The Mummy Returns (Universal/sequel)
film release scheduled for: May 11, 2001
composer at present: Alan Silvestri

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney/animated)
film release scheduled for: June
composer at present: James Newton Howard

Planet of The Apes (Fox/remake)
film release scheduled for: July 27, 2001
composer at present: Danny Elfman

Jurassic Park III (Universal/sequel)
film release scheduled for: July 18, 2001
composer at present: Don Davis (!)
(composer news of Don Davis scoring JP3 confirmed at Film Score Monthly)

Pearl Harbor (Memorial Day)...Hans Zimmer

Sum of All Fears...if its Philip Noyce I'm going to guess Horner again, but perhaps Craig Armstrong.

Monsters, Inc....Randy Newman (ughhh...no songs please)

Final Fantasy...as we've discussed...Elliot Goldenthal

Rollerball...since its John McTiernan probably Michael Kamen, but we could luck out and get Jerry Goldsmith (Doubt it though--this poor prospect screams for some electric guitar work.)

Tomb Raider...the debate rages in another thread as to who will score this..MV will probably prevail.

B.T. is definetly attached to the Rollerball remake.

Quill, don't be too sure bout Tomb Raider, the job could go to Carter Burwell or Jerry Goldsmith.

Speaking of which, Goldsmith is scoring Along Came the Spider which is the prequel to Kiss the Girls. To be released in late April/May 2001. He may or may not be attached to The Shipping News, but most likely he will score it.

Before his tour of Duty of Mummy Returns, Alan Silvestri will score, The Mexican starring Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt.

Trevor Rabin is scoring Texas Rangers and Exit Wounds starring Steven Seagal for director Andrej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die)

Christopher Young is scoring the Glass House.

Thomas Newman will likely score Tom Hanks' new movie The Road to Perditation for Oscar winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

David Newman will likely score the Edward Norton/Robert DeNiro action-thriller, The Heist for Frank Oz.

Ennio Morricone will likely score the Bruce Willis film, Outlaws directed by Barry Levinson

I'll keep you guys posted on anyothers.

It could be ultracheesy, but what the hell, Jerry + Angelina = Pure appeal for me.

And judging by this list, I'll be getting a lot of CDs this summer

And I bet BT will do a kick ass job on "Rollerball"

As for "Final Fantasy" well ::cough::

--Kyp
Wrtier/Editor

As far as Tomb Raider, Goldsmith is a possiblity since the score needs a really big acoustic sound. Here's another though as to who would score this film, how bout David Newman. Look at the job he did with The Phantom.

I need to make a serious correction, The new Robert DeNiro/Edward Norton film is not called The Heist. That's David Mamet's next film being scored by Theodore Shapiro. The film is called The Score, which should hopefully be scored by David Newman and he is also scoring Charles Shyer's next film The Affair of The Necklace and Edward Norton's next film, Death to Smoochy directed by Danny DeVito.

As side from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Howard Shore should be a lock to score Basic Instinct 2 being directed by David Cronenberg. Unless Jerry Goldsmith decides to score this one, so keep your eyes peeled.

Hans Zimmer will probably score Ridley Scott's post Hannibal film, Blackhawk Down.

As side from the remake of Rollerball, B.T. will score the new Sylvester Stallone film, Driven directed by Renny Harlin.

Mark Mancina should be a lock to score the Jerry Bruckheimer production, Training Day starring Denzel Washington and directed by Antonie Fuqa (Bait)

Before he scores the massive Jurassic Park 3, (the chosen one) Don Davis will score the horror film, Valentine, opening you guessed just in time for Valentine's Day.

2001 will definetly be a busy year for James Newton Howard, scoring the big Disney film Hearts of Atlantis, Unconditional Love, the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger epic Collateral Damage and now the Tim Allen comedy, Big Trouble for director Barry Sonnenfeld.

Terence Blanchard will score the film Original Sin and may score the sequel to Doctor Doolittle. Yes, Eddie Murphy's returning and is directed by Next Friday's Steve Carr.

Hans Zimmer or John Powell (most likely both) will probably score John Woo's next film, The Windtalkers starring Nicolas Cage.

Trevor Rabin will likely score John Travolta's next film, Swordfish directed by Gone In 60 Second's Dominic Sena and co-starring The X-Men's Hugh Jackman.

