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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named three new governors-at-large to its Board of Governors: Haifaa Al-Mansour (directors branch), Effie T. Brown (producers branch) and Annie Chang. Each will begin a three-year term with the start of the Academy’s 2025–2026 fiscal year.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Haifaa, Effie and Annie to the Academy’s Board of Governors,” said Academy President Janet Yang in a statement. “Their wealth of experiences, perspectives and dedication will be vital to our ongoing global and industry outreach efforts.”

Yang also thanked outgoing governors-at-large DeVon Franklin and Rodrigo García for their six years of service.

Governors-at-large, like their branch-elected counterparts, may serve up to two three-year terms — either consecutively or non-consecutively — followed by a two-year hiatus. After the hiatus, they may serve up to two additional terms, with a lifetime cap of 12 years.

The Board of Governors is responsible for setting the Academy’s strategic vision,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced its newly elected Board of Governors for 2025-2026. The group — which sets the Academy’s strategic vision, preserves the organization’s financial health, and assures the fulfillment of its mission — will take office at the first scheduled board meeting of the new term.

First-time board members include Focus Features chairperson Peter Kujawski and three-time Oscar-nominated composer Carter Burwell. The incumbent governors reelected to the board include Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin, Oscar-nominated producer Jason Blum, and Oscar-nominated director Jason Reitman (who was also recently elected to The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Board of Trustees.) The list of governors returning to the board after a hiatus includes Emmy-winning screenwriter Larry Karaszewski.

Additionally, the Board of Governors elected three new governors-at-large: Haifaa al-Mansour (Directors Branch), Effie T. Brown (Producers Branch) and Annie Chang that will each serve a three-year term beginning...

Updated, 11 Am: The Movie Academy said today that it has elected three new governors-at-large: Haifaa al-Mansour (Directors branch), Effie T. Brown (Producers) and Annie Chang (Production and Technology, Science And Technology Council Chair). Each will serve a three-year term beginning upon the first meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal year. See below for the results of AMPAS’ 2025-26 Board of Governors elections.

Previously, June 18: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has elected its 2025-26 Board of Governors. The envelope, please…

Ten incumbents were re-elected to continue representing their respective constituencies, including Marlee Matlin (Actors branch), Jason Reitman (Directors) and Jason Blum (Producers). Among the first-time governors are Peter Kujawski (Executives) and Gigi Williams (Makeup Artists and Hairstylists), with Larry Karaszewski (Writers) and Isis Mussenden (Costume Designers) among those returning to the board after a hiatus. See the full list below.

Each of the 19 branches is represented by three governors except Animation,...

Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and composer Carter Burwell are among industry names newly elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Kujawski joins the 2025-2026 board representing the Academy’s executive branch and Burwell joins from the music branch. Also elected to the board for the first time are Gigi Williams, from the makeup artists and hairstylists branch, and Andrew Roberts, from the visual effects branch.

The ten incumbent governors re-elected to the board include Marlee Matlin (actors branch), Jason Reitman (directors branch) and Jason Blum (producers branch).

The three directors returning...

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A preview for Season 17 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia brings the gang back to Abbott Elementary and takes Frank to the Bachelor Mansion. The FX comedy series returns on July 9.

Academy elects 2025-26 Board of Governors

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the results of elections for the next term of its governing body. Reelected incumbents include Marlee Matlin, Jason Reitman, and Jason Blum. Additionally, composer Carter Burwell joins for the first time, representing the Music Branch.

Documentary Emmy Awards set host

Comedian, writer, and regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me Negin Farsad will host Documentary Night at the 46th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The ceremony will take place on June 26 in New York.

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Incumbents once again dominated elections for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, with 10 board members being reelected to their positions and three past governors returning to the board after a hiatus.

Marlee Matlin, Jason Reitman and Jason Blum were among the governors who won reelection in balloting that was done by 17 of the Academy’s 19 branches and announced on Wednesday.

This is the third year in a row in which incumbents won in the vast majority of board races, following two years of substantial turnover after stricter term limits forced many longtime governors off the board.

The only first-time governors to be elected by votes from each branch were Peter Kujawski, who replaced Donna Gigliotti in the Executives Branch; Gigi Williams, who replaced Howard Berger in the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch; Carter Burwell, who replaced Charles Fox in the Music Branch; and Andrew Roberts,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its newly elected 2025-2026 Board of Governors, with a mix of returning incumbents, first-timers and familiar names returning after a hiatus.

