By Lee Pfeiffer
When it was announced that producer Elliott Kastner had succeeded in signing both Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson for the 1976 Western, "The Missouri Breaks", the project was viewed as a "can't miss" at the international box-office. This would be Brando's first film since his back-to-back triumphs in "The Godfather" and "Last Tango in Paris" and Nicholson had just won the Best Actor Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The two Hollywood icons were actually neighbors who lived next door to each other, but they had never previously teamed for a film project. Kastner, whose prowess as a street-wise guy who used unorthodox methods to get films off the ground, had used a clever tactic to sign up both superstars: he told each man that the other had already committed to the project, when, in fact, neither had. With Brando and Nicholson aboard, Kastner hired a respected director,...
When it was announced that producer Elliott Kastner had succeeded in signing both Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson for the 1976 Western, "The Missouri Breaks", the project was viewed as a "can't miss" at the international box-office. This would be Brando's first film since his back-to-back triumphs in "The Godfather" and "Last Tango in Paris" and Nicholson had just won the Best Actor Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The two Hollywood icons were actually neighbors who lived next door to each other, but they had never previously teamed for a film project. Kastner, whose prowess as a street-wise guy who used unorthodox methods to get films off the ground, had used a clever tactic to sign up both superstars: he told each man that the other had already committed to the project, when, in fact, neither had. With Brando and Nicholson aboard, Kastner hired a respected director,...
- 5/9/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Princess CydStephen Cone has been making movies at a steady clip for over a decade and yet remains largely unknown. It is a momentous and wholly deserved occasion then for him to receive a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Despite mixed receptions and even more erratic distribution patterns, his collection of films isn’t as motley as one might think. While each might tiptoe in a different direction, they maintain a hand in the Stephen Cone universe, imprinted by the same particular humanistic insight. In one of his earliest films, In Memoriam (2011), a young man so subsumed with the sudden death of a couple, fallen from a roof during the throes of pleasure, conducts his own investigation into their ill-fated demise. Innocuous curiosity masks what is essentially an existential inquiry and takes a self-referential pivot when he decides to recreate and film the events,...
- 11/7/2017
- MUBI
Casey Affleck has signed on to star in “Stoner,” an adaptation of the John Williams cult novel set up at Blumhouse Pictures. Affleck, long a fan of the 1965 book, will play the titular role of long-suffering academic William Stoner, who is stuck in a loveless marriage and a thankless job. The New Yorker has called the book the “greatest American novel you’ve never heard of,” and called the protagonist the polar opposite of Jay Gatsby, the subject of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canon classic “The Great Gatsby.” Sounds like a project Affleck would adore. Also Read: 'A Ghost Story...
- 9/5/2017
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Stanley & Iris
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1990 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date January 17, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross, Jamey Sheridan, Feodor Chaliapin.
Cinematography: Donald McAlpine
Original Music: John Williams
Written by: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr. based on a novel Union Street by Pat Barker
Produced by: Arlene Sellers, Alex Winitsky
Directed by Martin Ritt
There ought to be a place on a screen for every kind of film story. True, old movies fronted a mostly false consensus picture of the world, claiming that there was a ‘normal’ baseline for our lives. The reality of most social issues was ignored in favor of pleasant fairy tales where all conflicts could be solved on a personal level. After all, movies were considered entertainment first, and carriers of vital social truths maybe about 97th. But then and now, there...
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1990 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date January 17, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95
Starring: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross, Jamey Sheridan, Feodor Chaliapin.
Cinematography: Donald McAlpine
Original Music: John Williams
Written by: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr. based on a novel Union Street by Pat Barker
Produced by: Arlene Sellers, Alex Winitsky
Directed by Martin Ritt
There ought to be a place on a screen for every kind of film story. True, old movies fronted a mostly false consensus picture of the world, claiming that there was a ‘normal’ baseline for our lives. The reality of most social issues was ignored in favor of pleasant fairy tales where all conflicts could be solved on a personal level. After all, movies were considered entertainment first, and carriers of vital social truths maybe about 97th. But then and now, there...