Nicola Piovani will likely reteam with Oscar nominee Roberto Begini on his latest film the remake of Pinocchio.

That's all for now. Guys go and check out What Women Want. It's a fantastic movie featuring a terrific score by Alan Silvestri.

James Newton Howard is scoring the new Julia Roberts/Billy Crystal comedy, America's Sweethearts.

Graeme Revell is scoring Affection and the comedy Double Take.

Howard Shore is scoring Camera for his best buddie David Cronenberg and the comedy, The Colored Star starring South Park creater Trey Parker.

Mark Mancina will be scoring the drama Auggie Rose starring Jeff Goldblum and Anne Heche.

Danny Elfman is definetly attached to score the Antonio Banderas comedy Spy Kids for director Robert Rodriguez.

John Frizzell is scoring the action thriller Lockdown and Beautiful starring Minnie Driver.

Ennio Morricone has finished scoring Giuesseppe Tornadore's latest film, Malena and Vatel for Roland Jaffe.

David Arnold is scoring D'Artangan for Peter Hyams.

Mark Isham is scoring the film, Save the Last Dance starring the lovely Julia Styles.

John Barry is scoring the film Enigma.

Trevor Jones is scoring From Hell starring Johnny Depp.

Anne Dudley is scoring the live action/animation comedy, Monkeybone starring Brendan Fraser.

Randy Newman is indeed scoring Monsters Inc. featuring the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, and Jennifer Tilly. coming in 2002

Harry Gregson-Williams is scoring the Dreamworks animated film, Shrek featuring the voices of Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers and
King of the Jungle.

Randy Edelman is scoring the comedy Cletus Tout starring Tim Allen and Richard Dreyfuss.

Mychael Danna is scoring the film Green Dragon with his brother, Jeff.

James Horner is probably a lock to score the next film in the Jack Ryan series, The Sum of All Fears to be directed by Phil Alden Robinson, and starring Ben Affleck of all people to fill Harrison Ford's shoes.

Here's an interesting possiblity and recommendation. Jerry Goldsmith to score Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland's latest film, A Knight's Tale starring Heath Ledger. This is definetly a film up Goldsmith's alley, so why not recommend him for the job.

Harry Gregson-Williams is scoring Robert Rodriguez's SPY KIDS; Elfman is just contributing a song.

Quill, where did you hear that Horner is scoring Windtalkers? I know that Woo has a great relationship with both Hans Zimmer and John Powell and I'm pretty sure that it will be one of them scoring it. Let's not hope that MGM doesn't pull a Moll Flanders where they basically gave Mark Mancina no money to score that disaster where was they gave Christopher Young enough money for a 100 piece orchestra for Species. What world!!!

In the end it is probably is more likely that Zimmer will be doing it.

I'm really glad to hear that John Williams thinks highly enough of Don Davis to recommend him to score JP3. Maybe Williams heard something in The Matrix that showed that Davis has a special talent. Who knows? Davis might just be the next Goldsmith or Willams. I think he just might!

--Kyp
Writer/Editor

Even Horner haters can admit, that his scores for the II and III are excellent. The main theme is not on par with the immortal Goldsmith theme, but as far space battle music, and bring some emotional elements to the usual "flat" Trek space, Horner succeeded in spades.

In fact, I believe the only poor score composed for a Star Trek film was Generations...but that won't surprise anyone.

I think David Arnold has the perfect orchestral pallet to score a Trek film. After the mediocre Insurrection...I think we're ready for someone new.

And Eidelman's score is brilliant! (as is Rosenman's)

But- two things (and these are just conjecturious opinion, for whatever it's worth) :

1. Leonard Rosenman's score, while own it, following the Main Title music, the End Title, the theme for the Whale, and the two songs by fusion jazz group, The Yellowjackets- everything else about that album is flat. I don't listen to it as much as the first three, which will always be the best Star Trek ever got in music- the only thing since that matches it is First Contact. Keep in mind, while I own all the scores, I don't necessarily think they're all good on the whole, pieces collectively seem to be better.

2: - Don Davis was recommended to Joe Johnston by James Horner, not by John Williams. Davis did a lot of orchestrating for Horner- and that's why Aliens turned out to be such a good score despite the tight deadline pressures that caused such rifts between James Cameron and Horner before making up for Titanic.
But like I said, my opinion is my own, and whatever you take as fact is at your discretion.