FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



MUNICH

DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG

WITH MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY

FIVE-TIME ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNER

JOHN WILLIAMS



**ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK IN STORES

DECEMBER 27TH ON DECCA/ UMG SOUNDTRACKS**



(December 15, 2006- New York, NY)- Steven Spielberg directs an international
cast in Munich, a suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the massacre of
eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.. The film stars Eric Bana
(Black Hawk Down), Daniel Craig (Layer Cake), Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Mathieu
Kassovitz (Birthday Girl), Hanns Zischler (Walk On Water) and Ciarán Hinds
(Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera). Five-time Academy
Award®-winner, John Williams lends his musical talents to the film by composing
and conducting the magnificent soundtrack to be released on Decca/UMG
Soundtracks December 27th.



Williams has created some of the most powerful and enduring film music of our
time. With this sweeping score, he puts forth a feeling of intense emotion that
takes the listener on thought-provoking journey. The overall theme of the
soundtrack seems to be one of desperation and despair- a plea for world peace.
"The Tarmac at Munich" showcases Lisbeth Scott's beautiful vocals which drip of
desolation and loneliness. Many of the tracks feature authentic Palestinian
sounds for which Williams employed the oud- a Middle Eastern lute, the cimbalom-
a Hungarian zither, as well as clarinet and strings for the feel of the Orient.



With a career spanning over four decades, Williams has received 46 Oscar®
nominations (more than any living person), and has won 5 Oscars®, 18 Grammy®
Awards, 4 Golden Globes, 4 Emmy® Awards and 6 BAFTA Awards from the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts. His first Oscar® was for 1971's Fiddler on
the Roof. He reached a turning point in his career when Steven Spielberg
approached him to score his early movies. In quick succession, this led to
Williams' second Oscar®, for Jaws, and his introduction to George Lucas, who
then hired him to score the Star Wars saga, bringing him his third Oscar®. He
later went on to compose music for a host of blockbusters, including Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. (winning Oscar® number 4), and the
Indiana Jones movies. After his 5th Oscar® win (for Schindler's List), John
maintained an extraordinary creative pace composing with scores for nine films
in just four years including Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot. On June 23,
2000, he became the first inductee into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.
Williams also served as musical director for the 74th annual Academy Awards® in
March of 2002, where he received his 40th and 41st nominations for his scores
for the films Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and A.I. Artificial
Intelligence. Williams received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor in
December of 2004 and most recently received 2 Grammy nominations for his Star
Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith score and 1 nomination for War of the
Worlds in the Best Instrumental Composition category.



Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present an Amblin
Entertainment-Kennedy/Marshall-Barry Mendel Production, a Steven Spielberg film,
Munich. This dramatic exploration inspired by true events follows a secret
Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the eleven Palestinians suspected
to have planned the Munich attack -and the personal toll this mission of revenge
takes on the team and the man who led it. The film opens in limited release on
December 23rd and goes wide on January 6th.



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