THE GRUDGE 2
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Christopher Young

From Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures comes the much-anticipated sequel to the 2004 worldwide hit THE GRUDGE. The terrifying thriller THE GRUDGE 2 explores the dark secrets of the grudge as the terrifying supernatural curse is unleashed on a group of seemingly unrelated victims. One by one, they are infected by the grudge, which quickly moves from a burned-down house in Tokyo and spreads to everyone who crosses its path.

THE GRUDGE 2 stars Amber Tamblyn and sees director Takashi Shimizu return from the first film.

Also returning from THE GRUDGE is composer Christopher Young who conjures his latest opus in a long line of horror film music masterpieces.

Columbia Pictures opens THE GRUDGE 2 nationwide on October 13.

Catalog #: 302 066 771 2
Release Date: 11/07/06

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24: Seasons 4 and 5
Original Television Soundtrack

Music Composed by Sean Callery

Kiefer Sutherland

To the world, he’s dead. But soon, he’ll become the most wanted man alive!

Outstanding Drama Series – WINNER
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – Kiefer Sutherland – WINNER
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series – Sean Callery - WINNER
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series – WINNER

Federal Agent Jack Bauer can’t afford to always play by the rules. As a member of the L.A. Counter Terrorist Unit, Jack must stop bombs, viruses, assassination attempts, and usually save someone he cares about at the same time. Every season of this series has 24 episodes, each unfolding in real time following a consecutive hour in one very bad day.

The most addictive show on television just keeps getting better. Season 5 was its most acclaimed year yet, garnering its best ratings and five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Music Composition!

To coincide with the DVD release of this award-winning season (December 5) and be ready for the January launch of the much-anticipated 6th season comes this special soundtrack release. The most memorable music from both Seasons 4 and 5 has been selected for this thrillingly exciting album. This absolute adrenaline rush of a soundtrack also includes bonus cuts from composer Sean Callery’s orchestral score for the 24 video game!

Music from the two most successful seasons of the blockbuster television series 24 plus bonus tracks from the hit video game make this one of the most awaited soundtrack releases of the fall!

Catalog #: 302 066 772 2
Release Date: 11/14/06

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WAH-WAH
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Patrick Doyle

Gabriel Byrne
Emily Watson
Julie Walters
Nicholas Hoult
Miranda Richardson

Acclaimed actor Richard E. Grant’s Wah-Wah is a semi-autobiographical “coming-of-age at the end of an age” story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.

As an 11-year-old, Ralph witnesses his mother’s adultery with his father’s best friend. His parents divorce and Ralph is sent to boarding school. His father, Harry (Gabriel Byrne), not only loses his wife (Miranda Richardson) and best friend, but also his position as Minister of Education with the coming of Independence, prompting his rapid descent into alcoholism.

Now 14, Ralph (Nicholas Hoult) returns home to discover that his father has re-married an American ex-air “hostess” named Ruby whom his father has known all of six weeks. As round a peg as you could find in this square holed society, Ruby (Emily Watson) ridicules the petty snobbery of the restless colonials whose chief amusements are gin, adultery, and their foppish slang of “toodle-pip” and “hobbly-jobbly” — that Ruby identifies as sounding like “Wah-Wah.”

Although Ralph is initially wary of Ruby, he bonds with her as his father’s drinking escalates and becomes dangerously out of control. It’s this chaos that stokes Ralph’s inner turmoil, and eventually forges his creative mind.

The sumptuously beautiful score is by the great Scottish composer Patrick Doyle. His music for Kenneth Branagh’s productions of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing earned him international acclaim. Doyle’s scores for films such as Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Sense and Sensibility, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee have continued to show tremendous musical range and talent. Doyle is, without question, one of the finest composers working in film today.

24 SEASONS 4&5
Catalog #: 302 066 772 2
Release Date: 11/14/06

TRACK LISTING:
1. 24 Main Title (4:48)
2. Collette’s Arrest (2:51)
3. Closing In On Marwon (4:27)
4. Death In The Open Desert (1:42)
5. Logan’s Downfall (6:38)
6. Mandy’s Plan (2:55)
7. Henderson (2:40)
8. Jack’s Women (3:36)
9. C.T.U. (3:55)
10. The Name’s O’Brian — Chloe O’Brian (2:31)
11. Mission Briefing (2:12)
12. Bierko Entering The Gas Company (2:36)
13. Logan’s Near Suicide (2:24)
14. Lynn McGill’s Sacrifice (3:50)
15. Base Mission (2:35)
16. Airport Russians (2:45)
17. Infiltrating The Sub (5:59)
18. Loft Mission (2:55)
19. Reviving Jack (3:16)
20. Jack Storms The Gas Plant (8:10)
21. Tony’s Farewell (1:36)
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WAH-WAH
Catalog #: 302 066 775 2
Release Date: 11/14/06

TRACK LISTING:
1. Swaziland (2:16)
2. Lauren Leaves (1:51)
3. Train Away (3:20)
4. The Key (2:14)
5. The Shooting (1:34)
6. The Bridge (2:31)
7. Fabulous News (0:47)
8. Monica (1:13)
9. Goodbye Swaziland (3:02)
10. Independence (1:33)
11. Months to Live (1:44)
12. Harry Dies (1:32)
13. Ngatsi Ngisahamba (1:46)
14. Please Forgive Me (3:46)
15. Wah-Wah (6:19)

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FLICKA
Catalog #: 302 066 776 2
Release Date: 11/21/06

TRACK LISTING:
1. Main Title (1:49)
2. Sneaking Out Of The Barn (:57)
3. Night Time Ride (2:32)
4. Katie Steals Flicka (2:07)
5. Flicka Comes Home (3:06)
6. Flicka Chase (4:10)
7. Zack & Katie (1:00)
8. Katie’s Dream (3:40)
9. The Essay (2:09)
10. I Can Win That Race (1:24)
11. Mother-Daughter (1:14)
12. Herd Overlook (3:48)
13. The Apple (1:11)
14. The Search (3:04)
15. The Fax (:49)
16. Rob & Nell (2:40)
17. Out Of The Barn (2:57)
18. End Title (3:23)
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James

Patrick Doyle, thanks for keeping my soundtrack torch aflame.

I wait for moments like this... you're pluggin' away at the day and decide to give a score a chance (despite being unimpressed with so many new scores as of late that you've gone back to indie rock favorites or whatever)... and as you're busy at whatever it is, a piece of music stops you dead in the tracks. Doesn't have to be loud, nor highly melodic or full of major chords, none of that.... it can, but doesn't have to be.

To have such a piece do this for me, especially a piece so short it has more chances of being forgotten forever, is my bliss. Some of you guys might say "WTF!" to this piece, as on the surface it's simply almost nothing. But for me, it immediately took me out of what I was doing and caused big disruption. That such a quiet piece can do this makes it that much more full of bliss.

Funny... I get the notion that more Patrick Doyle scores do this for me than any other, except maybe Poledouris.