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Before The Winter is a 15-minute short film that tells the story of May who lives with her mother, Yu, and their cat who is really sick. At school, May doesn’t really interact with anyone and buries herself in her journal. When Juan tries to get his hands on that diary, he and May get into a bit of a scuffle, and May’s prized possession gets confiscated by their teacher, Mrs. Lee. What Lee and, later on, Juan discover through that journal makes them sympathize with May. But when the reality of her words become apparent, it sends a chill down the spine of the characters and the audience as well. I sat down for a virtual chat with director Juan Zuloaga Eslait to talk about the inspiration for this story, the look of the film, that plot twist, and more.

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Dave Navarro and Vanessa DuBasso are married!

The 57-year-old Jane’s Addiction guitar player and the 32-year-old actress tied the knot in a castle on Saturday (March 29) in Stranraer, Scotland.

According to People, the couple always dreamed of getting married in a castle and once they saw photos of Dunskey Estate, they were immediately captivated!

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“It exudes a moody, ethereal charm. Surrounded by a towering forest, a serene lake and the ruins of a castle along the shoreline, it felt like stepping into a fairytale,” Vanessa told the outlet.

“We wanted our wedding to feel like a dream,” Dave added. “It was important to us to find a place that felt unlike anywhere we had ever been, a place that embraced nature and transported us to another world. We wanted our loved ones to share in this intimate experience.”

Dave and Vanessa exchanged their...

Stop us if you think you’ve heard this one before. In a new family-friendly animated film, a gang of cute animals must overcome obstacles to learn the true meaning of friendship. Sound familiar? On its watery surface, Flow seems to take the form of ghosts of animated past — and yet, there is really nothing quite like it. Made on a shoestring budget by a tiny team in Latvia, Belgium and France, led by multi-talented filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, this is a spectacular, singular slice of computer-generated cinema — doing things only animation can do.

In its scope and vision, Flow feels both maximalist (Zilbalodis conjures vast oceans and mysterious skyscraping temples) and minimalist: there is zero dialogue, beyond various animal grunts, baked inside a fiercely simple story. Our hero is a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed house cat, who seems to live a quiet, solitary life in the apparent home of a feline-loving human artist.

The technology and creative sectors disagreed in their approaches to how AI and copyright law should progress in the UK, during a hearing in the UK parliament on Tuesday (February 4).

The hearing was a joint session between the culture, media and sport committee; and science, innovation and technology committee.

“This isn’t about a right to copy-and-paste and regurgitate work,” said Vinous Ali, deputy executive director of the Start-Up Coalition, which lobbies on behalf of tech start-ups, and supports a more permissive approach to copyright protections for allowing AI models to train from existing work. “The models are being trained on vast swathes of data.

Hans Zimmer, the visionary composer of scores for the films Interstellar, The Dark Knight, and both Dune films, shares his take on Denis Villeneuve’s sequel being categorized as “ineligible” for the Academy Awards to be celebrated next year. Zimmer adds fuel to the discourse by recognizing there’s a problem with the rules. Speaking to Variety about the score for Dune: Part Two, the composer was quick to react to the inevitable ineligibility issue, revealing that he thinks it's an "odd problem."

“You have to think of your themes and how you develop them over five hours. So, don’t tell me that makes me ineligible. It really isn’t about me, it’s about the movie.

I am potentially confronted with an odd problem… We’re not like Pirates of the Caribbean, you have a theme for Jack Sparrow that comes again. This is different. Dune: Part One...

Update (Dec. 7): Variety has confirmed Hans Zimmer’s score for “Dune: Part Two” has been officially disqualified for the Academy Awards, and will not be on the ballot for consideration. In addition, it’s not eligible for the BAFTA Awards as well, which had its first round of voting on Dec. 5. The score is still eligible for nominations for the Critics Choice and Golden Globe Awards.

Warner Bros. and the “Dune: Part Two” team are not backing down from their Oscar ambitions, still hoping for recognition for Hans Zimmer’s powerful score.

As first reported by Variety in October, Zimmer’s music for Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic faced a speed bump when an independent review questioned whether the score met the Academy’s eligibility standards. However, it had not been officially submitted at the time. The issue arose because Zimmer’s score includes thematic elements from his Academy Award-winning work on 2021’s “Dune,...

