Well this is an exciting surprise—the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is debuting a “new” piece by the late James Horner, “Skyward Spirit,” which was discovered in his archives and brought to life by his longtime collaborator, Simon Rhodes. Their video is NOT the full piece, alas, but the story behind it. Very excited for this!

We’ve made some improvements at FSMCDs.com in the store interface, making the shopping carts easier to use, and giving some new search options. Hope they help—thanks!

The new issue of FSM Online is live and I am looking forward to reading (well, listening, it’s an audio interview) Tim Burden’s interview with Barry Levinson about his entire composer history—wow! Go here for the new issue—and if you haven’t subscribed, please do so, we need you!

Here’s an interesting interview with the film editor of Tomorrow Never Dies, including discussion of David Arnold and his score: The Brosnan films really haven’t held up, I’m afraid.

Many thanks to Cine Circle films for including our Sky Fighter short film in a new sci-fi anthology called Final Orbit. Their first teaser trailer: More info here. Happy to get more exposure!

I love the original RoboCop—an all-time classic. All the sequels and remakes pale in comparison—because Robo’s storytelling arc is so complete in the original. I’ve long though of Paul Verhoeven as a director with a unique sensibility, but this video essay helped me appreciate what a good technical director he is as well: It’s all in the blocking and the moving masters. And today everything is just shot as coverage by multiple cameras. And get off my lawn!

Congrats to La-La Land Records as they make their way through the James Bond catalog, this time with a long overdue 2CD set of Michel Legrand’s score to Never Say Never Again. At last—the “horse chase” music, which I know now is “Escape From Palmyra (Film Version).” (I never realized there’s evidently an alternate of this on the album, also called “Escape From Palmyra.”) What a catchy piece! And yeah, they actually dropped a horse in the ocean—1980s moviemaking: This movie—oy