- 1/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
John Debney conducting a live performance of his score for The Passion of the Christ.
In his long career as a composer, John Debney has written the scores for Hocus Pocus, Cutthroat Island, Liar Liar, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, The Passion of the Christ, Sin City, Zathura and Iron Man 2. Most recently Debney has worked on The Jungle Book with Jon Favreau and Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge.
I know you.ve worked with Jon Favreau before, but in The Jungle Book you must have been writing the score with nothing but green screen as your guide. Does it make a difference to the process?
It certainly does. I think this was our fourth film together. It was wonderful but it was a challenge. All told it was two years of work, and at the very beginning it was green-screen and stick figures, as it were,...
In his long career as a composer, John Debney has written the scores for Hocus Pocus, Cutthroat Island, Liar Liar, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, The Passion of the Christ, Sin City, Zathura and Iron Man 2. Most recently Debney has worked on The Jungle Book with Jon Favreau and Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge.
I know you.ve worked with Jon Favreau before, but in The Jungle Book you must have been writing the score with nothing but green screen as your guide. Does it make a difference to the process?
It certainly does. I think this was our fourth film together. It was wonderful but it was a challenge. All told it was two years of work, and at the very beginning it was green-screen and stick figures, as it were,...
- 8/9/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
By John M. Whalen
When the “hardware widow” (Allyn Ann McClerie) asks Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) if he’d gotten used to the idea of his long-time partner Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) and her being married, Monte says: “I never had so many things to get used to in my whole life, as now.” That line of dialogue in the middle of William Fraker’s “Monte Walsh” (1970) pretty much sums up this first and best film adaptation of Jack Schaeffer’s novel about the end of the Old West in general and the cowboy life in particular. It’s a true classic and even though it features two of the toughest tough guy actors of the sixties and seventies, it’s not a melodramatic shoot-em-up, full of violence, sound and fury. Rather it’s an elegiac portrait of the way it must have really happened, presented in a style as...
When the “hardware widow” (Allyn Ann McClerie) asks Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) if he’d gotten used to the idea of his long-time partner Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) and her being married, Monte says: “I never had so many things to get used to in my whole life, as now.” That line of dialogue in the middle of William Fraker’s “Monte Walsh” (1970) pretty much sums up this first and best film adaptation of Jack Schaeffer’s novel about the end of the Old West in general and the cowboy life in particular. It’s a true classic and even though it features two of the toughest tough guy actors of the sixties and seventies, it’s not a melodramatic shoot-em-up, full of violence, sound and fury. Rather it’s an elegiac portrait of the way it must have really happened, presented in a style as...
- 9/13/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Arthur Penn’s notorious, arguably ‘revisionist’ Western The Missouri Breaks makes it to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber, with packaging that keeps the film’s initial infamous discrepancies alive and well with star Marlon Brando’s name retaining top billing. Though it would be Brando’s last sizeable role, the film’s main protagonist is really Jack Nicholson as a matter-of-fact horse thief who runs up against a prosperous man who holds himself above the law by failing to recognize that the rest of the country’s outlying frontiers have them.
The term revisionist is problematic in reference to Penn’s film, though it attempts to make us sympathize with a villain positioned against a civilized businessman who’s nearly as irredeemable. Two wrongs don’t make a right, so if anything, Penn’s adaptation of Thomas McGuane’s script is anarchist at best. Plagued with a troubled production thanks...
The term revisionist is problematic in reference to Penn’s film, though it attempts to make us sympathize with a villain positioned against a civilized businessman who’s nearly as irredeemable. Two wrongs don’t make a right, so if anything, Penn’s adaptation of Thomas McGuane’s script is anarchist at best. Plagued with a troubled production thanks...
- 1/20/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Blue Velvet actor George Dickerson has died at the age of 81.