Among the incumbents reelected to serve another term are Marlee Matlin (Actors Branch), Marlon West (Animation Branch), Richard Hicks (Casting Directors Branch), Dion Beebe (Cinematographers Branch), Jason Reitman (Directors Branch), Chris Hegedus (Documentary Branch), Nancy Richardson (Film Editors Branch), Jason Blum (Producers Branch), Missy Parker (Production Design Branch) and Peter Devlin (Sound Branch).

Newly elected to the board for the first time are Focus Features’ chairman Peter Kujawski (Executives Branch), Gigi Williams (Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch), Carter Burwell (Music Branch) and Andrew Roberts (Visual Effects Branch).

Three industry professionals are rejoining the board after a hiatus: Isis Mussenden (Costume Designers Branch), Christina Kounelias (Marketing and Public Relations Branch) and Larry Karaszewski (Writers Branch).

They join a roster of continuing governors,...

The results are in after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held elections for 17 seats on its 55-person board of governors, and the new board — which will be seated later this summer — will include four rookies, three comeback kids and 10 re-elected incumbents.

Joining the board for the first time will be Focus Features chief Peter Kujawski (executives branch), repacling Donna Gigliotti, who was unable to seek re-election because she served two three-year terms and now must take a rules-mandated two-year hiatus from the board; and three Oscar nominees: the Coen brothers’ favorite composer Carter Burwell (music), replacing Charles Fox, who hit the rules-mandated max of 12 total years of service on the board and thus was ineligible to run again; Ilm VFX supervisor Andrew Roberts (visual effects), succeeding Paul Debevec, who did not seek re-election; and David Fincher’s go-to makeup artist Gigi Williams (makeup artists/hairstylists), filling the seat of Howard Berger,...

Joaquin Phoenix, Juliette Binoche, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro are among a group of figures to have added their names to a letter condemning the film industry for its “silence” over the ongoing and deadly impact of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

The letter, published on the first day of Cannes and initially signed by more than 370 actors and filmmakers, also condemned Israel’s killing of Fatma Hassona, the protagonist of festival-bound doc “Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk.”

The new signatories also includes the likes of Rooney Mara, Jim Jarmusch, Omar Sy, Peter Straughan, Camille Cottin, Michael Moore, Boots Riley and Alice Rohrwacher.

The letter urged cinema — which it said was a “breeding ground for socially committed works” — to use its art form to “draw lessons from history, to make films that are committed” and to be “present to protect oppressed voices.”

The...

Updated, 12:50 Pm: More than 900 Academy members have now signed the letter, including actors Carey Mulligan, Glenn Close, Andrew Garfield, America Ferrera, Edward Norton, Jane Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Kristin Scott Thomas, Frances Fisher and Elizabeth Olsen; actor-directors Taika Waititi, Ben Affleck and Todd Field; filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Michael Moore, Stephen Frears, Abigail Disney, Asif Kapadia, Jay Roach, J.J. Abrams and Michael Mann; composer Carter Burwell; Board of Governors VP/Secretary Howard Rodman (writers branch); and all three documentary branch Governors — Simon Kilmurry, Chris Hegedus, and Jean Tsien.

Exclusive: Deadline has learned the Academy’s board of governors is meeting in extraordinary session this morning to confront a deepening crisis over its response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of No Other Land.

As that meeting nears an 11 am Pacific Time start, Deadline can report a new statement has been signed by...

Another day, another sign of industry support for Emilia Pérez.

On Wednesday, the Society of Composers and Lyricists announced its 2025 Scl Awards nominations with Netflix’s Spanish-language cartel musical out in front with three nominations.

The ceremony will take place on Feb. 12.

Emilia Pérez composers and songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille earned three nominations as did Atticus Ross, who received two nominations for Challengers and one for the television series Shōgun.

Other highlights: Diane Warren was nominated for The Six Triple Eight, the sixth consecutive year she’s up for an Scl Award. Harry Gregson-Williams and director Ridley Scott will also be honored with the Spirit of Collaboration Award, “which recognizes a composer/director relationship that has created a prodigious body of work.”

The duo has worked together seven times, including this year on Gladiator II.

“Ridley is an open book when it comes to music, and working with him...

David Newman's score for the Firefly follow-up movie Serenity is now available for pre-order on vinyl. Screen Rant interviewed Newman about his work on the movie. Newman reflects on the challenges of creating the score for the film, showcasing his innovative approach to musical storytelling.

