Two songs from “Barbie” are Oscar-nominated, part of a diverse collection of songs and musical scores nominated for the 96th annual Academy Awards.
“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, and “I’m Just Ken,” by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, were chosen by the 390 voting members of the Academy music branch. Three “Barbie” songs were shortlisted (Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” being the third) but only two can be nominated, per Academy rules.
The “Barbie” songs are already considered frontrunners, and if either number prevails on March 10, the Oscar will go to a pair of songwriters who already have one of those golden statues. Siblings Eilish and O’Connell won for 2021’s James Bond film “No Time to Die,” while Ronson and Wyatt were two of four 2018 winners for Lady Gaga’s song “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born.”
They will compete against Jon Batiste...
“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, and “I’m Just Ken,” by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, were chosen by the 390 voting members of the Academy music branch. Three “Barbie” songs were shortlisted (Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” being the third) but only two can be nominated, per Academy rules.
The “Barbie” songs are already considered frontrunners, and if either number prevails on March 10, the Oscar will go to a pair of songwriters who already have one of those golden statues. Siblings Eilish and O’Connell won for 2021’s James Bond film “No Time to Die,” while Ronson and Wyatt were two of four 2018 winners for Lady Gaga’s song “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born.”
They will compete against Jon Batiste...
- 1/23/2024
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to investigations, Harry Bosch is definitely old school. So, it’s a good thing he has a tech-savvy right-hand man to help him hunt down bad guys in Amazon Freevee’s Bosch: Legacy. The Bosch spinoff – which returned for its second season in October 2023 – brings back a handful of characters from the original series, including Harry (Titus Welliver), lawyer Honey Changler (Mimi Rogers), and Harry’s daughter Maddie (Madison Lintz). It also brings several new people into the LAPD detective-turned-pi’s orbit. One of those is Maurice “Mo” Bassi, a jazz-loving hacker played by Stephen A. Chang who assists Harry on his cases.
Who is Maurice “Mo” Bassi on ‘Bosch: Legacy’? Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) and Maurice “Mo” Bassi (Stephen A. Chang) in ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Season 2 | Tyler Golden/Amazon Freevee
Viewers met Mo in Bosch: Legacy Season 1. He’s an unflappable tech expert who helps Harry navigate...
Who is Maurice “Mo” Bassi on ‘Bosch: Legacy’? Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) and Maurice “Mo” Bassi (Stephen A. Chang) in ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Season 2 | Tyler Golden/Amazon Freevee
Viewers met Mo in Bosch: Legacy Season 1. He’s an unflappable tech expert who helps Harry navigate...
- 11/4/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is an Oscar frontrunner for best animated feature, and if it wins, it won’t be the first time the Academy has honored the wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy. In 1941, Walt Disney’s Pinocchio became the first animated feature to win Oscars for best original score and song, for “When You Wish Upon a Star.” The 1940 film, based on children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, was the second animated feature released by Disney, after 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (which, incidentally, also earned an Oscar nomination for original score). Composers Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith, who had written the music for Snow White with Frank Churchill, were enlisted to craft Pinocchio‘s score. Harline and lyricist Ned Washington wrote the tune “When You Wish Upon a Star,” which was immediately recognized by Disney as...
- 2/26/2023
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Walt Disney never quite had a “court composer” for his movies, although legends like Leigh Harline, Frank Churchill and Paul J. Smith contributed iconic scores and song melodies to Disney classics from Snow White and Pinocchio to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But for the past three decades, the music in Walt Disney features — and the features themselves — has been redefined to recapture and rebrand the musical, a medium long thought dead in film and even on the Broadway stage. And if there is one man who is largely responsible for this resurgence, it’s Alan Menken.
The composer’s melodies for songs — “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid, the title song to Beauty and the Beast, “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas, “True Love’s Kiss” from Enchanted — have become as indelible as anything produced in the world of popular music. Says...
Walt Disney never quite had a “court composer” for his movies, although legends like Leigh Harline, Frank Churchill and Paul J. Smith contributed iconic scores and song melodies to Disney classics from Snow White and Pinocchio to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But for the past three decades, the music in Walt Disney features — and the features themselves — has been redefined to recapture and rebrand the musical, a medium long thought dead in film and even on the Broadway stage. And if there is one man who is largely responsible for this resurgence, it’s Alan Menken.
