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Would be surprised if You Only Live Twice isn't in the works for next year, 60th anniversary.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: 55th ANNIVERSARY REMASTERED & EXPANDED LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET) Music composed, arranged and conducted by John Barry Title song sung by Shirley Bassey – Lyrics by Don Black Limited Edition of 5000 Units RETAIL PRICE: $32.98 La-La Land Records, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal Music Enterprises proudly present the 55th anniversary remastered and expanded 2-CD re-issue of renowned composer John Barry’s original motion picture score to the seventh James Bond film, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, the 1971 film stars Sean Connery, after a one picture absence, as James Bond 007 and is directed by Guy Hamilton, returning for his second film in the series. Composer John Barry continues on his mission of creating classic Bond music, unleashing another epic orchestral wonder, pulsating with thematic motifs, and swirling all the film’s thundering action, spycraft and sensuous romance into an intoxicating, exhilarating knockout of a score. Included within this 2-CD set is the iconic title song “Diamonds Are Forever” by Barry and lyricist Don Black performed by Shirley Bassey in English and Italian! Expanded beyond previous soundtrack editions, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER sparkles like never before within this deluxe presentation. Produced by Neil S. Bulk, mixed by Chris Malone and mastered by Doug Schwartz, the release has been sourced from the original 1" 8-track analog scoring masters. The "Score Presentation" reflects the takes and sequencing used for the film, while the "Original Soundtrack Album" has been newly edited and replicates the takes, edits and sequencing of the 1971 soundtrack. Alternate versions and additional source cues round out the package. Featuring sharp art direction by Dan Goldwasser, with a new front cover designed by Jim Titus, the release also includes exclusive, in-depth liner notes by journalist and author Jon Burlingame. Limited to 5000 units this release is not expected to be around... forever. DISC 1 SCORE PRESENTATION 1:08:39 1. Gun Barrel And Manhunt 3:11 2. Diamonds Are Forever (Film Version) (Performed by Shirley Bassey) 2:52 3. Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd 2:33 4. Mrs. Whistler And Hovercraft To Holland 2:02 5. Diamonds Are Forever 3:45 6. Tiffany Case 3:47 7. Peter Franks 3:02 8. Los Angeles To Las Vegas 3:02 9. Slumber Inc. 2:22 10. The Whyte House 2:22 11. Plenty, Then Tiffany 2:28 12. Circus Circus (Film Version) 2:49 13. We Lost Her And WW Tectronics 4:06 14. Stealing The Moon Buggy 1:00 15. Moon Buggy Ride (Film Version) 3:19 16. Scaling The Whyte House 1:11 17. Death At The Whyte House 3:45 18. Bond Smells A Rat 1:54 19. Bond Meets Bambi And Thumper (Extended Version) 2:11 20. Breaststroke Lessons 1:06 21. Q's Trick 2:27 22. 007 And Counting 3:32 23. Baja? 2:16 24. Oil Rig Attack 1:37 25. To Hell With Blofeld 1:35 26. Diamonds Are Forever (Extended Version) 2:47 27. The End Of Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd :55 ALTERNATE VERSIONS 7:31 28. Diamonds Are Forever (Alternate) (Performed by Shirley Bassey) 3:18 29. Moon Buggy Ride (Alternate Segment) 1:59 30. Bond Meets Bambi And Thumper (Alternate) 2:07 TOTAL DISC 1 TIME: 1:16:11 DISC 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM 34:39 1. Diamonds Are Forever (Performed by Shirley Bassey) 2:42 2. Bond Meets Bambi And Thumper 2:06 3. Moon Buggy Ride 3:14 4. Circus Circus 2:56 5. Death At The Whyte House 3:45 6. Diamonds Are Forever 3:45 7. Diamonds Are Forever 2:33 8. Bond Smells A Rat 1:54 9. Tiffany Case 3:46 10. 007 And Counting 3:32 11. Q's Trick 2:26 12. To Hell With Blofeld 1:35 ADDITIONAL MUSIC 14:26 13. Slumber Inc. (Wild Organ) 1:48 14. Hotel Tropicana :40 15. The Whyte House (Extended Version) 4:27 16. Circus Circus (With Overlays) 2:57 17. Water Balloons 3:42 18. Zambora :44 BONUS TRACK 19. Vivo di diamanti (Performed by Shirley Bassey) 2:42 TOTAL DISC 2 TIME: 51:57 TOTAL ALBUM TIME: 2:08:08

In Trump's America, the answer is always 💵 Indeed. And sadly the hard-working folk who look after studio archives and music departments will be the first to go. The legal departments will almost certainly be consolidated, slowing down approvals and admin even further (if they even bother entertaining the labels at all). I suspect their hands will be full for many years to come, in the same way Disney purchasing Fox froze out Fox expansions for years.