Dickerson's son - film writer and director Dome Karukoski - confirmed that he passed away on January 10 after a long illness.
Dickerson was known for his role as police detective John Williams in David Lynch's crime drama Blue Velvet.
He also recurred in 1980s cop drama Hill Street Blues as Police Commander Swanson, and appeared in films such as Psycho II, No Mercy and Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.
In addition, he featured in TV series including The Incredible Hulk, Little House on the Prairie, Miami Vice and Three's Company.
Before becoming an actor, Dickerson worked as a magazine writer, poet, editor and playwright.
He was also a speechwriter for Us congressman Robert Steele and a United Nations diplomat in Lebanon.
Dickerson's son - film writer and director Dome Karukoski - confirmed that he passed away on January 10 after a long illness.
Dickerson was known for his role as police detective John Williams in David Lynch's crime drama Blue Velvet.
He also recurred in 1980s cop drama Hill Street Blues as Police Commander Swanson, and appeared in films such as Psycho II, No Mercy and Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.
In addition, he featured in TV series including The Incredible Hulk, Little House on the Prairie, Miami Vice and Three's Company.
Before becoming an actor, Dickerson worked as a magazine writer, poet, editor and playwright.
He was also a speechwriter for Us congressman Robert Steele and a United Nations diplomat in Lebanon.
- 1/18/2015
- Digital Spy
The Voice, despite its rep as a feel-good, even-the-losers-win kinda party, is essentially the slasher film of the reality singing-competition genre.
Indeed, you don’t want to get too attached too quickly to any of the young pretties who make their way to the red-chair zone. After all, in the last month alone, Season 7′s Top 48 has been sliced, hacked, garotted and bludgeoned down to a lean, mean dozen finalists.
Oh sure, Gwen Stefani had a point tonight when she insisted — in a moment of startling candor — that “it doesn’t even matter who the winner is: They still have...
Indeed, you don’t want to get too attached too quickly to any of the young pretties who make their way to the red-chair zone. After all, in the last month alone, Season 7′s Top 48 has been sliced, hacked, garotted and bludgeoned down to a lean, mean dozen finalists.
Oh sure, Gwen Stefani had a point tonight when she insisted — in a moment of startling candor — that “it doesn’t even matter who the winner is: They still have...
- 11/13/2014
- TVLine.com
In a recent interview, composer Christophe Beck said that his score for Elektra is “Still one of my favorite scores, and I think it has a very unique sound that holds up to this day.”
He also said, “I still hope to one day come back and do another Marvel movie, which may or may not happen, but I'm definitely being optimistic about it.”
Of course, Elektra was based on a Marvel character, but not a Marvel Studios film. However, whether or not they're made by Marvel Studios, superhero films based on Marvel characters (and DC characters, for that matter) have the potential to be both character-driven and examples of grand spectacle, which many of them pull off successfully.
Beck said “That movie did pretty poorly at the box office, even though I enjoyed the film very much.” It sounds like he's referring to enjoying the film itself, as well...
He also said, “I still hope to one day come back and do another Marvel movie, which may or may not happen, but I'm definitely being optimistic about it.”
Of course, Elektra was based on a Marvel character, but not a Marvel Studios film. However, whether or not they're made by Marvel Studios, superhero films based on Marvel characters (and DC characters, for that matter) have the potential to be both character-driven and examples of grand spectacle, which many of them pull off successfully.
Beck said “That movie did pretty poorly at the box office, even though I enjoyed the film very much.” It sounds like he's referring to enjoying the film itself, as well...
- 6/6/2014
- Shadowlocked
Unless you're prediction-loving, number-crunching wizard Nate Silver, you probably find statistics pretty boring. But stats concerning the Academy Awards have always been fascinating, mostly because the Oscars are just plain weird, and riddled with anomalies.
