Okay, so there are folks who are happy with this year’s musical Oscar noms for “Best Score” and “Best Song”. Yet I can’t help but feel that this is the most generic crop of nominees in recent memory (aside from the Williams nods – go John – who will remember Brokeback Mountain and The [...]

Sumthing Else Music Works, Inc., through a licensing relationship with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd (SCEE), is pleased to announce their first release of 2006: MediEvil Resurrection — Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack album from the third title in the multi-million selling MediEvil series, developed by SCEE’s Cambridge Studio, is now available at European and US [...]

From Mellowdrama Records, the fine folks who brought you Roque Banos’ sensational score for The Machinist…
Mellowdrama Records will release the Ivor Novello Award-winning soundtrack to Enduring Love in March 2006, with music composed by Jeremy Sams.
Sams’ intelligent scoring for this adeptly-weaved thriller is furnished with a musical dynamism that favours intensity and [...]

Randall Larson at Cinescape has written an comprehensive article on the films and their music based on the works of horror legend H.P. Lovecraft. From high brow to Italian splatter, H.P. has seemingly been adapted by all with mixed results, but often the music has proven memorable.

ABC’s website for the hit fantasy-drama Lost has posted a podcast featuring composer Michael Giacchino, who guides the listener through the orchestra players that perform the music for the show. The composer also reveals several musical secrets behind the show. The podcast is indicative of the light, relaxed atmosphere of Michael’s Lost sessions (I [...]

Five clips from Brian Tyler’s score for Annapolis have been added to his website. The score is an effective mix of the big orchestral sound of Brian’s Children of Dune and the contempo, hard-rocking drum loops and e-guitar sound heard in his score for Papaparazzi. Fans of classic sports filmmusic need not worry, as [...]

From the press (releases)…
Composer James Dooley scores When a Stranger Calls for Screen Gems and director Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Con Air). Starring Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy and Tommy Flanagan, the film opens February 3. When a Stranger Calls is a retelling of the 1979 horror [...]

Intrada Announces:
The Lost WorldComposed and Conducted by Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter
Five Weeks In A BalloonComposed and Conducted by Paul Sawtell
Intrada Special Collection Volume 28
For this installment of the Intrada Special Collection, Intrada presents a 2-CD set featuring the music from two Irwin Allen epics from 20th Century Fox: The Lost [...]

You might have noticed that big, blue, Blogger strip at the top of the page. Blogger was the original way the news, etc. at Cinemusic was posted to the site. This was years ago, and the service was flakey to be kind. I switched over to an HTML method that seemd to take more time [...]

Film Score Monthly the print magazine is dead. But the folks behind the mag have ressurected the namesake with FSM Online, film music features and coverage for this digital age. If your prefered method of turning the pages of FSM was in the comfort of your bathroom, you will now have to balance a laptop [...]