The composer’s melodies for songs — “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid, the title song to Beauty and the Beast, “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas, “True Love’s Kiss” from Enchanted — have become as indelible as anything produced in the world of popular music. Says...
- 12/21/2022
- by Jeff Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Barbra Streisand’s fabled run of 1962 shows at the Greenwich Village nightclub, Bon Soir, will be released as a new live album, Live at Bon Soir, on Nov. 4 via Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings. To tease the release, Streisand shared a powerhouse rendition of the Arthur Hamilton-penned song, “Cry Me a River.”
Live at Bon Soir was recorded over three nights, Nov. 4 through Nov. 6, 1962: Streisand was just 20 years old, and she’d signed her first record deal with Columbia only a month earlier. The recordings were originally supposed to become Streisand’s debut album,...
Live at Bon Soir was recorded over three nights, Nov. 4 through Nov. 6, 1962: Streisand was just 20 years old, and she’d signed her first record deal with Columbia only a month earlier. The recordings were originally supposed to become Streisand’s debut album,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara, longtime Rolling Stone contributor Emily Zemler takes a deep dive into how various beloved princesses became the cultural icons they are today, from Snow White’s lasting reign to newer, inspiring royalty like Moana.
The book weaves interviews with historians and those who helped shape the characters, including directors and voice talent, alongside concept art and memorabilia, and breaks down important themes integral to how the princesses serve as inspirations.
Music, of course, is a key element to the storytelling and what makes the characters resonate for decades,...
The book weaves interviews with historians and those who helped shape the characters, including directors and voice talent, alongside concept art and memorabilia, and breaks down important themes integral to how the princesses serve as inspirations.
Music, of course, is a key element to the storytelling and what makes the characters resonate for decades,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
The songs in the running for the 2022 Best Original Song Oscar are “Down to Joy” (“Belfast”), “Dos Oruguitas” (“Encanto”), “Somehow You Do” (“Four Good Days”), “Be Alive” (“King Richard”), and “No Time to Die” (“No Time to Die”). Our current odds show that “No Time to Die” (82/25) is favored to win, followed in order by “Dos Oruguitas” (18/5), “Be Alive” (9/2), “Down to Joy” (9/2), and “Somehow You Do” (9/2).
Five of the seven individual songwriters included in this year’s lineup are first-time Oscar nominees, with Diane Warren (“Somehow You Do”) standing out as the only female veteran. All 12 of her past bids, beginning with one for “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (“Mannequin”) in 1988, have been unsuccessful. She has now been nominated in seven of the last eight years, with her most recent loss having been to D’Mile, H.E.R., and Tiara Thomas’s (“Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah”) last year.
Five of the seven individual songwriters included in this year’s lineup are first-time Oscar nominees, with Diane Warren (“Somehow You Do”) standing out as the only female veteran. All 12 of her past bids, beginning with one for “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (“Mannequin”) in 1988, have been unsuccessful. She has now been nominated in seven of the last eight years, with her most recent loss having been to D’Mile, H.E.R., and Tiara Thomas’s (“Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah”) last year.
- 3/24/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
In any other year, Emmy nominees Ewan McGregor (lead limited series/TV movie actor for “Halston”) and Josh O’Connor (lead drama actor for “The Crown”) likely would have crossed paths at least a couple of times, probably at parties for streamer Netflix, which delivered both shows.
In that scenario, they may have made small talk and congratulated each other on their respective shows. They may have even laughed over the adaptation they share in common — “Emma.”
But because of the Covid-19 pandemic, they met for the first time (virtually) when Variety brought them together to discuss all of the things their nominated roles have in common. Given the space and time to reflect, they thoughtfully dissected everything from getting inside the mind of larger-than-life icons as Halston and Prince Charles, to how portraying such people changed their own outlook on fame and the sense of tragedy they felt around their characters.
In that scenario, they may have made small talk and congratulated each other on their respective shows. They may have even laughed over the adaptation they share in common — “Emma.”
But because of the Covid-19 pandemic, they met for the first time (virtually) when Variety brought them together to discuss all of the things their nominated roles have in common. Given the space and time to reflect, they thoughtfully dissected everything from getting inside the mind of larger-than-life icons as Halston and Prince Charles, to how portraying such people changed their own outlook on fame and the sense of tragedy they felt around their characters.
- 8/10/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
With his Best Actor Oscar nomination for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Chadwick Boseman is the first actor posthumously nominated for an Academy Award since Heath Ledger.
