One of the biggest all-star lineups ever will celebrate the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this weekend. The ceremony filmed October 30 in Cleveland, Ohio, and now airs this Saturday, November 20, on HBO and HBO Max.
The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.
SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...
The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.
SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...
- 11/19/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Ralph Schuckett, a keyboard player best known as a member of Todd Rundgren’s Utopia as well as an in-demand session player and producer and, later, composer for “Pokemon” and other animation projects, died Sunday at 73.
No cause of death was immediately given, although he was known to have been ill. When a Utopia reunion tour was announced in early 2018, Schuckett was announced as part of the lineup and even met with other members for a publicity photo, but he was forced to withdraw shortly before rehearsals began.
Among his early studio credits prior to joining Utopia were Carole King’s first three albums, including the landmark “Tapestry.”
“Ralph Schuckett was a sweet guy, a great friend, and a very talented cat,” King said in a statement Wednesday morning. “That’s his sparkling piano on ‘Smackwater Jack.’ Rest In Peace and love.”
#RalphSchuckett was a sweet guy, a great friend,...
No cause of death was immediately given, although he was known to have been ill. When a Utopia reunion tour was announced in early 2018, Schuckett was announced as part of the lineup and even met with other members for a publicity photo, but he was forced to withdraw shortly before rehearsals began.
Among his early studio credits prior to joining Utopia were Carole King’s first three albums, including the landmark “Tapestry.”
“Ralph Schuckett was a sweet guy, a great friend, and a very talented cat,” King said in a statement Wednesday morning. “That’s his sparkling piano on ‘Smackwater Jack.’ Rest In Peace and love.”
#RalphSchuckett was a sweet guy, a great friend,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Any major fan of Todd Rundgren’s Utopia has pretty much been living in a constant state of dystopia for the last 25 years. It’s been more than three decades since the band went on seemingly eternal hiatus and a quarter-century since they did their seemingly one and only reunion tour in Japan. But now Rundgren’s not-really-a-side-project group — which, in its late ’70s/early ’80s heyday, occasionally eclipsed his solo career — has finally collectively acceded to fan demands and kicked off a six-week tour of mid-sized theaters this week.
Even bassist and fellow lead vocalist Kasim Sulton, the one member who’s continued to play regularly with Rundgren in the years since Utopia drifted apart, seems surprised by this hell-freezes-over resumption. “Where would I have placed the odds?” says Sultan. “That’s a really good question. I would have said less than a 25 percent chance of it happening again.
Even bassist and fellow lead vocalist Kasim Sulton, the one member who’s continued to play regularly with Rundgren in the years since Utopia drifted apart, seems surprised by this hell-freezes-over resumption. “Where would I have placed the odds?” says Sultan. “That’s a really good question. I would have said less than a 25 percent chance of it happening again.
- 4/21/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
The "Pokemon" movies provide a good argument for the installation of personal viewing screens in movie houses, similar to many airlines' in-flight movies systems. This way, adults can watch another movie while their young children thrill to "Pokemon". The initial "Pokemon" movie may well have been the first smash hit in movie history where a goodly percentage of the audience -- those parents who drew the short straw and accompanied their kids to the cinema -- was bored out of its skull.
The Pokemon phenomenon has not seriously abated since November's release of "Pokemon the First Movie", so this second installment should create another small-fry superhit for Warner Bros.
Clearly, Nintendo of America, which manages the Pokemon franchise, and Warners, were in a hurry to get a new Pokemon movie into theaters. So "Pokemon the Movie 2000" is something of a rush job: a 22-minute short, "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure", and an 80-minute feature, "The Power of One", from Pokemon's original creators in Japan, have been slapped together and adapted into English by director Michael Haigney and 4Kids Entertainment Prods. president Norman J. Grossfeld.
Once more, the aggressive crudeness of the animation will make fans of that art form wince. One can only hope those same parents will take their youngsters to see "Chicken Run" or "Fantasia 2000" to generate some appreciation of what glorious things animation can really do.
The virtually pre-literate "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure", keeping dialogue to a bare minimum, follows that Pokemon hero's escapades in an underground forest. "The Power of One" sees young trainer Ash Ketchum attempt to save the world by restoring the harmonious forces of nature, symbolized by three Pokemon birds: Moltres (fire), Zapados (lightning) and Articuno (ice). To do this, he must battle against, of all things, a greedy Pokemon collector, who has thrown nature out of balance.
