Category: Movies

Last month, it was announced that Lakeshore Records would be releasing the soundtrack to James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now and today, it was revealed that an additional soundtrack would be available on iTunes and Amazon beginning on August 20.

The Soundtrack to the sleeper hit of the summer, The Spectacular Now starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller,  has a sequel coming out! 

Available August 20th- Pre-order it at iTunes starting next week.

The Spectacular Now (More music from) Track Listing:

1. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young – Faron Young
2. Go Hard – Kutt the Check
3. Wild Nights – Snake! Snake! Snakes!
4. New Theory – Washed Out
5. Farming Man – Tennessee River Crooks
6. The Riff – Just Water
7. No Good with Secrets – Saturday Looks Good To Me
8. Need Someone to Love – Norma Jenkins

Vanity Fair caught up with The Spectacular Now director James Ponsoldt after the film’s premiere in Los Angeles, and spoke with the magazine about casting for his new film and why Mary was his muse in Smashed:

VF Daily: How much of a say did you have in casting the film?

James Ponsoldt: Huge say. All the people were the people that I wanted. I wouldn’t make a movie with actors I didn’t love. It was collaboration—we work with casting directors, we work with the producers. But no, these were all people that I adore and have wanted to work with. Shailene since The Descendants, Miles I had seen in Rabbit Hole and Footloose. Brie [Larson] since Rampart and 21 Jump Street. Dayo [Okeniyi] was a discovery. He’s amazing.

And Mary Elizabeth Winstead?

Yes! The star of my last movie.

Is she your muse?

[Laughs] She certainly was for Smashed. She and her husband are an aesthetic ideal of romance personified, and in that regard romance is alive. They’re a muse to my antiquated notions of romance.

You can read the full interview by checking out the link above.

Come August 2, James Ponsoldt’s latest film The Spectacular Now will hit theaters in a limited run. The official site has been updated with the first release dates for the film in places such as New York, California, Texas and New Jersey. Click HERE to find out if Spectacular Now will be playing in a theater near you and be sure to check back often as more release dates will be announced within weeks.

And in other Mary related news, CBS is putting all of the episodes for “Jericho,” “Swingtown” and “Wolf Lake” up on CBS.com for the summer, allowing viewers to experience a trio of dramas they didn’t necessarily flock to when they were actually airing.

Lakeshore Records is proud to announce that we will be releasing the soundtrack album to the critically acclaimed Sundance film The Spectacular Now.

The film will be released theatrically on Friday August 2nd by A24 Distribution.

The heartfelt and touching score is composed by Rob Simonsen, who has also composed the scores to The Way Way Back and Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.

The album will include the songs from the film  ”Song For Zula” by Phosphorescent, ”Baby” by Ariel Pink and ”Walkin’ On A Pretty Day”  by Kurt Vile.

If the official soundtrack listing gets out, I’ll definitely be posting it as well as the release date!