On August 26, MovieScore Media plans to release the soundtrack for the 1998 TV remake of Hitchcock's classic REAR WINDOW, starring Christopher Reeve and Daryl Hannah. The Emmy-nominated score was composed by Oscar winner David Shire. They have also announced plans to finally release the long-delayed  CD soundtrack to one of the year's most music-dominated films, the stylish thriller GRAND PIANO, scored by Victor Reyes.

Monstrous Movie Music has announced four upcoming CDs of vintage film music -- Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter's score for the 1971 Western THE GATLING GUN, starring Guy Stockwell and Robert Fuller; Nicholas Carras' score for the female-centric action film THE DOLL SQUAD; WESTERN MEDLEY, a two-disc set featuring music from The Great Jesse James Raid (Bert Shefter), The Baron of Arizona (Paul Dunlap), and MST3K fave The Last of the Wild Horses (Albert Glasser); and another two-disc set, JUVENILE JIVE, featuring Date Bait (Nicholas Carras), High School Big Shot (another MST3K fave, scored by the great Gerald Fried) and High School Caesar (Nicholas Carras).

Kronos is releasing two limited edition CDs of scores for contemporary films - the drama STILL LIFE, directed by Oscar nominated producer Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty) and scored by his wife, Oscar winner Rachel Portman; and the just-released psychological thriller THE MAID'S ROOM, scored by Arturo Rodriguez. 

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Season Two - Bruce Broughton, John Cacavas, Stu Phillips, Herbert Don Woods - Intrada Special Collection
Centennial Summer - Jerome Kern, Alfred Newman - Kritzerland
Her Alibi - Georges Delerue - Intrada Special Collection
Il Mercenario - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Music for Alfred Hitchcock - various - Naxos
Palo Alto - Devonte Hynes - Domino
Res Dej Inte! - Simon Kolle - Intermezzo
Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbird 6 - Barry Gray - La-La Land
Tuareg - Il Guerriero Del Deserto - Riz Ortolani - GDM
Wild Is the Wind - Dimitri Tiomkin - La-La Land
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood/Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad - Neal Hefti - Kritzerland

IN THEATERS TODAY

Coldwater - Chris Chatham, Matt Miserocchi
Dinosaur 13 - Matt Morton
The Expendables 3 - Brian Tyler - Score CD due Aug. 26 on La-La Land
Fort McCoy - Dana Niu
The Giver - Marco Beltrami - Score CD due Sept. 16 on Sony
I Am Happiness on Earth - Arturo Villela
Jake Squared - Daniel Adam Day
Let's Be Cops - Christophe Beck, Jake Monaco
Life After Beth - BRMC
NightLights - Timo Elliston
Rich Hill - Nathan Halpern
The Trip to Italy - no original score
The Word - Joe Carrano

COMING SOON

August 19 
Into the Storm - Brian Tyler - Varese Sarabande
Penny Dreadful - Abel Korzeniowski - Varese Sarabande
The Zero Theorem - George Fenton - Milan
August 26
Bates Motel - Chris Bacon - Varese Sarabande
Batman: Assault on Arkham - Robert J. Kral - La-La Land
The Expendables 3 - Brian Tyler - La-La Land
Mary Poppins - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman - Disney
Rear Window - David Shire - MovieScore Media
September 2
Hannibal: Season 1, Vol. 1 - Brian Reitzell - Lakeshore
Hannibal: Season 1, Vol. 2 - Brian Reitzell - Lakeshore
September 9
Maps to the Stars - Howard Shore - Howe
The November Man - Marco Beltrami - Varese Sarabande
What If - A.C. Newman - Milan
September 16
The Giver - Marco Beltrami - Sony
The Knick - Cliff Martinez - Milan
The Maze Runner - John Paesano - Sony
September 23
The Equalizer - Harry Gregson-Williams - Varese Sarabande
Date Unknown
All Good Things - Rob Simonsen - Caldera
Annette Focks: Film Music Collection Vol. 1 - Annette Focks - Alhambra
Avere Vent'annia/L'Ambiziozo - Franco Campanino - Digitmovies
Destruction of Silence - Florian Linckus - Alhambra
Die Hebamme - Marcel Barsotti - Alhambra
The Doll Squad - Nicholas Carras - Monstrous Movie Music
5 Branded Women - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - Cometa
The Gatling Gun - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter - Monstrous Movie Music
Grand Piano - Victor Reyes - MovieScore Media
I Briganti Italiani - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - Alhambra
Juvenile Jive - Nicholas Carras, Gerald Fried - Monstrous Movie Music
Knight Rider Vol. 3 - The Best of Don Peake - Don Peake - Perseverance
La Revolution Francaise - Georges Delerue - Music Box
The Maid's Room - Arturo Rodriguez - Kronos
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/Donovan's Reef - Cyril J. Mockridge - Kritzerland
New York Chiama Superdrago - Benedetto Ghiglia - Digitmovies
Say It in Russian - Pinar Toprak - Keepmoving
Still Life - Rachel Portman - Kronos
Western Medley - Paul Dunlap, Albert Glasser, Bert Shefter - Monstrous Movie Music
Zero Option - Terry Plumeri - Keepmoving

