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  1. 55 Days is fully (unlawfully) loaded to YouTube, so if you want to check out the score, it's there.
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  2. LLLR's new offerings (second to last batch this year):

    SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND - 3 CD SET
    MUSIC BY SHIRLEY WALKER
    LLLCD 1192
    LIMITED EDITION OF 3000 UNITS

    RETAIL PRICE: $29.98

    PRODUCED BY MIKE JOFFE AND NICK REDMAN
    MASTERED BY DANIEL HERSCH AT D2 MASTERING
    LINER NOTES BY JEFF BOND
    ART DIRECTION BY MARK BANNING

    La-La Land Records and 20th Century Fox Music are proud to announce the world premeire release of Shirley Walker's classic scores to the Morgan/Wong sci fi television show SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND. In many ways a precursor to the recent Battlestar Galactica, this sci fi show follows a group of Space Aces as they wage a war against an alien enemy. Ms. Walker's spectacular orchestral score was the highlight of the cult television series. If you liked her work on Batman, The Flash and Mystery Men, you will love what you hear on this out of the world 3 disc set!


    NEXT UP:

    VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    MUSIC BY PAUL SAWTELL AND BERT SHEFTER
    LLLCD 1187
    LIMITED EDITON OF 2000 UNITS

    RETAIL PRICE: $19.98
    SPECIAL SALE PRICE: $14.98

    PRODUCED BY NICK REDMAN
    RE-MASTERED BY MIKE MATESSINO
    LINER NOTES BY RANDALL D. LARSON
    ART DIRECTION BY MARK BANNING

    First we take you into the farthest reaches of Space and now we take you under the sea!

    La-La Land Records and 20th Century Fox Music are proud to announce the 50th Anniversary Edition of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the hit film that spawned the classic television series. This new Anniversary Edition has been remastered and touched up by Mike Matessino with new liner notes by film score and sci fi historian Randall D Larson. Art Director Mark Banning captures the majesty and whimsy of the film throughout the cd packaging. PLEASE NOTE: Content is the same as previous FSM release, but the damaged track has been fixed.

    Both titles go on sale Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 1 pm PST

    See y'all back then!

    MV
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
  3. Music Box Records has struck again; two new titles -- one a previously unreleased (officially) Silvestri:

    http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts … ;archive=0
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  4. Funny, I am more interested in the Magne rather than the Silvestri title.

    I am much more familiar with Magne's music as heard in the film. wink
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  5. Posted by Lukas mere minutes ago; waht won't be in the last seven CD's:

    Actually, I was going to post that these latest two are our last respective Goldsmith and Williams albums. It's been fun! (And Quincy Jones.)

    Lukas
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
  6. Clue for the next Intrada:
    http://www.intrada.net/namethattune/COULDbe_14.m3u


    I don't know it. Something sounds familiar though.
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  7. "L'Imprecateur"
    By: Richard Rodney Bennett

    Coming eventually from Quartet Records.

    He said so in the FSM thread. He's since deleted his post about it, but too late.

    Interesting, considering the angry fucking crap he gave somebody, over at FSM, about leaking them doing "Casino Royal" (still not out yet). Actually, the person in question NEVER named Quartet as the label -- Quartet outed himself publically, then pissed and moaned about it. I can probably name half a dozen releases coming that no label name have been attached to, but no one is bitching about those.

    Yet here he is, spilling the beans, again. Publically.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
  8. It's appears the next Kritzerland[/] two-fer is:

    [b]"Enter Laughing"
    (Quincy Jones)
    "Synanon" (Neal Hefti)


    CD premieres.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011
    justin boggan wrote
    "L'Imprecateur"
    By: Richard Rodney Bennett

    Coming eventually from Quartet Records.

    He said so in the FSM thread. He's since deleted his post about it, but too late.

    Interesting, considering the angry fucking crap he gave somebody, over at FSM, about leaking them doing "Casino Royal" (still not out yet). Actually, the person in question NEVER named Quartet as the label -- Quartet outed himself publically, then pissed and moaned about it. I can probably name half a dozen releases coming that no label name have been attached to, but no one is bitching about those.

    Yet here he is, spilling the beans, again. Publically.


    Why would anyone be bothered about the titles of their CD releases being leaked? confused
    Is that going to affect sales?

    It's not like no one is going to notice the title anyway once the CD is eventually released.
    And it's not like these titles are proprietary. Or patented.

    I just don't understand the big deal. confused
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  9. Neither do I, nor any of his replies about it in the FSM thread. But, oh well.
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  10. Posted today by MMM:

    DELETED. I support conservatism.
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  11. This just in at Varese Sarabande's Facebook:


    Brace yourselves for one more release from the CD CLUB before we close for the year. Visit us on December 5 for the announcement. It's a whopper.



