LOS ANGELES, CA – The darkly funny cult favorite is back from the dead when the film Dead Like Me premieres on DVD February 17th from MGM Home Entertainment. Set two years after the critically acclaimed Showtime series ended, the undead reapers are introduced to their new boss, Cameron Kane (Henry Ian Cusick; “Lost,” Hitman), whose new agenda creates disorder within the reaper clan. While Daisy (Sarah Wynter; “24,” “Windfall”) and Mason (Callum Blue; “The Tudors,” “Related”) fall prey to Cameron’s temptations, the infamous Georgia “George” Lass (Ellen Muth; Dolores Claiborne) creates more reaper havoc by breaking an important reaper rule: revealing herself to her Earthly family.
The Dead Like Me DVD bonus features include audio commentary from Ellen Muth and
director Stephen Herek as well as a “Back From The Dead: Resurrecting Dead Like Me”
featurette for a suggested retail price of $26.98 U.S. / $37.98 Canada. Timed to the movie release, MGM is also releasing “Dead Like Me” The Complete Collection which includes the Dead Like Me feature film and the complete television series, a director and cast commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes and more, for the suggested retail price of $69.98 U.S. / $99.98 Canada.
Dead Like Me Synopsis
When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family. As the reapers struggle with their roles on Earth,they each find that death can be just as complicated as life. Through its strong storyline, Dead Like Me delves into the intricate mythology and dark comedy created by the TV series and appeals to the show’s legions of fans as well as those new to the world of the reapers.
Dead Like Me Special Features
The Dead Like Me DVD is presented in widescreen with English Dolby Surround 5.1 sound.Bonus content includes:
• Audio commentary from director Stephen Herek and actress Ellen Muth
• “Back From The Dead: Resurrecting Dead Like Me” featurette
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Dearly beloved, gathered here for the first time on DVD is the feature-length Dead Like Me — Life After Death Movie, plus the entire “winningly eccentric” (LA Daily News) TV series on which the movie is based. Reap the benefits of this Soul Collectors’ Edition that includes four featurettes, audio commentary, deleted scenes and more!
Georgia “George” Lass (Ellen Muth) is young, successful, attractive…and dead. She’s a grim reaper, assigned to escort wayward souls into the afterlife, but it’s not as glamorous as it sounds.
Follow George and her fellow reapers as they navigate teenage “life.” Then join them in the “series’ hereafter” when the grim group gets a flippant new boss with a devil-may-care attitude, leaving George to wonder if she’s really better off dead.
With all its dark humor, innovative science fiction and coming-of-age drama, it’s no wonder that Dead Like Me refuses to die!
So are such notable pieces as a signed, first-edition copy of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” and a first-edition copy of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” that was signed not only by Stoker but also Lugosi, Boris Karloff and numerous other horror film notables.
The auction, tentatively scheduled for the last week of April, is expected to raise $500,000, said Joe Maddalena, president of Profiles in History, which is handling the sale.
Ackerman, the science-fiction writer, editor and literary agent widely credited with coining the term sci-fi, spent a lifetime collecting tens of thousands of pieces, ranging from the junky to the very rare. He died last December at age 92.
“I’m holding that stuff in my hand and I’m just like, ‘Wow, these are his most iconic treasurers,’” Maddalena said when he was invited by Ackerman’s estate to auction the collection. He said Ackerman’s will stipulates that his estate’s share of the profits be divided among his friends.
At one time Ackerman had a collection of 300,000 pieces of science-fiction film memorabilia, 50,000 books and the complete sets of 200 science-fiction magazines. During his final years he contributed many pieces to museums and sold some others, but held on to thousands more.
Universal City, Calif. (February 5, 2009) Caprica, the highly anticipated prequel to “Battlestar Galactica,” will enjoy its world premiere exclusively on DVD on April 21, 2009 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. In a groundbreaking move sure to delight fans of the long-running television phenomenon, the feature-length prequel will be available on DVD as a limited-edition uncut and unrated version before the series’ broadcast premiere on the
SCI FI Channel in 2010. Caprica is executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Remi Aubuchon (“24”). Exclusive bonus features that take viewers behind the scenes of the creation of Caprica make this DVD a landmark event for any fan of “Battlestar Galactica.” The film will also be available at selected online destinations for digital download transactions.