The 2005 sci-fi film Serenity had to strike an impossible balance, both catering to the exceptionally dedicated cult following of a one-season TV show while still welcoming moviegoers who had no idea what Firefly was. Creatively, it succeeded, but underwhelming box office numbers quieted talks of a sequel. Nearly 20 years later, and the cast of that moviepeople like Nathan Fillion (The Rookie), Morena Baccarin (Deadpool), Summer Glau (Arrow), and Gina Torres (Suits)are still regularly asked if, when, and how they will reprise their roles.

It's somewhat on brand, then, that composer David Newmans score for the movie is finally making it to vinyl courtesy of Varse Sarabande.

The Fargo season 5 soundtrack has a ton of great needle-drops in between pieces from its foreboding original score. The use of licensed music in FX's Fargo ties back to the classic Coen brothers movie it was based on, which featured songs by Merle Haggard and Boy George. Fargo season 5 includes songs by such renowned artists as Yes, Rush, and Marilyn Manson.

The Fargo season 5 soundtrack is full of great needle drops. The original Coen brothers movie is remembered for its creepy, foreboding score by regular Coen collaborator Carter Burwell, but it had its fair share of licensed music, too. “Big City” by Merle Haggard can be heard in the King of Clubs when Jerry meets with Carl and Gaear. Boy George’s cover version of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” is playing in the garage while Shep works. Carl and his escort watch a live nightclub performance of...

When The Tragedy of Macbeth was released in 2021, there was some cause for concern. After 18 films, including such classics as Raising Arizona, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski, Joel Coen, for the first time, offered audiences a movie that did not feature the involvement of his younger brother, Ethan Coen. However, Joel Coen’s sole directing credit wasn’t a first for the filmmaker.

From his debut, 1984's Blood Simple, through 2003's Intolerable Cruelty, Joel Coen was credited as director, but it was understood that the films were equal collaborations with his sibling, who had co-written, and produced all the projects as well. Ethan Coen is also listed as the uncredited director of each film on IMDb. In fact, it wasn't until 2004's The Ladykillers that both brothers were credited equally.

But the 2021 Shakespeare adaptation, which contained a tour de force performance from Denzel Washington as Lord Macbeth, was the first truly solo Joel Coen production.

Just one Coen brother is behind the twisted action comedy Drive-Away Dolls which just dropped a new trailer. Ethan Coen goes solo, writing, directing and producing a film that escalates from a simple roadtrip to encounters with drug dealers, hitmen, a senator, and a mob boss.

Margaret Qualley (Poor Things) and Geraldine Viswanathan (The Beanie Bubble) star as the road trip participants, Jamie and Marian. The ensemble also includes Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart) as Sukie the cop, Colman Domingo (Rustin) as The Chief, Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) as The Collector, Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit) as Curlie, and Matt Damon (Oppenheimer) as Senator Gary Channel.

Geraldine Viswanathan, Margaret Qualley, and Beanie Feldstein in ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ (Credit: Wilson Webb / Working Title / Focus Features)

“This comedy caper follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian who desperately needs to loosen up,...

Back in March 2023, the Austin-based collectibles and poster company Mondo was hit with a wave of layoffs from parent company Funko, including the company’s former co-founders and creative directors. Today, those leaders have announced their comeback.

Former Mondo creative directors Spencer Hickman, Eric Garza, Mitch Putnam, and Mo Shafeek have teamed up with CEO Jenny Jacobi to form a new company called Mutant, which will release limited-edition artwork, posters, soundtracks on vinyl, collectibles, events, and more.

The company is being formed underneath SpectreVision, Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah’s genre-bending production company. The company is kicking off its launch with a vinyl soundtrack for Netflix’s “Society of the Snow.” The LP features artwork from Mo Shafeek adorning the score from composer Michael Giacchino as well as liner notes from director J.A. Bayona.

Next up, Mutant will release vinyl for “Wonka” and is also teaming with Pressure Printing to...

The Society of Composers & Lyricists will honor Martin Scorsese and the late Robbie Robertson with the Spirit of Collaboration Award at this year’s Scl Awards on Feb. 13.

This award recognizes a “composer/director relationship which has created a prodigious body of work.” Robertson and Scorsese’s collaborations have included Raging Bull, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Past recipients of the Spirit of Collaboration Award include Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes, Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee, Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers and last year’s honorees Justin Hurwitz and Damien Chazelle.

The nominees for the Scl Awards, which this year will be hosted by Siedah Garrett, closely reflect this year’s Oscar-nominated songwriters and composers: Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (Barbie), Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Barbie), Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson (American Symphony) and Diane Warren...

