Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s Bossa Nova-themed animated film They Shot The Piano Player in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on February 23, 2024, before expanding nationwide in the following weeks.
The film is produced by Cristina Huete of Trueba PC (Chico & Rita) in Spain, along with Serge Lalou for Les Films d’Ici (Josep) in France, Janneke van de Kerkhof for Submarine Sublime (BUÑUEL In The Labyrinth Of Turtles) in the Netherlands, and Humberto Santana in Portugal. It is executive produced by Nano Arrieta of Atlantika and Fabien Westerhoff of Film Constellation.
From the duo behind the 2012 Academy Award®-nominated Chico & Rita, They Shot The Piano Player is narrated by Jeff Goldblum and features a who’s who of the best of Brazilian music, including João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes, Milton Nascimento and Paulo Moura.
The film is produced by Cristina Huete of Trueba PC (Chico & Rita) in Spain, along with Serge Lalou for Les Films d’Ici (Josep) in France, Janneke van de Kerkhof for Submarine Sublime (BUÑUEL In The Labyrinth Of Turtles) in the Netherlands, and Humberto Santana in Portugal. It is executive produced by Nano Arrieta of Atlantika and Fabien Westerhoff of Film Constellation.
From the duo behind the 2012 Academy Award®-nominated Chico & Rita, They Shot The Piano Player is narrated by Jeff Goldblum and features a who’s who of the best of Brazilian music, including João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes, Milton Nascimento and Paulo Moura.
- 12/14/2023
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Bossa Nova-themed animation from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal received awards-qualifying run in November.
Sony Pictures Classics will release Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s Bossa Nova-themed animated feature They Shot The Piano Player theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on February 23, 2024.
‘They Shot The Piano Player’: San Sebastian Review
The film received a one-week awards-qualifying run in November following its premiere at Telluride and Toronto International Film Festival. It will expand nationwide in the weeks following the release.
Jeff Goldblum narrates the story of a New York music journalist who sets out to uncover the truth behind...
Sony Pictures Classics will release Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s Bossa Nova-themed animated feature They Shot The Piano Player theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on February 23, 2024.
‘They Shot The Piano Player’: San Sebastian Review
The film received a one-week awards-qualifying run in November following its premiere at Telluride and Toronto International Film Festival. It will expand nationwide in the weeks following the release.
Jeff Goldblum narrates the story of a New York music journalist who sets out to uncover the truth behind...
- 12/13/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Taking a cue from the genre-melding impulse of the music at its heart, They Shot the Piano Player initially gives every appearance of being pure fiction. The plot of this animated film by Spanish directors Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba follows Jeff Harris (voiced by Jeff Goldblum), a journalist from New York City who’s been commissioned to write a book on bossa nova. Immersing himself in the music in preparation for a trip to Rio de Janeiro, he hears a solo by Brazilian jazz pianist Francisco Tenorio Jr. and gets sidetracked. The innovator of samba jazz, it turns out, disappeared under suspicious circumstances in Buenos Aires just before the 1976 military coup, and Jeff decides to fill in the blanks.
The setup, then, has all the trappings of a detective story, with an amateur sleuth in obsessive pursuit of an unsolved mystery. In Rio, Jeff’s friend João (Tony Ramos...
The setup, then, has all the trappings of a detective story, with an amateur sleuth in obsessive pursuit of an unsolved mystery. In Rio, Jeff’s friend João (Tony Ramos...
- 11/20/2023
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
"His musical touch hasn't left my ear." Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled a full US trailer for a fascinating, jazzy Spanish documentary called They Shot the Piano Player, which first premiered at the Annecy Film Festival in France this summer. It's a doc made by filmmakers Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal (of Chico & Rita) telling the true story of a missing pianist. A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. - in full Francisco Tenório Júnior. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, They Shot The Piano Player captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes. Starring Jeff Goldblum as the voice of Jeff Harris, with Caetano Veloso & Joao Gilberto.
- 11/8/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
¿Qué hace un artista tan grande como Bad Bunny — el artista más reproducido en el mundo durante los últimos tres años — para seguir un álbum como el aclamado Un Verano Sin Ti? ¿Cómo navegar el peligro de que sus oyentes sientan que está cerca de agotarse creativamente?
Recordándoles por qué se enamoraron de él cuando comenzó.
El jueves por la noche, Bad Bunny convocó a 16,000 de sus fieles seguidores en el Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot de San Juan para lo que se anunció como una “fiesta de escucha” de su nuevo álbum,...
Recordándoles por qué se enamoraron de él cuando comenzó.