Ledger was nominated and won Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 ceremony for “The Dark Knight.” It’s widely anticipated Boseman will also win an Oscar at the 93rd annual Academy Awards in April for his “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” performance.
See 2021 Oscars nominations full list
Throughout Oscars history, there have been multiple people nominated for an Academy Award after their death. Before Boseman, the most recent posthumous nominee was “Fences” playwright August Wilson, who received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2017 ceremony. Before Wilson, Walt Martin received a nomination for Best Sound Mixing for “American Sniper” at the 2015 ceremony.
The last posthumous Oscar winner was producer Gil Friesen, who won Best Documentary at the 2013 ceremony for “20 Feet From Stardom.”
Boseman almost...
Ledger was nominated and won Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 ceremony for “The Dark Knight.” It’s widely anticipated Boseman will also win an Oscar at the 93rd annual Academy Awards in April for his “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” performance.
See 2021 Oscars nominations full list
Throughout Oscars history, there have been multiple people nominated for an Academy Award after their death. Before Boseman, the most recent posthumous nominee was “Fences” playwright August Wilson, who received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2017 ceremony. Before Wilson, Walt Martin received a nomination for Best Sound Mixing for “American Sniper” at the 2015 ceremony.
The last posthumous Oscar winner was producer Gil Friesen, who won Best Documentary at the 2013 ceremony for “20 Feet From Stardom.”
Boseman almost...
- 3/15/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The latest retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma. is one for the books.
In a People exclusive clip of the period film, the movie’s cast hilariously attempts to recount a quick summary of the movie which follows Anya Taylor-Joy in the lead role as the “rich” and “precocious” young woman.
“She fancies herself the best matchmaker around,” Callum Turner, who stars as Emma’s love interest Frank Churchill, says in the clip.
Adds Bill Nighy, who plays Mr. Woodhouse, “But she has what we now call: Control issues.”
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But when a new girl, Harriet Smith, arrives in Emma...
In a People exclusive clip of the period film, the movie’s cast hilariously attempts to recount a quick summary of the movie which follows Anya Taylor-Joy in the lead role as the “rich” and “precocious” young woman.
“She fancies herself the best matchmaker around,” Callum Turner, who stars as Emma’s love interest Frank Churchill, says in the clip.
Adds Bill Nighy, who plays Mr. Woodhouse, “But she has what we now call: Control issues.”
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But when a new girl, Harriet Smith, arrives in Emma...
- 3/12/2020
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Upon first glance, you may find yourself wondering if another film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma is needed (or wanted for that matter). In fact, one could even argue it would be impossible to improve on Amy Heckerling’s update of the tale in Clueless (1995). Thankfully, you would be considerably wrong as the latest version of the Austen classic, Emma, from director Autumn de Wilde, like Greta Gerwig’s incredible interpretation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (2019), gives new life to a story that every generation inevitably seems to try their hand at interpreting and improving.
This time around Emma Woodhouse is played by Anya Taylor-Joy. She lives with her father (played with charm and with by the fabulous Bill Nighy). However, her life is not that boring or empty as one might think. She is able to occupy her days by implementing machinations into various relationships throughout her community.
This time around Emma Woodhouse is played by Anya Taylor-Joy. She lives with her father (played with charm and with by the fabulous Bill Nighy). However, her life is not that boring or empty as one might think. She is able to occupy her days by implementing machinations into various relationships throughout her community.
- 3/3/2020
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
That emphatic punctuation after the title — it’s technically called Emma., with a period — suggests that this gorgeously filmed, deliciously wicked, and sometimes wounding film version of Jane Austen’s literary classic may be the final word on the manipulative, matchmaking Miss Emma Woodhouse. Don’t count on it. Film versions of the writer’s fourth novel were practically a cottage industry in the mid-1990s: Gwyneth Paltrow played her on screen, Kate Beckinsale did the honors on TV and Alicia Silverstone immortally spun her into a Beverly Hills High School alpha in Clueless.
- 2/19/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Jane Austen has been through a lot on screen in recent years. From watching details of her own life contorted into a romantic comedy framework in “Becoming Jane,” seeing her most enduring masterpiece invaded by the undead in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” or observing the cottage merchandising and tourism industry that has sprung up in her wake in “Austenland,” one longs to imagine the saltine-dry turn of phrase she might have used to describe the splintering and commodification of her own legacy. But barring that, there’s something quite comforting in seeing her work returned to a more natural habitat: adapted into handsome, clever, faithfully unambitious films like Autumn de Wilde’s “Emma.”
