Music From Tim Burton’s BIG EYES To Be Released On Interscope Records

Interscope Records and The Weinstein Company have announced the release of BIG EYES – Music From The Original Motion Picture available at all digital partners now.

Multi-platinum recording artist Lana Del Rey performs the title track “Big Eyes,” which she co-wrote with Daniel Heath and is nominated for a 2015 Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture.

Check out the song HERE. Lana also performs “I Can Fly,” which she co-wrote with Rick Nowels for acclaimed director Tim Burton’s latest motion picture.

Said Del Rey: “I’m so grateful to Tim for letting me into his wild world and to Harvey for encouraging me to continue to write for films. I’m honored that the Hollywood foreign press has nominated my song.”

BIG EYES opens in theaters December 25, 2014. Read Tom Stockman’s review HERE.

From the whimsical mind of director Burton, BIG EYES tells the outrageous true story of one of the most epic art frauds in history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, painter Walter Keane (Waltz) had reached success beyond belief, revolutionizing the commercialization of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. The bizarre and shocking truth would eventually be discovered though: Walter’s works were actually not created by him at all, but by his wife Margaret (Adams). The Keanes, it seemed, had been living a colossal lie that had fooled the entire world.

A tale too incredible to be fiction, BIG EYES centers on Margaret’s awakening as an artist, the phenomenal success of her paintings, and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, who was catapulted to international fame while taking credit for her work.

The song “Big Eyes” appears at a critical juncture in the film, when Keane (Adams) spots her paintings being sold in a supermarket and the gravity of her artistic career and relationship sink in. Heath’s intention was to elicit an evocative, magical feeling encompassing the emotional whirlwind facing Keane which is grounded by Lana Del Rey’s soothing vocals referencing Keane’s inner-dialogue and internal conflict. “When I put it in that sequence, it really heightened it because it’s a huge turning point for Margaret Keane in the film. The weight and power and timelessness of Lana really fit that,” stated Burton of “Big Eyes.”

Dan Heath is an accomplished songwriter, producer and film composer. He is also one of Lana Del Rey’s main collaborators having co-written and produced many of her singles including “Blue Jeans”, “Ultraviolence” and “Once Upon A Dream” from MALEFICENT. After earning two degrees in film scoring and composition, he went on to work for Hans Zimmer as a part of the musical team responsible for Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Da Vinci Code and The Holiday. He has also worked alongside of Blake Neely doing sound design and additional music for the television shows “The Mentalist” and “Traveler”.

Additionally, Dan has been a classical and Jazz pianist most of his life and has had his music recorded by the London Studio Orchestra as well as the Budapest Symphony. Dan’s work has been featured in numerous commercials and ad campaigns for such companies as Verizon, Guinness, NFL Honors, HP, and Heineken, as well as countless movie trailers including The Hobbit, Elysium, Snow White and The Huntsman, Spartacus, Need for Speed, and most recently Ridley Scott’s Exodus. His recent production and writing credits also include Troye Sivan, Jenna Andrews and Matt Nathanson. Currently, Dan is working out of his studio in Los Angeles on such projects as Jamie N Commons, Broods and Joy Williams’ (The Civil Wars) highly anticipated solo album.

The soundtrack also features original compositions from GRAMMY award winning composer and frequent Burton collaborator, Danny Elfman, along with music from Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins, Red Garland Trio and The Lively Ones.

Check out the BIG EYES trailer HERE

The film is written by Golden Globe winners Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Danny Huston,Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp and Jon Polito also star.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Lana Del Rey “Big Eyes” 4:43
2. Cast of Big Eyes “Bludan” 4:52
3. Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins “Doxy” 4:54
4. Red Garland Trio “Hey Now” 3:39
5. Cast of Big Eyes “Tropicville” 3:25
6. The Lively Ones “Rik-A-Tik” 3:01
7. Cal Tjader “A Minor Goof” 3:54
8. Lana Del Rey “I Can Fly” 5:51
9. Danny Elfman “Opening” 4:00
10. Danny Elfman “Who’s The Artist?” 2:54
11. Danny Elfman “Margaret” 3:03
12. Danny Elfman “Walter” 4:48
13. Danny Elfman “Victory” 4:59
14. Danny Elfman “End Credits” 1:11

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