To follow any of this, one must have a thorough understanding of the Pokemon or "pocket monsters," which young children (called trainers) collect and "train" in order to play an interactive video game. Without such understanding, the film could just as well remain in Japanese for adults.
And that bewilderment will only increase when parents realize they are essentially paying for the privilege of watching a 102-minute commercial for games and products.
POKEMON THE MOVIE 2000
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Warner Bros. Kids presents
a 4Kids Entertainment production
Producer: Norman J. Grossfeld
Director, Japanese production: Kunihiko Yuyama
Director, American production: Michael Haigney
Screenwriter: Takeshi Shudo
English adaptation by: Norman J. Grossfeld, Michael Haigney
Director of photography: Hisao Shirai
Art director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura
Music: Ralph Schuckett, John Loeffler
Editor: Jay Film
Animation producers: Toshiaki Okuno,
Shukichi Kanda
Animation production:
Shogakukan Production Co.
Color/stereo
Voices: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Ted Lewis, Ikue Otani
Running time - 102 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
The Pokemon phenomenon has not seriously abated since November's release of "Pokemon the First Movie", so this second installment should create another small-fry superhit for Warner Bros.
Clearly, Nintendo of America, which manages the Pokemon franchise, and Warners, were in a hurry to get a new Pokemon movie into theaters. So "Pokemon the Movie 2000" is something of a rush job: a 22-minute short, "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure", and an 80-minute feature, "The Power of One", from Pokemon's original creators in Japan, have been slapped together and adapted into English by director Michael Haigney and 4Kids Entertainment Prods. president Norman J. Grossfeld.
Once more, the aggressive crudeness of the animation will make fans of that art form wince. One can only hope those same parents will take their youngsters to see "Chicken Run" or "Fantasia 2000" to generate some appreciation of what glorious things animation can really do.
The virtually pre-literate "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure", keeping dialogue to a bare minimum, follows that Pokemon hero's escapades in an underground forest. "The Power of One" sees young trainer Ash Ketchum attempt to save the world by restoring the harmonious forces of nature, symbolized by three Pokemon birds: Moltres (fire), Zapados (lightning) and Articuno (ice). To do this, he must battle against, of all things, a greedy Pokemon collector, who has thrown nature out of balance.
To follow any of this, one must have a thorough understanding of the Pokemon or "pocket monsters," which young children (called trainers) collect and "train" in order to play an interactive video game. Without such understanding, the film could just as well remain in Japanese for adults.
And that bewilderment will only increase when parents realize they are essentially paying for the privilege of watching a 102-minute commercial for games and products.
POKEMON THE MOVIE 2000
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Warner Bros. Kids presents
a 4Kids Entertainment production
Producer: Norman J. Grossfeld
Director, Japanese production: Kunihiko Yuyama
Director, American production: Michael Haigney
Screenwriter: Takeshi Shudo
English adaptation by: Norman J. Grossfeld, Michael Haigney
Director of photography: Hisao Shirai
Art director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura
Music: Ralph Schuckett, John Loeffler
Editor: Jay Film
Animation producers: Toshiaki Okuno,
Shukichi Kanda
Animation production:
Shogakukan Production Co.
Color/stereo
Voices: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Ted Lewis, Ikue Otani
Running time - 102 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 7/21/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sure, the decidedly low-tech, on-the-cheap animation makes Saturday-morning TV fare look rich and sophisticated by comparison, the storytelling is awkward and laughably arch and the tone is all over the place, but thanks to its brilliantly timed release, " Pokemon the First Movie" will handily buck the boxoffice fate of most non-Disney animated features, riding the mighty wave of Pokemania all the way to the bank for Warner Bros.
Most big-screen attempts at cashing in on a craze seem to arrive on the scene a year too late. And while this picture may have the look and feel of a rush job, that won't matter to the legions of card-trading, game-playing youngsters who have made Pokemon the sixth most-searched-for word on the Internet.
The Japanese production, which could have just as easily been called "Nintendo the Motion Picture", has been rescripted and rescored for American consumption and is packaged with a 20-minute short that serves as something of a primer for those who don't know Pikachu from peekaboo.
But while the sweetly benign "Pikachu's Vacation" seems to be targeted to "Pokemon"'s younger fans, the tone abruptly becomes much darker for the main event.