Ad Astra, one of Brad Pitt's most recent box office bombs, has found a new home on Hulu, and hopefully, it will get the love it deserves from TV viewers looking for their next hard sci-fi fix. The film released in 2019 cost an insane amount, $135.4 million, but it failed to gather enough at the box office to recover its production budget. According to Hulu (via Cbr), the streamer will be adding Ad Astra to their library starting November 1 as the spooky season ends, and streamers renew their catalogs.

The film was directed by James Gray from a script he co-wrote with Ethan Ross. Starring Brad Pitt (who also participated as a producer), Ad Astra follows Roy McBride, a major in a government organization who's forced to join a mission because it's a bit personal. There are energy surges coming from outer space, and they are a threat to humankind.

The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time on working with Margaret Atwood, enjoying Eurovision, and uniting people through music

Born in 1966 in Lower Saxony and brought up in Bedford, Max Richter is an award-winning classical composer. Working across live performance, film, dance, art and fashion, he has released nine solo albums, including 2015’s Sleep, an eight-and-a-half-hour work based on the neuroscience of sleeping; 2020’s Voices, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and In a Landscape, released last month. A new ballet, MaddAddam, a collaboration between Richter and choreographer Wayne McGregor, with Margaret Atwood as a creative consultant, opens at the Royal Opera House on 14 November.

You’ve got a busy autumn ahead. Tell us about In a Landscape first – a more intimate, personal album for you.

It is. It’s an album about polarities, which are all around us in the world, and how we can reconcile them.

Kesha is getting us into the holiday spirit!

The”Joyride” superstar just released a new Spotify exclusive single on Tuesday (October 15), a cover of Lindsey Buckingham‘s “Holiday Road.”

This single is part of this year’s annual singles collection from Spotify, which will feature four other artists and their covers of holiday tunes, including “Driving Home for Christmas” by Dasha, “River” by Max Richter, “Run Rudolph Run” by Mark Ambor and “Emmanuel” by Miel San Marcos.

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“With ‘Holiday Road,’ Kesha has taken this really fun ’80s song – which wasn’t originally a holiday song – and brought it to the modern day. We just knew she would sound amazing singing it, and she does. Her vocals make me think of The Go-Gos or The Bangles here. It feels like a monumental year for Kesha, and we’re thrilled to be a part of it...

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest Hollywood directors of all time. Since the 1960s, Scorsese has worked tirelessly to direct some of the most iconic movies in history, movies known for their complex characters, moral ambiguity, and gritty depictions of life in America. Alongside his incredible storytelling, Scorsese has worked with some of the finest cinematographers the industry has to offer, such as Michael Ballhaus, Rodrigo Prieto, and Michael Chapman, to create incredible camera shots that have cemented their place in cinematic history.

What sets the direction of Scorsese and his various cinematographers apart is the emotional resonance of their shots. Fusing technical innovation with the ability to capture the complex feelings at play of his characters enhances the storyline of every movie he has directed. Scorsese's use of framing, lighting, Pov shots, and slow motion make these camera shots more than just a way to convey the narrative of his movies,...

Just who is Celine Dion? You don’t become a star of her caliber without allowing the public a certain level of access to your life. In Dion’s case, that has meant sharing her roots (as the youngest of 14 kids in a poor Canadian family), her loves and her losses (coping with her husband’s passing) in countless interviews and profiles.

In “I Am: Celine Dion,” director Irene Taylor assumes the singer’s fans know all of that, dedicating no more than five minutes of her intimate feature-length documentary to such details. This isn’t your standard VH1 “Behind the Music” special. There are no talking heads (besides Celine’s), no tawdry gossip. Instead, “I Am” depicts the side of Dion the diva doesn’t typically show: at home, sans makeup, surrounded by her kids and close-knit staff. In December 2022, Dion divulged that she was living with Stiff Person...

When we talk about Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi filmography, Dune movies and Blade Runner 2049 are what come to our mind. However, his 2016 sci-fi project, Arrival is a hidden gem, further cemented his name in the sci-fi genre, showcasing his impeccable skills to explore complex ideas and deliver a compelling and emotional narrative.

