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While at the cinema I sat through a bunch of trailers and one of them was for an upcoming boxing movie starring Russel Crowe entitled "Cinderella Man". The music struck a familiar chord. I thought it was identical to Alan Silvestri's music used in "Cast Away", the film about up tight Fed Ex efficiency expert Tom Hanks getting marooned on a desart island (I had watched it the night before). I went to each movie's web site and, sure enough (at least to these ears)the music IS the same. And yet the composer for C/M is different. What gives?
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It's very common to use music from other films for movie previews.There are notable excpetions, and although a distributor, studio or director will occassionally supervise a movie trailer, typically the job is handed to a Hollywood production company that specializes in them. (This includes most of the trailers you see at your local multiplex. Could be that's why so many of the tend to be similar.)
As TA noted below, a film's composer often hasn't finished the score before a trailer is produced, maybe not even even begun it in fact if the film is still being tweaked. (The first trailers, called teasers, come out months before a movie is released). Film composers have notoriously short times frames in which to score a movie. Movies still in post-production will often preview to producers and key studio personnel (even to test audiences) with temp tracks as well. The earlier a teaser trailer, the more likely it will have another film's music. It's more common for a movie's final trailer to have original music
Sometimes certain movie soundtracks get used a lot for trailers. Miramax got terrific mileage out of the score to Restoration, and the Gladiator theme turned up frequently for a while.
Rico, the music you heard in the preview may not be the same music that will be used in the movie itself once it's completed. Studios sometimes borrow music from other movies for trailers for various reasons (the film itself isn't finished, and neither is the soundtrack; the borrowed soundtrack works better in the context of a preview than the actual score for the film; etc.). There are some movie scores that pop up again and again in previews for other films but aren't actually used in those films.In a big studio, it's often a different group of people putting together the previews than the film itself. That is also why occasionally you'll see a preview featuring a scene or dialogue that gets left out of the film itself.
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One of these days I gotta get myself organizized.
Eg. The trailer to Pearl Harbor used a score from a very dramatic scene in The Thin Red Line which actually preceded Pearl Harbor. I've noticed it before. Pesume it's the same studio.
----Be right there, Mom.
Like the same popular melody incorporated in the soundtrack?
The "Cast Away" credit scroll names Silvestri as the composer and also shows a number of pop tunes played during the movie. So I am assuming that the end title theme (also used a couple of times in the film itself) is an original composition. But than again I might be wrong.
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