As “Battlestar Galactica” wraps its gripping final season on SCI FI on March 20, 2009, Caprica begins a brand new epic saga that continues the franchise’s commitment to thought-provoking storytelling and extraordinary characters. Set over 50 years before the events of “Battlestar Galactica,” Caprica is a world at the peak of its power, grappling with new science and technologies and the issues they create. The series will star Golden Globe nominee Eric Stoltz (Mask, Pulp Fiction), Esai Morales (“Jericho,” “NYPD Blue”), Paula Malcomson (“Deadwood” “ER”) and Golden Globe® nominee Polly Walker (“Cane,” “Rome”) in a story laced with passion, intrigue and family conflict.
“We are thrilled to take the groundbreaking step of offering the world-premiere of the Caprica feature-length extended pilot episode on DVD prior to the new series’ television debut,” said Hilary Hoffman, Senior Vice President, Brand and Digital Marketing for Universal Studios Home Entertainment. “This innovative distribution model will serve to satisfy ‘Battlestar Galactica’ fans’ appetites for a new content while building excitement for the franchise’s next great adventure.”
“Ever since fans first caught wind of the ‘Battlestar Galactica’ prequel Caprica, they have been eagerly following its development,” said Mark Stern, Executive Vice President, Original Programming for SCI FI & Co-Head Original Content, Universal Cable Productions. “We wanted to give them a chance to see the pilot in its original form and experience the prequel to the BSG story while that series’ finale was still ringing in their ears. It also affords the creative team an unprecedented chance to get viewers feedback before production on the Caprica series begins this summer.”
“If ‘Battlestar Galactica’ offered us a way to shatter the conventions of space opera, Caprica will be a show which will challenge the conventions of science fiction storytelling as a whole,” said Ronald D. Moore, Executive Producer/Writer.
“Part sweeping soap, part meditation on the dangerous moral ramifications of artificial intelligence, this is a truly unique opportunity to continue telling stories which will be as daring and shocking as the best of ‘Galactica’ — and yet will be altogether different from ‘Galactica,’” said David Eick, Executive Producer.
Universal Cable Productions will begin production on the “Caprica” series in the summer of 2009 in Vancouver for a 2010 television premiere on the SciFi Channel. The DVD of Caprica is priced at $26.98 S.R.P.
“STEAMPUNK CYLON” CONTEST
Cylon Background: The Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies. Intelligent robots, they were used as slaves and soldiers to fight humanity’s wars. But the Cylons became sentient and they rebelled. Man and machine fought to a bloody stalemate, then the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space. A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy… moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies.
Now DVICE gives you the opportunity to create Steampunk Cylons to win prizes. There are many examples of steampunk design — contemporary objects re-imagined as if they were built in the Victorian era.
HOW TO ENTER
Design a Steampunk Cylon: Entrants must create an image of what a Cylon from the “steampunk” era would look like. You can use graphical software (such as Photoshop), draw or paint your Cylon, or you can physically build the Cylon and photograph it. You then submit the image(s) of your design to editor@dvice.com. Please do not exceed 1 megabyte per image! Your entry should also include your full name, date of birth, phone number, physical address and a valid e-mail address.
We’ll also accept entries for creations in the general Battlestar universe (steampunk ships, steampunk devices, etc.), although our preference is for Cylons.
You’ll know you’re in a different galaxy within the first seconds of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” which substitutes the Warner Bros. logo and theme music for the familiar 20th Century Fox searchlight and fanfare.
While anything remotely “Star Wars” potentially is a welcome trek for hard-core fans, however, it will be a mixed thrill given that the saga returns to the big screen as a cartoon.
George Lucas’ prequel trilogy was so overloaded with computer-generated imagery that the digital animation of “Clone Wars” isn’t much of a leap. The somber tone of those three movies — chronicling the downfall of Anakin Skywalker from snotty, brooding teen to black-hearted Darth Vader — is gone, replaced with a variation of the campy humor and camaraderie that characterized the original trilogy.
