FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE TERMINAL OUT ON DECCA/ UMG
SOUNDTRACKS JUNE 15th



MUSIC BY ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING COMPOSER JOHN WILLIAMS





(June 14, 2004- New York, NY)-- DreamWorks Pictures and Academy Award®-winning
filmmaker Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan) present The
Terminal, starring two-time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-
Jones and Emmy-winner Stanley Tucci. The original soundtrack was composed and
conducted by Academy Award®-winner John Williams (Schindler's List, Star Wars,
Jaws, E.T., Fiddler on the Roof) and will be released on Decca/ UMG Soundtracks
June 15th.



John Williams has created some of the most powerful and enduring film music of
our time. Lending more than his musical talents to the Terminal score, Williams
brings forth a feeling of emotion that compliments Spielberg's storytelling
perfectly. The engaging score rouses a sense of adventure, discovery, sadness,
loneliness and hope, making for a beautiful and memorable listening experience.
Moviegoers will continue to be moved by William's orchestral magic long after
the credits have rolled.



With a career spanning over 3 decades, Williams has won 17 Grammy® Awards, 3
Golden Globes, 2 Emmy® Awards and 5 BAFTA Awards from the British Academy of
Film and Television Arts. He reached a turning point in his career when Stephen
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 which brought on his third Oscar. He later
went 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. Most recently, Williams 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.



The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New
York from Eastern Europe, stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from
nowhere because his homeland has erupted in a fiery coup. He is unauthorized to
actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the
terminal's international transit lounge until the war at home is over. As the
weeks and months stretch on, he finds the compressed universe of the terminal to
be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status
and serendipity. Navorski makes friends with employees of the airport and even
finds romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia (Catherine
Zeta-Jones). But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official
Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem
he cannot control but wants desperately to erase. The Terminal opens nationwide
on June 18th.

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