Ron Howard’s “The Beatles: Eight Days A Week — The Touring Years” is the latest rockumentary to find a warm reception in movie theaters, earning a vibrant $5,196,432 worldwide in its first eight days of release. In the U.S., the film opened Sept. 16, playing so strongly on its 85 screens — with a per-screen average of […]
For James Franglen, the challenge of creating a score for Antoine Fuqua’s remake of The Magnificent Seven must was a double challenge. The 53-year-old British composer was not only tasked with expanding the snippets of themes left by James Horner, whose untimely death last year was an industry tragedy, but he knew the work would […]
Atticus Ross picked up good vibrations from the New York Film Critics Association for Use of Music for Love & Mercy (featuring the music of Brian Wilson) while Carter Burwell scored a double with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for both Carol and Anomalisa. Much was made of the fact that Burwell — who […]
Could there possibly be a more entertaining band than haircut-obsessed Brit rockers Oasis? Putting aside, for a moment, the music, which is pretty darn great, there are the oversized personalities of the brothers Gallagher, Noel and Liam – cartoon characters who obsess over coiffing and interrupt each other constantly — barely intelligible sentences heavily laced with cuss […]
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has teamed up with Ricky Gervais on a soundtrack for Life On the Road, a mockumentary featuring Gervais’ David Brent office manager from the British version of “The Office” in his journey to become a rock star. Martin, fresh off his comedy turn in a “Game of Thrones” musical spoof […]
Like a Phoenix, composer Antonio Sanchez arose from the ashes of thwarted Oscar dreams to emerge a double-winner at the World Soundtrack Awards for his highly original drum score for the film Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Sanchez won Best Original Film Score of the Year and Discovery of the Year 2015 at the 15th […]
Based on a Hasbro toy line and 1980s animated TV series, the Universal Pictures release Jem and the Holograms was a disappointing opener, making a paltry $1.37 million on 2,413 screens the weekend of Oct. 23-25, for an average of roughly $545 per screen. The trades were quick to characterize that as the worst opening […]
“This is one of the highlights of my career,” British singer songwriter Sam Smith tweeted today of performing the theme for the new James Bond film, Spectre. Called “Writing’s On the Wall,” Smith let slip in a January BBC Radio 1 interview that he’d recorded the song, then tried his best to bury the news after apparently […]
Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton has toppled 2005’s Walk the Line as the top-grossing music film of all time. The hip-hop drama today crossed the $120 million mark, and is expected to earn another $10-15 million this weekend, catapulting it past the Twentieth Century Fox’s Johnny Cash confessional, which had been the record-holder for a decade with a $119.5 million […]
Will the 2016 Warner Bros. release Suicide Squad become the first film to incorporate a song custom cut for a trailer into the actual feature film? If the studio has been paying any attention to the fans’ Internet response to the music created for the Comic-Con trailer, it just might! The cover version of the […]
