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BTW The Reivers is really licensing nightmare!

 

Produced by Cinema Center Films, which is owned by Paramount now.

Distributed by National General Pictures, which is owned by Warner Bros. now.

Soundtrack released by Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony Music now.

 

I really understand why this is so difficult to re-release.

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On 1/10/2020 at 5:14 PM, E-Wan said:

1968 Sergeant Ryker [Universal]

 

On 9/2/2017 at 2:34 PM, filmmusic said:

I think you should cross-off Sergeant Ryker from that list.

Besides the fact that it was an edit of 2 Kraft Suspense Theater episodes, most of its music was not specifically composed for it.

It was tracked from another unrelated episode of that series.

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=1&threadID=93204&archive=0

 

 

 

On 1/10/2020 at 5:14 PM, E-Wan said:

1969 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting [Warner Bros.]

 

Added!

 

 

On 1/11/2020 at 4:14 PM, E-Wan said:

And if the information on Wikipedia is correct, Daddy-O is actually MGM film, not Sony.

 

On 7/2/2014 at 2:08 PM, Jay said:

I found a VHS for it released by Sony on Amazon, so we'll go with that.

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On 7/2/2014 at 4:38 PM, Jay said:

1963 Diamond Head (FSM 2006)
1972 Images (Prometheus 2007)

1973 Cinderella Liberty (Intrada 2008)

 

Are these original OST album/promo reissues really already complete?

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5 hours ago, Jay said:

I don't think any if them are complete, no. 

 

So why are they crossed, which means "has been expanded in the modern era"?

These 3 CD releases are straight reissues of original LPs with no extra music.

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Every time I look at this section I get sad...  I mean, I know these will get the proper treatment eventually, and we've received sooo many excellent expanded releases the last decade (for which I am extremely thankful for), but there is so much JW goodness in the list below!!!  Here's to hope that we will see a majority of these released by Disney w/ MM supervising in this decade!

 

Disney
1977 Star Wars(1997 RCA release is not complete)
1980 The Empire Strikes Back(1997 RCA release is not complete and has sound quality issues)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark  [Paramount still involved?] (2008 Concord release is not complete and has pitch issues)
1983 Return of the Jedi (1997 RCA release is not complete and has sound quality issues)
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [Paramount still involved?] (2008 Concord release is not complete and has pitch issues)
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [Paramount still involved?] (2008 Concord release is not complete)
1999 The Phantom Menace (2000 Ultimate Edition is not complete and has many other problems)
1995 Nixon
2002 Attack of the Clones
2005 Revenge of the Sith
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [Paramount still involved?]
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016 The BFG
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

 

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An expertly remastered and assembled Temple of Doom and Last Crusade is like all I want out of the catalog expansion business.  I hope Disney lets Mike do it

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I think the disaster box was a fluke and we aren't really going to see any other cross-film-studio pairings

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What do people think will be next up?

 

Disney (includes Fox & Lucasfilm)

  • 1967 Valley of the Dolls
  • 1973 The Paper Chase
  • 1973 Cinderella Liberty
  • 1974 Conrack
  • 1986 SpaceCamp
  • 1995 Nixon

Dreamworks

  • 1997 Amistad
  • 2002 Catch Me If You Can
  • 2004 The Terminal
  • 2005 War of the Worlds

MGM (United Artists)

  • 1971 Fiddler On The Roof

Paramount

  • 1969 The Reivers
  • 1995 Sabrina
  • 1999 Angela's Ashes

Sony (Columbia / Tri-Star)

  • 1960 Because They're Young
  • 1963 Diamond Head
  • 1963 Gidget Goes To Rome
  • 1972 Images
  • 1991 Hook
  • 1997 Seven Years In Tibet
  • 1998 Stepmom
  • 2000 The Patriot

Universal

  • 1961 The Secret Ways
  • 1965 The Killers
  • 1966 The Rare Breed
  • 1966 The Plainsman
  • 1970 Storia di una donna (Story of a Woman)
  • 1972 The Screaming Woman
  • 1974 The Sugarland Express
  • 1975 The Eiger Sanction
  • 1989 Born On The Fourth Of July
  • 1989 Always

Warner Brothers

  • 1987 The Witches Of Eastwick
  • 1988 The Accidental Tourist
  • 1990 Presumed Innocent
  • 1991 JFK
  • 1996 Sleepers
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Well we know Universal is working through stuff and that Cruise is signing off on things lately. So those.