As the film’s title card and poster tell us, the proper rendering of de Wilde’s “Emma” is not simply “Emma” but “Emma.” — period and all. It’s unclear why the filmmakers insisted on end punctuation,...
As the film’s title card and poster tell us, the proper rendering of de Wilde’s “Emma” is not simply “Emma” but “Emma.” — period and all. It’s unclear why the filmmakers insisted on end punctuation,...
- 2/3/2020
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
We never knew we needed one more “Little Women” until Greta Gerwig flexed her adaptive smarts. Now, freshness and fizz has been applied to another oft-filmed classic, Jane Austen’s adored novel “Emma,” which in the hands of photographer-turned-filmmaker Autumn de Wilde, screenwriter Eleanor Catton, and a stellar cast led by rising star Anya Taylor-Joy, is once again a deeply satisfying blend of cross-purposed manners and romantic mismanagement.
Arriving a quarter-century after Amy Heckerling’s delightful Beverly Hills update (“Clueless”) and the shiny 1996 bauble that bolstered Gwyneth Paltrow’s ascendancy, the latest rendering of literature’s most elegantly deluded and self-satisfied female Cupid feels like a flinty, intelligent engagement with Austen’s nuanced characters and lasting ironies rather than a slick excuse to keep “Downton Abbey” fans happy with more English finery and frippery.
Not that this “Emma.” — it’s not just a period piece; there’s a period in...
Arriving a quarter-century after Amy Heckerling’s delightful Beverly Hills update (“Clueless”) and the shiny 1996 bauble that bolstered Gwyneth Paltrow’s ascendancy, the latest rendering of literature’s most elegantly deluded and self-satisfied female Cupid feels like a flinty, intelligent engagement with Austen’s nuanced characters and lasting ironies rather than a slick excuse to keep “Downton Abbey” fans happy with more English finery and frippery.
Not that this “Emma.” — it’s not just a period piece; there’s a period in...
- 2/3/2020
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
To celebrate what would have been Jane Austen’s birthday, Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for their comedic adaptation of ‘Emma’.
Directed by Autumn de Wilde, Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Bill Nighy, Miranda Hart, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Gemma Whelan, Amber Anderson, Tanya Reynolds, and Connor Swindells complete the cast.
Callum Turner stars as “Frank Churchill” in director Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features Josh O’Connor (left) as “Mr. Elton” and Tanya Reynolds (right) as “Mrs. Elton” in director Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features
Also in trailers – “He’s a monster” new trailer for the BBC’s ‘Dracula’ gives you a new lust for life
The film hits cinemas February 14th, 2020
Emma Synopsis
Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending is...
Directed by Autumn de Wilde, Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Bill Nighy, Miranda Hart, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Gemma Whelan, Amber Anderson, Tanya Reynolds, and Connor Swindells complete the cast.
Callum Turner stars as “Frank Churchill” in director Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features Josh O’Connor (left) as “Mr. Elton” and Tanya Reynolds (right) as “Mrs. Elton” in director Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features
Also in trailers – “He’s a monster” new trailer for the BBC’s ‘Dracula’ gives you a new lust for life
The film hits cinemas February 14th, 2020
Emma Synopsis
Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending is...
- 12/16/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Juliette Harrisson Nov 12, 2019
From an armed robber to a candlestick, we take a look at 10 of Ewan McGregor's most overlooked roles.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Ewan McGregor is a popular and Golden Globe-winning actor, and his great performances in films like Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge!, Fargo, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and, of course, several Star Wars movies are well known. He's recently won plaudits for his tortured turn in Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, and is soon to be reprising his role as Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in an upcoming Disney+ series. But McGregor has such a full filmography, spanning 25 years and counting, that it’s easy to overlook some of his less lauded performances.
Here, we’ve collected 10 of his performances that are deserving of attention, though some of them are found in not-so-great films or forgotten television shows, they are still of great...
From an armed robber to a candlestick, we take a look at 10 of Ewan McGregor's most overlooked roles.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Ewan McGregor is a popular and Golden Globe-winning actor, and his great performances in films like Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge!, Fargo, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and, of course, several Star Wars movies are well known. He's recently won plaudits for his tortured turn in Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, and is soon to be reprising his role as Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in an upcoming Disney+ series. But McGregor has such a full filmography, spanning 25 years and counting, that it’s easy to overlook some of his less lauded performances.
