Fans can finally get their hands on The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring vinyl soundtrack with the complete recordings of the score from composer Howard Shore.
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Watch the Score: A Film Music Documentary trailer to see some of the greatest film composers of all time talk about the work they do for the big screen.
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For the first time, Howard Shore's scores for three of David Cronenberg's finest films will be released on vinyl. Learn more about the Mondo vinyl releases.
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As eye-popping as the glittering gold piles, sinister dragon eyes, and deep, dark forests of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug are, they wouldn't be quite as impressive without an appropriate soundtrack. That's where Howard Shore comes in. The Canadian composer has scored every installment of Peter Jackson's J.R.R. Tolkien franchise to date. For his…
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Typically it can be considered a slightly spoilerish endeavor to listen to a film's score before the movie opens. But most of us are so familiar with what Howard Shore has done for Peter Jackson and Middle-Earth that a new batch of music is more like an extension of what has gone before than an…
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It's an extra-chatty edition of Sequel Bits, as everyone has a little something to say about everything. After the jump: A $500,000 camera has been stolen from Dumb and Dumber To The next Aliens game might be about Ripley's daughter Peter Jackson chats about the score for The Hobbit Director thinks National Treasure could shoot…
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Pandas and hobbits and singletons, oh my! After the jump: Marc Webb hints at costume changes for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Guillermo del Toro offers Puss in Boots 2 and Kung Fu Panda 3 updates Author Helen Fielding has a third Bridget Jones novel due out next fall, Listen to Howard Shore's full score for…
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Fans of Middle Earth who've been following The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey closely know that advance tickets go on sale at noon EST Wednesday. It said so in both previously released commercials. But with that news comes not only our first list of theaters showing Peter Jackson's film in 48 frames per second, but the…
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One of the pleasures of any new David Cronenberg film is the new work from Howard Shore that traditionally accompanies it. Cronenberg and Shore have worked together on almost every one of the director's features since The Brood in 1979. (Michael Kamen did the score for The Dead Zone in 1983.) And while not every…
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Of the nine movies currently up for Best Picture, Martin Scorsese's Hugo is my personal favorite. There's so much I love about the film, from its eye-popping visuals and impeccable use of 3D to its inspiring tale and lovable performances. I'm not the only one that feels that way, of course -- Hugo's been a popular…
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David Cronenberg has been a forward-thinking guy at many points in his career, but the overall tone of his films tends more towards the classic than the contemporary. He has relied upon Howard Shore to score his films for over thirty years. While some of those scores have been as unusual as the films they…
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It's beginning to look a lot like Middle Earth, everywhere you go. Off in New Zealand, Peter Jackson and crew are back at it filming two films based on The Hobbit. On June 28, the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions are finally coming to Blu-ray and, in anticipation of that, each of those films…
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Here's a very good turn of events for David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis, which is now scheduled to shoot in late May. The film stars Robert Pattinson as a young billionaire, who during the course of one day traveling across Manhattan in his limo, manages to cheat on his wife, deal…
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Part of what made director Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy so beautiful was the epic and lyrical score by composer Howard Shore. Every scene of travel, battle, humor or death was all accompanied by Shore's wonderful music and he won two Oscars for those scores, Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the…
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Say what you will about the Twilight films, but as they go along and prove to be financially successful, they're able to attract high-profile creative talent. If nothing else, I'm happy to see these films as paycheck gigs for people like Howard Shore, who is now the composer for Eclipse, directed by David Slade. Not…
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Earlier today, executive producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro answered questions from fans in an online chat about The Hobbit and its announced sequel. We have the entire transcript available after the jump, but have compiled cliff notes for those who don't have the time to read the full transcript: Guillermo has already…
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