“Inheritance,” “The Accident” and “Good Bad Things” are among the award winners at the 30th annual Slamdance Film Festival. The winners were announced Thursday at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Park City – The Yarrow in Park City, Utah.

The three films feted the Feature Grand Jury Prizes, while the Audience Awards went to “African Giants,” “Demon Mineral,” “Good Bad Things” and “Night Drives.”

The festival also announced the recipient of their Agbo Fellowship from Slamdance alumni Joe and Anthony Russo. It went to Kiarash Dadgar, whose short film “The Steak” was programmed as a part of the Narrative Shorts competition and included a $25,000 prize with mentorship from the brothers.

“This year’s award-winning films leave an indelible mark on the world of independent cinema. Each one delves into groundbreaking storytelling and the spirit of human resilience, highlighting the extreme filmmaking talent on show at Slamdance ’24,” Taylor Miller, Slamdance director, said in a statement.

The Society of Composers and Lyricists (Scl) will honor the late Robbie Robertson and director Martin Scorsese with the Spirit of Collaboration Award at the 5th Annual Scl Awards, to be held Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

The event will be hosted by Siedah Garrett, a Grammy-winning, two-time Oscar-nominated songwriter and a member of the Scl. She recently reunited with Quincy Jones on The Color Purple.

Awards are given for songs and scores in film and other visual media. The evening also includes performances, composers, and songwriter presenters and special guests.

The Spirit of Collaboration Award recognizes a composer/director relationship which has created a prodigious body of work. Robertson and Scorsese’s collaborations over decades include Raging Bull, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon. Past award recipients include Thomas Newman & Sam Mendes, Terence Blanchard & Spike Lee,...

Finestkind Movie Review Rating:

Star Cast: Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Aaron Stanford, and Tim Daly.

Director: Brian Helgeland

Finestkind Movie Review Out! (Picture Credit: Youtube)

What’s Good: Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Foster are always a delight.

What’s Bad: The movie doesn’t know what it wants to be, or what it is, and the entire plot feels pointless.

Loo Break: The first hour and 20 minutes is as disposable as they come, so take your time at the loo.

Watch or Not?: It is best if you avoid this one, there are many better films that are actually good, especially in this end of the year period.

Language: English (with subtitles).

Available On: Paramount+

Runtime: 126 Minutes

User Rating:

Finestkind is a film written and directed by Brian Helgeland, and his first film since the inconsistent “Legend” from 2015. The film tells...

When Focus Features moved Ethan Coen‘s Drive-Away Dolls from the fall festival slate to it’s current February 23rd release date we can imagine that Sundance and Berlinale programmers started salivating and wouldn’t it be a swell narrative if Ethan returns to Park City exactly four decades after launching his career with Grand Prize winning Blood Simple? Co-written with his wife Tricia Cooke, this stars Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein with supporting players in Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Colman Domingo. Zola and Eileen cinematographer Ari Wegner and composer Carter Burwell brought their magic to the crime caper.

Gist: This follows Jamie (Qualley), an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian (Viswanathan) who desperately needs to loosen up.…...

The awards took place at the closing night of Film Fest Gent.

Volker Bertelmann has won the film composer of the year at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), which took place tonight (October 21), at the closing night of Film Fest Gent.

Bertelmann was nominated for his scores for War Sailor, All Quiet On The Western Front and Memory Of Water. Other nominees in this category included Carter Burwell for The Banshees of Inisherin, Catherine Called Birdy and To Catch A Killer and Hildur Guðnadóttir for Women Talking and Tár.

Scroll down for full list of winners

Nicholas Britell took...

The Twilight movies made some changes from the books, including adding the Cullen Crest, which symbolizes unity among the family. Edward's backstory as a vigilante vampire and Bella's knowledge of his past were better explained in the Twilight novel. The Twilight movies left out crucial details, such as Alice Cullen's backstory and the true nature of the battle in Breaking Dawn.

The Twilight Saga brought Stephenie Meyer's novel series to life, but turning a book into a movie is always hard work, and the movies made many changes to the books. With the series spanning four lengthy books, there's a lot of ground to cover in the world of Twilight, so it's not surprising that the writers and directors of the Twilight Saga had to change some things from the novels or completely leave plot points out.

Although the Twilight movies were mostly loyal to the source material,...

