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Other takeaways-- Hook expanded edition is selling like hotcakes and may be 80% (or more) sold out already... and MM hasn't begun working on Star Wars expansions yet. (Or maybe he has and he's really good at hiding that fact. But the way he spoke about SW as a project he'd like to work on doesn't sound prepared. I think he really hasn't been given the green light yet for that one.)

Other takeaways-- Hook expanded edition is selling like hotcakes and may be 80% (or more) sold out already... and MM hasn't begun working on Star Wars expansions yet. (Or maybe he has and he's really good at hiding that fact. But the way he spoke about SW as a project he'd like to work on doesn't sound prepared. I think he really hasn't been given the green light yet for that one.)

Other takeaways-- Hook expanded edition is selling like hotcakes and may be 80% (or more) sold out already... and MM hasn't begun working on Star Wars expansions yet. (Or maybe he has and he's really good at hiding that fact. But the way he spoke about SW as a project he'd like to work on doesn't sound prepared. I think he really hasn't been given the green light yet for that one.)

Thanks for posting, great information from Mike!  Sounds like more JW scores from UMG are in the pipeline...  BOTFOJ, CMIYK, Terminal perhaps?  Fingers crossed!

A new interview from what looks like late last year that lasts 1.5 hours with Mike taking about his work through the years. 
 
The interview starts around 36 minutes in.
 
 

Well that looks depressingly plausible...

Composer John Williams earned his 54th Oscar nomination for his score to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which allowed him to revisit the music he'd written for four earlier films, going back to Raiders of the Lost Ark, 42 years ago. As the years have passed and new characters have been introduced, there are new themes to explore, but also a memorable canon, filled with nostalgic, swashbuckling melodies. John Williams tells Brian Lauritzen he didn't start out thinking he'd write a full score for the film, but after writing a handful of themes, he found himself drawn into the project, and not wanting to let anyone else take it over.
 
https://www.kusc.org/articles/at-the-movies-john-williams

It's due for release at Amazon.de 26 April 2024.
 
https://www.amazon.de/Williams-Violinkonzert-Nr-1-Bernstein-Serenade

https://www.discogs.com/release/29790961-Bernstein-Williams-James-Ehnes-Saint-Louis-Symphony-Orchestra-Stéphane-Denève-Serenade-Violin-Conc
 
This might actual come from a live recording from November 2019, with Williams in attendance. If that's the case, the original concert line up included Barber's Adagio and Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony.
Of course, until more info is out, they might have the recorded the concerto during the rehearsals. 

Look what's just released on spotify. Maybe this concert is finally getting an album and blu-ray?
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It's 28 years since the first one and the male lead of it has died in that time. To current Hollywood, that counts as striking while the iron's still hot.   

I love the first Twister. I watched it almost every day on VHS when I was a little kid. Something about those cool cars chasing tornadoes left a huge impression on me.
 
This sequel seems like pure cashgrab to me. The director is Oscar nominated, so I wonder what attracted him to such project.

Competing tornado hunter teams, with one of them led by a brash, cocky SOB.... barrels filled with round metal tornado sensors... "we got twins!"... tornadoes that get bigger and badder each time...  
 
I appreciate the originality of the filmmakers here. I mean, they really went out of their way to find new directions to take this story. Who says Hollywood is a soulless, dying, creatively bankrupt bottom-feeder??
 
 
 

Competing tornado hunter teams, with one of them led by a brash, cocky SOB.... barrels filled with round metal tornado sensors... "we got twins!"... tornadoes that get bigger and badder each time...  
 
I appreciate the originality of the filmmakers here. I mean, they really went out of their way to find new directions to take this story. Who says Hollywood is a soulless, dying, creatively bankrupt bottom-feeder??
 
 
 

First teaser image from Francis Ford Coppola's science fiction movie Megalopolis.
 

The Deadpool & Wolverine trailer made me sad.  I wasn't a child when the MCU was in its glory days, but I thrilled vicariously to the fact that movies for 9–12-year-olds were having such an incredible run—movies that barely earned their PG-13 ratings but delighted in adventure and heroism without being stuffy or portentous.  Marvel truly had the magic formula for a long, long time.  Now, with the MCU having overstayed its welcome, devalued its brand through overexposure, and misread fan appetites in equal measure over the past five years, this is what we're left with: a cynical, sophomoric, hyperviolent middle finger of a movie that leans into everything the great Marvel movies managed to avoid for so long.  And if you're a kid who loves superheroes, that's your Marvel option for the year.  A once-great kid-movie empire is behaving like the kid in middle school who can't wait to show off the dirty books in his locker.
 
If there's a silver lining, it's that Endgame was long enough ago—and the intervening movies and TV shows so disparate and haphazard—that they've probably lost most of the kids by now, and the only people lining up for this will be Fox-era nostalgics and frat boys.  I just remember a time when Marvel didn't have to court that audience because they had a four-quadrant formula that still managed to feel fresh almost every time.
 
When I was eight years old, I loved Wolverine, and I didn't need or want Logan levels of violence to do so, much less Logan levels of violence delivered with a nihilistic smirk and a side of dick jokes.  I hope this flops and leads Feige to some soul-searching, but I'm not optimistic.

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”  —Emily Dickinson 

By the way, @Andy, I’m sending you a self-addressed stamped manila envelope. If you could just go ahead and insert those B&W photos of JW and drop the envelope off in the first mailbox you see…
 

Happy 92nd birthday to the greatest film composer of all time! 

DG, we would have appreciated a release of Vienna II and a proper recording of the Vienna Ball Fanfare and of the Milan Concert!

Happy 92nd to my favourite person in all of culture history! Here are some random photos with personal JW connections:
 
Hollywood Bowl 2012:
 

 
Boston 2014:
 

 
Boston 2014:
 

 
Berlin 2021:
 

 
Collection spread from a few years ago:
 

It's official.  The Mandalorian & Grogru will be the first Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019.  Releasing in 2026.
 
https://www.slashfilm.com/1512366/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-2026-release-kicking-off-new-star-wars-movies/