El jueves por la noche, Bad Bunny convocó a 16,000 de sus fieles seguidores en el Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot de San Juan para lo que se anunció como una “fiesta de escucha” de su nuevo álbum,...
- 10/13/2023
- by Juan J. Arroyo
- Rollingstone.com
What does an artist as big as Bad Bunny — the most streamed artist in the world for multiple years — do to follow up an album like last summer’s acclaimed Un Verano Sin Ti? How does he navigate the danger of listeners feeling like he’s close to hitting a creative wall?
By reminding them why they fell in love with him to begin with.
On Thursday night, Bad Bunny convened 16,000 of his loyal fans at San Juan’s José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum for what was billed as a ”listening...
By reminding them why they fell in love with him to begin with.
On Thursday night, Bad Bunny convened 16,000 of his loyal fans at San Juan’s José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum for what was billed as a ”listening...
- 10/13/2023
- by Juan J. Arroyo
- Rollingstone.com
Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian crooner whose detached, almost observational singing style imbued “The Girl From Ipanema” with inherent cool, died Monday. Her friend, musician Paul Ricci, posted the news to Facebook but did not reveal her cause of death. She was 83.
Gilberto had never performed in public when she recorded “The Girl From Ipanema” with her husband, guitarist João Gilberto and saxophonist Stan Getz, in 1963. Only 22 at the time, the singer — who was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert to a linguistics professor father and singer-violinist mother in Salvador, Brazil on March...
Gilberto had never performed in public when she recorded “The Girl From Ipanema” with her husband, guitarist João Gilberto and saxophonist Stan Getz, in 1963. Only 22 at the time, the singer — who was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert to a linguistics professor father and singer-violinist mother in Salvador, Brazil on March...
- 6/6/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Astrud Gilberto, who was just 22 years old when her lovely, laid-back and sultry vocals on the jazzy bossa nova “The Girl from Ipanema” made the song a massive global hit and one of the most recognizable melodies of the 1960s, died Monday. She was 83.
Her death was announced to the media by a family friend, the musician Paul Ricci, who did not provide additional details.
Born on March 5, 1940, in Salvador, Bahia, and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto was virtually unknown to the wider public when she was recruited by producer Creed Taylor, saxophonist Stan Getz and her then-husband, guitarist Joao Gilberto, and to lend her vocals on two songs for Getz/Gilberto. The album, recorded in 1963, would have a huge impact on the popularization of bossa nova music, in no small measure due to of one of those songs featuring Astrud: “The Girl from Ipanema,” released as a...
Her death was announced to the media by a family friend, the musician Paul Ricci, who did not provide additional details.
Born on March 5, 1940, in Salvador, Bahia, and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto was virtually unknown to the wider public when she was recruited by producer Creed Taylor, saxophonist Stan Getz and her then-husband, guitarist Joao Gilberto, and to lend her vocals on two songs for Getz/Gilberto. The album, recorded in 1963, would have a huge impact on the popularization of bossa nova music, in no small measure due to of one of those songs featuring Astrud: “The Girl from Ipanema,” released as a...
- 6/6/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, best known for her version of the bossa nova classic “The Girl from Ipanema,” has died at the age of 83.
Sofia Gilberto, the artist’s granddaughter, shared the news on Instagram. “I’m here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto,” Sofia wrote. “She was a pioneer and the best. At the age of 22, she gave voice to the English version of ‘Girl from Ipanema’ and gained international fame.”
New York-based guitarist Paul Ricci, who collaborated with Gilberto, also confirmed the news on Facebook, saying he had been asked to post it by Gilberto’s son Marcelo. “She was an important part of All that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy,” Ricci wrote.
Born March 29th, 1940 in the Brazilian state of Bahia, Astrud Weinert...
Sofia Gilberto, the artist’s granddaughter, shared the news on Instagram. “I’m here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto,” Sofia wrote. “She was a pioneer and the best. At the age of 22, she gave voice to the English version of ‘Girl from Ipanema’ and gained international fame.”
New York-based guitarist Paul Ricci, who collaborated with Gilberto, also confirmed the news on Facebook, saying he had been asked to post it by Gilberto’s son Marcelo. “She was an important part of All that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy,” Ricci wrote.
Born March 29th, 1940 in the Brazilian state of Bahia, Astrud Weinert...
- 6/6/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
“The Girl from Ipanema” singer Astrud Gilberto has passed away at age 83.
The Brazilian bossa nova musician — who was a huge star in the ’60s and ’70s — died on June 5, her granddaughter, Sofia Gilberto, announced.
