Watertower Music To Release Soundtrack For “Sherlock Holmes” On December 22

(December 21, 2009 – Burbank, CA) – “Sherlock Holmes Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” will be released digitally by WaterTower Music on December 22, 2009. Additionally, a CD version of the soundtrack will be available on January 12, 2010. Each CD version of the soundtrack will offer fans a free download of the soundtrack in 5.1 Surround Sound. The music was produced by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe. The score, composed by Zimmer, was recently nominated by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Score. “Sherlock Holmes” opens nationwide on December 25, 2009. Between now and the release of the film, people who buy “Sherlock Holmes” movie tickets through www.fandango.com or www.movietickets.com will get a free download of an exclusive song through iTunes. “Sherlock Holmes” marks the first collaboration between Hans Zimmer and director Guy Ritchie. Ritchie sought out Zimmer after hearing his inventive score for “The Dark Knight,” and Zimmer, a longtime fan of both Ritchie’s work and Arthur Conan Doyle’s fiction, welcomed the opportunity. “This story has so many textures and personalities, that it really gave us the opportunity to create a diverse language of music for the film,” said Zimmer, adding that the music had to “capture the different tones of the worlds Holmes and Watson navigate, ranging from the halls of Parliament to a bare-knuckle boxing ring to the shadowy crypts beneath a cathedral.” Zimmer created those distinctive worlds with Irish fiddles, gypsy violins, Hungarian cimbaloms and Argentinean bandoneons. The soloists Zimmer chose for this included Ann Marie Calhoun, Tina Guo, Davey Johnstone, Aleksey Igudesman, and Diego Stocco on a triple-neck double-bass he himself built. Zimmer contrasted an opulent-sounding chamber orchestra with these soloists and a Salvation Army Brass Band, infusing Doyle’s orderly, Victorian world with the unorthodox. As Zimmer says of this experience, “It was such a joy to work with Guy to capture the different tones.” ABOUT HANS ZIMMER Hans Zimmer won an Academy Award® in 1994 for “The Lion King.” He has received six additional Oscar® nominations for his scores to “Gladiator,” “The Thin Red Line,” “The Prince of Egypt,” “As Good As It Gets,” “The Preacher’s Wife” and “Rain Man.” His more recent film scores include “Angels & Demons,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” “Kung Fu Panda,” “The Dark Knight” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise. ABOUT “SHERLOCK HOLMES” In a dynamic new portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, “Sherlock Holmes” sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Silver Pictures Production, in association with Wigram Productions, a Guy Ritchie Film, “Sherlock Holmes.” Ritchie directed the film from a screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson and Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg, screen story by Lionel Wigram and Michael Robert Johnson. Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin produced the film, with Michael Tadross and Bruce Berman serving as executive producers and Steve Clark-Hall co-producing. “Sherlock Holmes” stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly and Eddie Marsan. The film opens nationwide on Christmas Day, and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. www.sherlock-holmes-movie.com WATERTOWER MUSIC (formerly New Line Records) a division of New Line Productions Inc., has been releasing recorded music since 2002. Distributed through Warner Music Group’s independent arm ADA, WTM has released over 60 titles, including the film soundtracks to “Hairspray,” “Sex and the City,” “Elf,” “The Notebook,” “He’s Just Not That Into You,” “The Departed,” “Love and Basketball” and “Wedding Crashers,” among others. Its 2009 schedule includes “The Hangover,” “ROCK OF AGES Broadway Cast Recording,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” “Invictus” and “Sherlock Holmes.” # # #