Here, we’ve collected 10 of his performances that are deserving of attention, though some of them are found in not-so-great films or forgotten television shows, they are still of great...
- 11/12/2019
- Den of Geek
Composer Danny Elfman broke his cardinal rule for Disney’s remake of “Dumbo”: He wrote music ahead of time, long before shooting began and without even seeing a script.
“Thinking about the idea of a baby elephant and his mother, and the two being torn apart, I just thought of something innocent and sweet and sad,” he confesses. “I went into my studio, spent 20 minutes writing it down and making a demo of it, and I stashed it away.”
A year later, as he began working closely with director Tim Burton, he found the file (curiously labeled “Elephant”) and, to his amazement, discovered that the music matched the film perfectly. “Dumbo’s Theme” is unchanged from his original concept.
“That theme had to play bittersweet, which I knew it could, but it also had to be frivolous and light, and more important, it had to be triumphant in a really grand way,...
“Thinking about the idea of a baby elephant and his mother, and the two being torn apart, I just thought of something innocent and sweet and sad,” he confesses. “I went into my studio, spent 20 minutes writing it down and making a demo of it, and I stashed it away.”
A year later, as he began working closely with director Tim Burton, he found the file (curiously labeled “Elephant”) and, to his amazement, discovered that the music matched the film perfectly. “Dumbo’s Theme” is unchanged from his original concept.
“That theme had to play bittersweet, which I knew it could, but it also had to be frivolous and light, and more important, it had to be triumphant in a really grand way,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Autumn de Wilde directing Jane Austen adaptation.
Working Title and Blueprint Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma has added a host of names to its cast as principal photography gets underway this week.
Joining Anya Taylor-Joy in the titular role and Johnny Flynn as George Knightley are Bill Nighy (Mr. Woodhouse), Miranda Hart (Miss Bates), Mia Goth (Harriet Smith), Josh O’Connor (Mr. Elton), and Callum Turner (Frank Churchill).
Also cast are Rupert Graves (Mr. Weston), Gemma Whelan (Mrs. Weston), Amber Anderson (Jane Fairfax), and Tanya Reynolds (Mrs. Elton).
Autumn de Wilde is directing the project,...
Working Title and Blueprint Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma has added a host of names to its cast as principal photography gets underway this week.
Joining Anya Taylor-Joy in the titular role and Johnny Flynn as George Knightley are Bill Nighy (Mr. Woodhouse), Miranda Hart (Miss Bates), Mia Goth (Harriet Smith), Josh O’Connor (Mr. Elton), and Callum Turner (Frank Churchill).
Also cast are Rupert Graves (Mr. Weston), Gemma Whelan (Mrs. Weston), Amber Anderson (Jane Fairfax), and Tanya Reynolds (Mrs. Elton).
Autumn de Wilde is directing the project,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
If Tim Burton seemed like an offbeat choice to direct Disney’s live-action adaptation of “Dumbo,” you can bet he found an equally unusual choice to sing the film’s signature lullaby “Baby Mine,” Arcade Fire.
The indie rockers turned the soothing lullaby into a lilting, elegant rock song and even introduced some of their strange instrumentation. Lead singer Win Butler said the song features harp, theremin and an instrument called the Sonovox.
“My mom plays the harp on the track, my brother the theremin, my wife sings and plays drums, and our son even plays the triangle, as well as the rest of our ‘family’ in Arcade Fire,” Win Butler said of the recording in a statement (via Pitchfork). “I will forever relate to the song thinking about the people I hold so dear that are ‘so precious to me.’ Listen for the cameo of my grandpa Alvino’s famous Sonovox at the end.
The indie rockers turned the soothing lullaby into a lilting, elegant rock song and even introduced some of their strange instrumentation. Lead singer Win Butler said the song features harp, theremin and an instrument called the Sonovox.
“My mom plays the harp on the track, my brother the theremin, my wife sings and plays drums, and our son even plays the triangle, as well as the rest of our ‘family’ in Arcade Fire,” Win Butler said of the recording in a statement (via Pitchfork). “I will forever relate to the song thinking about the people I hold so dear that are ‘so precious to me.’ Listen for the cameo of my grandpa Alvino’s famous Sonovox at the end.