Still, a “Star Wars” movie should be an event. But whether because of its cartoony format or its relatively lightweight story, “Clone Wars” definitely is not an event.
For fans, it serves as a fairly promising introduction to the “Clone Wars” animated series debuting on Cartoon Network this fall. The movie centers on a fresh adventure of Anakin and his Jedi knight elder Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Clone Wars that have been so pivotal to “Star Wars” since the beginning — but about which we’ve heard so little.
There was a passing reference to this civil strife in 1977’s “Star Wars” and a few glimpses of its onset in “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones.” The action here and in the TV series takes place between that movie and “Episode III — Revenge of the Sith,” before Anakin goes bad.
The new movie sets up a seemingly bottomless well of story possibilities for the TV show. There are plenty of returning characters, new faces and bit players around which Lucas’ team can build episodes, so the series hopefully won’t be merely another ‘Droids-vs.-Clones battle every week.
“Clone Wars” adapts a story arc director Dave Filoni (also the supervising director of the TV show) and company had been developing for the small screen.
Anakin (voiced by Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan (James Arnold Taylor) start off in the heat of battle, leading a band of the Republic’s clone soldiers against the comically inept android troops of a separatist movement led by the evil Count Dooku (Christopher Lee, reprising his live-action role).
To show Anakin’s soft, mushy, pre-Vader side, he’s given his own Jedi apprentice, Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein), a spunky alien girl who quickly forges a wisecracking bond with her usually stoic mentor.
The two are assigned to lead a rescue of giant slug crimelord Jabba the Hutt’s squishy, squirmy baby Hutt, who has been kidnapped in a conspiracy that gives all our familiar prequel heroes a part to play.
Among them: Jedi masters Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson, also back from the live-action flicks) and Yoda, Anakin’s future bride Padme Amidala, and androids R2-D2 and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels, who was featured in all six live-action movies).
Filoni, a veteran of the animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” and executive producer Lucas’ team craft a distinct design to set the animated version apart from the live “Star Wars” universe.
The characters have a chiseled, almost harsh look to them (Obi-Wan’s beard resembles a miniature snowplow that’s been grafted to his face). Their movements are a bit jerky, deliberately patterned somewhat after Gerry Anderson’s “Thunderbirds” and his other cult action series featuring puppets.
Why? The best guess is to make good on the promise that this is “Star Wars” as you’ve never seen it. The jerky motions seem at odds with the fluid acrobatics of Jedi warriors, but this probably will be far less noticeable once the “Clone Wars” adventures move to the small screen.
While the movie has a huge body count as ray guns and light sabers flash, “Clone Wars” comes off as rather cute overall. The Shakespearean tragedy of Anakin’s transformation into Vader behind him, Lucas turns his gang loose to be merry, even silly.
Again, that tone probably will work better in the shorter TV installments. In theaters, it makes for a reasonably fun if generally forgettable story, at least in terms of the grand-opera standards of the live-action “Star Wars” films.
Maybe it’s for the best that this movie landed under the Warner Bros. banner. “Clone Wars” simply could not have lived up to that breathless pause of anticipation that always rises in the silence between the Fox fanfare and the first blaring note of the “Star Wars” theme, which also has been modified to let audiences know at the outset that this is a galaxy a bit farther out than they’re used to.
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking. Running time: 98 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
LA-LA LAND RECORDS & DARK DELICACIES PRESENTS A “DC COMICS/WARNER BROS. ANIMATED SUPERHEROES” CD SOUNDTRACK SIGNING EVENT
Meet “BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT” composers CHRISTOPHER DRAKE, ROBERT J. KRAL and KEVIN MANTHEI and “TEEN TITANS” composers KRISTOPHER CARTER, MICHAEL McCUISTION and LOLITA RITMANIS
At DARK DELICACIES
4213 W. Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505
Saturday, August 16, 2008, 2pm
La-La Land Records and Dark Delicacies invite you to meet, and get your CDs autographed by, the composers of the thrilling music scores from the hit DC/Warner Bros. animated features “BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT” and “TEEN TITANS: TROUBLE IN TOYKO.”