The ceremony got its start in the late 1920s, when movies were just making their transition into sound, and early nominees and categories reflected the sheer chaos of those halcyon days of what would eventually become Hollywood's golden age. (Though, of course, any film aficionado worth his/her salt would have a strong opinion about the exact dates that that age entailed.)
As the Oscars tradition continued, the awards became a bit more traditional themselves, settling into a predictable pattern of narratives that have stayed relatively consistent to this day. But there are always idiosyncrasies hiding in the woodwork, and the Academy Awards have them in spades. Here, we've collected some of the most distinctive...
The ceremony got its start in the late 1920s, when movies were just making their transition into sound, and early nominees and categories reflected the sheer chaos of those halcyon days of what would eventually become Hollywood's golden age. (Though, of course, any film aficionado worth his/her salt would have a strong opinion about the exact dates that that age entailed.)
As the Oscars tradition continued, the awards became a bit more traditional themselves, settling into a predictable pattern of narratives that have stayed relatively consistent to this day. But there are always idiosyncrasies hiding in the woodwork, and the Academy Awards have them in spades. Here, we've collected some of the most distinctive...
- 2/28/2014
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
The Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced this year’s It Project line-up of 21 selections from 13 countries.
These include Greek filmmaker Costas Zapas’ Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey and Kei Ishikawa’s comic fantasy Baby, a Japan-Poland co-production.
Scroll down for full list
“Making the selection was a challenge this year with 141 project submissions - more than a 60% increase on last year,” says Naff managing director Thomas Nam.
Korean projects include Two Weddings And A Funeral director Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s period piece Secret Detective & Vampire; 2011 PiFan Audience Award winner Ji Ha Jean’s Re: Make; and Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine director Nam Ki-woong’s Capsule.
Director Dain Said is teaming with producer Nandita Solomon again on Malaysian mystery Interchange. Their previous film, Bunohan, sold to Universal Pictures for several territories including UK, France, and Australia before premiering at Toronto.
Other Asian projects include Paul Spurrier’s Thai...
These include Greek filmmaker Costas Zapas’ Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey and Kei Ishikawa’s comic fantasy Baby, a Japan-Poland co-production.
Scroll down for full list
“Making the selection was a challenge this year with 141 project submissions - more than a 60% increase on last year,” says Naff managing director Thomas Nam.
Korean projects include Two Weddings And A Funeral director Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s period piece Secret Detective & Vampire; 2011 PiFan Audience Award winner Ji Ha Jean’s Re: Make; and Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine director Nam Ki-woong’s Capsule.
Director Dain Said is teaming with producer Nandita Solomon again on Malaysian mystery Interchange. Their previous film, Bunohan, sold to Universal Pictures for several territories including UK, France, and Australia before premiering at Toronto.
Other Asian projects include Paul Spurrier’s Thai...
- 6/4/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
For most of the world the name most associated with the United States presidency is Abraham Lincoln. He could easily be considered a superstar of American history. His face is on the coins and currency we use almost everyday. His monument and statue in the nation’s capitol are high on the must see lists of visitors. He is part of the presidential quartet on Mount Rushmore. Scores of schools and towns share his name (even a line of automaobiles). Since the invention of cinema Lincoln as been portrayed by many, many actors (even Bugs Bunny donned the stove-pipe hat and beard in Southern Fried Rabbit). Just earlier this year he was an action hero in the fantastical Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Everyone knows that somber iconic image, but how much do we really know about the flesh and blood human being? It turns out that one of America’s...
- 11/16/2012
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
When it comes to American History, there is likely no man more mythical than that of the country’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. His face has been carved into mountains, plastered on currency, and even been immortalized in a massive Doric-like temple previously reserved for the likes of Greek Gods such as Athena or Hephaestus. To any filmmaker, the idea of even attempting a biopic on such a man is a task that borders on lunacy. It is ever so fitting then, that a filmmaker such as Stephen Spielberg be the one to take this upon his shoulders.