I don’t know where to start on “Finestkind,” the saccharine, incomprehensible northeastern America fishing family drama from writer-director Brian Helgeland. As I watched this turgid muddle, a messy ball of nonsensical threads and worse performances, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Roger Ebert’s old maxim: No good film is too long, and no bad film is too short.

But what about a film so driven off course it needs a come to Jesus moment? “Finestkind” is that sort of picture. Clunky, nauseating, and perfunctory, it’s shocking that before the World Premiere screening in Toronto Helgeland called the movie a deeply personal work, the type of film he wished had been his first, and the kind he fears might be his last.

The introduction was enough to make you hope for a merely mindlessly entertaining flick. Unfortunately, “Finestkind” doesn’t even pass that lowest of bars.

With festival season in full swing, the Middleburg Film Festival has just announced its first round of selections for the upcoming 11th edition of the festivities, which runs from October 19-22. Several notable celebrities were also announced as the recipients of special honors being handed out by the festival.

The opening night film will be Netflix’s civil rights biopic, “Rustin,” starring Emmy winner Colman Domingo as the titular organizer of the 1963 March on Washington who faced ostracization due to his sexuality. The Centerpiece film that will screen on Saturday evening is Alexander Payne’s latest, “The Holdovers,” which stars Paul Giamatti as a crabby boarding school teacher who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to look after students who have nowhere to go. Also screening this year is the sophomore effort from Emerald Fennell, “Saltburn,” starring Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan as an Oxford student trying to...

Nominees in the categories of discovery of the year, public choice award and the new game music award have been revealed.

Film Fest Gent and The World Soundtrack Academy has unveiled the second and final wave of nominations for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, which will take place on October 21 at the Film Fest Gent in Belgium, with Golda, Avatar: The Way Of Water and The Menu among the additional titles represented.

Nominations for discovery of the year, public choice award, Wsa game music award, best original score for a Belgian production and the Sabam Award for best original composition by...

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, those famous filmmaking siblings adapted the script for No Country for Old Men (2007) from a novel of the same name, written by Cormac McCarthy. That's one of the greatest American novelists of his time, with other hit pieces of literature under his belt like The Road and, of course, Blood Meridian. But regarding No Country for Old Men, it's easily the best adaptation of a McCarthy novel to ever hit the silver screen. That can of course be attributed to the individual plot points and thought-out character dynamics developed by McCarthy. But film is a totally separate beast, and the Coens had quite the task when adapting the difficult novelist.

Often cited as the Hemingway of his generation, Cormac McCarthy had an idiosyncratic writing style that featured minimalist prose, hard-hitting themes, and instances of aestheticized violence which almost seemed to influence the Coens. Think...

It goes without saying that movie music has come a mighty long way in the last 100 years or so, but the first two decades of the 21st century have nevertheless been an extraordinarily active and evolutionary stretch of time for film scores. Without discounting the bold and formative achievements of old masters like Bernard Hermann and Toru Takemitsu, it’s fair to say that the rise of independent cinema and the challenge of the digital age have provoked a true paradigm shift in how we think about musical accompaniment.

Rock and avant-garde musicians like Jonny Greenwood and Mica Levi have used narrative projects as inspiration to explore new facets of their genius, while more traditional composers such as Alexandre Desplat and Carter Burwell have risen to the challenge by delivering the most beautiful work of their careers. Indeed, some of the very best movie scores in recent memory (including the...

John Williams, Nicholas Britell and Taylor Swift are all nominated

John Williams, Nicholas Britell and Taylor Swift are among the first wave of nominees for the World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa) 2023.

The winners will be announced at the 23rd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards on October 21 at the Film Fest Ghent in Belgium, during which the annual celebration of film music is held.

Williams is nominated in the film composer of the year category for his work on The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. The veteran composer is up against Volker Bertelmann who won the Oscar...

Freshly announced and put up for pre-order this morning, Arrow Video presents The Psycho Collection on both Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD for a limited edition UK release.

The good news? 4K discs are inherently Region Free!

The Psycho Collection will release on September 25, 2023.

Presented together for the first time in the UK on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, featuring all new restorations of Psycho II, III and IV from the original camera negatives, Arrow Video invites you back inside the Bates Motel and wishes you a very pleasant stay.

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Limited Edition Contents

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (2160p) presentations of all four films New 4K restorations of Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho IV from the original camera negatives Original lossless mono and 5.1 audio options for Psycho, stereo and 5.1 options for Psycho II and Psycho III, and stereo audio options for Psycho IV Optional English subtitles for...

