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That's stupid. We live in a digital/streaming era. Why is Powell being constrained by arbitrary maximum runtimes that are relics of physical formats?!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eYsUUx0oR/ A bit disappointing, only 20 minutes of score being released (out of 50).

Good feedback @Richard Penna, some valid points. Looking at the cover a few days later, I don't love my fonts anymore so I might revisit with a second pass. Every designer looks at their work a few days later and sees things they want to change. On the colour aspect, sadly a google search revealed no colour accurate examples of the original poster, probably due to the film's age. Every instance looks wrong - poorly lit, too magenta, too brown, too washed out, etc. However, there's little doubt Intrada's cover uses a raw scan with no colour correction or digital cleanup whatsoever, which isn't accurate either. It's riddled with dirt, scratches and the white levels are incorrect (it's a dull gray). This means their source was an analogue scan which always requires colour correction (to offset decades of faded ink, for example). But without a time machine to look at the original printed artwork 3 decades ago, all we can do is approximate the "feel" of the poster and replicate the tone we think they were going for. That's always going to be subjective

That artwork is fantastic! Bravo LLL and whoever they commissioned for the art design.

Isn't most of this material covered in OST track Bearing the Burden? JW just reversed the cues on the album. From memory there's an alternate section where Avner sees Robert's reflection in the glass. Some of the instrumentation is different for that sad rendition of the main theme.

Cleaned up cover art: For comparison's sake:

I'm not sure why Intrada's artwork is so low effort but it's certainly another missed opportunity. For anyone who can't see how the official artwork is flawed, this GIF might help. I did basic colour correction, digital dirt removal and fixed the white levels (they're actually a dull greenish grey on the official art). The key art is riddled with dirt from the raw scan of the poster artwork, and the photographic elements have an ugly blue tint... frankly it's baffling even the most basic cleanup wasn't attempted. Even the background is riddled with dirt! This cleanup took barely 30 minutes. Roger is missing the forest for the trees when people take issue with Intrada's artwork. It's not that reusing existing artwork is flawed. It's that it's presented so poorly when it is used.

I wonder if this microedit has been restored on the new album (something Horner edited on the previous release, according to a poster on FSM). Considering the track title in question is different, I'm guessing yes.

I dunno heaps about this score but why are those 3 short cues in an "extras" section after the main assembly, instead of presented chronologically? Are they non-orchestral or something?

I'm curious if they're written into the sheets or just some optional album sweeteners JW recorded. Or did he present two options all along and Spielberg made the final decision. Either way, I'd really hope both versions could be included on an expansion (because the film mix really is superior to my ears).

Breaking News: Company who put zero effort into content of box set also put zero effort into packaging of box set.

20th Anniversary for The Terminal this year... keeping my fingers crossed for an expansion. There's 3 alternates of 6M2 alone. Between those and the film mixes, you could make a very fun bonus section. Plus the source music if any was JW (unsure on that one).

It's a small thing but I really love the alternate film mix of this cue, and vastly prefer it to the OST mix (with those distractingly prominent plucked strings). There's something cleaner/more focused with the film version and suits Viktor's relief perfectly. I really hope a future expansion includes the film mix, considering how prominently it's featured, and effectively forms the climax of Viktor's story (considering the jazz club scenes are unscored by JW).

They're just a warehousing/fulfillment business. DME likely oursourced to them, which is becoming more common as labels move away from physical media.

Wait, so that means the coloured seats are the only remaining seats for the Thu concerts?! But the "subscription" means you're buying a ticket for every show in the category? What a rip! And if you believe this seating guide, the Friday show is completely sold out?!