It begins with a confusing prologue in which strands of DNA from the legendary Mew have been bioengineered by scientists into a more powerful clone known as Mewtwo. Annoyed that he has been turned into a Pokemon equivalent of Frankenstein's monster, Mewtwo swears vengeance on mankind.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Ash Ketchum and his fellow Pokemon trainers Misty and Brock are summoned, by mysterious invitation, along with their pocket monsters to New Island, where Mewtwo has orchestrated a fight-to-the-finish showdown against his newly cloned versions in his bid to become the World's Greatest Pokemon Master on his way to total global domination.
Adults may cringe at the preachy heavy-handedness and the extremely limited motion animation that sets the art form back a couple of generations, but youngsters will no doubt delight in seeing their beloved collectibles and Game Boy characters come to life (well, sort of) up on the movie screen.
On the musical front, aside from the zippy Pokemon theme song, which conjures up memories of the old "Solid Gold" theme sans the gold spandex, the Ralph Schuckett-John Loeffler score has been augmented with a CD's worth of kid-pleasing pop by the likes of Christina Aguilera, Blessid Union of Souls and erstwhile Spice Girl Emma Bunton, who knows a thing or two about the fleeting nature of pop-culture phenomena.
POKEMON THE FIRST MOVIE
Warner Bros.
Kids' WB! presents
a 4Kids Entertainment production
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
Producer: Norman J. Grossfeld
Producers: Choji Yoshikawa, Tomoyuki Igarashi, Takemoto Mori
English adaptation directed by: Michael Haigney
Screenwriter: Takeshi Shudo
English adaptation written by: Norman J. Grossfeld, Michael Haigney, John Touhey
Director of photography: Hisao Shirai
Art director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura
Editor: Toshio Henmi
Music: Ralph Schuckett, John Loeffler
Color/stereo
Voices:
Veronica Taylor, Philip Bartlett, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Ikue Otani.
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
Most big-screen attempts at cashing in on a craze seem to arrive on the scene a year too late. And while this picture may have the look and feel of a rush job, that won't matter to the legions of card-trading, game-playing youngsters who have made Pokemon the sixth most-searched-for word on the Internet.
The Japanese production, which could have just as easily been called "Nintendo the Motion Picture", has been rescripted and rescored for American consumption and is packaged with a 20-minute short that serves as something of a primer for those who don't know Pikachu from peekaboo.
But while the sweetly benign "Pikachu's Vacation" seems to be targeted to "Pokemon"'s younger fans, the tone abruptly becomes much darker for the main event.
It begins with a confusing prologue in which strands of DNA from the legendary Mew have been bioengineered by scientists into a more powerful clone known as Mewtwo. Annoyed that he has been turned into a Pokemon equivalent of Frankenstein's monster, Mewtwo swears vengeance on mankind.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Ash Ketchum and his fellow Pokemon trainers Misty and Brock are summoned, by mysterious invitation, along with their pocket monsters to New Island, where Mewtwo has orchestrated a fight-to-the-finish showdown against his newly cloned versions in his bid to become the World's Greatest Pokemon Master on his way to total global domination.
Adults may cringe at the preachy heavy-handedness and the extremely limited motion animation that sets the art form back a couple of generations, but youngsters will no doubt delight in seeing their beloved collectibles and Game Boy characters come to life (well, sort of) up on the movie screen.
On the musical front, aside from the zippy Pokemon theme song, which conjures up memories of the old "Solid Gold" theme sans the gold spandex, the Ralph Schuckett-John Loeffler score has been augmented with a CD's worth of kid-pleasing pop by the likes of Christina Aguilera, Blessid Union of Souls and erstwhile Spice Girl Emma Bunton, who knows a thing or two about the fleeting nature of pop-culture phenomena.
POKEMON THE FIRST MOVIE
Warner Bros.
Kids' WB! presents
a 4Kids Entertainment production
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
Producer: Norman J. Grossfeld
Producers: Choji Yoshikawa, Tomoyuki Igarashi, Takemoto Mori
English adaptation directed by: Michael Haigney
Screenwriter: Takeshi Shudo
English adaptation written by: Norman J. Grossfeld, Michael Haigney, John Touhey
Director of photography: Hisao Shirai
Art director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura
Editor: Toshio Henmi
Music: Ralph Schuckett, John Loeffler
Color/stereo
Voices:
Veronica Taylor, Philip Bartlett, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Ikue Otani.
Running time -- 95 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 11/10/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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