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

August 15 - Jacques Ibert born (1890)
August 15 - Ned Washington born (1901)
August 15 - Jimmy Webb born (1946)
August 15 - Henry Mancini begins recording his score for Harry and Son (1983)
August 15 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986)
August 15 - Ronald Stein died (1988)
August 15 - Ron Jones records his pilot score for the animated Superman series (1988)
August 16 - Bruno Nicolai died (1991)
August 16 - Miles Goodman died (1996)
August 16 - Tadashi Hattori died (2008)
August 17 - Lisa Coleman born (1960)
August 17 - Ernest Gold begins recording his score for A Child Is Waiting (1962)
August 17 - John Williams begins recording his score for Black Sunday (1976)
August 18 - Igo Kantor born (1930)
August 18 - John Debney born (1956)
August 18 - Stuart Matthewman born (1960)
August 18 - Robert Russell Bennett died (1981)
August 18 - Jack Elliott died (2001)
August 18 - Elmer Bernstein died (2004)
August 19 - Fumio Hayasaka born (1914)
August 19 - Herman Stein born (1915)
August 19 - Luchi De Jesus born (1923)
August 19 - William Motzing born (1937)
August 19 - Ray Cooper born (1942)
August 19 - Gustavo Santaolalla born (1951)
August 19 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for Desire Under the Elms (1957)
August 19 - Andre Previn begins recording his score to The Subterraneans (1959)
August 19 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for BUtterfield 8 (1960)
August 19 - Alexander Courage's score for the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" is recorded (1966)
August 19 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to The Illustrated Man (1968)
August 19 - Lalo Schifrin begins recording his score for Telefon (1977)
August 19 - Luchi De Jesus died (1984)
August 20 - Raoul Kraushaar born (1908)
August 20 - Alain Goraguer born (1931)
August 20 - Stelvio Cipriani born (1937)
August 20 - Isaac Hayes born (1942)
August 20 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Naked Now" (1987)
August 21 - Constant Lambert died (1945)
August 21 - Basil Poledouris born (1945)
August 21 - Recording sessions begin for Hugo Friedhofer’s score for Two Flags West (1950)
August 21 - Joe Strummer born (1952)
August 21 - Walter Schumann died (1958)
August 21 - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino died (1987)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

INTO THE STORM - Brian Tyler

"Set up as a compendium of first-person videos (but with a brow-knitting score by Brian Taylor), 'Into the Storm' is set in Silverton, a geographically vague town full of cardboard people."

Rafer Guzman, Newsday

"The movie races along; it’s swift and unpretentious, clocking in at just under 90 minutes. There’s genuine suspense in the sequence when Donnie and his new girlfriend (Alycia Debnam-Carey) are trapped underground in a mill that begins flooding. Production designer David Sandefur deserves praise for the landscapes of destruction that he’s engineered. The score by Brian Tyler helps to keep the tension building."

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

WHAT IF - A.C. Newman

"The score, by A.C. Newman (of The New Pornographers, and a solo artist in his own right) is also perfectly crafted, neither obtrusive nor forgettable."