Ethan Coen’s first narrative feature film as a solo director looks an awful lot like some of the beloved comedic collaborations Coen made with his brother, Joel Coen, during their decades-long career together – particularly “Raising Arizona” and “Fargo.” On Friday, Focus Features released the first trailer for “Drive-Away Dolls,” the new comedy thriller Ethan Coen directed by himself and also co-wrote and produced with his wife, Tricia Cooke.

A sample of some of the comedy on display in the feature, which focuses on two young women (Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan) who run afoul of a bunch of inept criminals – including one shady figure played by Matt Damon:

Damon’s character: “Who are you?”

Viswanathan’s Marian: “Democrats.”

It’s funnier in the trailer, watch it below.

According to Focus, “Drive-Away Dolls” is a “comedy caper” that “follows Jamie (Qualley), an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend,...

After directing together for over three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have parted ways for their recent projects. The former helmed the black-and-white Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth, while the latter premiered his documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind at Cannes last year and is awaiting a release, then followed it up with Drive-Away Dolls, a lesbian road trip comedy that will arrive this September.

Written by Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, shot by Ari Wegner, scored by Carter Burwell, and starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon, the first trailer has now arrived online after being attached to Asteroid City. In an interview with Collider, Coen and Cooke also reveal the film is only 83 minutes, has “a lot of sex stuff,” and is part of a trilogy of queer B movies they will make.

Here’s the synopsis: “This comedy caper follows Jamie,...

Hollywood Records’ The Big Score is back with another episode, this time diving into the music of the biographical drama film Flamin’ Hot. The movie was adapted from a 2013 memoir by Richard Montañez called A Boy, A Burrito, and A Cookie: from Janitor to Executive, which chronicles the rise of Montañez through the ranks of the Frito-Lay corporation. Eva Longoria directed the film, which stars Jesse Garcia as Montañez.

The music for Flamin’ Hot was written by Marcelo Zarvos, whose other recent work includes White Men Can’t Jump and Big George Foreman. To support the debatably true story of Flamin’ Hot, Zarvos leaned into a culturally specific score meant to honor Mexican American tradition and even re-scored the iconic “20th Century Fox Fanfare” in a Mexican style to set the tone of the film. Screen Rant is excited to premiere clips from Zarvos’ episode of The Big Score. Check them out below.

Ethan Coen’s first narrative movie as a solo director will arrive in theaters this year. On Monday, Focus Features announced Coen’s road-trip comedy “Drive-Away Dolls” will debut on September 22, putting it on track to potentially debut at one of the late summer’s big film festivals in Venice, Telluride, Colorado, or Toronto.

Coen co-wrote and produced the film with Tricia Cooke, his wife. The pair previously collaborated together on the 2022 documentary “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind.” According to Deadline, “Drive-Away Dolls” “follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals along the way.” The cast includes Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan...

So, the Coen Brothers have “broken up,” gone their own way, and aren’t making films anymore, right? One imagines the truth is more nuanced and complicated than that. Take Carter Burwell, their longtime composer. He said Ethan Coen doesn’t “want To make movies anymore,” and Joel Coen himself said last year that “none of the decisions are definitive.” It sounds like they’re taking a break from one another in the meantime?

Continue reading Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Starring Margaret Qualley & Geraldine Viswanathan, Lands Sept 22 Release & Adds Matt Damon & Pedro Pascal at The Playlist.

Hollywood Records’ The Big Score series sheds a light on the unique creative processes and styles of some of the top film, video game, and television composers of the modern day, and next up is the recent release, Boston Strangler. The Big Score tells its unique stories in easy-to-digest video and audio formats, with the video clips often featuring looks at the recording process and inside the composers’ studios.

Composers previously featured on The Big Score include Siddhartha Khosla for Only Murders in the Building, Carter Burwell for The Banshees of Inisherin, and Caroline Shaw for Fleishman Is In Trouble. Now, Screen Rant is excited to exclusively premiere a brand new episode of The Big Score, featuring Paul Leonard-Morgan discussing his work on Boston Strangler. Leonard-Morgan dives deep into his intellectual approach to the music of the film, which offers a fascinating insight into the amount of intention behind every note in the score.

While watching Academy Award-nominated “The Banshees of Inisherin,” whenever I thought I would cry, I would laugh at the next scene as the film cleverly balanced comedy and melancholy. One element of the storytelling that helped guide that balance was the soundtrack composed by Carter Burwell. And soon, fans of the score will have a chance to buy it on vinyl, courtesy of the fine folks at Mondo, Searchlight, and Hollywood Records.

