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 [...]

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 [...]