Sofia shared a sweet video clip, alongside the translated message: “I’m here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto.
“She was a pioneer and the best. At the age of 22, she gave voice to the English version of ‘Girl from Ipanema’ and gained international fame,” Sofia added, according to the BBC.
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Guitarist Paul Ricci, who collaborated with Astrud, also shared the sad news on Facebook.
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He wrote, “I just got word from her son Marcelo...
The Brazilian bossa nova musician — who was a huge star in the ’60s and ’70s — died on June 5, her granddaughter, Sofia Gilberto, announced.
Sofia shared a sweet video clip, alongside the translated message: “I’m here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto.
“She was a pioneer and the best. At the age of 22, she gave voice to the English version of ‘Girl from Ipanema’ and gained international fame,” Sofia added, according to the BBC.
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by Sofia Gilberto (@sofia_gilberto_oliveira)
Guitarist Paul Ricci, who collaborated with Astrud, also shared the sad news on Facebook.
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He wrote, “I just got word from her son Marcelo...
- 6/6/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Sony Pictures Classics announced today they have acquired all rights in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, India, Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and South Korea) and airlines within those territories to Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s upcoming Bossa Nova-themed animated film, “They Shot the Piano Player.”
Sony Classics plans to release the film at the end of the year to qualify for year-end awards consideration.
A true international production, the film is produced by Cristina Huete of Trueba PC (“Chico & Rita”) in Spain, along with Serge Lalou for Les Films d’Ici (“Josep”) in France, Janneke van de Kerkhof for Submarine Sublime (“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles”) in the Netherlands, and Humberto Santana in Portugal. It is executive produced by Nano Arrieta of Atlantika and Fabien Westerhoff of Film Constellation.
From Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, who previously directed the Oscar-nominated “Chico & Rita,...
Sony Classics plans to release the film at the end of the year to qualify for year-end awards consideration.
A true international production, the film is produced by Cristina Huete of Trueba PC (“Chico & Rita”) in Spain, along with Serge Lalou for Les Films d’Ici (“Josep”) in France, Janneke van de Kerkhof for Submarine Sublime (“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles”) in the Netherlands, and Humberto Santana in Portugal. It is executive produced by Nano Arrieta of Atlantika and Fabien Westerhoff of Film Constellation.
From Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, who previously directed the Oscar-nominated “Chico & Rita,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up rights to the animated feature They Shot the Piano Player for the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, India, the Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and South Korea) and airlines within the aforementioned territories. The film from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, two of the directors behind the Oscar-nominated animated feature Chico and Rita, is set up for a fall awards push from SPC.
Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, They Shot the Piano Player follows a New York music journalist who goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.
Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, They Shot the Piano Player follows a New York music journalist who goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.
- 5/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to the animated feature They Shot the Piano Player from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, the duo behind Oscar nominee Chico & Rita. The plan is for an awards season release.
The company also acquired the rights for the film in Latin America, Scandinavia, India, the Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and South Korea) and for airlines within those territories
The Bossa Nova-themed animation is narrated by Jeff Goldblum and follows a New York music journalist, who goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. The rest of the synopsis reads: “A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the...
The company also acquired the rights for the film in Latin America, Scandinavia, India, the Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and South Korea) and for airlines within those territories
The Bossa Nova-themed animation is narrated by Jeff Goldblum and follows a New York music journalist, who goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. The rest of the synopsis reads: “A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the...
- 5/18/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal previously collaborated on Oscar-nominated ‘Chico & Rita’.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in the US and key territories around the world to They Shot The Piano Player, the highly-anticipated animation from Spanish director Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal, who previously collaborated on the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita.
In a deal with Film Constellation, SPC has also secured all rights for Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, India, Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and South Korea) and airlines within those territories. The distributor plans to qualify the film for year-end awards.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in the US and key territories around the world to They Shot The Piano Player, the highly-anticipated animation from Spanish director Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal, who previously collaborated on the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita.
In a deal with Film Constellation, SPC has also secured all rights for Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, India, Middle East, Turkey, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and South Korea) and airlines within those territories. The distributor plans to qualify the film for year-end awards.
- 5/18/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Kali Uchis has revealed her third studio album, Red Moon in Venus. The project is out today 3rd via Geffen Records, and to promote the record, she’s going on a North American tour (get tickets here).