    Maybe it's that Herrmann box, finally?
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  12. Something good coming from FSM:

    FSM CD #244 is at the plant now and will probably be on sale shortly before Xmas, but while I like it, it's not the kind of super-anticipated album like Gremlins that you might expect from our last batch of CDs. (That's because it took ages and ages to finish!) #245, which IS a very exciting title, may or may not be done by then, we are working as fast as we can.

    Thanks,

    Lukas
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2011
    I'm listening to a new Sony release Shame. It has a lot of source music and only three original tracks.
    Tom
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2011
    justin boggan wrote
    Posted today by MMM:

    DELETED. I support conservatism.


    I nominate this post for Most Enigmatic Post of November.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  13. No, there is another.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2011
    ^
    biggrin applause
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2011 edited
    This from LaLaLand...


    Over the past few years we have had a lot of fun with this announcement. It started in 2008 when we did a batch that included Batman: The Animated Series, Millennium and Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

    In 2009, we unveiled Innerspace, The Fugitive and Panic in the Year Zero.

    Then, in 2010, we upped the 3 to 4 and called it our FINAL FOUR, letting all of you know these will be the last 4 titles we release that year. Star Trek V, Batman Returns, Home Alone and Jade were part of this group.

    The day after this last batch came out Matt and I thought, “Crap, how do we top this in 2011?”

    We narrowed the field down to 10 titles that we felt were timely and appropriate for this release date. As time passed and we started to approach our deadline, we kept saying to ourselves, “Stay on Target!” “Stay on Target!” Some titles veered off to the side and got delayed for one reason or another, while others were staying on course, but they just didn’t seem to scream BLACK FRIDAY. As Labor Day hit, we locked down our FINAL FOUR.

    The FINAL FOUR titles coming out in 2011 were real labors of love. All have great stories behind them and all have been treated with the TLC we try to give all of our releases.

    Without further ado I present . . .

    THE FINAL FOUR of 2011


    [img]s62.photobucket.com/albums/h84/mgerhard123/La-La-Black-Friday-Batch-2011-v2.jpg[/img]


    First up:


    TORA! TORA! TORA!
    Music by Jerry Goldsmith
    LLLCD 1197
    Limited Edition of 2000 units
    Retail Price: $19.98

    Produced by Lukas Kendall and Nick Redman
    Mastered by Daniel Hersch and Mike Matessino
    Liner Notes by Julie Kirgo
    Art Direction by Jim Titus

    To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, La-La Land Records presents two important WWII-themed scores from two giant composers that expertly and thoughtfully examine two landmark events that changed the world forever – the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the completion of the atom bomb.

    La-La Land Records and FOX Music commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack with a special re-issue of legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith’s (PATTON, THE OMEN, BASIC INSTINCT, THE EDGE) original score to 20th Century Fox’s 1970 Pearl Harbor docudrama feature TORA! TORA! TORA!, starring Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, E.G. Marshall, So Yamamura and Tatsuya Mihashi -- directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda. Mr. Goldsmith tackles this film’s serious examination of Pearl Harbor with a rich orchestral score that exemplifies his trademark musical genius, fierce intelligence and sympathetic understanding. In depth liner notes by Julie Kirgo and spectacular art direction by Jim Titus focusing on the original art of Robert McCall are a highlight!

    Continuing with our WWII theme. . .

    FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY – 2 cd set
    Music by Ennio Morricone
    LLLCD 1196
    Limited Edition of 3000 units
    Retail Price: $19.98

    Produced by Dan Goldwasser
    Mastered by Mike Matessino
    Liner Notes by Daniel Schweiger
    Art Direction by Dan Goldwasser

    We still can’t believe it – after nearly 200 releases we finally have The Maestro on our label. Even more, it’s a never released and, for most of it, HEARD score by him! When we cracked opened the masters we discovered a wealth of material that was completely cut from the 1989 film. Working with Mike Matessino, producer Dan Goldwasser was able to ID all the music that is not heard in the final film to assemble a magnificent soundtrack unheard by most until now. If the movie released in 1989 had all this gorgeous music in it, viewers may have felt differently about the end product. I sure hope you fall in love with this score as much as we did.