The only high resolution releases worth pursuing are the ones Sony did in 2016. At least they actually used the album masters, and they were reasonably well remastered. The Disney releases are a mess, as thoroughly documented.

Seems Netflix called WB's bluff and walked. WB were clearly manufacturing a bidding war by keeping PSKY in the loop, hoping to bleed Netflix dry. They got greedy and now they're lumped with PSKY (who just reported a Q4 loss of $573b) and a mammoth $2.8b exit fee to Netflix. Who knows what deals were happening behind the scenes but I wouldn't be shocked if Ellison was bribing Trump to block the Netflix deal. Even though PSKY's share offer is marginally better on paper, their bid was for the entirety of WBD (including WB's cable channels like CNN, which were never part of the Netflix offer). WB were planning to spin those channels into a separate entity (Discovery Global) to sell off in a separate deal. Now they're left with nothing in the cupboard, but at least David Zaslav walks away with his $1b bonus. In the end we're all the losers here, along with the poor folks about to laid off. And Americans can now enjoy yet another media organization and news channel handed to a billionaire Trump sycophant. The recent trajectory of CBS News is a blueprint for what's about to happen to CNN. Frankly I'm astonished joint ownership of CBS and CNN is even legal, not that antitrust laws seem to matter anymore.

I'd say Memoirs of a Geisha was the last masterpiece of a full score, which isn't to discount some incredible scores which followed (War Horse and Lincoln being at the top of that list).

That photo of Williams with a cigar at the piano was too good not to restore (along with some digital cleanup). Enjoy! EDIT: And here's the Goldsmith photo restored, for good measure.

Well this news sucks. The franchise finally got someone competent in charge, only for them to bail to another studio. Between this and whatever happened with Fede Álvarez walking away from Alien, something stinks at Disney (or whoever's managing the Fox slate).

Is it possible, for licensing reasons, that Galaxy's Edge will use re-recordings rather than the original LSO film recordings? Although that wouldn't explain why only the first 6 scores are being used for GE and the sequel scores ignored (which I assumed was an AFM fee issue). Doesn't explain why re-recordings would get caught up in a leak like this though.

That does seem like nonsense. Realistically Ross would conduct the LSO if this were actually required, or even JW with an LA orchestra. But more to the point, no part of the scores would be "damaged" to warrant such a thing. As a last resort they'd just defer to the music stems from the original audio tracks. There's no evidence they're going back to the multi-track masters to reassemble the score anyway, despite the mountain of restoration they're doing on everything else. We still don't know what's been recovered from John Neal's estate but I'm pretty sure they have at least second or third generation copies of the scoring sessions.

That looks more like AI generated slop than an actual ad that brought back the original actors. Whatever de-aging tech was used looks very unsettling. But great to see Neill looking happy and healthy, given his recent health battles.

I have tried so, so hard to like The Fury but it just never worked for me. Neither OST nor film score. Which is strange because I love the other "dark" JW scores like WOTW, TLW, Dracula, Images, etc.

Pretty much at the same point. There's no better justification than the 50th anniversary, especially with the original cuts being remastered and released theatrically. Hopefully they're treating this as the 'finally giving people what they want' anniversary, to earn back some fan goodwill. So it's the perfect opportunity for Mike to convince whoever's been blocking the project, whether LFL or Disney Records. From what we've been told JW has no issues, and Kennedy (along with her husband) is one of Mike's biggest advocates, albeit with one foot out the door. But yeah, if we get nothing next year I think we're cooked.

I don't think we have any confirmation that Universal is suddenly off limits though? We're just speculating because nothing has come out since BF '24. Even when WB closed their vaults, they honored restocks of existing licenced titles. So even if Universal aren't licensing titles anymore they contractually should be allowing existing items to be restocked?

I've been asking the same question for over a year. Quite bizarre for a Williams/Spielberg title to be out of stock for so long.