Lincoln’s life story is one primed with a bountiful supply of delicious narratives, so much so that undertaking a full scale approach to its telling would be tantamount to Peter Jackson combining all 3 Lord of the Rings films into just one 2 hour block; it can be done.. but at great risk to the story itself.
Lincoln’s life story is one primed with a bountiful supply of delicious narratives, so much so that undertaking a full scale approach to its telling would be tantamount to Peter Jackson combining all 3 Lord of the Rings films into just one 2 hour block; it can be done.. but at great risk to the story itself.
- 11/16/2012
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If you've ever wanted to sing along with John Williams' "Duel of the Fates," there is now this handy video with the lyrics.
Also, Tarzan swings back and Denzel flies upside down in today's Dailies!
» Check out these ovary-bursting pictures of celebrity dads. [Parade]
» Here's a helpful transcript of the "Duel of the Fates." [Cheezburger]
» The first official clip from "Skyfall" [Yahoo! Movies]
» Here's a TV spot for "Flight." [Collider]
» Motion-cap "Tarzan" teaser trailer /Film]
» Hungry-Hungry Hippos: The Movie! [La Times]
Welcome to the Dailies, where the MTV Movies team runs down all the film and television news, odds and ends that are fit to print! From awesome fan art to obscure casting news, this is your place to feast on all the movie leftovers you didn't know you were hungry for.
Also, Tarzan swings back and Denzel flies upside down in today's Dailies!
» Check out these ovary-bursting pictures of celebrity dads. [Parade]
» Here's a helpful transcript of the "Duel of the Fates." [Cheezburger]
» The first official clip from "Skyfall" [Yahoo! Movies]
» Here's a TV spot for "Flight." [Collider]
» Motion-cap "Tarzan" teaser trailer /Film]
» Hungry-Hungry Hippos: The Movie! [La Times]
Welcome to the Dailies, where the MTV Movies team runs down all the film and television news, odds and ends that are fit to print! From awesome fan art to obscure casting news, this is your place to feast on all the movie leftovers you didn't know you were hungry for.
- 10/5/2012
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
Team Wilkins
A group of football fans from around the country got the chance of lifetime on Monday afternoon when they played at Wembley Stadium in front of their family and friends.
The two sides of 15 players were captained by ex-professionals Steve Claridge and Ray Parlour, and were managed by former Chelsea coach Ray Wilkins and England caretaker manager Stuart Pearce. The referee was Premier League official Mark Halsey.
As well as big names from the footballing world, radio presenters Chris Evans from the BBC and Ronnie Irani from TalkSport took to the field.
Before the game the players were led to the dressing rooms to change and receive a team talk from the managers. Then they walked out from the tunnel to line up for the national anthem and shake hands.
After a brilliant game Team Wilkins (playing in white) won the day 3-0 , before retiring to the dressing...
A group of football fans from around the country got the chance of lifetime on Monday afternoon when they played at Wembley Stadium in front of their family and friends.
The two sides of 15 players were captained by ex-professionals Steve Claridge and Ray Parlour, and were managed by former Chelsea coach Ray Wilkins and England caretaker manager Stuart Pearce. The referee was Premier League official Mark Halsey.
As well as big names from the footballing world, radio presenters Chris Evans from the BBC and Ronnie Irani from TalkSport took to the field.
Before the game the players were led to the dressing rooms to change and receive a team talk from the managers. Then they walked out from the tunnel to line up for the national anthem and shake hands.
After a brilliant game Team Wilkins (playing in white) won the day 3-0 , before retiring to the dressing...
- 4/21/2012
- by Chris Deacon
- Obsessed with Film
In case you hadn't heard, Steven Spielberg has cast Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Tony Kushner’s screen adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lincoln biography Team of Rivals.
It seems like Hollywood is suddenly exploding with Lincoln projects, including the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which might be a work of fiction, I'm not sure.