    La-La Land Records is proud to present the world premiere release of acclaimed composer Ennio Morricone’s (THE MAN WITH NO NAME TRILOGY, THE THING, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, THE MISSION, THE UNTOUCHABLES) original score to Paramount Pictures’ 1989 docudrama FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY, starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz and John Cusack, and directed by Roland Joffe. Never before released in any format, Mr. Morricone’s hauntingly beautiful and complex orchestral score receives a definitive, 2-CD treatment that demonstrates the composer’s notable skill in emotionally interpreting what is at once an amazing and tragic chapter in mankind’s history – the birth of the atom bomb. Full of dramatic suspense, passion, sadness and gravitas, this is a notable, major Hollywood work by Morricone that is ripe for discovery. This special 2-CD release includes source cues, alternates and exclusive, in-depth liner notes by film music writer Daniel Schweiger.


    Now we go from the horrors of War to the horrors of the Holiday season. wink



    DIE HARD – 2 cd set
    Music by Michael Kamen
    LLLCD 1188
    Limited Edition of 3500 units
    Retail Price: $29.98

    Produced by Eric Lichtenfeld and Nick Redman
    Mastered by Daniel Hersch at D2 Mastering and restored by Mike Matessino
    Liner Notes by Eric Lichtenfeld and Jeff Bond
    Art Direction by Mark Banning

    This is one of those dream come true projects – the kind where you hope and pray, if given the opportunity of producing it one day, you get to do it right. While the previous release of this classic score was good, it lacked in a few key areas – sound quality and “Coolness.” Yeah, that’s right – it was not “Cool.” Die Hard is a cool movie with “Cool” Characters, “Cool” Cinematography and “Cool” Music. In order to best the previous release we had to go all out. We spent nearly 2 years on this bad boy looking for all the best elements we could find, any lost music, and, most importantly, looking for those cool needle drops – the exact ones featured in the film. Well, I’m happy to report that this Die Hard release has COOL written all over it.

    La-La Land Records and FOX Music present a remastered 2-CD SET of the original motion picture score to 20th Century Fox’s classic 1988 action blockbuster DIE HARD, starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman and Bonnie Bedelia, and directed by John McTiernan. Kamen’s score masterfully builds suspense, propelling all the plot’s high-octane action while enriching the characterizations. The DIE HARD experience is rounded out in this presentation with source cues and bonus tracks such as Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, Vaughn Monroe’s “Let It Snow”, Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis,” John Scott’s “We’ve Got Each Other” and more (sadly, we were not able to clear the ALIENS cue or the Stevie Wonder song Argyle rocks out to in the back of the limo)! Yippie-Kay-Yay!


    The final title for La-La Land this year is one that has a great history for the label. Back in July, 2008, Dan Goldwasser, Matt and I had a meeting at Paramount Pictures where we laid out what we wanted to do with their music catalog. Impressed with the pitch, we were asked to come up with a wish list of titles we wanted to release. That night the 3 of us emailed each other our respective lists of Paramount Dream Projects. At the top of each of our list was the same title – SCROOGED. This is perhaps Mr Elfman’s “birth film”. . . and by that I mean the movie that gave him the opportunity to create that sound we all know and love today. It’s gothic, haunting, magical and thematic. It has everything you want out of an Elfman score and more! Hints of Batman, Black Beauty, Edward Scissorhands and “Nightmare” can be heard.

    When given back the list, Paramount seemed to love the idea of La-La Land releasing Airplane, Dragonslayer, Seconds, Breakdown etc. . . but Scrooged was a bit more difficult at the time. We happily went forth producing all these wonderful Paramount projects, but we always wondered if we would ever work out the legal kinks on Scrooged. Then, one day, a miracle happened by the name of Lukas Kendall. Through his dealings with UMG (on GREMLINS), he managed to work out a deal to allow us to get the rights we needed to produce Scrooged for Paramount through UMG.

    Three and a half years later, I am proud to present to you. . .

    SCROOGED
    Music by Danny Elfman
    LLLCD 1195
    Limited Edition of 3000 units
    Retail Price: $19.98

    Produced by Dan Goldwasser
    Mastered by Mike Matessino
    Liner Notes by Jeff Bond
    Art Direction by Dan Goldwasser

    An important score in Elfman’s cannon, SCROOGED was the composer’s first big-budget Hollywood score – and one that clearly anticipates his next, and most iconic work, BATMAN. For this wickedly funny and inventive update of the immortal Dickens Christmas classic, Elfman fashions a robust, sophisticated musical tapestry that expertly weaves together the film’s varied tones, which runs the gambit from wildly broad comedy and holiday cheer to gothic horror and emotional drama. Produced by Dan Goldwasser and mastered by Mike Matessino, this special release features bonus tracks, source cues and exclusive liner notes from film music writer Jeff Bond, with new comments from Director Richard Donner and others.


