Thursday, August 16, 2007

Paramount confirms: TRANSFORMERS score CD is rolling out!

Warner Bros. Records will "shortly" be releasing the album of Steve Jablonsky's orchestral score from the movie Transformers, according to a Senior Vice President in the Music Department at Paramount Pictures.

The Knight Shift blog received this confirmation a short while ago. And you've no idea how happy I am about being able to report this!

The word comes from a source wishing to identifying himself as "Sam Witwicky all the way from New Zealand" (and in case you're wondering, I already asked if his eBay username was "ladiesman217" and he said that it's not :-). "Sam Witwicky" was able to correspond directly with the good people at Paramount Pictures: the studio which along with DreamWorks was responsible for producing Transformers. Our man Sam told them about the interest there's been in a CD release of Jablonsky's score and he mentioned the online petition (which may hit 5,000 signatures in the next few days).

Here's what Sam received back...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Butler at Paramount
Date: Aug 16, 2007 4:12 AM
Subject: RE: Transformers Original Score
To: Sam Witwicky

There will be a score album released shortly on Warner Bros. Records. Thanks for your interest!

Dan Butler

Senior Vice President

Business Affairs & Legal - Music

Paramount Pictures

So there's the word pretty much from the top: soon, we'll be getting to put our grubby lil' paws on a shiny new CD containing that majestic score from Transformers by Steve Jablonsky!

To all of you who have signed the petition and have otherwise been showing support for this album and getting the word spread about how much we'd love to have it in our collections: THANK YOU!! Nothing would please me more than to be able to shake hands with every single one of ya :-)

And very special thanks to Dan Butler and the folks at Paramount for having this great news sent along to us!

11 comments:

  1. omg can't wait!

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  2. My God, it's full of stars! I'm sick of listening to crappy recordings from inside a theater! This rocks! Any idea on a release date? Anyone? Anyone?

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  3. Tears of joy, tears of joy!!!

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  4. Signs from 4483 to 4583 we got in 24 hours!
    With this speed=14,4 min/1 sign until 5 000 Sign: +4 DAY

    Listen fan made "Score" works:
    http://www.esnips.com/web/TF-TM07-Raretracks

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  5. Ah, so that's why Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was suddenly going through my mind the other day. Now waiting for the CD to be released will be almost as bad as waiting for Christmas as a kid... ;)

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  6. that is great new :)

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  7. check this:
    http://john.textamerica.com/?r=5791107

    There you can at least listen to one track ...

    @Christopher: *thumbs.up* ... I appreciate the effort you're putting into this. I just hope that it will be a global release (in Germany clocks seem to be running slower ... ;-))

    Christian W.

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  8. *virtual handshake*

    Can't wait!

    *adds a high five for good measure*

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  9. October 9 is the release date.

    Amazon link

    Best Buy link

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  10. According to the Best Buy web page the Transformers Score will be release on 10/9/2007 here is the link http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=15925643&st=transformers&type=product&id=1700224

    I can't wait to get it.

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