HOOK (1991) - NEW! 2023 3-CD Ultimate Edition Produced, Edited, and Mastered by Mike Matessino featuring all Williams/Bricusse songs

[Martin B. 16]

And arrived today, along with Zorro & Sneakers.

After my Intrada parcel spent a week waiting to clear customs, Hook arrived in the UK yesterday and passed though customs in less than an hour and delivered today.

 

Now to get them ripped so the listening can commence...

[BB-8 3,478]

2 hours ago, Alan said:

 

CRACK & The Crack of Zorro

 

 

[The Five Tones 302]

Unusual for me to have an odd/sealed bunch, especially considering the last item (Hook) arrived over a week ago. Hoping for some holiday time to properly rediscover these.

 

[QuartalHarmony 543]

3 hours ago, Martin B. said:

Hook arrived in the UK yesterday and passed though customs in less than an hour and delivered today.

Great news! May I ask how much Customs et al. charged you?

 

Mark

[Jay 37,369]

I received my physical copy in the mail yesterday!

 

I almost still can't believe it's real!

[Brando 1,864]

Why do the keep saying Hook is Leslie and John's final project they worked on together? Home Alone 2 came out in 1992.

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

Because they both were involved in the expansion, I guess.

[BB-8 3,478]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Because they both were involved in the expansion, I guess.

Hook expansion = Biggus Bricusse

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

2 minutes ago, BB-8 said:

Hook expansion = Biggus Bricusse

 

Time to go to bed now. 

[JTN 2,030]

12 hours ago, Alan said:

Looky looky I got Hooky (and a somewhat cracked Zorro)!!

 

Crack Hook’s cover, too and they will match. 😬

[mstrox 6,651]

 

3 hours ago, Brando said:

Why do the keep saying Hook is Leslie and John's final project they worked on together? Home Alone 2 came out in 1992.

There is material on this album that postdates Home Alone 2!

[Brando 1,864]

4 hours ago, mstrox said:

 

There is material on this album that postdates Home Alone 2!

Ohhhhh I see. I assumed he wrote Home Alone 2 after Hook.

[crocodile 8,017]

14 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Great news! May I ask how much Customs et al. charged you?

 

Mark

To me honest, from my experience, they rarely charge anything. Hasn't happened to me with LLL/Intrada in many years. And if you need to know anything about me, I have a huge binge shopping problem.

 

Karol

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

7 hours ago, Brando said:

Ohhhhh I see. I assumed he wrote Home Alone 2 after Hook.

No, HA2 came later, but three songs are demos from Bricusse's 2001 attempt to create a peter pan musical with the unused material.

 

Got my copy today, by the way

[QuartalHarmony 543]

5 hours ago, crocodile said:

To me honest, from my experience, they rarely charge anything.

I was specifically asking @Martin B. because he and I are both in the UK and I wanted to know what they’re currently doing, having been charged in the past.
 

Are you in the UK too @crocodile?

 

Mark

[Alan 689]

1 minute ago, QuartalHarmony said:

I was specifically asking @Martin B. because he and I are both in the UK and I wanted to know what they’re currently doing, having been charged in the past.
 

Are you in the UK too @crocodile?

 

Mark

 

I'm in the UK and never been charged anything, including for this order.

[Martin B. 16]

20 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Great news! May I ask how much Customs et al. charged you?

 

Mark

Zero, same as ever. Haven't had a packaged stopped for years.

[Incanus 5,715]

Well my package finally arrived! Christmas came a few days early this year! 

[DangerMotif 1,038]

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1220028578/spielbergs-1991-movie-hook-was-nearly-a-musical-now-its-score-has-been-released

[crocodile 8,017]

5 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Are you in the UK too @crocodile?

 

Mark

Yes, indeed.

 

Karol

[Foxfan 128]

Darn.. it's already showing "Temporarily Out of Stock" on La-La-Land's website and I haven't placed my order yet. Are they pressing only a few at a time like Disney?

 

Hoping to combine this one with AI and Lost World which are also temporarily out of stock as the cost of shipping pretty much doubles the price.

 

I can't imagine all 5000 would be gone so quickly.

[Tydirium 1,167]

42 minutes ago, Foxfan said:

Darn.. it's already showing "Temporarily Out of Stock" on La-La-Land's website and I haven't placed my order yet. Are they pressing only a few at a time like Disney?

 

Hoping to combine this one with AI and Lost World which are also temporarily out of stock as the cost of shipping pretty much doubles the price.

 

I can't imagine all 5000 would be gone so quickly.

 

Don’t worry, not all 5000 are gone; it’s only “temporarily” out of stock because they’ve sold the first pressed batch. These labels don’t usually press the entire amount of units all once.

[Jay 37,369]

1 hour ago, Foxfan said:

Darn.. it's already showing "Temporarily Out of Stock" on La-La-Land's website and I haven't placed my order yet. Are they pressing only a few at a time like Disney?

 

Hoping to combine this one with AI and Lost World which are also temporarily out of stock as the cost of shipping pretty much doubles the price.

