Walt Disney will release a special 3D formatted Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas into select theaters this October. To capitalize on the 13 years worth of growth of the film’s rabid fanbase, Walt Disney Records will also re-issue the originalNightmare songs and score in a 2-disc set, with the second disc comprised of cover [...]

Host Claude Brodesser-Akner of The Business on KCRW, a Los Angeles area radio station, has interviewed Danny Elfman. Elfman goes through the oft-told story of his time in the business, but unique to this interview, demos a cue from his upcoming Charlotte’s Web score. Listen to the interview.

Taffy, one of two Keaveney family cats, passed away last night. She was nineteen years old. She would have been twenty in November. She will be missed.
Please download “She Was A Real Lion” from Patrick Doyle’s Secondhand Lions as an audio tribute to this much-loved little oddball who loved roasted chicken, sleeping [...]

58th Annual Creative Arts Primetime Emmys winners for music:
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music:Masters of Horror, Edward Shearmur
Outstanding Music Composition For A Series:24 (“6:00 AM & 7:00 AM”), Sean Callery
Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special:Into The West, Geoff Zanelli

Shocking news via www.filmmusicmag.com…
US Musicians union threatens $50K fines against AFM composers and other members participating in scores recorded in Seattle
“In a Notice to Members, the U.S. Musicians Union (AFM) has threatened fines of up to $50,000 against AFM members who perform services including composing, arranging, orchestrating, copying, and other services related to film [...]

There are no more loyal fans than those horror fiends, the gorehounds. They lovingly cherish even the most rank cinematic terror turds.
This weekend I had the rare opportunity to witness back-to-back the wide spectrum of horror product currently being churned out. Two movies, about a year old, one made a year ago and [...]

An update from Erik Woods at Cinematic Sound:
The On-Demand Show for this week is now on-line.
On the program this week we will be listening to music from Lady In The Water (Howard), The Lake House(Portman), United 93 (Powell), Cars (Newman), Abominable (Schifrin), The Omen (Beltrami), Evil (Shaw), The Sisters (Morse), The Fast and The Furious: [...]

Henry Mancini fans can safely stow their copies of Lifeforce, the infamous nude Vampire babe thriller from Tobe Hooper, as BSX (BuySoundtrax) Records will release a two disc set featuring Mancini’s complete original score (26 tracks), plus Michael Kamen’s additional score (as 10 never-before-released tracks) and the complete original Lifeforce album presentation (11 tracks).
Intrada has [...]

I was watching HD PBS last night, like I often do, and caught a great doc on the history of the U.S. Forest Service titled The Greatest Good.
There’s a lot of great programming on PBS, and a lot of it has great music. Most of it is scaled down orchestral meat and potatos, but [...]

It’s a slow day when this is all the news you have to report…Proving that CBS will spare no expense to launch Katie Couric as there national news anchor, the net has hired James Horner to compose the new musical theme for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, which debuts on Tuesday, Sept. 5 [...]