Composers Christopher Drake (HELLBOY ANIMATED FEATURES), Robert J. Kral (TV’s “ANGEL”, SUPERMAN DOOMSDAY, THE DRESDEN FILES, DUCK DODGERS) and Kevin Manthei (JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER) examine the dark psychology of The Batman through their amazing scores to BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT.
Acclaimed animation composers Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion and Lolita Ritmanis (BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, BATMAN BEYOND, BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE, TEEN TITANS) harness all the fun and excitement of the Teen Titans’ feature-length adventure with their music from TEEN TITANS: TROUBLE IN TOYKO.
Robert J. Kral will also be signing his SUPERMAN: DOOMSDAY soundtrack.
Kevin Manthei will also be signing his JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER soundtrack.
The composers will sign more than one item, but one of the items must be a soundtrack CD purchased at Dark Delicacies. CDs are available now at Dark Delicacies and will also be available for purchase at the signing.
Can’t make the signing, but still would like to get autographed CDs? You can order CDs from Dark Delicacies to be autographed and sent to you! Check out their website www.darkdel.com for details!
LAKESHORE RECORDS RELEASES SOUNDTRACK FOR
DRAGONLANCE: DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT
Soundtrack Features Original Music By Karl Preusser
(May 12, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) - On May 13th, Lakeshore Records will release the original soundtrack for Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight via iTunes and in stores. Karl Preusser composed the music for the film, based on the bestselling novel Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, which was released on DVD in January.
Composer Karl Preusser has been turning heads in the film and television industries for years. Karl’s unique musical voice and his always fresh and creative sound palette have consistently kept filmmakers and producers coming back for more. His numerous credits include several feature films, television series, award winning short films, and commercials. He has worked with composers such as Michael Kamen, Elliot Goldenthal, and Hans Zimmer.
In addition to Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Preusser’s other feature films include Ronnie, a wild, dark, comedic drama, starring Adam Scott, Brian Austin Green, Aimee Graham, and Marc Pelligrino, Dementia, directed by Woody Keith; Lost Focus, directed by Sanford Fleischman; and The Big Blind, which has been highlighted on the Travel Channel’s World Poker Tour. Karl’s next project is the WWII romantic epic Seed of Contention.
Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is an animated tale of swords and spells. In the peaceful land of Krynn, the evil goddess Takhis and her flock of dragons threaten to unleash their scourge upon the world. The only thing standing in their way are three determined warriors: the priestess Goldmoon (Lucy Lawless, Xena Warrior Princess), the half-elf warrior Tanis (Michael Rosenbaum, Smallville), and the wizard Raistlin (Keifer Sutherland, 24). A mix of vintage and 3-D animation, this action-packed fantasy is based on the bestselling novel Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight.
The Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight DVD was released by Paramount Pictures on January 15, 2008. Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes and in stores on May 13, 2008.
C.S. LEWIS’ TIMELESS ADVENTURE THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN FEATURING ORIGINAL MUSIC BY AWARD WINNING COMPOSER HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS
WITH ORIGINAL SONGS PERFORMED BY
SWITCHFOOT AND REGINA SPEKTOR
**ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK TO BE RELEASED ON MAY 13TH ON WALT DISNEY RECORDS**
(April 29, 2008- Burbank, CA)- Walt Disney Records will release the original soundtrack for Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian on May 13, 2008. The recording features score written by award-winning composer Harry Gregson-Williams and songs performed by Switchfoot (“This Is Home”), Regina Spektor (“The Call”), Oren Lavie (“A Dance ‘Round The Memory Tree”), and Hanne Hukkelberg (“Lucy”).
In 1950, the scholar, critic and writer C.S. Lewis published The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, the first of his seven-volume series, The Chronicles of Narnia, and established a modern legend. Adults and children alike fell in love with his stirring, action-packed adventure that was set in the middle of World War II bombing raids yet transported readers into an alternate and far more enchanted universe of mythological creatures waging an epic battle between good and evil.