While Uchis’ last album, 2020’s Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios), was recorded in Spanish, she sings Red Moon in Venus in English. “Love is the message,” the artist said of the LP. “Red Moon in Venus is a timeless, burning expression of desire, heartbreak, faith, and honesty, reflecting the divine femininity of the moon and Venus. The moon and Venus work together to make key aspects of love and domestic life work well. This body of work represents all levels of love — releasing people with love, drawing love into your life and self-love. It’s believed by many astrologers that the blood moon can send your emotions into a spin, and...
While Uchis’ last album, 2020’s Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios), was recorded in Spanish, she sings Red Moon in Venus in English. “Love is the message,” the artist said of the LP. “Red Moon in Venus is a timeless, burning expression of desire, heartbreak, faith, and honesty, reflecting the divine femininity of the moon and Venus. The moon and Venus work together to make key aspects of love and domestic life work well. This body of work represents all levels of love — releasing people with love, drawing love into your life and self-love. It’s believed by many astrologers that the blood moon can send your emotions into a spin, and...
- 3/3/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Biopic of Brazilian singer premiered last month at Telluride.
Austrian doc specialist Autlook Filmsales has taken global sales rights for Brazilian music documentary Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova.
The film premiered in Telluride, showed at TIFF and is due to screen in Brazil at the Festival do Rio Brazilian gala premiere on October 12.
Directed by Daniel Zarvos, a cousin of Miúcha, with Liliane Mutti, the documentary tells the story of the renowned Brazilian singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha.
Although she recorded with legends of Bossa Nova like João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz,...
Austrian doc specialist Autlook Filmsales has taken global sales rights for Brazilian music documentary Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova.
The film premiered in Telluride, showed at TIFF and is due to screen in Brazil at the Festival do Rio Brazilian gala premiere on October 12.
Directed by Daniel Zarvos, a cousin of Miúcha, with Liliane Mutti, the documentary tells the story of the renowned Brazilian singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha.
Although she recorded with legends of Bossa Nova like João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz,...
- 10/10/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
2022 is the year of Bad Bunny. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the Puerto Rican rapper’s success worldwide, especially this year. His fourth album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” debuted atop the Billboard 200 with career-best album units and has held the top spot for 10 weeks as of this writing, the most for any album this year. The album is on track to be the most consumed of the year in the US, and is already the biggest event in music across the globe, breaking streaming records. The album has also notched four top-10 hits in the US, including the top-five hits “Moscow Mule” and “Tití Me Preguntó.” With all of this success, what will the Grammys do with the Latin artist come nomination’s morning, and is there a chance for him to go all the way?
Even among non-Latin albums, it’s...
Even among non-Latin albums, it’s...
- 9/14/2022
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
The Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s Docs program gets underway Sept. 8 and will feature 22 nonfiction films — a hefty 57 increase from last year’s lineup, which was cut back to 14 due to Covid.
Notable titles include Oscar winner Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which is pictured above and making its Canadian premiere following a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival; “Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s latest docu “The Grab” and veteran filmmaker’s Werner Herzog’s “Theatre of Thought.”
Sacha Jenkins’s “Armstrong’s Black & Blues” will serve as TIFF Docs’ opening film.
Thom Powers, lead TIFF documentary programmer, winnowed the list of 22 from 700 submissions. While constructing this year’s program, Powers noticed various themes emerge across submissions, one being being the act of resistance.
“Cowperthwaite’s “The Grab,” which she has been making for seven years under a lot of secrecy, follows journalist Nathan Halverson as...
Notable titles include Oscar winner Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which is pictured above and making its Canadian premiere following a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival; “Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s latest docu “The Grab” and veteran filmmaker’s Werner Herzog’s “Theatre of Thought.”
Sacha Jenkins’s “Armstrong’s Black & Blues” will serve as TIFF Docs’ opening film.
Thom Powers, lead TIFF documentary programmer, winnowed the list of 22 from 700 submissions. While constructing this year’s program, Powers noticed various themes emerge across submissions, one being being the act of resistance.
“Cowperthwaite’s “The Grab,” which she has been making for seven years under a lot of secrecy, follows journalist Nathan Halverson as...
- 8/17/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most exciting parts of every award show is watching long-standing records break. For the 2023 Grammys, multiple artists are in a good position to make history. Let’s look at a few artists who can leave their mark on Grammys history.
SEE2022 Latin Grammys preview: Rosalia, Bad Bunny and more big names to expect at 23rd annual awards Bruno Mars
One of the biggest Grammy darlings in recent years has been Bruno Mars. The pop and R&b singer-songwriter has claimed 15 Grammys over his career so far, most of them in the past six years. Among those 15 Grammys, he has won three for Record of the Year, tying Paul Simon for the most wins by an artist.
