BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Original Television Soundtrack

Music Composed by George S. Clinton

WINNER OF SIX EMMY AWARDS!

Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg), the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land — the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn), one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs.

While Eastman and patrician schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Anna Paquin) work to improve life for the Sioux on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant (Fred Dalton Thompson) for more humane treatment, opposing the bellicose stance of General William Tecumseh Sherman (Colm Feore).

Hope rises for the Sioux in the form of the prophet Wovoka (Wes Studi) and the Ghost Dance — a messianic movement that promises an end of their suffering under the white man.

This hope is all but obliterated after the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890.

George S. Clinton was Emmy-nominated for his beautifully authentic, period score.

Catalog #: 302 066 868 2
Release Date: 12/18/07

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THE GREAT DEBATERS
Original Motion Picture Score

Music Composed by James Newton Howard

Denzel Washington stars and also directs the the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school’s first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and inspired by a true story, The Great Debaters chronicles the journey of a brilliant but volatile coach (Washington) who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small, modest black college in East Texas into an elite debate team while challenging the social mores of the time, culminating with a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard’s championship team.

The film also stars Forest Whitaker (Best Actor Oscar winner for The Last King of Scotland) and Kimberly Elise.

The inspiring and emotional score was composed by James Newton Howard.

The Weinstein Company’s The Great Debaters opens nationwide on Christmas Day.

Catalog #: 302 066 869 2
Release Date: 12/18/07

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CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by James Newton Howard

Tom Hanks
Julia Roberts
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directed by Mike Nichols
(Closer, Primary Colors, The Graduate)

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR is the true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman team with director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to bring George Crile’s best-selling book to the screen.

Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was a bachelor congressman from Texas who had a habit of showing up in hot tubs with strippers and cocaine. His “Good Time Charlie” exterior, however, masked an extraordinary mind, a deep sense of patriotism and a passion for the underdog, and in the early 1980s the underdog was Afghanistan — which had just been brutally invaded by the Russians.

Charlie’s longtime friend and patron and sometime lover was Joanne Herring (Roberts), one of the wealthiest women in Texas and a virulent anti-communist. Believing the American response to the Russian invasion was anemic at best, she prods Charlie into doing more for the Mujahideen (Afghan freedom fighters).

Charlie’s partner in this uphill endeavor is CIA Agent Gust Avrakotos (Hoffman), a blue-collar operative in a company of Ivy League blue bloods. Together, the three of them — Charlie, Joanne and Gust — travel the world to form unlikely alliances among the Pakistanis, Israelis, Egyptians, arms dealers, law makers and a belly dancer.

Their success was remarkable. Funding for covert operations against the Soviets went from $5 million to $1 billion annually. The Red Army retreated out of Afghanistan. When asked how a group of peasants was able to deliver such a decisive blow to the army of a superpower, Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq responded simply, “Charlie did it.”

The score for Charlie Wilson’s War was composed by James Newton Howard.

Universal Pictures opens Charlie Wilson’s War on over 3000 screens on December 25th.

Catalog #: 302 066 870 2
Release Date: 12/18/07

and before that we'll have this:

WHAT A YEAR!

Date: 11/5/2007
Pushing our slate of soundtracks to over 70 this year is our latest batch of releases from the CD Club! See you November 19 for the unveiling!

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Originally posted by scoreguy16:
Well I guess it's true... James Newton Howard has begun scoring everything...

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