[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

Sherlock Holmes
Due for release on 21/12/2009

-> http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/1251692 … oduct.html

Cool!

Interested what this will be like

wow, 4 stars?
I think Clemmensen is beginning to realize that (in his eyes) bad music of Zimmer is better than today's mainstream music

How? He is right. Somewhere after Gladiator, RC music, with the notable exception of thematicness of Transformers, is basically repeating old Zimmer's rhythmic patterns rather than creating (with the exception of the man himself, but even with He's a Pirate, due to time issues) notable and distinct themes.

The review shocked me particularly, because before this, he was giving two stars (though without a review).

Can someone explain the feasibility of Zimmer releasing the rest of the Thin red Line music he scored and recorded? Is there a licensing problem that prevents him from releasing unused sections of the cues? Or does it stay permanently in the vault serving no purpose?

I just feel that if he is of the opinion that it stands among his greatest work and the director didn't even use a third of what he composed and recorded, that he would want to put it to good use. I mean, it's his legacy, isn't it?

Composers are very busy with working and earning more and more money these days people, they don't give a damn about CD releases (especially if you're someone of the magnitude of Zimmer) and most of the times they aren't even informed about the precense of a cd release or not. I wouldn't blame them really.

Is there such a thing as a "composer buy-out" so that he can get the rights to the music for a subsequent release?

I seem to recall that some (big name) composers retain the rights to the music from the outset?

Yes, that was Yared's case on Troy. When he published the fragments on his site, he was sued by WB.

Zimmer reportedly retains rights to all his music. That's what Ravi was told when he tried to ask about a future complete score of The Lion King.

Yet his Spiderman 3 score never got released. How frustrating.

The word allegedly came from someone in Disney itself. But like you said, it seems unlikely.

He doesn't own the music though. That's no different from anyone else. He gets royalties as composer of it, the same as anyone else. His agent apparently negotiated an amazing deal (something like $1 per album sold - and look how many copies it's sold!) but he doesn't own the music.

Jerry Goldsmith apparently made more money from royalties from the Mulan album than he had made from album royalties in the whole of the rest of his career put together.

Keeping those royalties was a very clever thing to do though, he foreseen the success and whilst most composers working in hollywood will out-rightly sell the rights to the studio completely and move away with the fat check, he had the vision to see the huge WIN of the soundtrack, thus keeping royalties.

Anyway, to the subject matter:

IT'S COMPLICATED
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira

Meryl Streep
Steve Martin
Alec Baldwin

From writer/director Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday)

Jane (Meryl Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has — after a decade of divorce — an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Alec Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable — an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now, of all things, the other woman.

Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Steve Martin), an architect hired to remodel Jane’s kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he’s become part of a love triangle.

The lively and romantic score is from Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer and guitarist Heitor Pereira.

Universal Pictures opens IT’S COMPLICATED nationwide on Christmas Day.

Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 067 001 2


Release Date: 12/22/09

Really? In order to do that, the composer would have to surrender the right to be called the composer of the work, so if you looked at any cue-sheets or ASCAP/BMI summaries for the score in question then you wouldn't find the composer mentioned anywhere (instead, for instance, "Twentieth Century Fox" would be listed as the composer). I don't think that's very common at all (if it's even legal). I think what Horner did with Titanic was to negotiate an additional royalty payment over and above the standard one which composers get from their performing rights society.