Starry Film Version of Musical Nine to Feature Three New Songs

The previously announced big-screen adaptation of Tony Award winner Maury Yeston’s hit Broadway musical Nine will include three new songs, according to Variety. The flick, helmed by Academy Award nominated director Rob Marshall of the Oscar-winning film Chicago, stars Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren, as well as Oscar nominee Kate Hudson, among others. Nine is slated for theatrical release in November 2009.

The film version will reportedly feature three new songs by composer Yeston: “Guarda la Luna (Look at the Moon),” a lullabye sung by Loren; “Cinema Italiano,” performed by Hudson during her character’s interview with film director Guido Contini; and “Take It All,” a new solo for Cotillard.

Lewis stars as Guido Contini, an Italian cinema icon in the throes of a midlife crisis. Based loosely on real-life star Federico Fellini and his autobiographical film, 8½, Nine follows Contini and his interactions, both real and imagined, with the women who plague him, including his wife (Cotillard), mistress (Cruz), producer (Dench), leading lady (Kidman), mother (Loren) and an American journalist (Hudson).  

The film’s music features a 50-piece orchestra helmed by musical director Paul Bogaev with additional scoring by Italian film composer Andrea Guerra.