James Rocchi, The Wrap

"'The F Word' [retitled 'What If'] is the rare rom-com that’s both funny and romantic, and it does nothing whatsoever to buck the conventions of the countless dozens of movies like it. A low-concept premise helps: Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan hit it off at a party, but she’s committed to a long-term relationship and they agree to be friends. That’s it. The rest rides on the quality of the banter (by Elan Mastai, based on Michael Rinaldi’s play), which is adorably caffeinated and witty; the chemistry between Radcliffe and Kazan, which is strong; and Dowse’s smart direction, which sustains a bright tone (a score by the great A.C. Newman helps) and gives the city of Toronto a life that it’s almost never granted, outside of the odd 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.'"

Scott Tobias, The Dissolve

THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.

Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, Arclight, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.

August 15
BOY MEETS GIRL [Silent Movie Theater]
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Malcolm Arnold), DAMN THE DEFIANT! (Clifton Parker) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SIN CITY (Robert Rodriguez, John Debney, Graeme Revell), FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (Graeme Revell) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (Leo Shuken), THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Leo Shuken) [New Beverly]
TROPICALIA, A NIGHT IN 67 [UCLA]

August 16
THE BABY (Gerald Fried) [Silent Movie Theater]
BOY MEETS GIRL [Silent Movie Theater]
THE LADY EVE [UCLA]
OLIVER TWIST (Arnold Bax), GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Walter Goehr) [Cinematheque: Aero]
ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL [New Beverly]
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (Leo Shuken), THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Leo Shuken) [New Beverly]
THE VICTORS (Sol Kaplan) [UCLA]

August 17
BOY MEETS GIRL [Silent Movie Theater]
CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Ken Lauber) [Silent Movie Theater]
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (Maurice Jarre) [Cinematheque: Aero]
EVA (Michel Legrand), TIME WITHOUT PITY (Tristram Cary) [UCLA]
LASSIE COME HOME (Daniele Amfitheatrof) [UCLA]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosenman), EAST OF EDEN (Leonard Rosenman) [New Beverly]
UNCLE MEAT (Frank Zappa) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]

August 18
BATMAN (Danny Elfman - in person!) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
BOY MEETS GIRL [Silent Movie Theater]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosenman), EAST OF EDEN (Leonard Rosenman) [New Beverly]

August 19
THE JUNGLE BOOK (George Bruns) [LACMA]
THE MUMMY (Jerry Goldsmith) [Arclight Hollywood]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosenman), EAST OF EDEN (Leonard Rosenman) [New Beverly]

August 20
BOY MEETS GIRL [Silent Movie Theater]
SPARTACUS (Alex North) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
WE ARE THE BEST!, SCHOOL OF ROCK (Craig Wedren)[New Beverly]

August 21
BOY MEETS GIRL [Silent Movie Theater]
OUR MAN IN HAVANA, TUNES OF GLORY (Malcolm Arnold) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SUPERMAN (John Williams) [Arclight Hollywood]
UN CHIEN ANDALOU, L'AGE D'OR [Silent Movie Theater]
WE ARE THE BEST!, SCHOOL OF ROCK (Craig Wedren) [New Beverly]

August 22
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Miklos Rozsa), PITFALL [UCLA]
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (George Martin), WE ARE THE BEST! [New Beverly]
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF [Silent Movie Theater]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (Elmer Bernstein) [Cinematheque: Aero]
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Leigh Harline), WHITE DOG (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Nigel Godrich) [New Beverly]
28 DAYS LATER (John Murphy) [Silent Movie Theater]

August 23
FIST OF LEGEND (Joseph Koo) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Aero]
HIGH WALL (Bronislau Kaper), THE SCARF (Herschel Burke Gilbert) [UCLA]
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF [Silent Movie Theater]
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (George Martin), WE ARE THE BEST! [New Beverly]
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD (Jay Ferguson) [New Beverly]
SPY KIDS (Chris Boardman, John Debney, Danny Elfman, Gavin Greenaway, Harry Gregson-Williams, Heitor Pereira) [Cinematheque: Aero]
UN CHIEN ANDALOU, L'AGE D'OR [Silent Movie Theater]

August 24
BABY DOLL (Kenyon Hopkins), THE MISFITS (Alex North) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE GAUCHO [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
HUSBANDS, LOVE STREAMS (Bo Harwood) [New Beverly]
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF [Silent Movie Theater]
ROMAN HOLIDAY (Georges Auric), TO CATCH A THIEF (Lyn Murray) [UCLA]
UN CHIEN ANDALOU, L'AGE D'OR [Silent Movie Theater]