6/17/08 Update: Samples from the album are now online!
From our friends at Warner Bros. Records… (and edited for length)

The haunting score to the hotly anticipated feature film The Dark Knight — will be released by Warner Bros. Records on July 15, 2008, three days before the movie opens nationwide on July 18th.
Composers Hans Zimmer and [...]

AHI Records (Halloween III: Season of The Witch), with distribution by Buysoundtrax Records, is set to release a special 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of They Live, featuring music composed & performed by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth.
They Live is a classic B-movie sci-fi/horror/explotationer featuring what must be the longest fight scene in cinema history. [...]

Emmy-winning (I Spy) and Oscar-nominated (Let’s Make Love) composer Earle Hagen, who penned some of televisions most enduring and popular themes, as well as music for over 3,000 episodes of television programs, passed away on May 26th. Hagen was 88.
For a full obituary: filmmusicsociety.org / hollywoodreporter.com.

Prolific composer and orchestrator Alexander Courage passed away on May 15th. Courage was 88. Known primarily for his theme for Star Trek, orchestrations for Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, Courage was also among the founders of the Composers and Lyricists Guild of America. For a full obituary: filmmusicsociety.org.

This is the first of many quickie posts that’ll touch on random film music subjects. Hopefully to spark some discussion. There are hundreds of registered users with the ability to post comments on Cinemusic, so exercise your fingers, folks! So I was just thinking…

What happened to Craig Safan? Specifically, have you [...]

Trevor Rabin
Platinum selling recording artist/award-winning composer Trevor Rabin scores the Warner Bros. action comedy, Get Smart. The film, directed by Peter Segal and starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, opens June 20 (soundtrack available June 17 on Varese Sarabande). Based on the 1960s TV series, Get Smart follows protagonist Maxwell Smart (Carell) and his partner [...]

Music Composed by Mychael Danna
Rating: ****

Michael Danna is one of those composers whose occasional presence in mainstream Hollywood always seems like a happy accident, as though art is sneaking in through the back door while commerce’s back is turned. In a world where even our best composers are forced into cookie-cutter templates, it never [...]

Music Composed by James Newton Howard
Rating: ****

By now you’ve probably learned the twist of M. Night Shyamalan’s latest marketed-as-a-thriller, The Village. Audiences all over the world were shocked to learn that “The Village” was actually a microscopic community of Sea Monkeys floating in a half empty Coke can in downtown Detroit! That Shyamalan sure knows [...]

Music Composed by Alan Silvestri
Rating: *** 1/2

Who says vampire hunting has to be so… loud? Apparently Stephen Sommers and Alan Silvestri. Sommers new monster action/adventure flick, Van Helsing, stars Hugh Jackman as Bram Stoker’s vampire-hunter and all the other Universal movie monsters not used in Sommers’ The Mummy franchise. Silvestri, who knocked it out of [...]

Music Composed by Don Davis
Rating: ****

We haven’t heard enough from Don Davis since his last feature, The Matrix Revolutions rocked our universe. So it’s with much fanboy glee that Prometheus slipped The Unsaid in under the radar. The surprise here is that The Unsaid is a film released before The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix [...]