Continue reading Mondo To Release ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Score On Vinyl [Exclusive] at The Playlist.

From the electric performances of the nominated songs to all the big stars, The 95th Academy Awards went off without a slap hitch.

The performance of Rrr's hit song Naatu Naatu brought the entire house to their feet, as did the wins for Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh.

So who came out on top?

Everything Everywhere All At Once led the nominations with 11 and led the winners with seven total trophies!

Find out the rest of the winners here!

Best Picture

Everything Everywhere All at Once *Winner*

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

The Fabelmans

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

Women Talking

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once *Winner*

Cate Blanchett - Tár

Ana de Armas - Blonde

Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie

Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans

Best Actor

Brendan Fraser -...

Oscars 2023In a big moment for India, Naatu Naatu from Rrr won the award for best original song, and The Elephant Whisperers directed by Kartiki Gonsalves won the best documentary short award.Twitter/RRRMovieThe 95th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Television host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the third time. Naatu Naatu from Rrr won the award for best original song. The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and co-produced by Guneet Monga, won the best documentary short award. Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, a film about two brothers in Delhi who care for injured black kites, was nominated for best documentary feature but lost to Navalny. Here’s the full list of Oscar nominees and winners: Best Picture Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, producers - Winner All Quiet on the Western Front...

German musician Volker Bertelmann nudged out the competition to pick up his first Academy Award Sunday for Netflix’s war epic All Quiet on the Western Front.

Mindy Kaling and John Cho presented the award to Bertelmann, who thanked his All Quiet colleagues.

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“I want to thank the cast and crew for their amazing craftsmanship and to Netflix for their huge support and to my fellow nominees,” Bertelmann said as he picked up the award.

This year’s nom is Bertelmann’s second Oscars nod. He was last nominated for his musical work on Lion (2017), starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. He shared the nomination with co-composer Dustin O’Halloran.

Bertelmann’s win was All Quiet on the Western Front’s fourth win of the evening. The German-language pic is up for nine Oscars, including Best Picture, Director and International Feature Film. The film picked...

Hollywood is descending on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the 95th Academy Awards.

The show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will honour the best in film from last year, with some of the biggest stars in the business vying for Oscar gold.

Front-runners include “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, which garnered 11 nominations, along with “All Quiet on the Western Front” and more.

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Check out the full list of nominees and winners (marked in bold), updated live throughout the show:

Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front” “Avatar: The Way of Water” “The Banshees of Inisherin” “Elvis” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” “The Fabelmans” “Tár” “Top Gun: Maverick” “Triangle of Sadness” “Women Talking”

Best Director

Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Todd Field (“Tár”) Ruben Östlund...

The films in the running for the 2023 Best Original Score Oscar are “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Babylon,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and “The Fabelmans.” Our current odds indicate that “Babylon” (69/20) will take the prize, followed in order of likelihood by “All Quiet on the Western Front” (19/5), “The Fabelmans” (4/1), “The Banshees of Inisherin” (9/2), and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (9/2).

Four of the seven individual artists included in this lineup are returning contenders, with the newcomer subset consisting of Son Lux bandmates and fellow “Everything Everywhere All at Once” nominees Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang, and Ryan Lott. Bhatia and Chang are two of only nine Asian composers to ever achieve academy recognition and could become the first such champions since A. R. Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”) in 2009.

John Williams (“The Fabelmans”) stands out from the category veterans in that he has competed for this award 48 times...

“Babylon” only has three Oscar nominations, but if you go by the odds, it will win two of them: Best Production Design, which it’s dominated all season, and Best Original Score, where Justin Hurwitz has recently lost some ground to “All Quiet on the Western Front,” composed by Volker Bertelmann. That race could come down to the wire and wind up a whole lot closer than the composers’ first Oscar showdown.

Hurwitz and Bertelmann have faced off at the Oscars before, though you might not realize it at first glance. Bertelmann also performs under the name Hauschka, which was how he was credited for his “Lion” (2016) score, co-written with Dustin O’Halloran. That season, Hauschka and O’Halloran lost the Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, BAFTA and Oscar to Hurwitz, who swept for “La La Land.”

While it was obvious Hurwitz would win the Oscar back then, that’s not the case this time around.

Can you imagine being nominated in this category and hearing the very last nominee’s name, and it’s the one and only John Williams, who has received 53 Oscar nominations and won five times? Granted, it’s been almost 30 years since his name was last called on Oscar night, so maybe the other four nominees don’t have so much to worry about, but make no mistake that this is a highly competitive year.

