Transformers is coming to IMAX screens all over the place on September 21st! It’s gonna be bigger, louder… and it’s going to include more footage than what we’ve seen in conventional theaters already!
Here’s the story at SuperheroHype.com. Very good thanks to Eric Wilson for passing the word along over here 🙂...
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 ...
In this summer’s blockbuster movie Transformers, there is a character called “Mustache Man” in the credits. He’s a holographic projection that the Decepticons use in their vehicular modes to make it look like they’ve got a human operator. We first see him in Blackout’s cockpit during the initial attack on the base in Qatar, and then later wearing a police uniform inside Barricade and then sitting in Starscream’s cockpit. We never actually see Mustache Man speak, but he’s got an amazing on-screen presence that really conveys the personality and menace of the Decepticons.
Well, according to the Albuquerque Tribune in a story from about a month ago it turns out that this earthly face of the Decepticons is a real-life helicopter pilot instructor in the United States Air Force. Maj. Brian Reece has been in the military since age 17, and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan several times. ...
According to it’s page at Box Office Mojo, Transformers had $299,633,598 in U.S. theater earnings as of Thursday, so it’s safe to assume that it’s crossed the $300 million domestic mark already. It’s earned almost as much overseas, too.
And we still don’t have that glorious orchestral score on CD yet! The petition to get an an album of the movie’s soundtrack by Steve Jablonsky currently has 3,730 signatures....
It’s been a week now since the last update regarding the drive to see an album released containing Steve Jablonsky’s wonderful score from the movie Transformers. Don’t take that to mean that things have been quiet on that front though. Far from it: the past seven days have seen a flurry of activity and investigating and conflicting rumors that some good people have been working hard to cut through. Most of this has had to do with it being thought that Sony Music had the rights to publish the score. And that’s what a lot of people have been telling me over the past couple of weeks.
Among the biggest breakthroughs that have happened in this matter came about because of Marco van Bergen: an intrepid young film-maker (click here for the website for his movie Zero Hour) and journalist based in the Netherlands. Marco’s been ...
The online petition to show support for an album of the Transformers score by Steve Jablonsky is now up to 1,821 signatures. It will probably be over two thousand by this time tomorrow.
So I thought it was a good a time as any to call Sony Music, since everything is indicating that they are the ones who would be releasing this thing. And my intention was only to ask about when approximately we could be seeing this in stores. My e-mail box has been flooded with inquiries in the past several days from people about this: there was the feeling that I owed them some kind of substantive update with info straight from the source.
Well, I called up Sony BMG Music at (212)833-8000. A woman’s recorded voice gave me a list of options to choose from. I hit “4”, to speak to an operator at Sony BMG Music....
Some great news to report from the effort to see a Transformers orchestral score CD be made available!
First, the petition showing support for Steve Jablonsky’s Transformers score has gone from 438 signatures on Monday afternoon, to 787 right now on Wednesday evening. I realize that some are saying that “online petitions don’t work” but all the same, this is a pretty strong barometer of how much demand there is to see this album released.
The second bit of news is even more heartening. I sent an e-mail to Chandra Cogburn, who was one of the composers who worked on Transformers. I told her that the work she and the others did on this score was amazing and that there is a very large demand for an album of it. This is what Miss Cogburn said when she wrote back:
...Hello Chris,
There will be an album of
Here’s the petition that was set up last week, asking for an album be released of Steve Jablonsky’s magnificent score from the movie Transformers. If you loved the music in this movie too (and we’re talking about the orchestral soundtrack) and haven’t already, please feel free to sign it. At last count there were 438 signatures.
Since reporting last week about Sony Music saying that there are “no immediate plans” to release a CD of the Transformers score, a lot of people have been making inquiries with various parties about this. Fellow seeker-of-the-score Chris Barry has made the following compilation of answers that have been coming out about a score release:
...1. Lorne Balfe (composed some additional music on Transformers) said: “There is talk of a score for transformers coming out but it will be at least another 2 months!”
2. Mel Wesson (ambient music designer for Transformers
A few days go I started an online petition to show support for an album release of Steve Jablonsky’s amazing orchestral score from Transformers. At the time I intended for the petition to reach whoever was responsible for Transformers‘s marketing, and I thought that this should include Warner Records, since that’s the label that produced the Transformers “soundtrack” with music “inspired by” the movie. I was acting under the impression that Warner Records would be the outfit that would release the CD(s) of the actual score.
(By the way, I’ve watched the Transformers “soundtrack” sales rank on Amazon go from #22 this past Saturday to #282 today, just 5 days later. A lot of people are buying this CD thinking it’s the Jablonsky score, and some are returning it once they realize this isn’t the score at all. And word about that is getting around fast.)
Well, ...
I just set up the Transformers score by Steve Jablonsky CD online petition.
Why?
Here are some of the comments that people have made on this post and on its followup in recent days …
...“I love original score to movies and Transformers caught my ear as soon as the movie got 20 minutes in. Im hoping they release an original score soundtrack, if they don’t, it would be a crime.”
“Yup, I absolutely LOVED the score and I’m dying for it to come out! I’ve seen the movie twice, and I would absolutely go again just to listen to the score!”
“i saw it 3 times and the last two where just to listen to the score. i am a very big movie score kind of guy and i have to say it was the best on e out of any that i have heard in any movie.