NIGHTWISH: More ‘Imaginaerum’ Movie Details Revealed

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH recently spent time not only putting finishing touches to their new album, “Imaginaerum”, but also planning a movie of the same name.

“Imaginaerum” is one of the projects which recently received grants from the Finnish government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation. The movie, directed by Stobe Harju, about an old man on his deathbed who glimpses a childhood dream in
which he refuses to grow old, and fights aging with his imagination,
will get $575,000 toward its $3.7 million budget.

During a September 8 interview with Petri Silas of Finland’s Soundi magazine, NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen revealed that all the filming for the “Imaginaerum” movie will be done in Canada with mostly Canadian actors/actresses.
Post-production will take place in Canada and Finland. He aso revealed
the names of the actors who have two of the main roles in the film: Marianne Farley and Quinn Lord.

Several photos from the “Imaginaerum” movie shoot can be found at this location. A couple of the pictures are also available below.

The “Imaginaerum” album will be released in the U.S. on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 via Roadrunner Records; in Finland on Wednesday, November 30 and the rest of Europe on Friday, December 2 via Nuclear Blast Records.

“Imaginaerum” track listing:

01. Taikatalvi
02. Storytime
03. Ghost River
04. Slow, Love, Slow
05. I Want My Tears Back
06. Scaretale
07. Arabesque
08. Turn Loose The Mermaids
09. Rest Calm
10. The Crow, The Owl And The Dove
11. Last Ride Of The Day
12. Song Of Myself
13. Imaginaerum

A track-by-track breakdown of the album by NIGHTWISH keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen can be found at Metalhammer.co.uk.

NIGHTWISH’s new single, “Storytime”, will be released on Friday, November 11 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Regarding the musical direction of the forthcoming album, NIGHTWISH singer Anette Olzon wrote on her official blog, “I think it’s a great and varied CD. The
feelings in it are great and there are a lot of elements in it, so I am
sure it will have many different favorite songs for the listeners since
the songs are so different in styles and sound. [2007’s] ‘Dark Passion Play’ is a great album and this one, too, so I don’t know yet which one I
like more, but, of course, for me personally, this one feels better to
do since the songs are more adjusted to my voice and my style.”

NIGHTWISH will kick off the “Imaginaerum” world tour in Los Angeles. The very first show of the trek will take
place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California on
Saturday, January 21. This will be the biggest NIGHTWISH show production ever on North American soil and strictly a one-off — there will be no U.S. tour until later in 2012.

Source: Blabbermouth