Dune director Denis Villeneuve | image: Wikimedia Commons

However, many sci-fi fans would find it an intriguing project as it features a hidden detail due to the filmmaker’s different approach.

Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival Follows Palindrome Concept!

The 2016 sci-fi project, Arrival follows Amy Adams’ Louise Banks who is enlisted in the US Army to decipher how to communicate with extraterrestrials who have arrived on Earth in mysterious spacecraft. As she begins to explore the aliens’ communication methods, she experiences visions of her own life, particularly, flashbacks that were actually flashforwards.

Suggested‘Dune: Part Two’ Vs. ‘Arrival’ Debate...

Adam Sandler has gone pseudo-serious before, from a mentally agitated toilet plunger salesman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love” to a depressed comic in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People.” But he’s never been so dour as cosmonaut Jakub Prochazka in Johan Renck’s lonely island of a science-fiction drama, “Spaceman,” where he’s six months into a solitary research mission investigating spectral cloud activity around the planet Jupiter.

Sci-fi cinephiles are certainly familiar with the cinematic wonderments capable of the gas giant, thanks to Stanley Kubrick’s Stargate sequence in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which sends Keir Dullea on an existential trip into Jupiter’s furthest depths. But Renck’s film, written by Colby Day, is too concerned with the far more banal Earthly dramas Jakub has left behind in the form of his wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan), who is preparing to leave him. “Spaceman” is a miserable...

Mexico’s Monterrey Film Festival (ficmonterrey) is chasing new ambitions in a bid to raise its international profile. Buttressed by generous state, local and private backing as well as some federal funding, the festival, running Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, aims to become Mexico’s most prominent international film festival and a key creative hub in Mexico.

This year’s 19th edition boasts a new director, Janeth Aguirre, also its first female director, and new hires: Diana Cadavid, a programmer for Toronto (TIFF), LA Latino Int’l Film Fest (Laliff) and Colombia’s Cali, who has taken charge of the festival’s burgeoning industry section, and LA-based PR agent Alvar Carretero of Joshua Jason Public Relations.

In recognition of its country guest of honor, South Korea, the fest will open with “Little Forest” by Yim Soonrye, one of the few prominent women film auteurs in South Korean New Wave cinema. Five of her...

Amongst a typically raucous lineup at this year’s Venice Film Festival comes Evil Does Not Exist, a work in which tensions rise over little more than the placement of a septic tank. It’s the latest from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and his first since 2021’s miraculous double-punch of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car. Evil concerns a clash of urban and rural sensibilities: a story about a small but hardy group of people who wish to stop the development of a glamping site. Devotees of Kelly Reichardt’s sylvan melancholies will feel perfectly at home.

A quiet, funny, confounding mystery, Evil plays out amongst the forests and streams of a remote village close to Tokyo. Tensions are raised when two representatives for the glamping company, Takahashi (Ryuji Kosaka) and Mayuzumi (Ayaka Shibutani), arrive to talk things over. The locals, in particular a man named Takumi, voice...

One of the best alien invasion shows is returning this week to AppleTV+. It is right up there with some of the best that include The 4400, Colony, Falling Skies and the ultimate, V.

The epic series “Invasion” is set to make its global premiere with the first episode on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. From Academy Award-nominated and two-time Emmy Award-nominated producer Simon Kinberg, who serves as showrunner, and David Weil, “Invasion” is a sweeping, character-driven science fiction drama series that follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world.

Check out this new clip.

“Invasion” will debut the first episode of its ten-episode second season on Apple TV+, followed by one new episode weekly, every Wednesday through October 25, 2023.

The action-packed second season of “Invasion” picks up just months later with the aliens escalating their attacks in an all-out war against the humans. The trailer gives a suspenseful sneak peek into the new season,...

With artificial intelligence currently front and center across the creative community, YouTube has published a set of AI music principles and launched something it’s calling the YouTube Music AI Incubator with a group of artists, songwriters and producers from Universal Music Group.

