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If there's ever a question about why something hasn't been released, 99.9% of cases can be explained with the following:
Rights and/or royalties.
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Jun 23, 2016 - 8:43 AM
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Tom Servo
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It's an incredibly long and detailed answer and many of us on this board have spent decades learning about the business of soundtrack albums, along with learning about the art of film music in general. You're talking about so many variables that prevent or allow any soundtrack, expanded or otherwise, to be released.
It can be a question of ownership and legalities of the film property, the music, the composer, this can be incredibly tangled and oftentimes these projects don't happen simply because the studio doesn't approve it. It can be a question of whether or not the actual recorded materials can be found, a very familiar story of studios throwing out the master tapes for the score or the tapes being lost and therefore there aren't any practical elements from which to even produce an album. And it's also a cost issue. Expanded score albums don't sell in large numbers and never will, so big labels with money won't produce them, leaving it up to small, niche soundtrack labels and the passionate people that run them. These are small business who still have to pay big time dollars to studios for the legal rights, to professionals to locate, mix and master the elements, to people to produce the album, art and liner notes and all while trying to pay their employees, keep their business running and make at least some profit.
Anyone here on the board will tell you how complicated this process is, there are also resources online you can read about it. This isn't as simple as just walking into a warehouse or library, asking where the master tapes for JAWS 2 are located, taking them home and making a CD.
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Jun 23, 2016 - 9:27 AM
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SchiffyM
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Bear in mind that there are only a few thousand complete idiots like us who want all the music for a movie, no matter how repetitive, no matter how brief the cues. In general, if non-buffs decide to buy a score album, it's because they love the movie or because the theme(s) were memorable to them. Forty-five minutes (plus or minus) will generally do. Certainly, a double disc set with hours of music (and a higher price tag) is a deterrent to purchase for them.
So if Disney hopes to sell "The BFG" to the general public (through non-specialty channels, such as Amazon or even Target or Best Buy), they would be foolish to release a massive set. And not incidentally, I'm sure John Williams feels his score works best pruned for listening, and not assembled just as it was for its cinematic purpose.
Also, releasing a full score at the time of the film's release is a very expensive proposition, because the musicians' unions give no break for a general release CD that may sell in reasonable numbers.
As for why "Jaws 2" took so long, in 1978, the notion of a complete score release would have been as absurd as imagining we'd all be taking photos with our telephones.
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