– Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer (“The Thin Red Line“) has written, or rather given his elegant touch to the original music for “The Simpsons Movie.” The soundtrack disc (due July 24, a few days before the movie’s release) features Zimmer’s interpretation of the classic Simpsons theme music plus his own original score in the spirit of the remains-to-be-seen-if-it’s-funny movie. [IGN]
– A club friendly remix of Zimmer’s “Simpsons” theme will be serviced to DJs prior to the album’s release [Variety]
– Andre 3000’s will release, Class of 3000: Music Volume 1, the music for his Cartoon Network show on July 3. [Pitchfork]
– The wonderfully idiosyncratic world of Serbian filmmaking kook Emir Kusturica (“Underground,” “Arizona Dream“) has been brought to the Bastille Opera stage in Paris. The French have asked Kusturica to adapt the riotous spectacle that is his own 1988 film, “Time of the Gypsies.” He joins the likes of Anthony Minghella, Michael Haneke and more recently, Woody Allen and David Cronenberg as filmmakers directing opera. [New York Times]
– Oh and speaking of the Simpsons, in celebration of the upcoming movie, you can create yourself in the jaundiced eyes of Matt Groening over at the Simpsons site. This is me to the right.[ The Simpsons]
