of 2011 by MTV and James Berardinelli of "ReelViews". The former wrote, "The director follows up the excellent "Social Network" with another tour de force, injecting the murder mystery that introduces us to outcast hacker Lisbeth Salander [...] and embattled journalist [...] with style, intensity and relentless suspense. Mara is a revelation, and the film's daunting 160-minute runtime breezes by thanks to one heart-racing scene after the next. Dark and tough to watch at times, but a triumph all around." The film came second in "indieWire" list of "Drew Taylor's Favorite Films Of 2011", while reaching the top ten of seven other publications, including the "St.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) | Accolades
Ryūdō Uzaki's score for the film is notable for combining rock music instrumentation with Balinese kecak vocals.
The Dagger of Kamui | Musical score
On January 21, 2014, Trent Reznor announced that he and Atticus Ross would provide the score, marking their third collaboration with David Fincher, following "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Reznor revealed that the tonal inspiration for "Gone Girl" came from an unsettling experience of Fincher at the chiropractor's place and the music heard was "inauthentically trying to make him feel alright", and thus, had become a metaphor for the film score. The soundtrack's music mixes soothing sounds with staccato electronic noises. Reznor had anticipated being able to focus intently on the "Gone Girl" soundtrack, but it turned out to overlap with a year-long tour with Nine Inch Nails.
Gone Girl (soundtrack) | Background and development
In 1985, Ferry contributed the song "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" to the Ridley Scott film "Legend". The song, featuring guitar work by David Gilmour, plays during the end credits of the US theatrical release, and was released with the Tangerine Dream version of the soundtrack on CD (although this is out of print and rare). A promotional music video was created, integrating Ferry and Gilmour into scenes from the film; this is included as a bonus in Ferry's 2002 "Ultimate Edition" DVD release. The song was later covered by How To Destroy Angels for the soundtrack to the 2011 US version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
Bryan Ferry | In other media
Dragonball Evolution: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2009 Twentieth Century Fox film "Dragonball Evolution", directed by James Wong, by composer Brian Tyler. It was released on March 17, 2009 in the United States, on March 30, 2009 in Europe, and on April 15, 2009 in Japan. The score was met with positive reviews from music critics who also drew comparisons to Tyler's previous works as well as other composer works.
Dragonball Evolution: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Introduction
The soundtrack for "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" was composed by Randy Edelman, who used a 90-piece orchestra and traditional Chinese instruments. Cohen praised the soundtrack for acting as a kind of "emotional through line" for his film. Ray Apello from "Entertainment Weekly" lauded its romantic tracks, though Jason Ankeny from "AllMusic" gave the soundtrack two stars out of five, saying the "oddly patriotic, even stereotypically Americanized score" is too generic for the subject matter, adding "per usual, Edelman operates in broad, simple strokes, crafting saccharine melodies that are pure function and no form". Edelman's soundtrack has been licensed for use in trailers for several other films.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | Soundtrack
The soundtrack contains music by The Mint Chicks, King Kapisi and Don McGlashan among others. The score is composed by Peter Scholes.
The Tattooist | Soundtrack