The principles, which the giant Alphabet/Google-owned platform said “are rooted in its commitment to collaborate with the music industry alongside bold and responsible innovation in the space” are three. They were developed with Umg chairman-ceo, Sir Lucian Grainge, and shared today by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

They include: a commitment to embrace AI responsibly in partnership with the music industry; protections “that help balance the interests of copyright holders with those of the creative community on YouTube”; and scaling up safeguards to AI-generated content to address challenges like trademark and copyright abuse, misinformation, spam.

“Our challenge and...

YouTube thinks it can take an ethical, “artist-centric” approach to generative AI.

In partnership with Universal Music Group, it’s introducing a “Music AI Incubator,” which CEO Neal Mohan says will help it “gather insights” to “better understand how these technologies can be most valuable for artists and fans, how they can enhance creativity, and where we can seek to solve critical issues for the future.”

The incubator will bring in Umg and artists/producers on its roster, including Anitta, Björn Ulvaeus, d4vd, Don Was, Juanes, Louis Bell, Max Richter, Rodney Jerkins, Rosanne Cash, Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, Yo Gotti, and the estate of Frank Sinatra.

YouTube gave no specific details about what it’s working on with the incubator, but Mohan says it’s developing “specific technologies, monetization opportunities, and policies”–all related to AI.

Mohan also claims YouTube’s potential use of generative AI is guided by ethical principles.

As conversations around artificial intelligence continue, YouTube has published its first set of principles regarding AI music. Not only that, but the video streaming site owned by Google has also launched its own YouTube Music AI Incubator.

The three principles were shared by YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan. According to the company, these fundamental principles reflect the company’s “commitment to collaborate with the music industry alongside bold and responsible innovation in the space.” Here are the three principles in full:

Principle #1: AI is here, and we will embrace it responsibly together with our music partners. As generative AI unlocks ambitious new forms of creativity, YouTube and our partners across the music industry agree to build on our long collaborative history and responsibly embrace this rapidly advancing field. Our goal is to partner with the music industry to empower creativity in a way that enhances our joint pursuit of responsible innovation.

Hoar's directorial choices in "The Last of Us" episode 3 created an emotional impact on the audience, with Bill and Frank's love story leaving viewers heartbroken yet fulfilled. The portrayal of Bill and Frank's queer romance defies harmful tropes and provides a beautiful and bittersweet depiction of enduring love even in the midst of a post-apocalyptic world. This episode stands out as one of the most touching moments in the series and highlights Hoar's talent for crafting emotional queer narratives, solidifying it as one of the best television moments of 2023.

The Last of Us episode 3 director Peter Hoar opens up about audiences' emotional response to Bill and Frank's story. The hit HBO show is an adaptation of the beloved PlayStation video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, with season 1 adapting the original 2013 game's events. The Last of Us saw Pedro Pascal's Joel Miller grapple with a troubled past as he...

The world of entertainment lost a legendary figure with the passing of Robbie Robertson. A lead guitarist and songwriter, Robertson first rose to prominence as a member of the Hawks, a backing band for Ronnie Hawkins and later Bob Dylan. After venturing out on their own, the Hawks changed their name to The Band and eventually became one of the most influential musical acts of the 1960s and 1970s.

Following The Band's breakup, Robertson formed a lifelong friendship with Martin Scorsese. They first worked together on the documentary The Last Waltz, a concert film that captured The Band's final live performance. Robertson would go on to serve as a composer and musical producer for countless classic Scorsese films, starting with Raging Bull and ending with the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Silence (2016)

Credited as the film's executive music producer, Robertson's work on Silence is...

The constant conundrum of time travel films can be summarized succinctly — if someone changes the past in any way, then that action will have ripple effects which completely change the future; what happens to the future when you change it out of existence? That's the essential paradox of time travel, and it's just as complicated in a multiverse with free will as it is in one deterministic linear universe. Time travel is thus more complicated than most people think.

Some films actually treat time travel with the respect it deserves, such as Primer, which meticulously grapples with the ramifications of even the smallest jumps in time. The new film Lola, directed by Andrew Legge and written by Legge and Angeli Macfarlane, is another great example. Lola takes the concept of time travel very seriously, even if it is injected with a kind of whimsy and fantasy. It's a confounding film...

Cate Blanchett wasn’t the only Oscar winner taking the stage at Glastonbury: The morning after the Tár star appeared alongside Sparks, fellow actress Tilda Swinton popped up during Max Richter’s set at the U.K. festival.