Also I want Hook done by someone who has an idea what they're doing unlike last time. So that.

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I don't know if it's just because I bought Minority Report and Far and Away but I have a feeling we'll see Born on the Fourth of July before too long. 

 

Crazy thing was i didn't even think of the Tom Cruise connection until I was holding both discs in my hands.

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9 minutes ago, Jay said:

It is interesting how many Tom Cruise films Williams has scored!

 

Williams has done 4, but with the upcoming Top Gun sequel, Zimmer has just edged him out with 5!

 

Williams:
Born on the 4th of July

Far and Away

Minority Report

War of the Worlds

 

Zimmer:

Rain Man

Days of Thunder

Mission: Impossible 2

The Last Samurai

Top Gun: Maverick

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I like those Williams scores mores than those Zimmer scores

 

You might find this thread interesting:

 

https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/25312-actors-in-a-lot-of-films-by-the-same-composer/

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On 4/30/2020 at 8:54 PM, Jay said:

What do people think will be next up?

 

I think it will be something from these Dreamworks or Univeral scores:

 

On 4/30/2020 at 8:54 PM, Jay said:

 

Dreamworks

  • 1997 Amistad
  • 2002 Catch Me If You Can
  • 2004 The Terminal
  • 2005 War of the Worlds


Universal

  • 1975 The Eiger Sanction
  • 1989 Born On The Fourth Of July
  • 1989 Always

 

 

I'm afraid the remaining studios are a little bit more problematic to co-operate with the specialty labels.

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3 minutes ago, Jay said:

Yes please!

  1. 1961 The Secret Ways
  2. 1965 The Killers
  3. 1966 The Rare Breed
  4. 1966 The Plainsman
  5. 1970 Storia di una donna (Story of a Woman)
  6. 1972 The Screaming Woman
  7. 1972 Pete 'n' Tillie
  8. 1974 The Sugarland Express

 

That'd be great!

 

Though I'd prefer The Sugarland Express gets its own, separate release

 

Considering these are all premieres I'm not sure a series is necessary... I mean a John Williams premiere score release is going to sell on its own, right?

 

That said there are some obvious pairings here if a label felt like doing so, and I for one would love some Jim Titus-designed FLIPPER COVERS. :) 

 

The Secret Ways / The Killers

 

The Rare Breed / The Plainsman

 

Story of a Woman / The Screaming Woman (only an original main title for this, right?)

 

Pete 'n' Tillie was already released by Varese as a pairing for their Stanley & Iris Deluxe Edition... so that does leave The Sugarland Express to be released on its own, which makes total sense.

 

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17 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

The Screaming Woman (only an original main title for this, right?)

 

End title

 

(play button takes you to it)

 

 

 

It reminds me of Dracula

 

Nobody knows if it was written FOR this film, or tracked it from somewhere else (but it's never turned up anywhere else).


Presumably Universal owns it, either way!

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Not any more!

 

Historically, they were complete closed off to the specialty labels, until that magic day in April 2009 when LLL announced Airplane!

 

That was quickly followed by titles like 48 Hours, Black Sunday, Dragonslayer, Ghost and the Darkness, etc etc.

 

For a while, LLL and Paramount even worked out a deal where all the titles they owned would show up digitally, but then that stopped randomly.

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If the post-2005 thing wasn't an issue any more, what score would be the first to come out? Would it be a Spielberg one (just by percentages it's very likely)?  Which studios are the easiest to work with? I guess it wouldn't be Memoirs because of Sony Music, that new management and temporary halt might not be a problem anymore, but I think we still haven't even gotten the 2 Sony titles that were reportedly far enough along at the time of that halt that they could have come out.

