Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Twilight Time has an isolated score track on the Blu-ray, but I’ve never read of an LP or CD release of this Johnny Mandel score. I don’t think it is long, so maybe would pair well with a premiere release of Harper?

THE LAST DETAIL is Columbia (Sony) while HARPER is Warner Bros. -- so unlikely for CD pairing. (Remember that licensors are never fond of sharing revenues.)

Surely a pain in the butt to do from a licensing agreement perspective. The score(s) has to be financially worthwhile to go through the muck, though Intrada does have a great relationship with the major studios and record companies. The Last Starfighter was Universal and Warner, and the eventual reissue of The Towering Inferno will be Fox, Warner and WMG.

1) My interpretation of co-ownership is that all revenue for such a property would be split by the owners. Securing license for release of THE LAST STARFIGHTER required negotiation/payment to both Universal and current owner of Lorimar. Any release of TOWERING INFERNO requires dealing with WB and Fox. In both cases those companies are co-owners of the properties in questions. All revenues for those titles are divided consistently according to the studios' deal with each other. (If not 50/50, then whatever split exists contractually.)

My point about this thread's hypothetical combo CD of HARPER and LAST DETAIL is that licensors traditionally aren't interested in dividing revenue for their fully-owned properties. Income for TOWERING INFERNO, and ALL THAT JAZZ, and TITANIC are split because of split ownership. Pairing DETAIL and HARPER on a CD would mean two companies sharing in a way they commonly don't.

2) You have a point with the PETE 'N' TILLIE/STANLEY AND IRIS pairing: the such only exception I know. (Do you know another? One exception does not make a new rule.) Those two pictures have a common director who produced his own films on occasion, so I don't know whether his involvement (or perhaps his own production company) could have been a significant factor in the deal behind that particular CD. It IS an exception; but would the commercial prospect of a Johnny Mandel two-fer be as enticing as Varese felt about the prospect for their John Williams PETE/STANLEY combo? Do you argue that LAST DETAIL/HARPER would be "financially worth the muck?"

3) Your unnecessary descent into vulgar expletive -- on what happens to be a bad day for me -- has cost you my respect. I've been called worse in my life, at times by people I know personally who meant something to me. But as of now, you're the opposite of them. I'll not waste more time in future discussion with you, T. Newman Fan.