The Academy Reverses Ruling On ‘The Dark Knight’ Score
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Action, Music & Musicals, Awards, Warner Brothers, Celebrities and Controversy, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek
Good news! The Dark Knight is in the running for Best Soundtrack again. You might remember William Goss’ story last month that reported it had been disqualified due to it having “too many composers.”
According to the Patrick Goldstein on The Big […]
Grammys Right Oscar Wrongs, Nominate ‘Dark Knight’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Awards
Leave it to the folks behind the Grammys (that would be The Recording Academy) to put things right when it comes to movie music. Sure, they have a bazillion categories, but, unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars), they know a good musical score when they […]
Rock On with the Trailer for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Pirate Radio Flick
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Comedy, Music & Musicals, Trailers and Clips
Did you watch Almost Famous and wish that Philip Seymour Hoffman would do a full retro film that has him chatting on the radio? Have you ever wished that you could see Nick Frost lounging lasciviously on a bed? Do you like/love Four Weddings and a Funeral, […]
Read More..>>Evan Rachel Wood to Play Spider-Man’s Girlfriend!
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
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Don’t worry hardcore Spidey fans, Evan Rachel Wood is not replacing Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane, Peter Parker’s girlfriend. However, according to the actress herself, she’s signed on to play Mary Jane in Spider-Man: The Musical, which begins rehearsals in June, 2009, and will most […]
Review: Cadillac Records
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, New Releases, Sony, Theatrical Reviews, New in Theaters
Etta James blasts her way through a sad song, but it’s not good enough. Leonard Chess taunts her and claims she’s not “woman enough” for such a song. Didn’t anyone ever walk out on her and leave her heartbroken? Take that and […]
Kristen Stewart To Rock Out as Joan Jett
Posted on December 3, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
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Twilight!
Okay, now that that’s out of the way, we have some very good news for you Kristen Stewart fans out there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stewart has signed to play rocker Joan Jett in a new flick called The Runaways. The film will follow Jett […]
Ray Winstone — Hollywood’s Singing Caesar
Posted on December 2, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Casting
In October, Eric D. Snider shared the wildly strange and awesome news that Steven Soderbergh was following uber-long biopics with a rock-singing Cleopatra in three dimensions. Soderbergh had set his sights on two unsurprising leads — Catherine Zeta Jones and Hugh Jackman (Marc Antony). But that left one major hole […]
Discuss: What’s Your Favorite Danny Elfman Score?
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek
What do Hellboy 2 (on DVD this week) and Milk (in theaters Nov. 26) have in common, aside from flamboyantly controversial main characters? Musical scores by Danny Elfman, that’s what.
Like many people, I was first aware of Elfman as the frontman for Oingo Boingo, a band that had […]
Soderbergh to Make a Live-Action 3D Rock ‘n’ Roll Musical About Cleopatra
Posted on October 24, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Casting, RumorMonger
Well, duh. That’s what you’re thinking after reading that headline. Of course Steven Soderbergh is going to make a live-action 3D rock ‘n’ roll musical about Cleopatra. He couldn’t find a backer for the animated all-female pop opera about Nikola Tesla, and the black-and-white German-language kabuki play about Attila […]
Watch This: ‘Grease’ v. ‘HSM’ — Who Rules the School?
Posted on October 21, 2008 - Filed Under Musical | Leave a Comment
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This week, we see the big-screen release of High School Musical 3: Senior Year. While Zac Efron and the other cuties have certainly got a strangle hold on young girls everywhere, HSM has some pretty big high school musical shoes to compete against — Grease.
Personally, I think […]