Word: batmanic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DANNY ELFMAN: BATMAN MOTION PICTURE SCORE (Warner Bros.); PRINCE: BATMAN MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (Warner Bros.). Two Batman albums? If this seems like Cowled Crusader overkill, be advised that these records bear absolutely no resemblance to each other: Prince's Batman is a phantasmagorical reinterpretation of the movie; Elfman's score is the film's actual symphonic underpinning...
...Prince material is, well, batty. Several of his songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...
Elfman's score not only matches Prince's but surpasses his with its dark chords and swooping orchestral romanticism. Elfman's Batman sets a new standard for film scores. Only a superhero could do better...
...said it agreed to pay $200 million to buy Guber-Peters Productions. One of the hottest producer teams in Hollywood, Peter Guber, 47, a former Columbia production executive, and Jon Peters, 42, who got his start as a hairdresser to the stars, produced Rain Man for United Artists and Batman for Warner Bros...
...hitmakers in top posts at Columbia, but that courtship raises some knotty questions about how the two would fulfill their existing obligations. Guber and Peters recently renewed an exclusive five-year production agreement with Warner Bros. Already in the works under that contract are a sequel to Batman, a film adaptation of Bonfire of the Vanities and other projects. Sony's first creative challenge may be negotiating a deal under which rival Warner gets its hits and Guber and Peters are given a shot at jump-starting Columbia. Now that Sony has paid the price of admission, the company seems...