As she did nearly 20 years ago, Swinton once again delivered the spoken word readings on selections of Richter’s 2004 protest album The Blue Notebooks.

However, the performance was temporarily marred when a nude protester appeared in front of a microphone situated in front of the audience to record ambient crowd noise, but...

Hollywood can be seen as an industry that's constantly racing after a seemingly impossible goal, a finish line that always remains just out of sight: what is the best way to make a repeatable success? What is the formula that creates a successful franchise? How does one live life a quarter-mile at a time?

It turns out that the "Fast & Furious" franchise may have held the answers this entire time: Family, Love, Respect, and Earnestness are the pillars on which this improbably continuing series is built, and no matter how many criticisms, witticisms, or post-ironic judgments are tossed at it, the sheer open-hearted emotion that's present within the films and the characters seem to win out every time.

That near-assured victory looked dubious for the upcoming latest installment of the series, "Fast X,' when original director Justin Lin stepped down at the beginning of shooting, leaving Louis Leterrier to take his place.

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Fiorucci Artistic Director Daniel W. Fletcher celebrated the launch of his spring/summer 2023 collection last week with an intimate dinner at Ardor Terrace, inside The West Hollywood Edition Hotel.

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[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us, Season 1 Episode 8, “When We Are In Need.”]

HBO’s new series The Last of Us premiered to the approval of fans of the video game and viewers who are new to the franchise. Though the thrilling story has just begun, the first episode established the importance of the soundtrack in setting the mood for the post-apocalyptic world.

Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (the latter also wrote and directed the video game), The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal as grizzled survivor Joel and Bella Ramsey as a teenage girl named Ellie. Taking place after a fungal plague has ravaged the globe, it centers around Joel fulfilling his task of smuggling Ellie beyond a quarantine zone in Boston.

Depeche Mode’s 1987 hit “Never Let Me Down Again” played a significant role during the series premiere. After Joel and his partner Tess (Anna Torv) set out for their journey with Ellie,...

No, that isn’t Lana Del Rey’s dad recreating her Norman Fucking Rockwell cover art — that’s Rob Grant debuting his very own album cover.

On Thursday, Grant — the father of the beloved “Video Games” songstress — announced that he’ll be releasing Lost at Sea, his first-ever album of piano songs, on June 9. He also revealed that he will drop the project’s first single “Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon” on Friday at midnight.

Hours before the announcement, Del Rey wrote on Instagram: “This is either gonna...

Matching tattoos: it's the sign of the blood oath that the cast and crew of a movie or TV show must make when they attach themselves to the adaptation of a beloved book, comic book, or video game. The cast of "The Lord of the Rings" did it. Even the cast of the first "Suicide Squad" film did it with the immortal word "Skwad." (No word yet on whether any of them had their tattoos removed following the abysmal reviews for that movie.) Now, the creators of HBO's runaway hit, "The Last of Us," are also morally obliged to ink themselves with tattoos, or else face the fungal infection of public scrutiny.

"The Last of Us" is one of those shows with its own official podcast, hosted by Troy Baker and showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (the latter of whom also co-created the game for Naughty Dog). In the latest podcast episode,...

Sunday night’s emotional “The Last of Us” episode titled “Long Long Time,” which featured the 1970 Linda Ronstadt song of the same name, had fans in tears – and hitting up streaming services to download the song about unrequited love.

In one scene, zombie apocalypse survivor Frank (Murray Bartlett) chooses “The Best of Linda Ronstadt” sheet music to play after being rescued by Bill (Nick Offerman), whose rendition of the song expresses his own loneliness. They then share their first kiss.

On Monday afternoon, the song had hit No. 5 on iTunes’ Top 100 Songs chart. It was written by Gary White and released as a single from her 1970 album “Silk Purse” and peaked at No. 25 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

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In 1971, Ronstadt was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance for the ballad. It was later covered...

This post contains spoilers for HBO's "The Last of Us" as well as the original video game.

