Five John Williams titles in the works at Intrada for 2026

[BrotherSound 2,666]

I also posted this in the Intrada thread in General Discussion, but I thought it deserved its own topic in the JW forum.

 

Intrada has five JW titles in the works which will hopefully all be released in 2026.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FARmW7Vgg/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

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Happy New Year! Composer line for 2026 (we hope) includes Ron Jones, Gil Melle, Stu Phillips, John Williams, Dimitri Tiomkin, Jerry Goldsmith, Bill Conti, Danny Elfman, John Debney, Jerry Goldsmith, Stu Philips, John Williams, John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, John DuPrez, John Williams, James Horner, Charles Fox, Charles Fox, John Williams, Ilan Eshkeri (I don't know...maybe...I hope).

 

[filmmusic 3,222]

Oh, wow!

Let's hope they're not re-issues and expansions of already expanded scores!

[Rachael Foley 10,032]

A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Story of a Woman

[JohnnyD 1,823]

Intrada Records has FIVE planned releases of the Maestro’s works?!? Sweetness! This year is going to be fruitful for the Maestro; this on top of Disclosure Day, not to mention the releases being planned from La La Land Records.

[Andy 7,565]

And perhaps a stray release or two from Quartet. 

[Edmilson 12,244]

Since it's Intrada, we can count on one of them being Nixon, right? Right?!?

 

Please, Intrada, don't make me look like Padmé on that meme.

[Rachael Foley 10,032]

41 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Since it's Intrada, we can count on one of them being Nixon, right? Right?!?

 

Please, Intrada, don't make me look like Padmé on that meme.

[Tom 6,677]

54 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Since it's Intrada, we can count on one of them being Nixon, right? Right?!?

 

Please, Intrada, don't make me look like Padmé on that meme.

You're pregnant?  Man, that Anakin gets around.  

[crumbs 15,934]

Well this is awesome news! Mike is keeping busy!!

 

Being Intrada, the most logical scores would have to be:

• Jaws 2 (same program as the previous Intrada but remastered)
• Nixon (Disney. JW speaks so highly of these collaborations, seems like we're due for at least one Oliver Stone expansion?)
• Cinderella Liberty (Fox. Seems like the type of older score that would be revisited for an expansion, especially given the violin arrangement a few years back)

Roger mentioned years ago they tried to do The Rare Breed and Story of a Woman, but both were rejected by JW. Given we saw Sugarland Express finally released for its 50th anniversary, maybe JW's come around on these scores too? 2026 is the 60th anniversary of The Rare Breed.

 

Or maybe it's something more modern like Tibet or Angela's Ashes?

[Rachael Foley 10,032]

@crumbs I did just buy Angela's Ashes on Blu-Ray....

[BB-8 6,118]

More to add to the collection of sealed CDs...

[Mr. Hooper 8,686]

38 minutes ago, BB-8 said:

More to add to the collection of sealed CDs...

Look at your library of sealed physical media as you would a wine cellar, filled with uncorked bottles...

 

When the time is right, you'll select a CD that pairs well with your mood, unwrap it, and—

 

Oh, shit! There's a disc missing!

[BB-8 6,118]

15 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Look at your library of sealed physical media as you would a wine cellar, filled with uncorked bottles...

 

When the time is right, you'll select a CD that pairs well with your mood, unwrap it, and—

 

Oh, shit! There's a disc cue missing!

Fixed.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,908]

Gil Melle?

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN?!

Dare I hope?

 

John DuPrez?

A FISH CALLED WANDA? TIME BANDITS?

[Quppa 541]

5 is huge, reissues or not - looking at @Jay's list La-La Land has had a few years with 4 releases, but I can't see any labels with 5 in a single year.

 

 

[Richard P 5,252]

That's pretty amazing! I'm unlikely to be interested in most of them, but hopefully it means a significant chance of getting The Terminal from one of the labels.

[BloodBoal 8,552]

01. The Complete Star Wars Saga box set

02. The Complete Indiana Jones Saga box set

03. The Complete John Williams TV Recordings box set

04. Disclosure Day complete score release

05. Not With My Wife, You Don't 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition

[Maurizio 6,913]

Hey, looks who’s back! 

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,665]

It's definitely the five Indiana Jones before the 9 Star Wars next year 

[Marian Schedenig 11,611]

4 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

John DuPrez?

A FISH CALLED WANDA? TIME BANDITS?

 

Wanda seems exhaustively handled in the MBR release already. (Of course that was just 1,000 copies and has probably been out of print for a couple of years now)

[Holko 12,021]

And Intrada's already released Time Bandits years ago.

