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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Listening to it now, I'm a bit surprised I got away with such nutty music for a coming attraction. Of course, those days are long gone...as all trailers now seem to be mandated by law to be beefed-up variations of Carl Orff's ''[[Standard Snippet|Carmina Burana]]''...''"|'''[[Danny Elfman]]''', on the music written for the trailer of ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]''}}
When releasing a film to the public, the film's score is usually the very last thing to be completed. This means that there will be enough finished scenes to make a trailer, but no soundtrack yet. What's a studio to do?
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Licensed music made entirely for trailers by groups like ''[[Two Steps From Hell]]'' and used to advertise several unrelated products is not an example of this trope.
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== Commercials ==
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* An overused score is the main theme from ''[[Requiem for A Dream]]'', "Lux Aeterna" which is used for "serious" movies... and certain NASCAR commercials. Most ads don't use the original recording; instead they tend to use the big orchestral arrangement which was recorded for the trailer of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Two Towers]]''.
** The ''[[Requiem for A Dream]]'' version was used in a chrurch for a video montage of World Youth Day preparation.
** Neatly mocked in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4mgObDeUU this] Telus commercial, featuring some [[What Do You Mean
** A LOT of Youtube videos use this piece.
** They do seem to be fond of using Clint Mansell--"Lux Aeterna" and the "Requiem for a Tower" remixes are the most common, but there has also been a bit of ''Death is the Road to Awe'' from ''The Fountain'' score in a trailer for ''Frost/Nixon''.
** You '''HAVE''' heard this piece. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E when you listen to it] you '''will''' say "oh, the movie trailer song" at 1:38.
** It's frequently used on ''[[
** It is also used in the trailer for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E Cupcakes: The Movie].
* [[ES Posthumus|E.S. Posthumus]]' album ''Unearthed'' has been regularly plundered for trailer music. Interestingly, ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' also [[Real Song Theme Tune|uses music from this album as the title theme]]. Unsurprisingly, the duo wound up producing the theme for the [[Super Bowl]] one year.
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** Used in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBpoDgiK_rs trailer] for the [[Nightmare Fuel|extremely not-funny]] American remake of the film ''[[Funny Games]].'' Good luck ever hearing it the same way again.
* Some family films use the main theme from ''[[Liar Liar]]'' during their trailers.
* The trailer for ''[[Australia]]'' (the movie, not the country!) uses "The Ecstasy of Gold" from ''[[The Good, the Bad
* "I Kissed A Girl" was in the trailer for ''[[Kissing Jessica Stein (Film)|Kissing Jessica Stein]]''. [[Music/Jill Sobule|Jill Sobule]] commented, "I guess I'm trailer trash."
* "Clubbed to Death" and other songs by Rob Dougan.
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** And then it was ''actually reused'' (in the film itself) in ''[[Fred Claus]]''.
* The trailer for ''[[Creepshow 2 (Film)|Creepshow 2]]'' used the theme from ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]''.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqK5OC3BWE original 1987 trailer] to ''[[
* The theme used during the trailer of [[Casper]] was "What's This?" from ''[[Nightmare Before Christmas]]''.
* "Love Song" seems to be used for every romantic movie, particularly romantic comedy, regardless of how clingy the relationship is.
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