However, Mars could easily un-tie and win his fourth Record of the Year Grammy as soon as next year due to his hit “Smokin Out the Window” with Silk Sonic partner Anderson .Paak.
SEE2022 Latin Grammys preview: Rosalia, Bad Bunny and more big names to expect at 23rd annual awards Bruno Mars
One of the biggest Grammy darlings in recent years has been Bruno Mars. The pop and R&b singer-songwriter has claimed 15 Grammys over his career so far, most of them in the past six years. Among those 15 Grammys, he has won three for Record of the Year, tying Paul Simon for the most wins by an artist.
However, Mars could easily un-tie and win his fourth Record of the Year Grammy as soon as next year due to his hit “Smokin Out the Window” with Silk Sonic partner Anderson .Paak.
- 7/19/2022
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
H.E.R. has dropped a lively cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s 1967 track “Dance to the Music.” The single appears on the upcoming soundtrack to Minions: The Rise of Gru.
The song, produced by Jack Antonoff, sees H.E.R. singing the funk tune over a grooving melody led by bass, saxophones, and synths parts.
“Dance to the Music” follows on the heels of “Turn Up the Sunshine,” a collaboration between Tame Impala and Diana Ross for the animated film’s forthcoming soundtrack, out July 1. That track was also produced by Antonoff,...
The song, produced by Jack Antonoff, sees H.E.R. singing the funk tune over a grooving melody led by bass, saxophones, and synths parts.
“Dance to the Music” follows on the heels of “Turn Up the Sunshine,” a collaboration between Tame Impala and Diana Ross for the animated film’s forthcoming soundtrack, out July 1. That track was also produced by Antonoff,...
- 6/24/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Bebel Gilberto prances around her hotel room in the charming new video for “Deixa.” The track appears on her upcoming album Agora, out August 21st via Pias Recordings.
Directed by Erik Sohlström, the clip features Gilberto at the Nomad Hotel in Los Angeles, applying makeup and eating decadent pastries while dressed in a striking pink sequined suit. The word “Deixa” translates to “leave” in Portuguese, but Gilberto takes her time in the video, basking in the sun and drinking champagne by the pool.
“I filmed this video in Los Angeles...
Directed by Erik Sohlström, the clip features Gilberto at the Nomad Hotel in Los Angeles, applying makeup and eating decadent pastries while dressed in a striking pink sequined suit. The word “Deixa” translates to “leave” in Portuguese, but Gilberto takes her time in the video, basking in the sun and drinking champagne by the pool.
“I filmed this video in Los Angeles...
- 4/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Remi Chayé’s “Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary,” Benoît Chieux’ “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” and “They Shot the Piano Player,” from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, were among projects which caught attention at this week’s 22nd Cartoon Movie, which ran March 3-5 in the French port city of Bordeaux.
The presentation of “Calamity.” the awaited second feature by Chayé (“Long Way North”), registered the highest attendance of any pitch at the animation co-production and sales forum. Produced by France’s Maybe Movies and Denmark’s Nørlum and sold by Paris-based Indie Sales, “Calamity” tells the story of Martha Jane Cannary, a 12-year-old girl caring for her siblings in a wagon train heading West to Wyoming. A coming-of-age feature, it is also an origins story of the young woman would become the legendary Calamity Jane.
A buzz title in Bordeaux, sold by Film Constellation and...
The presentation of “Calamity.” the awaited second feature by Chayé (“Long Way North”), registered the highest attendance of any pitch at the animation co-production and sales forum. Produced by France’s Maybe Movies and Denmark’s Nørlum and sold by Paris-based Indie Sales, “Calamity” tells the story of Martha Jane Cannary, a 12-year-old girl caring for her siblings in a wagon train heading West to Wyoming. A coming-of-age feature, it is also an origins story of the young woman would become the legendary Calamity Jane.
A buzz title in Bordeaux, sold by Film Constellation and...
- 3/7/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Brazilian singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto unveiled a mesmerizing new song, “Deixa,” that will appear on her first album in six years, Agora, out May 1st via Pias Recordings.
“Deixa” — which translates to “leave” in Portuguese — boasts a steady groove that anchors a dream-like drone of horns and periodic flourishes of chimes, bells and strings. Gilberto’s voice easily drifts over the production, but there’s often a sharp kick to her phrasing to counterbalance the engrossing instrumentals.
Gilberto recorded Agora with producer Thomas Bartlett and made the album after several personal tragedies,...
