Walt Disney Pictures is set to release Robert Zemeckis’ mo-cap adaptation of Charles Dickens’ little-known tale A Christmas Carol (which Disney hopes you’ll see in IMAX and 3D, to quote Frank Cross’ TV promo from Scrooged: “your life may just depend on it”).
Like all previous Zemeckis films, A Christmas Carol features an original score by [...]

Get ready for Renzetti
The good news is Night of the Creeps is here.  The bad news is… It features the absolutely shite artwork created by Sony for the film’s new DVD release!
Just in time for razor blade-rigged candy, premarital sex resulting in bodily dismemberment and girls in skanky chambermaid costumes at booze-fueled parties comes two [...]

Vic Mizzy: 1916-2009
Sad news, Percepto Records’s Taylor White has announced that composer Vic Mizzy passed away on October 17.
Known for his quick wit and good nature, Mizzi was born in 1916, in Brooklyn, New York. He is most well known for his The Addams Family TV show theme, but scored over a dozen films, [...]

Rating: ****

Compilations, like good horror villains, don’t stay dead. You can chop them, burn them, and kick their ass into a parallel universe — but they always come back. And like good horror movies, which live on in sequels, so too can you reissue, remake, and repurpose soundtrack compilations. It’s appropriate then [...]

Twitter has arguably become the largest internet phenomenon of, like, all-time. Everyone is flocking to the site to update the world on their moment-to-moment, day-to-day “status” updates. Naturally film composers, soundtrack labels and related industry riff-raff (yours included) have done the same. After all, these composers are human too. Just like [...]

Director Spike Jones, and singer/songwriter Karen O discuss the creation and inspiration of the soundtrack for the film. Carter Burwell’s original score is now available on iTunes. Video after the jump.

Composer Winifred (SimAnimals, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory) Phillips’ rollicking original score for EA’s blockbuster videogame Spore Hero is now available on iTunes and Amazon.com. EA Recordings released the soundtrack on October 6th.  Try before you by: preview the album on Last.fm.
La-La Land Records recently announced new titles, including one of the few remaining of [...]

Howard Shore
Doug Adams (Film Score Monthly, The Music of The Lord of The Rings Films) and Oscar-winning funnyman, composer, and Canadian Howard Shore will appear at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle (across from that windy Sbarro’s?) this Saturday, October 3rd to meet, greet, sign and discuss the upcoming music from the Lord of The Rings [...]

Jon Burlingame continues to keep the film music flame burning in the pages of the Hollywood trades. Today Variety printed his rundown of a film music concert surge this October.
Tickets must you buy. See starwarsinconcert.com for tour dates.
“October alone is jammed with major film music events across the nation. Today in Anaheim, Calif., [...]