``Moulin Rouge'' Soundtrack, From Fox/Interscope, Features World's Top Cutting-Edge Artists/Composers

Business Wire, April 9, 2001

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LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 9, 2001

Some of today's most cutting-edge artists and composers are working with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann to create what is expected to be one of the year's hottest soundtracks, for Luhrmann's new motion picture "Moulin Rouge."

Interscope Records will release the soundtrack, "Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film `Moulin Rouge,'" May 8, 2001.

In "Moulin Rouge," a celebration of love and creative inspiration set in 1900, in the infamous Paris nightclub, Luhrmann brings together modern-era pop tunes and gorgeous period design to create a unique motion-picture experience.

The music in "Moulin Rouge" is a celebration of many of the great pop songs of the 20th century, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Lennon and McCartney, from Sting to Elton John, from Dolly Parton to David Bowie. Each song heard in the film is a crucial storytelling device.

"Moulin Rouge" composer Craig Armstrong, music director Marius DeVries, music supervisor Anton Monsted and additional score composers Chris Elliott and Steve Sharples, as well as Luhrmann and Monsted's longtime music programmer and co-producer, Josh Abrahams, collaborated closely with Luhrmann on the film's music.

From the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack:

-- The album opens and closes with Bowie singing the 1940s standard "Nature
Boy." The opening draws on "Moulin Rouge" score composer Armstrong's score
version of the song. (Armstrong has also composed and arranged for Madonna,
Massive Attack and Bjork.) The album closes with Bowie's collaboration with
Massive Attack on the same song. The two interpretations of the song, with its
central lyric -- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved
in return" -- bookend the film.

-- Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer have reinterpreted the T-Rex classic
"Children of the Revolution."

-- Multiplatinum recording artists Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink
recorded a cover -- and shot a disco-style music video -- of the LaBelle
classic "Lady Marmalade" (aka "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"), which will be
the first single from soundtrack. Ground-breaking hip-hop star Missy Elliott
and Rockwilder produce the key music opener.

-- Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor make their on-screen/ soundtrack singing
debuts. The actors duet on "Come What May," a love song composed for the film,
produced by multi-Grammy winner David Foster and Simon Franglen; and on
"Elephant Love Medley." Kidman solos on "Sparkling Diamonds" and "One Day I'll
Fly Away," and duets with one of the film's featured players, Alka Yagnik, on
"Hindi Sad Diamonds," a medley of Hindi songs plus "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best
Friend." On "Your Song," McGregor teams with three tenors: maestro Placido
Domingo, rising star Allesandro Safina and Australian tenor Jamie Allen.
McGregor and actor Jacek Koman join Jose Feliciano to create a tango version of
the classic Police track "Roxanne," which is part of a medley with the classic
Argentinian tango "Tanguera" by Mariano Mores.

-- Valeria performs a hot Latin dance-floor reinterpretation of the Diane
Warren classic "Rhythm of the Night."

-- Fatboy Slim composes "Because We Can," a new track for the film.

-- Beck and Timbaland unite on the Bowie classic "Diamond Dogs."

-- Rufus Wainwright sings "Complainte de la Butte," a ballad written by film
director Jean Renoir for his 1950s film "French Can Can," also set at the
Moulin Rouge. The original is sung in French; Wainwright performs it in a
combination of French and English lyrics.

The Cannes Film Festival has selected "Moulin Rouge" as the festival's opening-night film, to screen in competition on May 9, 2001. Twentieth Century Fox will release the film nationally on June 1, and also will platform the film in a single run each in New York and Los Angeles on May 18.

In the film, Kidman plays the Moulin Rouge's most notorious star, forced to choose between a young writer's inspiration and another man's obsession. McGregor is the writer who finds himself plunged into this decadent world where anything goes -- except falling in love.

The film also stars John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec; Jim Broadbent as Zidler, the club's owner; and Richard Roxburgh as the Duke. It was written by Luhrmann & Craig Pearce, and the producers are Martin Brown, Luhrmann and Fred Baron.

Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group.

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