“Deixa” — which translates to “leave” in Portuguese — boasts a steady groove that anchors a dream-like drone of horns and periodic flourishes of chimes, bells and strings. Gilberto’s voice easily drifts over the production, but there’s often a sharp kick to her phrasing to counterbalance the engrossing instrumentals.
Gilberto recorded Agora with producer Thomas Bartlett and made the album after several personal tragedies,...
- 3/3/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Here’s a partial list of musicians we lost in the 2010s: Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Chuck Berry, Ornette Coleman, B.B. King, Etta James, Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Merle Haggard, Kitty Wells, João Gilberto, Ravi Shankar, Tabu Ley Rochereau, David Mancuso, Amy Winehouse, Abbie Lincoln, Gil Scott Heron, George Jones, George Martin, George Michael, Allen Toussaint, Donna Summer, Phife Dawg, Prodigy, Adam Yauch, Heavy D, Captain Beefheart, Robert Hunter, Gregory Isaacs, Johnny Otis, Big Jay McNeely, Levon Helm, Kate McGarrigle, Guy Clark, Pete Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Gregg Allman,...
- 12/11/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Jeff Goldblum will voice the lead in ’They Shot The Piano Player’, about the birth of Bossa Nova
London-based production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has come on board to finance the new musical animation feature They Shot The Piano Player from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, Oscar nominees in 2012 for Chico & Rita.
Jeff Goldblum is attached to voice the lead character, a New York music journalist on a quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
The film tells the story of the emergence of Bossa Nova in Brazil, at...
London-based production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has come on board to finance the new musical animation feature They Shot The Piano Player from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, Oscar nominees in 2012 for Chico & Rita.
Jeff Goldblum is attached to voice the lead character, a New York music journalist on a quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
The film tells the story of the emergence of Bossa Nova in Brazil, at...
- 11/5/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has come on board to finance musical animation film “They Shot the Piano Player,” directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, Oscar-nominated for their 2012 animation “Chico & Rita.”
Jeff Goldblum is attached to voice the lead character, a New York music journalist on a quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
Film Constellation describes the film as “a celebratory origin story” of the Bossa Nova movement that “captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.”
The pic features a who’s who of the best of Brazilian music, including João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes and Paulo Moura.
Trueba, whose credits include music films “Calle 54,” “Bebo Y Cigala” and “The Miracle of Candeal,...
Jeff Goldblum is attached to voice the lead character, a New York music journalist on a quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
Film Constellation describes the film as “a celebratory origin story” of the Bossa Nova movement that “captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.”
The pic features a who’s who of the best of Brazilian music, including João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes and Paulo Moura.
Trueba, whose credits include music films “Calle 54,” “Bebo Y Cigala” and “The Miracle of Candeal,...
- 11/5/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Jeff Goldblum is attached to voice the lead in musical animation They Shot The Piano Player, the latest project from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, the directors of Oscar-nominated feature Chico & Rita.
UK outfit Film Constellation has come on board to finance the project, which is in pre-production.
Goldblum will voice a New York music journalist on a quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
An origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the movie will capture a fleeting time of creative freedom in Latin American history in the 1960s and 70s, before parts of the continent were engulfed by oppressive regimes.
The film will include music from João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes, and Paulo Moura.
Spanish director Trueba and illustrator Mariscal are re-teaming after their Oscar-nominated 2010 animation Chico & Rita, which chronicled a...
UK outfit Film Constellation has come on board to finance the project, which is in pre-production.
Goldblum will voice a New York music journalist on a quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
An origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the movie will capture a fleeting time of creative freedom in Latin American history in the 1960s and 70s, before parts of the continent were engulfed by oppressive regimes.
The film will include music from João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes, and Paulo Moura.
Spanish director Trueba and illustrator Mariscal are re-teaming after their Oscar-nominated 2010 animation Chico & Rita, which chronicled a...
- 11/5/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
João Gilberto, the pioneering Brazilian musician and composer credited as “the father of bossa nova,” has died at the age of 88.
Gilberto’s son João Marcelo Gilberto confirmed his father’s death Saturday in Rio de Janeiro in a Facebook post, “His struggle was noble. He tried to maintain his dignity in the light of losing his independence.” No cause of death was provided.
Gilberto is considered the progenitor of bossa nova, or “new beat,” a subgenre of the Brazilian samba that scaled back that style’s percussion and arrangements.
Gilberto’s son João Marcelo Gilberto confirmed his father’s death Saturday in Rio de Janeiro in a Facebook post, “His struggle was noble. He tried to maintain his dignity in the light of losing his independence.” No cause of death was provided.