- 3/11/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
It's a big day for your Lord of the Rings fans, even if you don't know it. Read on.
On this day in history as it relates to the movies
1882 Bela Lugosi is born in what was then Hungary (and now Romania). He vants to suck your blood as the original big screen Dracula. A century later Martin Landau will win a justly deserved Oscar for playing him in Tim Burton's wonderful Ed Wood (1994).
1895 Rex Ingram, one of the earliest successful black actors in Hollywood was born. Credits include: The Thief of Baghdad (as the genie), Huckleberry Finn (as Jim), and Cabin in the Sky (as Lucifer Jr)...
1901 Frank Churchill is born in Maine. He wrote songs people still listen to today including "Baby Mine" from Dumbo and "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Tragically he committed suicide at age 40 mere months after...
On this day in history as it relates to the movies
1882 Bela Lugosi is born in what was then Hungary (and now Romania). He vants to suck your blood as the original big screen Dracula. A century later Martin Landau will win a justly deserved Oscar for playing him in Tim Burton's wonderful Ed Wood (1994).
1895 Rex Ingram, one of the earliest successful black actors in Hollywood was born. Credits include: The Thief of Baghdad (as the genie), Huckleberry Finn (as Jim), and Cabin in the Sky (as Lucifer Jr)...
1901 Frank Churchill is born in Maine. He wrote songs people still listen to today including "Baby Mine" from Dumbo and "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Tragically he committed suicide at age 40 mere months after...
- 10/20/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Baby mine, don’t you cry. / Baby mine, dry your eyes. / Rest your head close to my heart, never to part, / Baby of mine. • From Walt Disney’s “Dumbo”(1941), Words and Lyrics by Frank Churchill and Ned Washington
So Donna Troy is coming back.
Only this isn’t the vibrant, intelligent, powerful, and oh-so-very human – with all the foibles and strengths inherent in homo sapiens – young woman that I came to know and love back in the day when Marv Wolfman and George Pérez created and collaborated on The New Teen Titans.
This is a Donna created through the teamwork of Meredith and David Finch, who has been granted life through the dark arts, through black magic, and as she rises naked from the brewing miasma of a black cauldron, and so we react with fear and horror, our intrinsic fear of human sacrifice, blood ritual, and “unnatural” life causing...
So Donna Troy is coming back.
Only this isn’t the vibrant, intelligent, powerful, and oh-so-very human – with all the foibles and strengths inherent in homo sapiens – young woman that I came to know and love back in the day when Marv Wolfman and George Pérez created and collaborated on The New Teen Titans.
This is a Donna created through the teamwork of Meredith and David Finch, who has been granted life through the dark arts, through black magic, and as she rises naked from the brewing miasma of a black cauldron, and so we react with fear and horror, our intrinsic fear of human sacrifice, blood ritual, and “unnatural” life causing...
- 12/18/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Snow White was a risk that could have finished Disney. Ryan looks at how the world's first animated feature changed the landscape of cinema
In 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios released Frozen, its 53rd animated feature. With takings of well over $1bn and counting, it ranks as the most successful animated film of all time, eclipsing the previous title holder - Pixar's Toy Story 3 - by around $200m.
For a generation who've grown up with such films as The Lion King and Tangled, Disney probably seems like an immovable cultural force: as recognisable and unchanging as Mount Rushmore or the American flag. But Disney has survived a series of peaks and troughs since its founding in the 1920s, from its decline in the 1970s and early 80s, its revival in the 90s, and its second burst of creative energy in the 2000s.
From its inception, Disney Animation Studios has moved with the times,...
In 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios released Frozen, its 53rd animated feature. With takings of well over $1bn and counting, it ranks as the most successful animated film of all time, eclipsing the previous title holder - Pixar's Toy Story 3 - by around $200m.
For a generation who've grown up with such films as The Lion King and Tangled, Disney probably seems like an immovable cultural force: as recognisable and unchanging as Mount Rushmore or the American flag. But Disney has survived a series of peaks and troughs since its founding in the 1920s, from its decline in the 1970s and early 80s, its revival in the 90s, and its second burst of creative energy in the 2000s.
From its inception, Disney Animation Studios has moved with the times,...
- 11/24/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
By Terence Johnson
Managing Editor
One of the bright spots this past film year was the success of Disney’s Frozen. On the strength of it’s more modern princesses and an infectious score, the film set box office records and has garnered two Oscar nominations, Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Let It Go”, its infectious hit. In honor of Frozen’s nomination, we figured it was time to take a look at the history of animated movies in Original Song.
