Varese Sarabande has announced two new limited edition (1000 units) CDs which can be ordered now and which are expected to begin shipping this week -- Brian Tyler’s score for the psychological thriller THE KILLING ROOM, just released on DVD, and Jeff Beal's score for the first of the TV movies based on Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels, JESSE STONE: STONE COLD, starring Tom Selleck and directed by Robert Harmon (The Hitcher).

Kritzerland has just announced the first ever release of Ernest Gold's score to PRESSURE POINT, the 1962 psychological drama directed by Hubert Cornfeld and starring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin and Peter Falk. The disc will begin shipping next month and is limited to 1000 units.

Mark Isham has put together a suite of score cues from his latest film, Werner Herzog's BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. The suite can be heard by using this link. 

Intrada will announce two new limited edition CDs next week.

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Jesse Stone: Stone Cold - Jeff Beal - Varese Sarabande
The Killing Room - Brian Tyler - Varese Sarabande

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - Mark Isham
The Blind Side - Carter Burwell
The Messsenger - Nathan Larson
Planet 51 - James Brett - Song CD on Decca featuring a 7 minute score suite
Staten Island - Frederic Verrieres
That Evening Sun - Michael Penn
The Twilight Saga: New Moon - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD due Nov. 24 from E1

November 24
The Fourth Kind - Atli Orvarsson - Varese Sarabande
Merlin, Season Two - Rob Lane, Rohan Stevenson - MovieScore Media
The Twilight Saga: New Moon - Alexandre Desplat - E1
Ninja Assassin - Ilan Eshkeri - Amazon [CD-R]
The Princess and the Frog - Randy Newman - Disney
The Prisoner - Rupert Gregson-Williams - Varese Sarabande
A Serious Man - Carter Burwell - Lakeshore
Surrogates - Richard Marvin - Lakeshore
Zombieland - David Sardy - Relativity Music
December 1
Cracks - Javier Navarrete - Varese Sarabande (import)
Wind/A Whale for the Killing - Basil Poledouris - Buysoundtrax
Winterhawk - Lee Holdridge - Buysoundtrax
December 8
Avatar - James Horner - Atlantic
Invictus - Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens - New Line
December 15
Alice - Ben Mink - Varese Sarabande
December 22
Everybody's Fine - Dario Marianelli - Varese Sarabande
It's Complicated - Hans Zimmer - Varese Sarabande
The Last Station - Sergei Yevtushenko - Varese Sarabande
January 19
Armored - John Murphy - La-La Land
Legion - John Frizzell - La-La Land
Leverage - Joseph LoDuca - La-La Land
Date Unknown
Americans - John Barry - Universal France
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna - Silva (import)
Inspector Clouseau - Ken Thorne - Kritzerland
Pressure Point - Ernest Gold - Kritzerland

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

November 20 - David Raksin begins recording his score for Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
November 20 - Kevin Gilbert born (1966)
November 21 - Malcolm Williamson born (1931)
November 21 - The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York (1946)
November 21 - Don Ellis begins recording his replacement score for The Seven-Ups (1973)
November 21 - Ralph Burns died (2001)
November 22 - Benjamin Britten born (1913)
November 22 - Craig Hundley aka Craig Huxley born (1954)
November 22 - W. Franke Harling died (1958)
November 23 - Jack Marshall born (1921)
November 23 - Johnny Mandel born (1925)
November 23 - David Spear born (1953)
November 23 - Clifford Vaughan died (1987)
November 23 - Irwin Kostal died (1994)
November 24 - Manuel De Sica born (1949)
November 24 - Pino Donaggio born (1941)
November 25 - Virgil Thomson born (1896)
November 25 - Stanley Wilson born (1915)
November 25 - Daniele Amfitheatrof begins recording his score for The Last Hunt (1956)
November 25 - Maurice Jarre begins recording his score for Grand Prix (1966)
November 26 - Jerry Fielding begins recording his score for The Killer Elite (1975)
November 26 - Bernardo Segall died (1993)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

FANTASTIC MR. FOX - Alexandre Desplat

"So 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' which Mr. Anderson wrote with Noah Baumbach, and which he has been hoping to make for many years, is in some ways his most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents. The work done by the animation director, Mark Gustafson, by the director of photography, Tristan Oliver, and by the production designer, Nelson Lowry, shows amazing ingenuity and skill, and the music (by Alexandre Desplat, with the usual shuffle of well-chosen pop tunes, famous and obscure) is both eccentric and just right."