HANS ZIMMER, NICK GLENNIE-SMITH AND HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS FEATURED ON SOUNDTRACK TO "THE ROCK"

Hollywood Records is set to release the soundtrack album from this summer's blockbuster hit, The Rock, a Simpson/Bruckheimer production from Hollywood Pictures starring Academy Awardª winners Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, and Academy Award® nominee Ed Harris. Keeping pace with the film's non-stop action is the taut score composed and produced by three of today's most highly esteemed film composers, Oscar winner Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams. The soundtrack album to The Rock is due in stores June 25.

The Rock is the latest in a string of major contributions to the annals of film music from Hans Zimmer. For his work on The Lion King, the highest grossing film of all time, Zimmer earned an Academy Award®, two Grammy Awards, and the American Music Award for Best Album of the Year. A pioneer in the use of digital synthesizers and advanced computer and keyboard technology, the German-born composer has scored many hit films in recent years. Among his notable credits are Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Days of Thunder, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, Broken Arrow, and the Grammy Award winning Crimson Tide.

Nick Glennie-Smith has an equally impressive background, having composed music for such films as Two If By Sea, Beyond Rangoon, Nine Months, House of the Spirits, and Cool Runnings. He has also worked closely with some of the biggest names in pop music, including Tina Turner, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins. A native of England, Harry Gregson-Williams has collaborated with Zimmer as an orchestrator, arranger, and/or co-composer on such films as Crimson Tide, The Muppet Treasure Island, and The Lion King. He also wrote the music for Broken Arrow, as well as a string of independent British films and British television projects.

The results of this collaboration by these three composers is a striking score that heightens a story that is at once compelling and terrifying. For years Brigadier General Francis Xavier Hummel (Ed Harris), a decorated military hero, has petitioned the United States government to honor the men who have lost their lives in service to their country during highly covert military operations. These efforts have been repeatedly scorned. Now, angry and determined to seek justice, Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to release lethal V.X. poison gas on the San Francisco Bay Area. The FBI's only hope of stopping Hummel relies on a top-secret federal prisoner, John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), who happens to be the only known convict to have escaped the island fortress, and a chemical/biological weapons expert, Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage). With the clock ticking, this unlikely and reluctant duo embark on a desperate bid to infiltrate the island and detoxify the weapons before disaster strikes.

Hollywood Pictures Presents a Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer Production, The Rock. Directed by Michael Bay from a screenplay by David Weisberg & Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, story by David Weisberg & Douglas S. Cook; the film is produced by the late Don Simpson, and Jerry Bruckheimer. Executive producers are William Stuart, Sean Connery, and Louis A. Stroller. Buena Vista Pictures distributes.

For more information, contact the Hollywood Records publicity department in Los Angeles at (818) 560-6197, or in New York at (212) 741-8805.

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