Daily Film Music News
Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Tron: Legacy features a score by Daft Punk. Click here to check out our posting on the soundtrack album announcement. Variety published an article on how the music of the French Duo grew from a supporting player to a starring role over the course of the movie’s production. Also visit Dazed Digital for a lenghty article on Daft Punk scoring the movie.
The nominations for the 68th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:
Best Original Score:
The King’s Speech – Alexandre Desplat
Alice in Wonderland – Danny Elfman
127 Hours – A.R. Rahman
The Social Network – Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor
Inception – Hans Zimmer
The 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Award nominations have been announced this morning. The nominations in the Best Score category are:
“Black Swan” – Clint Mansell
“Inception” – Hans Zimmer
“The King’s Speech” – Alexandre Desplat
“The Social Network” – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
“True Grit” – Carter Burwell
The Best Song nominees are:
“I See the Light” – performed by Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi/written by Alan Menken & Glenn Slater – Tangled
“If I Rise” – performed by Dido and A.R. Rahman/music by A.R. Rahman/lyrics by Dido Armstrong and Rollo Armstrong – 127 Hours
“Shine” – performed and written by John Legend – Waiting for Superman
“We Belong Together” – performed and written by Randy Newman – Toy Story 3
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me Yet” – performed by Cher/written by Diane Warren – Burlesque
Two new movies in wide release this weekend:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader featuring a score by David Arnold opens in most theaters. A soundtrack album has been released by Sony Masterworks. Check our our previous posting announcing the album release. Two new interviews with Arnold about working on Narnia have recently been published. Visit Film Music Magazine and Classic FM to read and listen to the interviews.
Deadline Hollywood reported this week that composer Alan Menken has teamed with lyricist David Zippel and comedy writer Marco Pennette for a musical comedy set up at ABC. The show is described as St. Elmo’s Fire meets Rent and centers on a young female musician living with other musicians as they try to make their way into the world. Unlike the currently airing musical TV hit show Glee and other musical TV show in development, Menken’s untitled project would feature in 2-3 songs in every episode, which given network TV’s usual yearly episode order of 22 or more would make it an extremely ambitious undertaking.
Today, the International Animation Society announced the nominations for this year’s Annie Awards, which will take place on February 5, 2011. Here are the music-related categories:
Music in a Feature Production
Sylvain Chomet “The Illusionist” – Django Films
David Hirschfelder “Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” – Warner Bros. Pictures
John Powell “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Harry Gregson Williams “Shrek Forever After” – DreamWorks Animation
Pharrell Williams, Heitor Pereira “Despicable Me” – Illumination Entertainment
Music in a Television Production
J. Walter Hawkes “The Wonder Pets!” – Nickelodeon Production & Little Airplane Productions
Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer and John Powell “Kung Fu Panda Holiday” – DreamWorks Animation
Tim Long, Alf Clausen, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement “The Simpsons: Elementary School Musical” – Gracie Films
Shawn Patterson “Robot Chicken’s DP Christmas Special” – ShadowMachine
Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr, Tuck Tucker “SpongeBob SquarePants” – Nickelodeon
The Hollywood Reporter had a chance to talk to composer Hans Zimmer about his involvement in the upcoming Superman adaptation directed by Zack Snyder, which was reported last week by NBC San Diego as reported here. The news spread last week after Zimmer did some interviews at the DVD/Blu-Ray release party for Incpetion, which according to the composer had been taken out of context. Zimmer says that at this point he has not talked with Superman‘s director Zack Snyder and is not involved in any way in the new adaptation of the comic book franchise. This, of course, doesn’t mean that he won’t be asked to score the movie, especially given his relationship with producer Christopher Nolan, but he refers to the assignment of scoring the movie and following the footsteps of John Williams as “a thankless task”, implying some hesitation in taking on scoring duties on the movie.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced that Hans Zimmer will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, December 8 at 11:30 a.m. on Hollywood Boulevard. Christopher Nolan is expected to speak during the event. Zimmer’s star will be the 2,426th on the Walk of Fame, with only a few film composers (including Maurice Jarre, Alfred Newman, Randy Newman, Elmer Bernstein, Bill Conti, Henry Mancini and most recently Alan Menken) among the recipients. Hans Zimmer will be dedicating his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to his longtime friend and publicist, Ronni Chasen.
Only one movie opens wide this weekend:
The Warrior’s Way starring Dong-gun Jang, Danny Huston, Geoffrey Rush and Kate Bosworth features a score by Javier Navarrete. In the movie, a warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission. No soundtrack release has been announced so far. To find out more about the movie, check out the official movie webpage.
The nominations for the 53rd Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations for the film music related categories:
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media: