Varese Sarabande announced their latest Club discs today. They are:
Short Circuit - David Shire (2000 Copies)
Report to The Commissioner - Elmer Bernstein (1500 copies)
The President’s Lady - Alfred Newman (1500 copies)
Silver Bullet - Jay Chattaway (1000 copies)
Tracklists, sound clips and more: varesesarabande.com.
According to Jon Burlingame, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s score for The Dark Knight (see review) has been disqualified from Academy Award consideration due to cue sheet crediting and a mathematical formula that calculates authorship of the score. Burlingame writes:
Sources inside the committee said that the big issue was the fact that five names were listed as composers on the music cue sheet, the official studio document that specifies every piece of music (along with its duration and copyright owner) in the film.
Zimmer and Howard were also disqualified from consideration for Batman Begins. Read more…
Great movies are full of adventure, and Australia, the next film from Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!, William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet), is no exception. But making a movie is an even bigger adventure—an adventure in creativity—and with the Apple Set to Screen Series, you can be a part of it.
Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama, who on November 5, 2008 was elected President of the United States. After his acceptance speech, Obama exited the stage to Trevor Rabin’s music from Remember The Titans, and returned with friends and family. Making his second and final exit, (an electronic version of) John Williams’ The Patriot played in the background.
John McCain, the Republican nominee, concluded his concession speech with Hans Zimmer’s Crimson Tide, and then exited the stage to Zimmer’s Pirates of the Caribbean.
Update! Trevor Rabin talks to the L.A. Times about his music being used during Obama’s victory party.
John Barry reflects on 10 of his scores to Jon Burlingame and Variety. On Goldfinger:
“By the time I did Goldfinger, the Bond series was in full stride. Everything came together — the song, the score, the style. I liked the title; it was a song about a villain, like ‘Mack the Knife.’ Shirley Bassey, probably the No. 1 singer in England at the time, didn’t know who she was singing about. I said, ‘Just be convincing, Shirley. Go out there and belt the hell out of it.’ And she did.”
On Born Free:
“I had big disagreements with the director. He thought he’d made a very meaningful movie, an intellectual statement about freedom. I saw it as a Disneyesque kind of movie, lovely family entertainment. So I said to the producer, Carl Foreman, the only way I can do this is by doing almost a satire on a sentimental Disney kind of picture.”
Full article: Variety.com.
