The International Film Music Critics Association has revealed nominations for best in movie music from 2014, and prolific composers James Newton Howard ("The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1," "Maleficent") and Alexandre Desplat ("Godzilla," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Imitation Game," "The Monuments Men") led the way with seven and six nominations respectively. Film score of the year contenders include just two Best Original Score Oscar nominees: "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and Hans Zimmer's "Interstellar." "The Imitation Game" and Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Theory of Everything," however, were both nominated in the drama category. "Maleficent" landed the most nominations for a film with four, while DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon 2" picked up three (each of them another if you count composer of the year honors for Howard and John Powell respectively). Check out the full list of nominees below. Winners will be revealed on Feb. 19. And be sure...
- 2/6/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Moviescore Media is celebrating the works of composer Chris Ridenhour with three new releases: 2012 Supernova: The Sci-Fi Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour, The Land that Time Forgot: The Fantasy Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour, and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus: The Monster Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour. All three releases highlight the composer’s work with The Asylum.
From the Press Release:
“I think the first time I saw the now famous scene where a giant shark eats a passenger plane midair in Megashark vs. Giant Octopus,” said Ridenhour, “I knew that film would become part of pop culture, and it has!”
Mega Shark earned a cult following after it aired on SyFy in the Us, and it earned Ridenhour a fan -- Moviescore Media’s founder Mikael Carlsson. Said Carlsson, “As an homage to Decca’s classical genre-orientated Bernard Herrmann albums that presented score selections in suite form,...
From the Press Release:
“I think the first time I saw the now famous scene where a giant shark eats a passenger plane midair in Megashark vs. Giant Octopus,” said Ridenhour, “I knew that film would become part of pop culture, and it has!”
Mega Shark earned a cult following after it aired on SyFy in the Us, and it earned Ridenhour a fan -- Moviescore Media’s founder Mikael Carlsson. Said Carlsson, “As an homage to Decca’s classical genre-orientated Bernard Herrmann albums that presented score selections in suite form,...
- 3/9/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Moviescore Media is celebrating the works of composer Chris Ridenhour with three new releases, "2012 Supernova": The Sci-Fi Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour, "The Land That Time Forgot": The Fantasy Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour and "Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus": The Monster Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour. All three releases highlight the composer's work with The Asylum and will be available digitally and on CD on March 8, 2011. .I think the first time I saw the now famous scene where a giant shark eats a passenger plane midair in Megashark vs Giant Octopus,. said Ridenhour, .I knew that film would become part of pop culture and it has!. Megashark earned a cult following after it aired on SyFy in the Us. It earned Ridenhour a fan -- Moviescore Media's founder Mikael Carlsson....
- 3/8/2011
- www.ohmygore.com/
Composer Ryan Shore is one of the rising stars of the film music world. Thanks to his collaborations with MovieScoreMedia, more and more of his scores are now available to the public. Headspace, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and the Macedonian movie Senki (Shadows) are just a number of titles available from their catalogue. In the summer, Msm released a three-way collection of jazzy scores from Ryan's career: Numb, Kettle of Fish and Coney Island Baby are just pure fun to listen to. Now a new collection is available, collecting together a wide range of short film scores from Ryan's earlier days. The award winning animated shorts include the much-requested Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher, the Claymation short Shadowplay and the dark comedy Cadaverous. What connects together these scores apart from being written by the same composer is that you'd never think they were written for short films - they could underscore...
- 10/3/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
With the plethora of sountrack CDs released for your favorite theatrically released features, the music to direct-to-dvd films usually fell below the radar no matter how they good may be. Thanks to enterprising label MovieScoreMedia at least one more score like that is saved from obscurity. Bill Brown's The Devil's Tomb already made it to the top spot of some soundtrack lists, so perhaps it's time to check out what the buzz is all about with its composer. A veteran of video game commissions, Bill Brown wrote this score during his summer break from his current commitments to the hit show CSI: New York which keeps him busy for the rest of his year.
How were you approached to do The Devil's Tomb?
My manager is friends with Bill Sheinberg, one of the executive producers on The Devil's Tomb and he introduced me to Bill back in the spring...
How were you approached to do The Devil's Tomb?
My manager is friends with Bill Sheinberg, one of the executive producers on The Devil's Tomb and he introduced me to Bill back in the spring...
- 8/4/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
Written and directed by Chaz Thorne, Just Buried is a Canadian macabre comedy about Oliver Whynacht (Jay Baruchel - Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder), who inherits a funeral home from his father whom he never knew too well. The only problem is nobody passed away in the town for almost a year and whoever dies is picked up by a rival home whose pushy owner even tries to buy out the struggling business. With the help of beautifful mortician Roberta (Rose Byrne - Briseis from Troy), bodies soon start appearing all over the county, bringing new bodies for the funeral home almost every week. How long can the couple keep up the game before finally uncovers their scheme or their relationship crumbles?
Just Buried is the first commercially released score of composer Darren Fung, who provides a quirky underscore for the macabre fun. Darren was kind enough to answer some questions on Just Buried,...
Just Buried is the first commercially released score of composer Darren Fung, who provides a quirky underscore for the macabre fun. Darren was kind enough to answer some questions on Just Buried,...
- 2/17/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
Upcoming Film Scores lists the ten most exciting, promising and anticipated film scores of 2009, according to its editor Mikael Carlsson who can't wait to hear what will come out musically of these projects:
1. Avatar (James Horner)
Director James Cameron and composer James Horner are of course best known for the multi-zillion-whatever-megahit Titanic, but they also gave us Aliens in 1986 which stands out as one of the most exciting nailbiter scores in sci-fi history. On that film, Cameron gave Horner a pretty hard time as judging from the composer interview on the special edition DVD, and basically what you hear in the film is the result of a composer writing under enormous pressure. On Avatar, the situation is the complete opposite. A luxury in film scoring today, the total time given to the scoring process on this film will probably exceed one year! Horner is currently working exclusively on this film,...
1. Avatar (James Horner)
Director James Cameron and composer James Horner are of course best known for the multi-zillion-whatever-megahit Titanic, but they also gave us Aliens in 1986 which stands out as one of the most exciting nailbiter scores in sci-fi history. On that film, Cameron gave Horner a pretty hard time as judging from the composer interview on the special edition DVD, and basically what you hear in the film is the result of a composer writing under enormous pressure. On Avatar, the situation is the complete opposite. A luxury in film scoring today, the total time given to the scoring process on this film will probably exceed one year! Horner is currently working exclusively on this film,...
- 1/3/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
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