A new video interview with composers Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders who were nominated for an Academy Award for their score for The Hurt Locker was recently uploaded at Hikari Takano’s interview page. In the interview, Beltrami and Sanders talk about their collaboration, the Oscar nomination, as well as their work on this year’s Best Picture winner. Apart from the 25 minutes video interview, the site also features a video with Buck Sanders playing the ‘The Way I Am’ theme from The Hurt Locker. To watch the videos, check out this link.
Category: Composer Interviews
Blake Neely to score Life as We Know It
Blake Neely has been hired to score the upcoming Warner Bros comedy Life as We Know It. In the movie, two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident. The movie stars Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel and is directed by Greg Berlanti. Berlanti and Neely previously collaborated on such TV shows as Everwood, Eli Stone and Brothers & Sisters. Life as We Know It is scheduled to be released on December 22.
James Horner on ProTools and Sibelius
Avid Audio just uploaded a new video feature with James Horner talking about his working process and the technological advances on his Oscar-nominated score for Avatar. The video also features interviews with Horner’s scoring mixer Simon Rhodes and electronic music arranger Simon Franglen. To watch the video, click on this Vimeo link.
New audio interview with Danny Elfman
Film Music Magazine’s On the Score show just uploaded a new interview with composer Danny Elfman. In the 37 minutes interview, Danny Elfman talks about his score for Alice in Wonderland and his collaboration with Tim Burton, including such movies as Planet of the Apes, Edward Scissorhands and Mars Attacks. Most interestingly, Elfman also talks about his fallout wih Tim Burton that led him to leave Ed Wood in 1995. To listen to the complete interview, check out this link.
Giacchino on CNN
Michael Giacchino recently was featured on CNN with a new video interview. Giacchino talks about the importance of theme and melody, his influences and his Oscar nomination. The video also offers a glimpse into a recent recording session for Lost and also includes Hans Zimmer commenting on Giacchino’s Academy Award-nominated score for Up. To watch the whole video, click here.
Elfman to score Gus Van Sant’s Restless
In a recent interview with Collider, Elfman confirmed that he will score Gus Van Sant’s upcoming drama Restless (previously untitled). The movie revolves around a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality. The movie is produced by Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard. Restless stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland). Restless marks Elfman’s fifth collaboration with Van Sant after To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Psycho and Milk. A release date for the movie produced by Imagine Entertainment has yet to be announced.
Elfman will score the movie before he starts working on Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. The comic book adaptation starring Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz and Tom Wilkinson. The movie is scheduled to be released this December by Sony Pictures.
In the interview, Elfman also talks about Alice in Wonderland, his working process and his motivations for choosing projects. He also goes into detail on what happened on The Wolfman. To listen to or read the whole interview, click here.
New Giacchino Video Interview
David Poland has uploaded the final video interview in his series of interviews with all of this year’s Oscar-nominated composers. In the Interview, Michael Giacchino talks about his score for Up, working on Star Trek, as well as his TV scores for Lost and Fringe. To watch the very informative video interview, click here.
Elfman Oscar profile on Good Morning America
This morning, Danny Elfman was featured in ABC’s Good Morning America Oscar profile series, where he talked about what awards mean to him. Additionally, the profile showed Elfman working in his studio, as well as scoring session footage from Alice in Wonderland with Tim Burton. The video from the show can be streamed on the ABC News video page and on YouTube.
Beverly Hills Cop & Fletch score albums planned
In a recent interview with Cinematical, Harold Faltermeyer announced that albums for his scores for Beverly Hills Cop and Fletch are in the works. The label he’s working with is La-La-Land Records and the intention would be to release the complete scores.
In the interview, Faltermeyer also talks about Cop Out, his working process and his future plans. To read the entire interview, click here.
Desplat to score The Special Relationship
Alexandre Desplat has been announced to score the drama The Special Relationship. The project traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair’s relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The movie is directed by Richard Loncraine who previously directed the action thriller Firewall which also had a score by Desplat. The film also marks another collaboration between writer/producer Peter Morgan, who Desplat worked with on The Queen. Michael Sheen reprises his role of Tony Blair from that movie is joined by Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton and Hope David as Hillary Clinton. The BBC produced movie is scheduled to come out in May in the UK. A domestic distribution deal and release date has yet to be announced.
Desplat will also continue his relationship with director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Cheri) on Tamara Drewe. The movie about a young newspaper writer who returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale stars Dominic Cooper and is scheduled to come out later this year by Sony Pictures Classics in the United States.
The extremely prolific composer also has the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on his slate of upcoming projects and is still working on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which should come out later this year.