[rough cut 1,785]

I wouldn’t mind a re-release of the expanded edition of Home Alone 2, but this time with the OST added in remastered quality.

That OST has some unique and fun edits!

[BB-8 6,118]

4 hours ago, Maurizio said:

Hey, looks who’s back! 

Goldsmith?

[Slitherjump 154]

5 hours ago, Holko said:

And Intrada's already released Time Bandits years ago.

Weren't it stock cut off prematurely tho? It was out for a very short time, so I wouldn't mind a longer reissue

3 hours ago, rough cut said:

I wouldn’t mind a re-release of the expanded edition of Home Alone 2, but this time with the OST added in remastered quality.

That OST has some unique and fun edits!

Is Disney allowing Intrada to release Fox titles again? I know they can already release titles distributed by Fox but not ones completely made by them. If that's changed it'd be a great sign  

[Muad'Dib 2,039]

11 hours ago, BloodBoal said:

01. The complete Star Wars Saga box set

02. The Indiana Jones Saga box set

03. The Complete John Williams TV Recordings box set

04. Disclosure Day complete score release

05. Not With My Wife, You Don't 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition

 

[Pawel P. 910]

7 hours ago, rough cut said:

I wouldn’t mind a re-release of the expanded edition of Home Alone 2, but this time with the OST added in remastered quality.

That OST has some unique and fun edits!

 

Especially since this OST recently appeared on streaming services.

 

So, as for Williams, anything is possible when it comes to previously unexpanded titles, with the exception of the ones recorded after July 3, 2005, and the four that are from Warner Bros.:

 

The Witches of Eastwick
The Accidental Tourist
JFK
Sleepers

 

[Edmilson 12,244]

1 hour ago, Pawel P. said:

So, as for Williams, anything is possible when it comes to previously unexpanded titles, with the exception of the ones recorded after July 3, 2005, and the four that are from Warner Bros.:

And the six that are from Lucasfilm 

[Giftheck 1,219]

12 hours ago, BloodBoal said:

01. The Complete Star Wars Saga box set

02. The Complete Indiana Jones Saga box set

03. The Complete John Williams TV Recordings box set

04. Disclosure Day complete score release

05. Not With My Wife, You Don't 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition

[Rachael Foley 10,032]

Guess who's back? Back again?

[ThePenitentMan1 1,518]

15 hours ago, Edmilson said:

And the six that are from Lucasfilm 

 

The Indys make it more than six.

[Giftheck 1,219]

I don't know... If you'd told me a year ago that Disney would finally break through the George Lucas-mandated deadlock about showing the original cuts of Star Wars, I'd have probably laughed, thinking it was a joke.

 

What they do with the IP is surprisingly difficult to predict. Who knows? They might wind up doing it. But I would not expect the OT this year, at the least. If it happens, it'd likely be next year at the earliest, to tie in with the theatrical rerelease of the OT original cuts.

[JohnnyD 1,823]

17 hours ago, Pawel P. said:

So, as for Williams, anything is possible when it comes to previously unexpanded titles, with the exception of the ones recorded after July 3, 2005, and the four that are from Warner Bros.:

 

The Witches of Eastwick
The Accidental Tourist
JFK
Sleepers

 

Remind me. What is the issue with Warner Bros. (aside from the obvious studio issues/buy-out)?

[Jay 45,837]

8 minutes ago, JohnnyD said:

Remind me. What is the issue with Warner Bros.?

 

On 02/01/2023 at 2:36 PM, Jay said:

If anybody is wondering why Warner's list is so small outside of Varese, I direct you to two blog posts by Lukas Kendall

 

In recent years, Warner Bros. has pivoted away from doing soundtrack album licenses at all, for a bunch of reasons that have to do with corporate ownership and directives, which I’m not really qualified to analyze—and even if I was, I’d probably keep my mouth shut.

Warner Bros. is a magnificent studio with a ton of film and TV music that they could monetize—and at the moment they don’t want to invest the resources into the legal clearances and research to do it. 

 

from https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/the-dumbest-thing-i-hated-producing-cds-warner-bros-art-licenses

 

I don’t want to chronicle how we got from there to here, but at the moment, the studio is so hollowed out, there’s just no way they can research titles for music licensing. So that’s why so many of those great old unreleased scores aren’t coming out on CD. And, in fact, why even the CDs that were already released, not only by FSM but other labels, aren’t being distributed digitally.

 

from https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/warner-bros-layoffs

 

 

As for how the Varese WB titles happen - there are no new licenses granted for these, Varese already has a license to release any music from those films.  So WB just has to sign-off of the new editions, not figuring out a license like they would for a film that had a score album on a major music label.

