Walt Disney releasing soundtrack for new movie 'Saving Mr. Banks'

The original motion picture soundtrack for the upcoming movie "Saving Mr. Banks" and the "Saving Mr. Banks" 2-Disc edition will be released on Dec. 10, 2013.

The soundtrack features the songs "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," and "Let's Go Fly a Kite" performed by Jason Schwartzman (as Richard Sherman) and B.J. Novak (as Robert Sherman).

Thomas Newman composed and conducted the original score. Newman has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards with nine in the Best Original Score category for "The Shawshank Redemption," "Little Women," "Unsung Heroes," "American Beauty," "Road to Perdition," "Finding Nemo," "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," "The Good German," "Wall-E," and "Skyfall."

He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for The Living Proof from "The Help."

"The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of Mary Poppins was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge," Newman said in a press release. "Like the story itself, the music is at times joyous and hopeful and other times, full of despair and nagging regret. All by way of England and America in 1961, with stops along the way to rural Australia in 1906. What more could anyone ask for...?"