 

I can't imagine all 5000 would be gone so quickly.

 

On 10/12/2023 at 7:57 AM, Jay said:

MV says

 

If you ordered it through La La Land Records your order will be shipped as soon as possible. We are not taking any NEW ORDERS until it comes back in. We have accounted for every order we received until it was cut off and they will all be shipped before we close Dec 19.

 

More units are coming in late December early January.

 

MV

 

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=152698&forumID=1&archive=0

 

[Brando 1,864]

Just found this upcoming video on YT:

 

 

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

It is me or could he be Eva green’s brother? 
 

😅
 

Seriously the more i see the photo the more i think they have used a faceswap app with an eva green photo 😂

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

Not really. But the longer I look, the more I see what you mean.

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

Oh no, not an ultimate edition. Does this mean Mike will be split up and assembled in a weird order?

[ThePenitentMan1 744]

3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Oh no, not an ultimate edition. Does this mean Mike will be split up and assembled in a weird order?

 

No, no, he's just gonna be doused in blue paint and have his teeth blacked out.

[Trope 527]

3 hours ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

 

No, no, he's just gonna be doused in blue paint and have his teeth blacked out.

This made me chuckle out loud!! I’ve always hated that Phantom Menace cover art.

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

4 hours ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

 

No, no, he's just gonna be doused in blue paint and have his teeth blacked out.

 

I hope he brushes well.

[BB-8 3,478]

Darth Caries

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

It's here! Whoooooo!

[BB-8 3,478]

Mine's hooking in Frankfurt. 

[ThePenitentMan1 744]

So, the recent email says it's back in stock, but the store page says otherwise.

 

Perhaps the email is incorrect?

[SpaceCoyote 150]

2 minutes ago, ThePenitentMan1 said:

So, the recent email says it's back in stock, but the store page says otherwise.

 

Perhaps the email is incorrect?

 

Try refreshing. It took a couple minutes but it's available to order now (along with A.I.)

[Jay 37,369]

It's in stock and available to order

 

https://lalalandrecords.com/hook-the-ultimate-edition-expanded-remastered-limited-edition-3-cd-set/

[Nemesis 245]

On Intrada's site there is this statement: Temporarily out of stock

Do you think it's safe to say Intrada will sell Hook again?

 

[Holko 9,526]

7 minutes ago, Nemesis said:

Temporarily

Well...

[Nemesis 245]

Ordered from Intrada together with Jane Eyre/Heidi.

[Brando 1,864]

I finally got to listen to this release today, absolutely perfect from start to finish. All the new gems are a fantastic addition to the music Canon. All my thoughts have already been posted here by others, but I am so happy this score is finally available completely. Thank you to Mike, Jay, and all the other people who helped make this happen👏👏

[ThePenitentMan1 744]

I'm happy to say that I've placed my order!

[QuartalHarmony 543]

Turns out my brother-in-law did click on the link I sent him quickly enough, so he did get sent a copy and has just given me possibly the best Christmas present. No time to listen to it today, but tomorrow has a long listening session pencilled in!

 

31 years after I bought the OST, I’m about to hear it all. What a blast.

 

Mark

[GlastoEls 563]

My amazing wife got the hints and this was under the tree today - Merry Christmas to all!

[Faleel 5,354]

Got my copy today!!!!

[QuartalHarmony 543]

My brother-in-law made my Christmas by handing me the upper of these items yesterday:

 

 

The lower item, for your entertainment, is my original OST, including the track listing my 18-year-old self printed out on my dot-matrix printer. How times change.

 

Whilst on a personal note, both my wife and one of my daughters were hospitalised earlier this year, my wife for a quite serious operation. We’re still not in the clear yet, and a lot of peripheral things haven’t gone our way. Getting this release is a small but significant personal bonus for me that is not unappreciated.

 

Mark

[ThePenitentMan1 744]

4 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Whilst on a personal note, both my wife and one of my daughters were hospitalised earlier this year, my wife for a quite serious operation. We’re still not in the clear yet, and a lot of peripheral things haven’t gone our way. Getting this release is a small but significant personal bonus for me that is not unappreciated.

 

I hope they fully recover soon!

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

Yeah, best wishes 🙂

[bollemanneke 3,349]

On 24/11/2023 at 6:25 PM, Jay said:

 

The majority of the release comes from analog tape that Shawn Murphy saved his brilliant stereo mixes of every take to, in 1991.  Nobody has to worry about any sound issues with this release -- as the samples should already tell you.  Just compare the samples of "Flight To Neverland", "The Ultimate War (Film Version)", and "Swordfight and The End of Hook" to the same music on the 2012 edition.

 

The songs (which were not recorded by Shawn Murphy) were saved on various different formats but sound just as good.

Just curious, didn't LLL say in 2012 that they went to Murphy as well? Or did DD also just tell them he did that?

[Jay 37,369]

I don't understand the question.  Shawn Murphy recorded the score in 1991.  His 1991 mixes are used in the film, the OST album, the old expansion, and the new expansion.

 

Maybe you can clarify what you're confused about