Konsonant Music is heading to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with four debuts titles enhanced by their melodious input. A pair of Netflix documentaries — The Great Hack and The Edge of Democracy — TBS’s comedic The Dressup Gang and indie telefilm It’s Not About Jimmy Keene represent the composition and music supervision firm’s offerings at the festival, taking […]
Annie Lennox can afford to be choosy about her projects these days. After winning the Oscar with “Into the West” for Peter Jackson’s 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Lennox has had no shortage of offers, most of which she seems to turn down. But when the call came to create […]
Working with producers Peter Jackson and James Cameron in the same year was mind-bending, according to composer Tom Holkenborg, the composer known as Junkie XL, who took to social media to tout the December release Mortal Engines and 2019’s Alita: Battle Angel. “I’m excited to officially announce that I am finishing up the original score to […]
When Bohemian Rhapsody arrives on DVD this season it will contain full-length songs of Queen’s six-tune Live Aid set — an extended 20-minute version of the sequence that closes the film in London’s Wembley stadium. In theaters, the scene lasts 12 minutes and includes four songs. Although the songs were performed by the actors and shot in […]
Bohemian Rhapsody, 20th Century Fox’s operatic biopic of the band Queen was the box office champion this weekend, rocking the multiplex with a $51 million debut. The PG-13 film earned an additional $72.5 from the international marketplace for a global debut of $122.5, outperforming industry expectations and proving the rollicking tunefest review-proof. Overall, it was a […]
With Bohemian Rhapsody, the filmmakers live up to the promise Queen made to fans in 1977 with the album News of the Day. The film is a sensation of sight and sound, a thrill of dazzling costumes and locations, all at the service of characters ranging from exotic to icky to emotionally wringing. It’s accessible yet […]
From the talking drums of Senegal to influence of Dutch electronica and New Orleans jazz, the globalization of world music was on display at the inaugural Variety Music for Screens Conference, where music Jon Burlingame speculated the powerhouse posse assembled for the “High Scorers – Composer Roundtable” session might be “the most diverse composer panel […]
Bradley Cooper will direct and star in a biographical film about Leonard Bernstein, according to Variety, which reports Paramount Pictures and Amblin Partners will co-finance the project. The legendary conductor is now the subject of dueling biopics, with actor Jake Gyllenhaal developing a competing project that he will star in, with Cary Fukunaga set to direct. That […]
Barcelona-born Agus Gonzalez-Lancharro has done something few in the film or music sectors have achieved — launched a company that has lasted five years in Hollywood. The former journalist moved to London in 2013 and launched Really Slow Motion Music & Sound Design, which he annexed to Los Angeles in 2016. Since then, Gonzalez-Lancharro and Really […]
Céline Dion’s new “Ashes” theme song for Deadpool 2 debuted yesterday in a music video that has racked up more than 5 million views on YouTube. The Twentieth Century Fox release hits theaters May 18. Dion and Fox managed a splashy video premiere on ABC’s Good Morning America. The songstress tweeted that the “@deadpoolmovie is […]
