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Critics’ Choice Nominations announced

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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

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William Shatner interviews Michael Giacchino

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William Shatner recently conducted an interview with composer Michael Giacchino on My Outer Space. In the interview, Giacchino talks about his score for Star Trek, his approach to film music in general and his strategy on choosing projects. Check out this YouTube video to watch the interview. For a list of Giacchino’s upcoming projects, click here.

Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 10, 2010)

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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.

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Alan Menken developing TV musical comedy show

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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.

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Aaron Zigman to score ‘What’s Your Number?’

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Aaron Zigman has been hired to score the upcoming comedy What’s Your Number? The comedy stars Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Zachary Quinto and Ryan Phillippe. The film is directed by Mark Mylod, who previously directed the features Ali G Indahouse and The Big White, as well as episodes of several TV shows including United States of Tara, Entourage and the upcoming Showtime show Shameless starring William H. Macy. What’s Your Number? centers around a woman, who looks back at the past twenty men she’s had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love. 20th Century Fox will release the movie on April 29, 2011.

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David Hirschfelder scoring James Cameron’s Sanctum

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David Hirschfelder is attached to score the upcoming action adventure Sanctum. The movie is produced by James Cameron and will be one of the first 3D movies that was shot in 3D and not going through a post-production conversion. In the movie, an underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world. The movie stars Ioann Gruffud, Richard Roxburgh and Alice Parkinson. Sanctum marks another big assignment for Hirschfelder, who scored Zack Snyder’s Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole earlier this year.

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BREAKING NEWS: Mychael Danna to score Camelot

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Film Music Reporter has learned that composer Mychael Danna will be scoring the upcoming TV show Camelot. According to Collider, the epic period drama takes a fresh approach to the powerful story of the legendary King Arthur , weaving it with the authenticity of the most classic medieval tale of all time. The show’s cast includes Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green, Tamsin Eggerton and Claire Forlani. According to our sources, the show’s budget allows for an orchestral score. The fantasy drama is expected to air in the spring of 2011 on Starz. The first season will have 10 episodes, while more seasons are already being planned.

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Klaus Badelt’s ‘Point Blank’ (A Bout Portant) score online

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Klaus Badelt’s score for the French thiller Point Blank (A Bout Portant) has been made available online at Badelt’s online store webpage. The soundtrack album includes 22 tracks from Badelt’s score, all of which can be previewed and downloaded for free on the page. Apart from downloading the score in 320k mp3 or FLAC format, you can also order a physical CD on the webpage. Point Blank is directed by Fred Cavaye, who previously worked with Badelt on the 2008 thriller Anything for You (Pour elle), which recently has been remade in Hollywood as The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe and scored by Danny Elfman.

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Annie Awards nominations announced

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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

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Hans Zimmer not involved in Superman

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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.