The history of animated films picking up nominations and wins in Best Original Song is a tale as old as time (see what I did there?). Since the 1930s, animated films have won this award 13 times and over 50 nominations, which you can see below. This is an even greater feat when you think about the consideration that animated films get when lists of musicals are made (they...
Managing Editor
One of the bright spots this past film year was the success of Disney’s Frozen. On the strength of it’s more modern princesses and an infectious score, the film set box office records and has garnered two Oscar nominations, Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Let It Go”, its infectious hit. In honor of Frozen’s nomination, we figured it was time to take a look at the history of animated movies in Original Song.
The history of animated films picking up nominations and wins in Best Original Song is a tale as old as time (see what I did there?). Since the 1930s, animated films have won this award 13 times and over 50 nominations, which you can see below. This is an even greater feat when you think about the consideration that animated films get when lists of musicals are made (they...
- 2/5/2014
- by Terence Johnson
- Scott Feinberg
Drunken pink elephants have no place in a childrens' movie, but they provide the key moment in the best animated film of all time
• More Why I Love … Celine Bijleveld on Human Traffic's titles, Martin Pengelly on the Jeff Daniels character in The Squid and the Whale, Andrew Pulver on the first fight in Fight Club, and Xan Brooks on non-professional actors
I can't believe Pink Elephants on Parade exists. It's a five-minute indulgence in a film that lasts just over an hour. A bizarro squeal of throwaway surrealism that somehow becomes the turning point of Dumbo, the greatest animated film of all time.
Dumbo was made as Disney faced disaster. Pinocchio and Fantasia had flopped at the box office. The little story about a misfit elephant with bedsheet-sized ears was the quick, cheap money-spinner – a speedy knock-off of Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl's children's book that had to save the studio.
• More Why I Love … Celine Bijleveld on Human Traffic's titles, Martin Pengelly on the Jeff Daniels character in The Squid and the Whale, Andrew Pulver on the first fight in Fight Club, and Xan Brooks on non-professional actors
I can't believe Pink Elephants on Parade exists. It's a five-minute indulgence in a film that lasts just over an hour. A bizarro squeal of throwaway surrealism that somehow becomes the turning point of Dumbo, the greatest animated film of all time.
Dumbo was made as Disney faced disaster. Pinocchio and Fantasia had flopped at the box office. The little story about a misfit elephant with bedsheet-sized ears was the quick, cheap money-spinner – a speedy knock-off of Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl's children's book that had to save the studio.
- 8/16/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Sergei Eisenstein reportedly called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" the greatest movie ever made. That's especially high praise coming from the director who virtually invented avant-garde cinema, but it's hard to argue with Walt Disney's landmark achievement. The first feature-length animated movie, "Snow White" began its record-breaking run in theaters 75 years ago this week (on Feb. 4, 1938), and it was hailed immediately, both for its instant impact in transforming the medium and for what proved to be an enduring work of screen storytelling and vivid artistry. Before "Snow White," animation was widely dismissed as crudely drawn short films with singing and talking animals, strictly for kids. But Disney proved animation could work at feature length and yield results as artistically satisfying as live-action film. Today, "Snow White" stands as the template for virtually every animated feature made since, as well as the cornerstone of all the Disney family-entertainment empire has built over the past 75 years.
- 2/7/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Gwyneth Paltrow 4-Film Collection (Shakespeare In Love, Emma, Bounce, View From the Top)
DVD Review
Due Out: April 3, 2012
Shakespeare in Love
Directed by: John Madden
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Affleck
Running Time: 2 hours
Rating: R
Plot: A young noblewoman disguises herself as a man to act in a Shakespeare play, then falls in love with the author.
Who’S It For? Fans of Shakespeare who like their history fast and loose.
Movie:
I first saw this movie at a preview screening before it’s release and found it completely ridiculous. I was sure it would tank. Then it went on to win the Oscar. Watching it again, I still see it’s faults. Shakespeare is a bit of a slut, sleeping with every woman he comes in contact with, before being bewitched by a noblewoman in disguise. Paltrow isn’t bad, but it’s hard to believe she...
