Jurassic

John Williams One of the pillars of film scoring and the most popular film composer of his era, John Williams has created music for some of the most successful motion pictures in Hollywood history – Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter are just a handful of selections from an extensive catalog that has included over 50 Academy Awards nominations. After getting his start in television in the late '50s, Williams worked more steadily on feature films by the early '70s, impressing with his stirring orchestral scores for blockbuster disaster films like The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Towering Inferno (1974), as well as through his work with such emerging directors as Robert Altman (1973's The Long Goodbye) and Steven Spielberg (1974's The Sugarland Express). His recurring partnership with Spielberg would span six decades.

This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide. The findings presented here include 32 new cockroach species (of a total of 300 Jurassic species described worldwide).

Jurassic Park combined intense action with a sense of wonder and awe that changed filmaking. John Williams perfectly captured this duality with a terrific score. This main themes are totally different but flow perfectly into one another. One theme is loud and bombastic as well as memorable while the other is quiet and understated but still great. A highly enjoyable score by a master composer.

Back Lot Music will release the official soundtrack album for the Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino (Up, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Lost, Ratatouille, Star Trek, The Incredibles, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Batman) who previously scored the first Jurassic World movie and the 2018 sequel Fallen Kingdom. The soundtrack is set be released digitally next Friday, June 10 and is now available for pre-order here. Also listen to a first track from the album (Da Plane And Da Cycle) below.

A new theme park is built on the original site of Jurassic Park. Everything is going well until the park's newest attraction–a genetically modified giant stealth killing machine–escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.