Three Score Replacements

News Compiled by Lukas Kendall

Some news from crazy Hollywood, where scores come and go like the wind:

Marco Beltrami is frantically replacing some of John Ottman's cues on Halloween H20. Additionally, some Beltrami's cues from Scream and Mimic are being tracked in. Reportedly top Miramax brass wanted the score to more closely resemble the temp track, which was Beltrami's music.

Michael Kamen is replacing Ennio Morricone on What Dreams May Come, the new film by Vincent Ward starring Robin Williams. Jeff Bond saw a screening with the Morricone score, said it was fine, but reportedly the studio is trying to up the commercial potential of the film... by having Kamen whip something out in two weeks.

And finally, John Williams is replacing Patrick Doyle in Stepmom, the new film directed by Chris Columbus (Home Alone) starring Julia Roberts. Why? Evidently Williams's agents decided that Williams wanted to do the picture. Doyle finished his score a month or two ago and it's reportedly lovely. I'm glad I'm not the one who broke the news to him. What did they say? "Glad you're still in remission. By the way, we're throwing out your score." (Doyle was recently diagnosed with a form of leukemia but it has been fully treated and he is A-OK.)

In other news, time for you guys in Australia to have something fun:

From: acarr@rubix.com.au (Andrew P. Carr)

Just letting you know of an event taking place in Melbourne, Australia this week. It's called "Cinesonic - the world of sound in film: 1st international conference on film scores and sound design." It runs from Wednesday July 29th to Saturday August 1st and features a series of lectures and performances by scholars, critics and composers from around the world. Wednesday night kicks off with Howard Shore conducting a live performance of his score to "Crash" and on Friday night Carter Burwell will be talking about composing for the Coen Brothers' films.

http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/media_arts/Phil_Brophy/Cinesonic.html

So, this is going on now! Hope some folks get to check it out.

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