Gilberto is considered the progenitor of bossa nova, or “new beat,” a subgenre of the Brazilian samba that scaled back that style’s percussion and arrangements.
- 7/7/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
João Gilberto, the Brazilian singer and composer best known as a pioneer of the bossa nova style of music, died Saturday in Rio de Janerio. He was 88.
Numerous media outlets reported Gilberto’s death, including the BBC. His son confirmed the news in a Facebook post.
“His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity,” Marcelo Gilberto said.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
Born in 1931, Gilberto began singing as a teenager. His style of mixing traditional and modern musical influences inspired the genre that became known as bossa nova or new beat in the 1950s.
His collaboration with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, “Getz/Gilberto,” won the Grammy Award for album of the year in 1965.
The album featured their version of the jazz classic “The Girl from Ipanema.”...
Numerous media outlets reported Gilberto’s death, including the BBC. His son confirmed the news in a Facebook post.
“His fight was noble, he tried to maintain dignity,” Marcelo Gilberto said.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
Born in 1931, Gilberto began singing as a teenager. His style of mixing traditional and modern musical influences inspired the genre that became known as bossa nova or new beat in the 1950s.
His collaboration with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, “Getz/Gilberto,” won the Grammy Award for album of the year in 1965.
The album featured their version of the jazz classic “The Girl from Ipanema.”...
- 7/6/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth have unveiled a new acoustic ballad under their electro-pop band moniker Frou Frou. “Guitar Song (Live)” is being released via Linda Perry and Kerry Brown’s label, We Are Hear.
“Guitar Song (Live)” finds Heap letting her delicate vocals tumble alongside a twisting guitar lines surrounded by a cushion of synths. “Heaven will be the morning when I wake up with you next to me,” Heap sings. “No need to worry ’bout it ’cause I’ll take care of everything/When you just say the word,...
“Guitar Song (Live)” finds Heap letting her delicate vocals tumble alongside a twisting guitar lines surrounded by a cushion of synths. “Heaven will be the morning when I wake up with you next to me,” Heap sings. “No need to worry ’bout it ’cause I’ll take care of everything/When you just say the word,...
- 4/19/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: New series to introduce sci-fi elements and touch on both migrant crisis and rise of populist politics.
French director Bruno Dumont will present his plans for the second season of his hybrid spoof police procedural TV series Li’l Quinquin at the European Film Market (Efm) this week (Feb 9-17). Paris-based Doc & Film International is handling sales.
Like the first series, it will be set in Dumont’s trademark setting of the Opal Coast in northern France and its surrounding countryside.
Entitled Coincoin And The Extra-humans, the drama will revisit the life of social misfit Quinquin who is now grown up and goes by the nickname of CoinCoin.
He spends his time loafing about the area and attending meetings of the Nationalist Party with his friend Fatso. His childhood sweetheart Eve has now left him for a woman
Like the previous series, it will play with the conventions of TV drama. In what appears...
French director Bruno Dumont will present his plans for the second season of his hybrid spoof police procedural TV series Li’l Quinquin at the European Film Market (Efm) this week (Feb 9-17). Paris-based Doc & Film International is handling sales.
Like the first series, it will be set in Dumont’s trademark setting of the Opal Coast in northern France and its surrounding countryside.
Entitled Coincoin And The Extra-humans, the drama will revisit the life of social misfit Quinquin who is now grown up and goes by the nickname of CoinCoin.
He spends his time loafing about the area and attending meetings of the Nationalist Party with his friend Fatso. His childhood sweetheart Eve has now left him for a woman
Like the previous series, it will play with the conventions of TV drama. In what appears...
- 2/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
Council of Europe’s cinema fund to award €3,843,000.
Eurimages, the council of Europe’s fund for co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinema, has announced it will support 13 films (including a documentary and an animation) for a combined €3,843,000.
The projects selected by the Eurimages board are:
Wicked Games (Austria, Germany, France) - Ulrich SeidlDouble Bind (Belgium, France) - Olivier Masset-DepassePinocchio (Italy, France) - Matteo Garrone (Italy)Memoirs From The Cell (Spain, France, Argentina, Uruguay) - Álvaro BrechnerWhere Are You, João Gilberto? (Switzerland, Germany, France) - Georges GachotAbout Endlessness (Sweden, Germany, France, Norway) - Roy AnderssonThe Crossing (France, Germany, Czech Republic) - Florence Miailhe Life Runs Over You (Italy, Iceland) - Paolo SassanelliWild Witch (Denmark, Hungary, Norway) - Kaspar MunkKings (France, Belgium) - Deniz Gamze ErgüvenVirgins (France, Israel, Belgium) - Keren Ben Rafael The Cellar (Slovakia, Russia, Czech Republic) - Igor VoloshinLady Winsley (France, Turkey, Belgium) - Hiner Saleem
Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio is a high profile film on...