[chriss 7]

On 05/01/2026 at 3:48 AM, crumbs said:

 

• Cinderella Liberty (Fox. Seems like the type of older score that would be revisited for an expansion, especially given the violin arrangement a few years back)

 

I really hope an expanded CD of Cinderella Liberty will be released. There are some beautiful film versions of the love theme missing.

[filmmusic 3,222]

15 minutes ago, chriss said:

 

I really hope an expanded CD of Cinderella Liberty will be released. There are some beautiful film versions of the love theme missing.

I always thought that the Cinderella Liberty cd was complete. I don't know why..

[Smeltington 1,946]

On 05/01/2026 at 4:51 AM, BloodBoal said:

01. The Complete Star Wars Saga box set

02. The Complete Indiana Jones Saga box set

03. The Complete John Williams TV Recordings box set

04. Disclosure Day complete score release

05. Not With My Wife, You Don't 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition

 

[MrJosh 1,192]

5 titles is a lot! I hope Disney is cool with paying the AFM fees and that one is The BFG, that would be awesome. 

 

 

[Stark 982]

Not a chance Disney pays AFM fees for a random score like BFG. Maybe there's a chance for the Star Wars sequels, maaaaaybe someday...

[Sunshine Reger 3,713]

On 05/01/2026 at 10:51 AM, BloodBoal said:

01. The Complete Star Wars Saga box set

02. The Complete Indiana Jones Saga box set

03. The Complete John Williams TV Recordings box set

04. Disclosure Day complete score release

05. Not With My Wife, You Don't 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition

 

[BB-8 6,118]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,209]

On 04/01/2026 at 11:45 PM, filmmusic said:

Oh, wow!

Let's hope they're not re-issues and expansions of already expanded scores!

 

Why not? Especially if they are OOP and there's people who will have a chance to own it 

[Rachael Foley 10,032]

21 minutes ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

 

Why not? Especially if they are OOP and there's people who will have a chance to own it 

Filmmusic is all that/the only one who matters

[phbart 707]

Could be the four Spielberg's Indiana Jones and a remastered Jaws 2.

[filmmusic 3,222]

3 hours ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

Why not? Especially if they are OOP and there's people who will have a chance to own it 

I assume that any self-respecting jwfan member here, has got these OOP releases the first time. 

3 hours ago, phbart said:

Could be the four Spielberg's Indiana Jones and a remastered Jaws 2.

Why a remastered Jaws 2 is needed?

Wasn't it remastered the first time? 

After all, I see, it was restored by Matessino..

EDIT: Oh, I see it falls into the OOP catergory..

[Rachael Foley 10,032]

5 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

I assume that any self-respecting jwfan member here, has got these OOP releases the first time. 

Some selfrespecting jwfan members are younger than some of the labels!

[phbart 707]

1 hour ago, filmmusic said:

I assume that any self-respecting jwfan member here, has got these OOP releases the first time. 

Why a remastered Jaws 2 is needed?

Wasn't it remastered the first time? 

After all, I see, it was restored by Matessino..

EDIT: Oh, I see it falls into the OOP catergory..

Also, a superior source for the OST album was located (by another label) the same time Intrada was preparing their expanded release back then, and apparently they did not had access to this material, so they were "stuck" with album master tape.

[Edmilson 12,244]

Almost a quarter of the year has gone and, so far, 0 out of the 6 John Williams releases that we were promised came out.

 

[Xander Harris 9,577]

I don’t have any issue with reissues. There’s always the risk of annoying people who already bought it or want something new, but then we wouldn’t have superior reissues of reissues like Hook or Jaws. In the words of John Rambo, fuck ‘em. Plus, these OOP titles go for absurd amounts on the black market. 

[Holko 12,021]

6 hours ago, phbart said:

Also, a superior source for the OST album was located (by another label) the same time Intrada was preparing their expanded release back then, and apparently they did not had access to this material, so they were "stuck" with album master tape.

Isn't that OST just an assembly of film cues? So it could have just been recreated from them? Or is it a significantly different mix?

[phbart 707]

I believe the OST album has some different takes here and there (typical JW), not really sure exactly what cues. If I'm not mistaken those alternate takes are only available on the OST album sources and not the film tracks (hence why the OST presentation on CD2 is from the album master tapes and not reconstructed from other elements).

 

It's not clear what exactly the new source for the OST album was for that alternate release, but it's the one available on all streamings as of today. MM will disagree (and he has a point, as he stated in his interview back in 2015), but to me it does sounds better than the Intrada release, film tracks or OST regardless.