Packaging Spotlight: Timecop + The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

On July 10th, 2026, Varese Sarabande released two more titles from their fan favorite CD club series.

The two titles they released are the film scores for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Timecop.

Both of these titles are expanded versions that feature exclusive liner notes and newly expanded music, and the albums are also available on digital streaming platforms.

The CD Club release of "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" offers a new interview with composer John Debney discussing the creation of the film’s energetic and eccentric score, along with never-before-released musical cues. "Timecop" features interviews with composer Mark Isham and director Peter Hyams, plus newly unearthed cues from the beloved Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller.

Following the film’s 2015 release, Debney’s score for Sponge Out of Water quickly became one of his most beloved works. It shifts between pirate rhythms and voice-topped epic comic-book action, Debney conveys the cosmic stakes of SpongeBob and his reluctant nemesis, Plankton, as they attempt to recover the Krabby Patty formula stolen by the nefarious, live-action scalawag Burger Beard voiced by Antonio Banderas. Balancing comic lunacy with moments of sweeping heroism—as Super SpongeBob and friends don their capes—Debney enthusiastically captures the screwball spirit of Bikini Bottom with his wildly inventive score for the character he would revisit a decade later in The Search for Squarepants.

As for Timecop, the film marked a pivotal collaboration between Jean-Claude Van Damme and multi-hyphenate filmmaker Peter Hyams. It was adapted from the Dark Horse comic, the story follows a time-traveling enforcer working to stop a power-hungry politician while unraveling the mystery of his wife’s murder—helping propel Van Damme to a new level of Hollywood stardom. Those suspenseful and emotional stakes carry through in the hard-hitting, percussively pummeling score composed by Mark Isham, who’d previously scored Van Damme’s Nowhere to Run as well as the evocative chase of The Hitcher.

Timecop has been a fan-favorite soundtrack for decades, and it's finally available again. It's been expanded musically and features exclusive interviews. In his interview, Isham reflects on his unorthodox approach to the score: “I used very traditional and time-proven devices to make Timecop a really emotional piece of work while satisfying Peter's strong decision that the other part of the score would be completely unpredictable and unemotional”, also noting that “It had a lot of prepared pianos that were recorded very, how shall we say, aggressively - like slamming piano lids and hitting piano strings. That poor piano! So those percussive sounds have a very organic feeling yet sound a little bit alien at the same time.”