La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1989 sequel The Karate Kid Part III directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively and Thomas Ian Griffith. The album features the remastered and expanded original score from the film composed by Academy Award winner Bill Conti (Rocky, The Right Stuff, Masters of the Universe, For Your Eyes Only, The Thomas Crown Affair), including previously unreleased music and alternate cues. Visit the label’s Facebook page for the full details of the CD, which is limited to 3,000 copies, and which will be available to order on the label’s website next Tuesday, December 1.
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Remastered ‘Chinatown’ Soundtrack Announced
Varese Sarabande Records has announced the latest batch of titles in the Varese CD Club series. Most notably, the label will be relasing a remastered soundtrack edition for Roman Polanski’s classic 1974 thriller Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The album features the Academy Award-nominated score composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The release is limited to 3000 copies and is available for pre-order on Varese’s website, where you can also check out a number of audio clips. The previous soundtrack CD has been out-of-print for more than a decade. The release coincides with the Blu-Ray debut of the film. Apart from the score nomination, Chinatown has also received 10 other Oscar nods, including in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor/Actress categories.