DVD Review
Due Out: April 3, 2012
Shakespeare in Love
Directed by: John Madden
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Affleck
Running Time: 2 hours
Rating: R
Plot: A young noblewoman disguises herself as a man to act in a Shakespeare play, then falls in love with the author.
Who’S It For? Fans of Shakespeare who like their history fast and loose.
Movie:
I first saw this movie at a preview screening before it’s release and found it completely ridiculous. I was sure it would tank. Then it went on to win the Oscar. Watching it again, I still see it’s faults. Shakespeare is a bit of a slut, sleeping with every woman he comes in contact with, before being bewitched by a noblewoman in disguise. Paltrow isn’t bad, but it’s hard to believe she...
- 4/3/2012
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Always one of my favorites from Disney, Dumbo has been released as a special 70th Anniversary issue Blu-Ray and DVD. One of the truly magical efforts in the Disney collection, the courageous little elephant has stolen the hearts of viewers since it was first released.
The story itself hardly needs any introduction at this point (though even fans may be surprised when forced to recall that the feature is only 64 minutes long), but the amazing restoration and reissue deserves its own fanfare.
Going back to the original nitrate negative, the film has been restored to its original splendor, and the Blu-Ray looks far better than one could hope, especially considering the original process, and how long ago this was. It's a wonder to behold, and filled to bursting with an amazing palette that really shows off how it was meant to look.
Much like the recent release of Bambi, the...
The story itself hardly needs any introduction at this point (though even fans may be surprised when forced to recall that the feature is only 64 minutes long), but the amazing restoration and reissue deserves its own fanfare.
Going back to the original nitrate negative, the film has been restored to its original splendor, and the Blu-Ray looks far better than one could hope, especially considering the original process, and how long ago this was. It's a wonder to behold, and filled to bursting with an amazing palette that really shows off how it was meant to look.
Much like the recent release of Bambi, the...
- 9/23/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Generations of children have grown up listening and singing them, imagining their prince charming is coming (or that they'll find that princess in distress), and now, future generations could be singing Your songs.
The royalty rights to a large number of classic Disney songs, written by affirmed Disney legend Frank Churchill, are up for auction at TheRoyaltyExchange.com. As StitchKingdom.com points out, the royalty rights of some most iconic songs in Disney history are up for auction, and many of them will cost a pretty penny.
The most expensive song is "Someday My Prince Will Come," from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," which, with over three weeks left in the bidding, is at $20,000. Securing the royalty rights will give the winner a yearly income of what is estimated to be $2,360.99. Another "Snow White" song, "Heigh Ho," is currently set at $14,500, with an annual return of $1,613.43.
There are more...
The royalty rights to a large number of classic Disney songs, written by affirmed Disney legend Frank Churchill, are up for auction at TheRoyaltyExchange.com. As StitchKingdom.com points out, the royalty rights of some most iconic songs in Disney history are up for auction, and many of them will cost a pretty penny.
The most expensive song is "Someday My Prince Will Come," from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," which, with over three weeks left in the bidding, is at $20,000. Securing the royalty rights will give the winner a yearly income of what is estimated to be $2,360.99. Another "Snow White" song, "Heigh Ho," is currently set at $14,500, with an annual return of $1,613.43.
There are more...
- 6/23/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Glen highlights some of the finest tunes ever to emerge from films aimed at much younger viewers than he...
My home movie watching has involved a lot of animated and other films primarily aimed at children over the past month or so. This proved to be quite useful, given the wealth of great music included in these films, so I thought it was time I compiled a list of my favourite songs that feature in kids movies.
‘Kids movies' is not a term that I'm particularly fond of, especially as many of these films appeal to adults as much as younger audiences, but it's less of a mouthful than ‘films primarily aimed at children' or something similar.
There were plenty of songs considered for this and, in fairness, it could have quite easily been double the length. But restraint was needed and after a lot of editing and re-ordering, what's...
My home movie watching has involved a lot of animated and other films primarily aimed at children over the past month or so. This proved to be quite useful, given the wealth of great music included in these films, so I thought it was time I compiled a list of my favourite songs that feature in kids movies.
‘Kids movies' is not a term that I'm particularly fond of, especially as many of these films appeal to adults as much as younger audiences, but it's less of a mouthful than ‘films primarily aimed at children' or something similar.
There were plenty of songs considered for this and, in fairness, it could have quite easily been double the length. But restraint was needed and after a lot of editing and re-ordering, what's...
- 4/20/2010
- Den of Geek
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