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His scores, accompanied by a full orchestra, afforded him the types of epic soundtrack you might hear in John Williams' soundtracks for Star Wars and Indiana Jones His compositions were increasingly ambitious, layered, and complex as the series went on, especially the more the showrunners trusted him, and he worked themes and characters into music[...]

If football truly is the epic game of the modern gladiator, then ESPN has tapped one of the most brilliant minds in cinematic music, Composer John Williams, to score a theme fit for an arena The three-and-a-half minute theme called "Of Grit and Glory" will make its debut for ESPN's College Football National Championship between[...]

Everything composer John Williams does for the Star Wars franchise is gravy at this point given his contributions from the franchise's very beginnings starting with 1977's A New Hope Williams provided the score for all nine episodic releases for Lucasfilm primarily paving the way for the next generation of composers including Natalie Holt, who's doing[...]

Legendary composer and "Star Wars" franchise Hall-of-Famer John Williams is set to compose the theme for the series Williams wrote the theme and recorded it under tight security with a Los Angeles orchestra last week There is no official word yet on who will be scoring the individual six episodes (which are expected to be[...]

Danny Elfman, composer for film and TV and formerly of Oingo Boingo, released his debut classical composition today, aptly titled "Eleven Eleven." Elfman joins fellow film composer John Williams in premiering a classical concerto this year; Williams debuted his second violin concerto over the summer at Tanglewood, played by his friend and world-class soloist Anne Sophie[...]

John Williams is also back to score Mikkelsen is particularly excited, as he told Collider in a new chat He seems to have gotten a peek at the script for Indiana Jones 5, and it may be worth getting pretty excited about if he is to be believed. Mads Mikkelsen attends 'At Eternity's Gate' photocall during[...]

Would they have been pissed if it was just John Williams music and the title? Sure, but they still would have lined up for days to see it. Trust me: as a person who may love trailers more than most films, I am not saying they need to go away But for huge franchises or anticipated[...]

How can I get that across in the music?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmHhIDUrdVAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Prelude and Main Title March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmHhIDUrdVA) Her Musical Influences Are Pretty "Super" Favorite composer? Influences? Pinar cites John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, and Cinema Paradiso composer Ennio Morricone as her timeless inspirations, but John Williams wrote the score that made her fall[...]

If you didn't get a chance to reserve your spot to check out Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland (which reportedly "sold out" in under two hours), we've still got a nice treat for you- a brand new piece of music from the composer of a galaxy far, far away, John Williams. Released yesterday officially by DisneyMusic,[...]

The Chris Columbus-directed feature from 1990 was a charming and timely family comedy, complete with mousetraps and an incredible John Williams score. It also is still near and dear to star Culkin's heart, as made apparent by this commercial made for the Google Home Assistant. "It was interesting going back and doing a lot of this stuff," Culkin said[...]

As the time gets closer for Disneyland and Walt Disney World to open their Star Wars themed Galaxy's Edge lands, we're getting more tastes and teases as to what awaits us there. Entertainment Weekly just debuted [exclusively] a series of pieces of music from the great Maestro John Williams, composed for Black Spire and the new Cosmic Conflict locations. This[...]

This week sees the release of one of the best soundtracks of all time: John Williams's Jurassic Park score! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Welcome! In celebration of the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the cinematic masterpiece JURASSIC PARK, this week we're[...]

Bleeding Cool correspondent Brandon Wainerdi gives us the rundown from Twitter's 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' panel from SXSW 2018.

(You can read more about those here.) Ron Howard stepped in to complete the film after original directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord were let go from the project by Kathleen Kennedy for a myriad of reasons (that we'll probably learn more about when the film opens). Solo will feature at least one piece of music by Star Wars[...]

Happy birthday to one of our favorite composers of iconic movie themes and moments, John Williams The 86-years-young maestro has been the aural architect of some of the most impactful and enduring scores in modern cinema history — here are some favorites of the Bleeding Cool staff. Editorial credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Kaitlyn Booth: Jaws, because there[...]

The music was done by iconic composer John Williams. Bryant told the Los Angeles Times that he had previously reached out to Williams in 2008 to help his basketball game: "I asked myself a question What makes a John Williams piece timeless? How is he using each instrument? How is he building momentum? As a basketball player,[...]

There were also the random reports about a Chris Pratt-fronted Indy, but those have since been largely dismissed. There have also been no shortage of rumors about what the 5th film may be about, but everyone confirms there will NOT be an appearance of Shia LaBeouf's Mutt character from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (*sigh of relief*). Back[...]

Few things are as instantaneously recognizable as John Williams iconic Star Wars compositions.  Having created each sweeping score for the saga since the first in 1977, Williams is more intimately familiar with the galactic conflict films than perhaps anyone else. Editorial credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com It has been a topic of some discussion over the last few[...]

Legendary composer John Williams is returning for another Star Wars movie! Williams will write the theme for the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, the Han Solo solo adventure starring Aiden Ehrenreich as the titular young Solo, Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, and Emilia Clarke as a character named Kira. Unlike the main Star Wars movies, however,[...]

For me, it was like when I realized my old movies." On Mark Hamill and his input on the script: "Mark Hamill was offered many ideas for the script, but I have to tell him that he had to keep it canon […]» I wanted to understand above all that had become Luke Skywalker that he attaches[...]

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Spielberg's "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" with never before seen behind the scenes photos.

Art directed by Suzy Rice and illustrated by John Alvin John Williams is the best film composer of all-time His greatest achievement would be the soundtracks to the 7 films that makes up the Star Wars Saga (Rogue One is not a Saga film) Since today is Star Wars Day (May the Forth be With You!)[...]

Following a touching Tribute to Carrie Fisher that aired at Star Wars Celebration Orlando's 40th Anniversary Panel today, legendary composer John Williams took to the stage to lead the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra through a live rendition of some of the most memorable tracks from the Star Wars catalogue, beginning, of course, with Princess Leia's Theme[...]

#SWCO #StarWars40th pic.twitter.com/10zZ4TXqpQ — Star Wars (@starwars) April 13, 2017 Following the video, John Williams led the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in a live rendition of Princess Leia's Theme Lots of tears, we imagine, were shed in the audience just now. A touching tribute to Carrie Fisher played during the 40th Anniversary Panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando just a[...]

To the everyone's surprise, explosions could be heard and lights could be seen as a grand fireworks display was set off. [youtube]https://youtu.be/UosMuPLJ0Mo[/youtube] The show was part a secret concert held by John Williams which the attendees of the Hall H Lucasfilm panel were invited to. Keep an eye out for an first-hand account of the experience by Jeremy Konrad. [...]