Four of this year’s nominees line-up with Best Picture, with one very notable newcomer to the category.

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“All Quiet on the Western Front” – Volker Bertelmann

Within minutes in Edward Berger‘s WWI anti-war drama, Bertelmann’s unforgettable score grabs the viewer’s attention by capturing the essence of why war is hell. Bertelmann previously received an Oscar nomination for his score for “Lion” (2016), but what the score...

The final stretch of the 2023 Oscar season has started with voters casting their ballots for the winners of the 95th annual Academy Awards. All season long, Gold Derby has been interviewing dozens of the nominees, including four contenders for Best Score. Click on each composer’s name below to watch each of these 20-minute interviews.

Volker Bertelmann, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

Composer Bertelmann grew up reading the 1929 novel “All Quiet on the Western Front’ when he was in school, which served as the basis for the 1930 Best Picture winner and the new 2022 Netflix adaptation. He recalls the advice that director Edward Berger gave him about how he wanted to film to sound: “I want to have a music for the stomach of Paul Bäumer, who’s the main protagonist. I want to have destruction. And I want to have a snare that is played by somebody who can’t play the snare…...

Almost exactly one year ago, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” premiered at SXSW. The sophomore feature from the two-headed directorial entity known as Daniels — aka Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — had plenty of hype going into the festival, as the GenX filmmaker had already garnered a decade of fans for their music video work, with bonus points for the silly-sweet gamble of their 2016 feature debut “Swiss Army Man.” Yet even the visionary concept of an island castaway riding a farting corpse to freedom couldn’t have prepared audiences for the cultural phenomenon to come.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was an instant sensation with almost as many layers as the multiverses strewn across in its plot. It’s an innovative and hilarious sci-fi comedy about the messiness of modern life, a touching exploration of intergenerational Asian American identity, and a rousing showcase for Asian actors long under-appreciated by the industry.

A great score can not only make a film better, but make it truly iconic. The Academy Awards have awarded prizes for their scores back in 1934, and previous winners like Lawrence of Arabia, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Purple Rain, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Up, and last year's Dune wouldn't be the same without their brilliant scores. This year's nominees in the Best Original Score are a mixture of old favorites, with previous nominees Carter Burwell and John Williams competing against more experimental scores from the likes of Volker Bertelmann, Son Lux, and Justin Hurwitz. Each of these scores was integral to their individual films in this very strong year for this category. Let's take a look at this year's picks, and rank these five Oscar nominees.

If there’s going to be a surprise win in Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, look no further than “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Aside from its Golden Globe win for Best Film Musical/Comedy, “Banshees” failed to take the top prize with any major group this season, but that didn’t stop it from mounting upsets in other key categories. If the dark horse spirit that earned it major Globe and BAFTA wins continues into Oscar night, director/writer/producer Martin McDonagh could find himself with his first Oscar statuette in a feature film category.

McDonagh is already an Oscar winner for his 2006 live-action short “Six Shooter,” but he came up short for his work on the feature films “In Bruges” in 2009 and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in 2018. He was nominated in Best Original Screenplay for both films and then in Best Picture as a producer of the latter,...

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The Banshees of Inisherin has already won Golden Globe awards for best picture and best actor, and the dark comedy is among the second most-nominated films at this year’s Oscars.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the critically acclaimed film is set in the early 1920s in Ireland and stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends whose abrupt breakup sparks violence, suffering and self-reflection. Farrell won his second Golden Globe for his role as Pádraic, whose pal Colm (Gleeson) suddenly decides he no longer wants to socialize with him.

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The film is nominated for nine Academy Awards (tying with Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front), including best picture, best director, best actor (Farrell...

In what may be the most difficult-to-predict score competition in years, the original-music Oscar could go to a sentimental favorite, a past nominee or the newcomer to the race. Academy members begin voting today.

Legendary composer John Williams broke records again by becoming the most nominated living person, earning the highest number of nominations ever in the music categories, and becoming the oldest nominee ever for a competitive award. He is 91.

His nomination for “The Fabelmans” surprised some outsiders, as his fairly spare score is often overshadowed by the several classical pieces performed by Mitzi (Michelle Williams), the character based on director Steven Spielberg’s piano-playing mom. But it passed the 35% rule — that is, more than a third of the total musical content must be original dramatic score — or it would have been disqualified by the Academy’s strict music-branch executive committee.

Williams is enjoying more acclaim than ever, not...