First Listen: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian by Alan Silvestri

Posted by Jorn Tillnes

May 1, 2009

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Alan Silvestri is composing Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. As featured on Soundtrack Fans earlier today, this is the preview of the soundtrack being released on May 19th. This is a sequel to the 2006 movie Night at the Musem which also featured music by Alan Silvestri. It’s the first major release from him since Beowulf in 2007. I’m excited at what I’m hearing here. It sounds like a fast-paced anf fun score, adventurous at times.

The soundtrack will be released by Varese Sarabande on May 19th. This is the official words of Varese Sarabande:

It’s a new “Night” and “Museum” for Ben Stiller, who is joined by several other stars from the original film, as well as new characters from history — including Amy Adams as famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, Hank Azaria as villainous Egyptian pharaoh Kahmunrah, Christopher Guest as Russian tyrant Ivan the Terrible and Alain Chabat as Napoleon. Owen Wilson is back as cowboy Jedediah, and Robin Williams again rides into history as Teddy Roosevelt. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world’s largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone’s rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy’s ruby red slippers and Archie Bunker’s lounge chair. No major film has ever shot inside the Smithsonian in Washington … until Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

Composer Alan Silvestri, who has breathed musical life into a Delorean, a Mummy, a mouse named Stuart Little, and a volleyball named Wilson, strikes up a band that includes the entire menagerie of the Smithsonian for his latest summer blockbuster! The original NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM made over $250 Million at the US box office and was the #2 movie for 2006!

20th Century Fox opens NIGHT IN THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN in theaters everywhere May 22.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 969 2
Release Date: 05/19/09

Listen to Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian by Alan Silvestri below:

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