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MV posted this news in the LLL/MV Questions Thread, but I think it's important enough to get it's own thread for optimal discussion.
Sony Music has decided to not do deals any more with all the labels so it does throw a monkey wrench into some plans. Hopefully things will change. We'll see
We have 2 major projects pending but other than that the other titles we were looking into and/or started some work on were scrapped. The letter went out to all the labels
Has there been any explanation or is somebody here in the position to at least reasonably speculate as to what led Sony Music to make this decision? Can't be that the small specialty labels were cutting too deep into their profits (as its all really niche), and I don't see any intention for Sony do release the stuff on their own. Was it simply too much overhead to have all the legalities cleared?
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Too bad SONY does control INDY.
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Maybe there's good news somewhere in this, like Mike Matessino is secretly working with Sony to bring out expanded editions of all of the John Williams scores above! Maybe? Hopefully? Anyway, hopefully it is only temporary. Regimes change at big companies all of the time, and they frequently change their policies. Maybe this moratorium won't last long...
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Sony really has not been fan friendly for a while. They moved to CDRs on Amazon US and then to CDRs on almost all of the titles they have released worldwide.
Now they make this decision that further impacts score fans.
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Oh, SHIT -- I forgot this also excludes an expansion for Free Willy 2 (and the first as well, but that needs one far less). Basil's music for the sequel is more developed and more orchestral than the original, with multiple lovely new themes. This is a huge loss which I feel more keenly than even any of those Williams or Horner titles that can no longer be expanded now.  Maybe even more than those two great Waxman titles LLL was working on already (Sayonara and The Spirit of St. Louis) which will now not be expanded.
Of course there's an outside chance maybe it's one of the two titles LLL has in the pipeline already?
Yavar
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just to be certain of the situation
Example: "The Specialist" is a Warner Bros Movie but the score by John Barry is released on EPIC Records label which is own by Sony Music.
Does it means with the new development that a possible future release is now compromised for the speciality labels except if Sony Music decide do it themselves?
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Yes.
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SchiffyM:
Yes, this is an alarming bit of news, but I do think a little knowledge is a dangerous thing here
Danger is our middle name.
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