Eurimages, the council of Europe’s fund for co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinema, has announced it will support 13 films (including a documentary and an animation) for a combined €3,843,000.
The projects selected by the Eurimages board are:
Wicked Games (Austria, Germany, France) - Ulrich SeidlDouble Bind (Belgium, France) - Olivier Masset-DepassePinocchio (Italy, France) - Matteo Garrone (Italy)Memoirs From The Cell (Spain, France, Argentina, Uruguay) - Álvaro BrechnerWhere Are You, João Gilberto? (Switzerland, Germany, France) - Georges GachotAbout Endlessness (Sweden, Germany, France, Norway) - Roy AnderssonThe Crossing (France, Germany, Czech Republic) - Florence Miailhe Life Runs Over You (Italy, Iceland) - Paolo SassanelliWild Witch (Denmark, Hungary, Norway) - Kaspar MunkKings (France, Belgium) - Deniz Gamze ErgüvenVirgins (France, Israel, Belgium) - Keren Ben Rafael The Cellar (Slovakia, Russia, Czech Republic) - Igor VoloshinLady Winsley (France, Turkey, Belgium) - Hiner Saleem
Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio is a high profile film on...
- 12/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
American music producer who worked with many pop greats including Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra
Once nicknamed "The Pope of Pop", Phil Ramone, who has died aged 79, worked as a sound engineer and producer with an unparalleled list of popular musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Ray Charles and Barbra Streisand. In 1993, he produced Frank Sinatra's comeback album Duets, which paired the crooner with a host of stars such as Aretha Franklin, Bono and Tony Bennett. Its success prompted a follow-up, Duets II, which was Sinatra's final studio album. Ramone used the celebrity guests concept again for Charles's album Genius Loves Company (2004) and duets albums for Bennett.
Ramone won 14 Grammys during his career and was in demand for television, film and stage projects. He collaborated with Streisand on soundtracks for A Star Is Born and Yentl, worked on stage productions of Chicago, The Wiz and...
Once nicknamed "The Pope of Pop", Phil Ramone, who has died aged 79, worked as a sound engineer and producer with an unparalleled list of popular musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Ray Charles and Barbra Streisand. In 1993, he produced Frank Sinatra's comeback album Duets, which paired the crooner with a host of stars such as Aretha Franklin, Bono and Tony Bennett. Its success prompted a follow-up, Duets II, which was Sinatra's final studio album. Ramone used the celebrity guests concept again for Charles's album Genius Loves Company (2004) and duets albums for Bennett.
Ramone won 14 Grammys during his career and was in demand for television, film and stage projects. He collaborated with Streisand on soundtracks for A Star Is Born and Yentl, worked on stage productions of Chicago, The Wiz and...
- 4/1/2013
- by Adam Sweeting
- The Guardian - Film News
The Eat Pray Love soundtrack. Welcome ladies & gentlemen to the advent of Travel Porn.
Eat Pray Love is based on the relatively well written autiobiographical book by Elizabeth Gilbert, the first chapter of which begins with the line: “I wish Giovanni would kiss me. Oh but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea”. This then is not Hemmingway. Neither should it be, some of you might be saying, although others will be saying Jesus is there nothing in the world of film or literature aimed at women that isn’t entirely centred around kissing men, and/or handbags. If you are having feelings similar to this, there is nothing to worry about, it is simply a recurrance of Sex And The City Fever. You are not alone.
In Eat Pray Love handbags and expensive shoes have been replaced by Hinduism and Julia Roberts, and a...
Eat Pray Love is based on the relatively well written autiobiographical book by Elizabeth Gilbert, the first chapter of which begins with the line: “I wish Giovanni would kiss me. Oh but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea”. This then is not Hemmingway. Neither should it be, some of you might be saying, although others will be saying Jesus is there nothing in the world of film or literature aimed at women that isn’t entirely centred around kissing men, and/or handbags. If you are having feelings similar to this, there is nothing to worry about, it is simply a recurrance of Sex And The City Fever. You are not alone.
In Eat Pray Love handbags and expensive shoes have been replaced by Hinduism and Julia Roberts, and a...
- 8/18/2010
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
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