One thing I am sure of: History tells us that the original Log Cabin Republican roomed and slept with a male partner for years and frequently slept with male soldiers while on presidential retreat.
Spielberg’s Lincoln will probably sidestep these accepted facts when it comes to the nation’s 16th president. I hope though, that he’ll consider including his trademark sentimental flourishes – like a John Williams score. Or maybe Lincoln leaving a trail of Reese’s Pieces on the way to deliver his Gettysburg Address?
No? Then perhaps Spielberg should step...
It seems like Hollywood is suddenly exploding with Lincoln projects, including the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which might be a work of fiction, I'm not sure.
One thing I am sure of: History tells us that the original Log Cabin Republican roomed and slept with a male partner for years and frequently slept with male soldiers while on presidential retreat.
Spielberg’s Lincoln will probably sidestep these accepted facts when it comes to the nation’s 16th president. I hope though, that he’ll consider including his trademark sentimental flourishes – like a John Williams score. Or maybe Lincoln leaving a trail of Reese’s Pieces on the way to deliver his Gettysburg Address?
No? Then perhaps Spielberg should step...
- 12/1/2011
- by Bigdillo
- The Backlot
Glad you returned back to the Mouse House. As many readers can easily observe, one main focus of this Disney column is to cover Disney’s wide array of music, from touching upon the electric score of Tron: Legacy to highlighting the more overlooked songs in the catalogue. Today, I wanted to shift gears – or should I say, ears – and set the lens on the fantastic music found within the (domestic) Disney theme parks. No formal list here, just take some notice to a handful of the best scores/melodies and songs within Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort. Maybe you will be transformed to another place and time, too.
Soarin’ Over California (composed by Jerry Goldsmith)
Perhaps the perfect piano rendition by one of the most perfect pieces ever written for a theme park attraction, this cover of “Soarin’ Over California,” or the abbreviated ”Soarin’” as it is called at Epcot,...
Soarin’ Over California (composed by Jerry Goldsmith)
Perhaps the perfect piano rendition by one of the most perfect pieces ever written for a theme park attraction, this cover of “Soarin’ Over California,” or the abbreviated ”Soarin’” as it is called at Epcot,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Brett Nachman
- FusedFilm
Hans Zimmer and John Williams, move over. Winning an Academy Award on his first outing, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor is now into scoring movies. The rock star who won (along with Atticus Ross) the Oscar for Best Score for The Social Network has agreed to score two more films: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Both films are well-pedigreed with Abe Lincoln directed by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Tim Burton; Dragon is the highly anticipated English version of the best-selling Steig Larsson books with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara (who had a key role in The Social Network!).
Abe Lincoln is a fictional account that implies the Civil War was actually due to vampires. Bad***Digest.com reports that Reznor will also Play a vampire in the film, in fact, the bloodsucker who kills Lincoln's mom.
Source: Popeater...
Both films are well-pedigreed with Abe Lincoln directed by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Tim Burton; Dragon is the highly anticipated English version of the best-selling Steig Larsson books with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara (who had a key role in The Social Network!).
Abe Lincoln is a fictional account that implies the Civil War was actually due to vampires. Bad***Digest.com reports that Reznor will also Play a vampire in the film, in fact, the bloodsucker who kills Lincoln's mom.
Source: Popeater...
- 3/7/2011
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
When film fans hear the word "composer," we immediately think of a film composer. Maybe our minds even drift to some of our favorite scores by the likes of John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer or Jerry Goldsmith. When that happens, it's easy to forget that a composer can write music for things other than movies. So in an age where almost everyone's life is run through their cell phone, it makes almost perfect sense that a great film composer is going to the digital medium. Ennio Morricone, the legendary Italian composer who has written scores for hundreds of films including Cinema Paradiso, The Good The Bad and The Ugly as well as The Untouchables, has signed a deal with LG to not only write brand new music for ringtones on their upcoming smart phones, but allow those phones to exclusively play some of his most famous themes. Read more...
