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Sony Pictures Dedicates Music Building to John Williams on Historic Lot
John Williams, the distinguished composer behind "Star Wars," "Jaws," and "Harry Potter" has received a dedicated building on the historic Sony lot.
The new building is the home of the Cary Grant Theater, ADR and Foley stages as well as the Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage, which, beyond being the birthplace of the aforementioned scores, has also hosted some of the most renowned composers in film, including Hans Zimmer, Max Steiner, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, David Newman, Randy Newman and Williams himself. Though now having achieved a childhood dream of his, Williams has said he’s not ready to leave the film industry just yet, recently doubling down on comments previously made teasing a potential retirement, with him affirming he’s not ruling “anything out” and it’s “possible” he’d make another score. How fitting the timing that to the pantheon of names that grace the buildings on this historic lot – like Capra, Poitier, Lear, Thalberg – we add Williams, the greatest film composer of all time, to the very building where so much of the joy he created happened,” Tom Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group said at the ceremony.
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