Tag: Bear McCreary
Soundtrack Reviews: Renewed Franchises
Franchises are both a boon for the studios wanting to expand the lifespan of an existing franchises, as well as composers who get a crack at tackling an iconic series, remake, or re-imagining. Just uploaded is a review of Bear McCreary’s Battlestar Galactia: Blood & Chrome, and Roque Banos’ superb Evil Dead (both from La-La Land Records).
Soundtrack News & Reviews
News of the special features to appear on Twilight Time’s upcoming Picnic and The Roots of Heaven Blu-rays, plus CD reviews of Bear McCreary’s The Cape and Alfred Newman’s A Certain Smile La-La Land), and Ludovic Bource’s The Artist and the compilation album for The Descendants (Sony Classical).
Soundtrack Reviews + News
Reviews of four fun video game soundtracks: Bear McCreary’s SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs and Hans Zimmer & Company’s Crysis II (both from La-La Land Records), and Inon Zur’s Dragon Age II (Bioware) and Crysis (Sumthing Else), plus news regarding recent Q&As with composer Winifred Phillips (Legend of the Guardians), and Special Features producer Charles de Lauzirikia regarding Universal’s recent Legend (1984) Blu-ray…
Targeting the 80s Action Genre
The late, great Michael Kamen scored two iconic action films of the eighties – Lethal Weapon (1987), and Die Hard (1988) – and they were the genre’s definitive films, in fact, because they provided the template for filmmakers to imitate and composers to emulate for around a decade. Screenwriters tended to use ‘Die Hard on a plane/train/boat/chuck wagon/wobbly tricycle’ when pitching ideas to agents, and journalists liked to use the same phrases to describe what story, treatment or script the latest overpriced scribe had managed to sell for $1.5, $2.5, and $4.0 million to a sucker studio…
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