- 1/4/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Tonight sees the summer finale of USA Network's Burn Notice on USA at 9/8C. The action-packed espionage series debuted on the channel (a division of NBC Universal) in 2007. It was part of the network's shift away from sci-fi shows that included The Dead Zone and The 4400 (I still haven't forgiven them for canceling that). Since then Burn Notice has grown in popularity and scope and earlier this year it was renewed for a fifth and a sixth season.
Like several of USA's shows, Burn Notice has won over critics and audiences with its mix of thrills, drama and offbeat humor. That is the sort of thing that scriptwriters, directors and cast are usually credited with, and rightly so. Invariably, though, there is at least one person in the film crew who is not going to get the recognition they deserve for contributing to a show's successful vibe. This member...
Like several of USA's shows, Burn Notice has won over critics and audiences with its mix of thrills, drama and offbeat humor. That is the sort of thing that scriptwriters, directors and cast are usually credited with, and rightly so. Invariably, though, there is at least one person in the film crew who is not going to get the recognition they deserve for contributing to a show's successful vibe. This member...
- 8/26/2010
- CinemaSpy
We typically give you a rundown of the big weekend stories when you get back to work on Monday morning. That way, in case you missed a few headlines, they're all right in one place. However, most of you aren't at work today because it's Labor Day. However, we're suckers for consistency, so instead of putting off the recap until Tuesday, we'll just stay the course.
And make no mistake, there were some big headlines: Rambo is taking shape for a fifth time, The Final Desintation repeated as the nation's top movie, and we finally caught a glimpse of some footage from next year's Clash of the Titans. And as always, because we can't cover it all, we've got a round-up of some major stories from other places on the web.
The Final Destination is number one again
Looks like Tintin will give us another good score by the legendary...
And make no mistake, there were some big headlines: Rambo is taking shape for a fifth time, The Final Desintation repeated as the nation's top movie, and we finally caught a glimpse of some footage from next year's Clash of the Titans. And as always, because we can't cover it all, we've got a round-up of some major stories from other places on the web.
The Final Destination is number one again
Looks like Tintin will give us another good score by the legendary...
- 9/7/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Robert Altman and Leigh Brackett, cowriter of the screenplay for The Big Sleep, turn Raymond Chandler's La gumshoe into a figure of '70s angst in what many consider Altman's masterpiece and Elliott Gould's finest hour. Bonanza star Dan Blocker was to have played Sterling Hayden's role, but passed away before filming began. John Williams' witty score is almost entirely variations on one theme.
- 9/2/2009
- Trailers from Hell
Five years ago today, one of the greatest melodists to ever pick up the baton left us.
Jerry Goldsmith was not only a master interpreter of film, but also one of the greatest creators of film music to ever grace the medium. Goldsmith's music, whether by accident or pure purpose, was a major influence on many of us in our decisions to take on this career and try to reach even a fraction of the height that he was able to during his time at the podium.
I am of the opinion that when Jerry Goldsmith passed, so did something else... theJerry Goldsmith via last.fm
matic writing. It will surely be argued that John Williams is perhaps the last "living legend" in film music. However, I felt that once Jerry was gone, even Williams began to rest on his laurels a little, and with the latest Indiana Jones film,...
Jerry Goldsmith was not only a master interpreter of film, but also one of the greatest creators of film music to ever grace the medium. Goldsmith's music, whether by accident or pure purpose, was a major influence on many of us in our decisions to take on this career and try to reach even a fraction of the height that he was able to during his time at the podium.
I am of the opinion that when Jerry Goldsmith passed, so did something else... theJerry Goldsmith via last.fm
matic writing. It will surely be argued that John Williams is perhaps the last "living legend" in film music. However, I felt that once Jerry was gone, even Williams began to rest on his laurels a little, and with the latest Indiana Jones film,...
- 7/21/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Jai Meghan)
- SCOREcastOnline.com
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