    Well, there you have it. We hope these releases appealed more to your Yippie-Kay-Yay than Humbug! wink

    See you next Tuesday November 29, 2011 at 1 pm PST when these bad boys go on sale. Full track listings, sound clips and artwork will be posted then as well.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2011 edited
    The only one that holds any interest for me there is SCROOGED, which I am VERY glad to see released. C&C or not.
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2011
    I quite like the SCROOGED score but not enough to buy it.

    I'll definitely pick up the Morricone release. cool
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  14. Seems like I'll get Tora! Tora! Tora! (one of my all-time Goldsmith favorites) for Christmas smile
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  15. What a poor selection of titles in my book. A mix of re-releases and titles that don't particularly interest me (with a big dose of stoking up enthusiasm by the label). Maybe Peter could fill us in on what the Morricone title is like?

    I know that there's usually the shout of "if you don't want them then don't buy them" when people complain about releases that don't interest them, but hyping up titles that have been previously released (though now OOP)? I would have expected them all to be significant additions to the film music community.

    Saying that, if you missed Tora! Tora! Tora!, I heartily recommend it! wink
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  16. Yes, I missed the Tora x 3 release when FSM released it years ago (at that time I was ALL about Zimmer and I don't think I even heard other composers yet!)
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  17. some weird releases, meaning Die Hard and Tora Tora Tora already received proper CD releases some time ago. Why continue to expand something that's already expanded some while ago?

    Then again, there will always be a fan for those. And considering I've not experienced Tora Tora Tora, I'm definitely interested in it now. And Scrooged is definitely a keeper too, love those opening la la chorals smile
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
  18. ...and don't get me started on the artwork.

    vomit
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  19. "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
    Down to less than 500


    "Die Hard"
    Less than 150.
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  20. "Die Hard" SOLD OUT.


    From LLLR's Facebook page:

    2012 in a nutshell:

    40+ releases planned (some of them will blow you away!)

    Plan on releasing at least 1 Cool Box Set every Quarter

    January -- Friday the 13th Release Party/Signing event Jan 13 and 14th. The first of several score releases/film showings we are planning for the year.

    March -- we release our 200th CD (including cool checklist poster)

    July -- COMIC CON, BABY! Planning some awesomeness here

    October -- we celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary (maybe some kinda party/concert is in order?)

    November -- damn, gotta come up with some uber cool Black Friday releases -- Oh wait, got some in mind. Oh yeah, baby!

    And, most importantly:

    More FB Posting about upcoming projects, specials, deals and all around coolness
    starting X-Mas eve when we reveal our first release of 2012 coming out Jan 3

    Join us then




    Followed up by a list of composers that will be amongst those 40 titles:

    WILLIAMS
    MANFREDINI
    ELFMAN
    GOLDENTHAL
    NEWMAN
    TIOMKIN
    HOWARD
    GOLDSMITH
    KAMEN
    MANCINI
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  21. Somebody made this funny post at FSM, to which MV gave a rather interesting reply:


    Another suggestion La-La, you should team up with Kenner or someone and release a series of Film Composer Action Figures. Just imagine!


    Jerry Goldsmith action figure with Yamaha DX7 accessory

    John Williams action figure (in Black Polo Neck Sweater outfit)

    James Horner action figure (in Avatar Premiere gear - with removable blue scarf!)

    Talking Monty Norman action figure (Hear Monty explain how he wrote the James Bond Theme! Also sings "Good Sign, Bad Sign"!)

    Yelling Bernard Herrmann action figure (Contains explicit language)

    John Barry Swinging Sixties Batchelor Pad Playset (including E-type Jag accessory. Michael Caine sold seperately)

    Ironically we ARE talking to Hasbro about a number of things. I may suggest just a line of Action Figures.

    MV



    Looks like they forgot one:


    Hans Zimmer action figure; come with a dozen accessories*
    (* = Nick Glennie-Smith, Harry Gregson-Williams, Don Harper, Lorne Balfe, John Powell, Blake Neely, Heitor Pereira, Ramin Djawadi, James Michael Dooley, Steve Jablonsky, Geoff Zanelli, and Klaus Badelt. Extra accessories sold seperately. Pick up James McKee Smith today!)
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeDec 3rd 2011 edited
    WILLIAMS
    MANFREDINI
    ELFMAN
    GOLDENTHAL
    NEWMAN
    TIOMKIN
    HOWARD
    GOLDSMITH
    KAMEN
    MANCINI


    Interesting list. I like the fact that they have my three completist composers on there, but I FEAR it will "only" be C&C releases that don't hold any interest to me. I KNOW that the Goldenthal is BATMAN FOREVER. I HOPE, however, that the Elfmans and Williams will be previously unreleased scores. But doubt it.
    I am extremely serious.
  22. What films would need speaking to Hasbro?
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