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Is it more Police Academy coming? Thanks
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What a pity! After the wonderful first release, I keep waiting for the second to appear. Police Academy 3 and 4 features GREAT orchestral film music.
Here's hoping there is interest after all!
I wish they had stuck with their original idea of a complete box for all of the movies like they had originally intended. If it's licensing and the asking price, then I can see why it's not theseable at the moment. That would be MV's area of expertise and leave it at that since he knows more about this than we do. A shame because each score in the films is diverse and fun, I especially want the music for 2 and 4 mostly.
I'd also would've love to seen their Mel Brooks box too had it come to fruition. Definitely would've been worth the price without question for those brilliant High Anxiety Main Titles alone.
Oh MV, will we see any Elmer Bernstein, Alan Silvestri or Michael Kamen scores from you anytime soon?
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The fire at Universal is grossly innaccurate and has been proven over and over again that master tapes for film scores were not lost. Please stop fueling the flames of this narrative
MV
You can therefore say with certainty that not even any Decca soundtrack album masters from the 50s and 60s owned by UMG were lost in that 2008 fire?
If you read an article like this - and there are of course several others -, you get a quite different impression:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/what-did-we-lose-universal-music-fire-blazed-through-archives-n1025556
You don't have your facts correct, so here's the story again.
Universal cut loose its music group in 2004. What we now call UMG has had zero connection to the studio as a business since then. At the time of the separation, record label assets were kept on the Universal lot in a building that was run by NBC. Instead of moving them off in 2004, UMG rented the space to keep them there. Other assets from their family of labels would come and go but it was all to do with the RECORD LABEL and not the studio that had cut it loose. So yes, many record masters and copies of album tapes were lost, and one of the reasons why no one knows exactly what was there -- and why certain things have later appeared -- is because also in that same building were old paper files that said what was where.
Now, in that same building, Universal STUDIOS - not UMG - did keep video masters and prints, and those were lost. BUT no negatives or FILM SCORING MASTERS were kept there. In short, nothing related to original music masters for the STUDIO were in there.
Recent example... Universal Music Group has NO tape master elements for their Somewhere in Time soundtrack album. All they have is the 1630 digital master for the first CD release. BUT, Universal STUDIOS had the 3-track 1/2" film scoring masters, kept elsewhere, along with all of their music assets.
Hope this makes sense and is clear once and for all. The fire had zero impact on any music elements for Universal STUDIOS... only Universal Music Group, which might have included album masters for soundtrack albums, but not the film scoring originals.
OK, so, bring on a 'Miami Vice' set 
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Please, please MV any chance of ‘The Godfather Trilogy’ set for 2022 to coincide with 50th anniversary. I have asked several times and am hoping you made the powers that be an offer they could not refuse!
Enough! All right. This one time, this one time I'll let you ask me about my affairs.
Lol. Funny answer 
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Isn’t noon PST their usual announcement time? That would be 12 minutes from now…
Yavar
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Nope.
You might be thinking of the time when new releases go up for sale on their own website, which does consistently happen always at noon PST on a release day
The fliers are different and unrelated to that, and go up on Facebook at any random time MV feels like posting it. All one has to do is scroll back at their feed and look at the timestamp on the flier post too see how wide the variance window is
This year,
May's arrived at 11:51am EST
June's arrived at 3:18pm EST
July's arrived at 1:18pm EST
August's arrived at 12:19pm EST
September's arrived at 1:12pm EST
October's arrived at 11:14am EST
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Thanks Jason — I did mix up the two things.
Yavar
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Any hints as to what this year's Black Friday titles will be? Or is it too early?
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