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Added a note about the Quartet release of Images.


I waffled on crossing it out, because it got the MM and JW-approved treatment now, or leaving it un-crossed out, because it's not expanded.  I decided on the latter but could have gone either way.

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Crossed The Eiger Sanction off the list

 

Only one score left under Universal Pictures to expand!  Then, a lot of premieres...

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Since the main post has each of the seven major studio's sections further split up by sub-studios, I wanted to make another list that simplifies things to one single list for each of the seven majors


20th Century Studios

  1. 1962 Bachelor Flat (Intrada 2008)
  2. 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (FSM 2001)
  3. 1966 How To Steal A Million (Intrada 2008)
  4. 1967 A Guide For The Married Man (FSM 2000)
  5. 1967 Valley of the Dolls
  6. 1972 The Poseidon Adventure (La-La Land 2019)
  7. 1973 The Paper Chase
  8. 1973 Cinderella Liberty
  9. 1974 Conrack
  10. 1974 The Towering Inferno (La-La Land 2019)
  11. 1978 The Fury (La-La Land 2013)
  12. 1982 Monsignor (Intrada 2019)
  13. 1986 SpaceCamp
  14. 1990 Home Alone (La-La Land 2015)
  15. 1992 Home Alone 2 (La-la Land 2012)
  16. 2002 Minority Report (La-La Land 2019)
  17. 2013 The Book Thief
  18. 2017 The Post

11 down, 7 to go!

 

Disney

  1. 1977 Star Wars
  2. 1980 The Empire Strikes Back
  3. 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
  4. 1983 Return of the Jedi
  5. 1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  6. 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  7. 1995 Nixon
  8. 1999 The Phantom Menace
  9. 2002 Attack of the Clones
  10. 2005 Revenge of the Sith
  11. 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  12. 2011 War Horse
  13. 2012 Lincoln
  14. 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  15. 2016 The BFG
  16. 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  17. 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

0 down, 17 to go!


MGM

  1. 1966 Penelope (FSM 2004)
  2. 1967 Fitzwilly (Music Box Records 2013)
  3. 1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (FSM 2006)
  4. 1971 Fiddler On The Roof
  5. 1973 The Long Goodbye (Quartet 2012)
  6. 1973 Tom Sawyer (Quartet 2015)
  7. 1973 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (FSM 2002)
  8. 1976 The Missouri Breaks (Kritzerland 2013)
  9. 1990 Stanley & Iris (Varese 2017)

8 down, 1 to go!


Paramount

  1. 1960 I Passed For White
  2. 1969 The Reivers
  3. 1977 Black Sunday (FSM 2010)
  4. 1995 Sabrina
  5. 1997 Amistad
  6. 1998 Saving Private Ryan (La-La Land 2018)
  7. 1999 Angela's Ashes
  8. 2002 Catch Me If You Can
  9. 2004 The Terminal
  10. 2005 War of the Worlds (2020 Intrada)
  11. 2011 The Adventures of Tintin

3 down, 8 to go!

Sony

  1. 1958 Daddy-O
  2. 1960 Because They're Young
  3. 1963 Diamond Head
  4. 1963 Gidget Goes To Rome
  5. 1972 Images
  6. 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (La-La Land 2017)
  7. 1991 Hook
  8. 1997 Seven Years In Tibet
  9. 1998 Stepmom
  10. 2000 The Patriot
  11. 2005 Memoirs Of A Geisha

1 down, 10 to go!