Harry Gregson-Williams reunites with director Andrew Adamson for the 5th time after composing the scores for his Academy Award®-winning Shrek (co-composed with John Powell), the hit sequels Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for which he collected Golden Globe and Grammy nominations for his score. He is one of Hollywood’s most sought after composers, working on a variety of high-profile projects, both animated and live-action.
Over the last several years, Gregson-Williams has composed such notable scores for Shrek the Third,Gone Baby Gone, Chicken Run, Man on Fire, Flushed Away, Domino, Spy Game, Déjà vu, Phone Booth, Veronica Guerin, Smilla’s Sense Of Snow, The Replacement Killers, Bridget Jones: The Age of Reason, Enemy of the State, Antz and Kingdom of Heaven, among others.
The multi-platinum selling rock band Switchfoot has written and recorded the original song “This Is Home,” which is heard in the body of the film and over the end title credits. They shot a video for the song with director Brandon Dickerson, who filmed their most recent video for “Awakening.”
“We are so honored to be a part of the Prince Caspian film with ‘This Is Home,’” says Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman. “The Narnia stories have a really special place in my brother Tim and my lives. Our dad used to read these to us at bedtime when we were boys. Our imaginations were shaped on these amazing novels.”
The characters of C.S. Lewis’ timeless fantasy come to life once again in this newest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series, in which the Pevensie siblings are magically transported back from England to the world of Narnia, where a thrilling, perilous new adventure and an even greater test of their faith and courage awaits them.
“As [the film’s director] Andrew Adamson and I began early discussions about the musical possibilities for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” composer Harry Gregson-Williams said, “it became clear that the movie could take a score with plenty of edge and bite to it this time around, supporting the fast moving action and adventure that quickly unfolds.”
One year after the incredible events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Kings and Queens of Narnia find themselves back in that faraway wondrous realm, only to discover that more than 1300 years have passed in Narnian time. During their absence, the Golden Age of Narnia has become extinct, Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines and is now under the control of the evil King Miraz, who rules the land without mercy.
The fast forward 1300 years in the future allowed Gregson-Williams to re-address themes from the first film as well as creating new ones. Director Andrew Adamson described, “For Prince Caspian, Harry drew not only on the beloved themes of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, but also developed original, sympathetic themes for Caspian and the Telmarines. Harry has threaded these themes with the same beauty and originality as he has woven all the notes that form his wonderful scores.”
The four Pevensie children will soon meet an intriguing new character: Narnia’s rightful heir to the throne, the young Prince Caspian, who has been forced into hiding as his uncle Miraz plots to kill him in order to place his own newborn son on the throne.
Gregson-Williams embraced the challenge of composing for these new characters. He described, “The early introduction of a fearful Prince Caspian fleeing for his life from the dangerous Lord Miraz gave me a wonderful opportunity to introduce this new and somewhat darker musical landscape right from the opening.”
Also drawing inspiration from C.S. Lewis was Switchfoot. “‘This Is Home’ was inspired by the book after re-reading it for the opportunity to write for the film,” continues the band’s frontman, Foreman. “I am always taken by [C. S.] Lewis’ ability to write about the bittersweet beauty in this world; this home we aren’t really made for but is the place we work out our humanity in the midst of our longing for our true home.”
Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media present The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian in theaters on May 16, 2008. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Original Soundtrack will be in stores on May 13, 2008.
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
TO BE RELEASED BY LA-LA LAND RECORDS ON MARCH 18
Renowned Television And Game Composer Kevin Manthei Scores
Justice League: The New Frontier
(March 11, 2008- Burbank, CA) - La-La Land Records will release the soundtrack for JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER on March 18. The animated feature will be released on Blu-Ray, Hi Def DVD, and on Demand on February 26 and on HD DVD on March 18th. Kevin Manthei (Batman: Gotham Knight, Xiaolin Showdown, Invader Zim) composed the original music.
Kevin Manthei has been working in the film, television and game arena for over 15 years. He has worked as the series composer on five animated TV shows - representing over 130 half hour episodes, composed over 50 game soundtracks, has made a mark composing music for animated features, independent films, as well as contributing additional music on many well-known feature films.