Universal

  1. 1961 The Secret Ways
  2. 1965 The Killers
  3. 1966 The Rare Breed
  4. 1966 The Plainsman
  5. 1970 Storia di una donna (Story of a Woman)
  6. 1972 Pete 'n' Tillie (Varese 2017)
  7. 1972 The Screaming Woman
  8. 1974 The Sugarland Express
  9. 1974 Earthquake (La-La Land 2019)
  10. 1975 The Eiger Sanction (Intrada 2021)
  11. 1975 Jaws (Intrada 2015)
  12. 1976 Family Plot (Varese 2010)
  13. 1976 Midway (Varese 2011)
  14. 1978 Jaws 2 (Intrada 2015)
  15. 1979 Dracula (Varese 2018)
  16. 1979 1941 (La-La Land 2011)
  17. 1981 Heartbeeps (Varese 2001)
  18. 1982 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (La-La Land 2017)
  19. 1984 The River (Intrada 2020)
  20. 1989 Born On The Fourth Of July
  21. 1989 Always (La-La Land 2021)
  22. 1992 Far And Away (La-La Land 2020)
  23. 1993 Jurassic Park (La-La Land 2016)
  24. 1993 Schindler's List (La-La Land 2018)
  25. 1997 The Lost World (La-La Land 2016)
  26. 2005 Munich

17 down, 9 to go!

 

Warner Brothers

  1. 1965 None But The Brave (FSM 2009)
  2. 1966 Not With My Wife You Don't! (FSM 2006)
  3. 1969 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
  4. 1972 The Cowboys (Varese 2018)
  5. 1978 Superman: The Movie (La-La Land 2019)
  6. 1987 The Witches Of Eastwick
  7. 1987 Empire Of The Sun (La-La Land 2014)
  8. 1988 The Accidental Tourist
  9. 1990 Presumed Innocent
  10. 1991 JFK
  11. 1996 Sleepers
  12. 1997 Rosewood (La-La Land 2013)
  13. 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (La-La Land 2015)
  14. 2001 Harry Potter 1 and the Sorcerer's Stone (2018 La-La Land)
  15. 2002 Harry Potter 2 and the Chamber of Secrets (2018 La-La Land)
  16. 2004 Harry Potter 3 and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2018 La-La Land)

10 down, 6 to go!
 

 

And I am keeping 20th Century Studios separate from Disney now, because the ongoing Goldsmith at 20th line has shown that the specialty labels can continue to release stuff from their catalog without approval from the Disney overlords - at least for now!

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And here's another list:  unexpanded/unreleased, pre-AFM rate increase scores only

 


20th Century Studios

  1. 1967 Valley of the Dolls
  2. 1973 The Paper Chase
  3. 1973 Cinderella Liberty
  4. 1974 Conrack
  5. 1986 SpaceCamp

 

Disney

  1. 1977 Star Wars
  2. 1980 The Empire Strikes Back
  3. 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
  4. 1983 Return of the Jedi
  5. 1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  6. 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  7. 1995 Nixon
  8. 1999 The Phantom Menace
  9. 2002 Attack of the Clones
  10. 2005 Revenge of the Sith


MGM

  1. 1971 Fiddler On The Roof


Paramount

  1. 1960 I Passed For White
  2. 1969 The Reivers
  3. 1995 Sabrina
  4. 1997 Amistad
  5. 1999 Angela's Ashes
  6. 2002 Catch Me If You Can
  7. 2004 The Terminal


Sony

  1. 1958 Daddy-O
  2. 1960 Because They're Young
  3. 1963 Diamond Head
  4. 1963 Gidget Goes To Rome
  5. 1991 Hook
  6. 1997 Seven Years In Tibet
  7. 1998 Stepmom
  8. 2000 The Patriot


Universal

  1. 1961 The Secret Ways
  2. 1965 The Killers
  3. 1966 The Rare Breed
  4. 1966 The Plainsman
  5. 1970 Storia di una donna (Story of a Woman)
  6. 1972 The Screaming Woman
  7. 1974 The Sugarland Express
  8. 1989 Born On The Fourth Of July

 

Warner Brothers

  1. 1969 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
  2. 1987 The Witches Of Eastwick
  3. 1988 The Accidental Tourist
  4. 1990 Presumed Innocent
  5. 1991 JFK
  6. 1996 Sleepers

 

 

That's 46 possibilities all together!  So we've got something like 9 more years of expansions/premieres if MM can do 5 a year?  And if the AFM rates ever change that's 12 more and counting, or another 3 years or so...

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