Manthei began his game writing career working on some of the biggest titles of the time: Panzer General 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, Sacrifice, Twisted Metal:Black and other classic games. Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Nickelodeon’s cult hit Invader Zim, was a huge fan of games and game music, hiring Manthei to score what was to become 26 television episodes of Invader Zim. This garnered Manthei his first Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music for an animated series. Invader Zim also led to Xiaolin Showdown for Warner Brothers Animation as well as Brandy and Mr. Whiskers for Disney. He continued to score both of these shows along with Warner Brothers’ Johnny Test, for which he wrote the emo punk inspired main title and score to the first season.
While continuing his work on games and film, working on such game titles as Ultimate Spiderman, City of Villains, The Sims 2, Starcraft: Ghost, Shrek 2, and recently Marvel Universe Online & Kung Fu Panda, Manthei has also been active working on several film scores including Batman: Gotham Knight and The 24th Day starring James Marsden and Scott Speedman. Batman: Gotham Knight, which Manthei co-composed, is an anime inspired straight-to-DVD release whose storyline bridges the gap between the live action films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
Based on the graphic novel by Darwyn Cook and produced by Michael Goguen and executive produced by animation legend, Bruce Timm, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER is the epic tale of the founding of the Justice League. DC Comics legends
Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all featured in the film as are Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and The Flash - as they band together to form the legendary super team.
Strangers at first, these very different heroes must overcome fear and suspicion to forge an alliance against a monster so formidable, even the mighty Superman cannot stop it alone. If they fail the entire planet will be ‘cleansed’ of humanity.
The setting of the film allowed Manthei to draw on inspirations from the past. “I felt very fortunate, because of the fresh take Darwyn Cooke took in his graphic novel,” Manthei described. “The setting, in the late 50’s and early 60’s, set up a nice backdrop and tone for the score. Gone was the current standard of a ‘hybrid’ score consisting of electronics and orchestra. Rather, a new approach was suggested, which was to compliment the time period with a score that was rooted in that time.” He was inspired by the works of Bernard Herrmann and Aaron Copeland, along with elements of film noir.
“The biggest challenge of the score,” said Manthei, “was keeping a cohesive feel while still addressing all the different characters and thematic elements. I chose to write major themes for the Centre, Flash, Hal, Green Lantern & J’onn J’onzz while letting the other super hero characters be supported by scene specific underscore.”
Michael Goguen described, “The surprising touch of a soft, soulful, film noir-ish saxophone as J’onn J’onnz, the Martian Manhunter, first stands up into the light to reveal himself to the audience in the film’s first act; the thrilling, propulsive strings and soaring horns of the Flash’s first action sequence as he runs to and around Las Vegas; the dream-come-true excitement of the secret Mars space flight, followed by the draining suspense of the tragic crisis-in-space sequence; and the wonderful moment when a choir of angels welcomes Superman as he arrives to save Hal Jordan from certain death; these are all inspired moments of pure musical bliss for me, those things that can only come from a place of true depth of feeling and sensitivity. This score is full of such things, and I invite you to listen for them and savor them.”
Warner Bros. Video presents JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER, out on Blu-Ray, Hi Def DVD, and On Demand on February 26, 2008 and on HD DVD on March 18th. The JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available in stores or from www.lalalandrecords.com on March 18, 2008.
LOS ANGELES, CA – The darkly funny cult favorite is back from the dead when the film Dead Like Me premieres on DVD February 17th from MGM Home Entertainment. Set two years after the critically acclaimed Showtime series ended, the undead reapers are introduced to their new boss, Cameron Kane (Henry Ian Cusick; “Lost,” Hitman), whose new agenda creates disorder within the reaper clan. While Daisy (Sarah Wynter; “24,” “Windfall”) and Mason (Callum Blue; “The Tudors,” “Related”) fall prey to Cameron’s temptations, the infamous Georgia “George” Lass (Ellen Muth; Dolores Claiborne) creates more reaper havoc by breaking an important reaper rule: revealing herself to her Earthly family.
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