"The Last of Us" has been a fascinating adaptation so far. It is incredibly faithful, almost to a fault, and feels like you're watching cutscenes from the game. Indeed, from lines of dialogue to even camera movement, the HBO show from Craig Mazin and game co-creator Neil Druckmann masterfully brings the story of Joel and Ellie to life. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey embody the characters to the point where it feels like they've played them for years.

And yet, the show has been unafraid to make changes, small ones and big ones, and it is here that "The Last of Us" truly shines. There's the cold open of the first two episodes, which provide some context to the nature of the outbreak and the first attempts to stopping the spread of the infection.

Exclusive livestreams and premieres on Stage+ in December 2022 include:

Max Richter’s Voices Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Oboist Albrecht Mayer and soprano Hera Hyesang Park in a special Christmas celebration Andris Nelsons conducting Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

December 8th, 2022 – Deutsche Grammophon’s new Stage+ platform – a ground-breaking classical music subscription service, offering livestreams, a huge video archive and new audio releases all in one place – presents its first livestream and more exclusive premieres this December. Full details below:

Premiere: 11.12.2022, 19:00 (GMT)

Repeat: 29.11.2022, 01:00 & 29.11.2022, 11:00 (GMT)

Reflektor Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Max Richter: Voices

Voices is a homage to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a hopeful and optimistic work for “negative orchestra”, choir, electronics, soprano, violin and piano, in which Max Richter aimed to create a space in which musicians and the audience could engage with the “inspirational...

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The Film: "The Leftovers"

Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max

The Pitch: Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's metaphysical drama begins with a hell of a premise: One day, suddenly, 2 of the world's population disappears. The Sudden Departure, as it's called, is neither a clear-cut rapture event nor an easily explainable scientific one, but it is profoundly traumatizing. That trauma, which is both global and extremely personal, is the starting point from which one of the best TV shows of the 21st century builds.

Perrotta's novel serves as the series' starting point, and the first season follows two families in Mapleton, New York as they navigate their grief and aimlessness three years after the Departure. It's as bleak as it sounds,...

A version of this story about “Close” first appeared in the International Race issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

The second film by Belgian director Lukas Dhont, “Close” focuses on a friendship between two 13-year-old boys (newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele) and a rift that divides them. The touching, delicate drama reduced the audiences to tears during its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Dhont received the Jury Prize.

Now the film has been selected as Belgium’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at this year’s Oscars. Belgium has been nominated seven times but has yet to win, a stat that could very well change with “Close” at next March’s awards. Some pundits have even speculated whether Dhont might land in the best director lineup – joining the six foreign-language filmmakers who have been nominated in the past four years.

It seems like many people have rediscovered their love for Michael Giachinno after his recent successful directorial debut with Marvel's television special Werewolf By Night. Prior to that, he was best known for creating unforgettable soundtracks for multiple iconic TV series like Lost, Alias, and Fringe.

Music in the television world is just as important as in the cinema. More often than not great soundtrack establishes a crucial emotional connection between the long-form material and the audience. Reddit users are weighing in on which TV series unanimously deserve a gold medal for their soundtracks.

Lost

Lost is a unique piece of television that provides its audience with a philosophical and spiritual experience, redefining the ideas of fate, belief, destiny, and second chances. All these themes are solidified on screen with the help of the iconic score by Michael Giacchino.

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Every single character's journey on...

Exclusive: Liberian-Lebanese director Oualid Mouaness, whose debut feature 1982 premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival where it won the Netpac Award, is set to write and direct a feature adaptation of Saphia Azzeddine’s novel Bilqiss for the Kennedy/Marshall Company and Khadija Alami’s K Films.

The project, which focuses on a rebellious Afghan woman who decides to take her life into her own hands in the land of jihad, marks the second feature film from prominent documentary and music video director Mouaness.

Bilqiss follows a young widow who is sentenced to death by stoning for calling the neighborhood faithful to prayer while the muezzin was asleep on the job. While on trial, she transforms the courtroom into a stage where she expresses her criticisms on her country’s fundamentalism and her own interpretations of the Quran. It’s a story of a strong woman who stands out from her...

Multimedia Music today announced it has closed a deal to acquire master and publishing rights to a 48-title film score catalog from Atlantic Screen Music in what it calls a “mid-seven figure transaction.”

Atlantic Screen Music includes rights to scores including “2 Guns,” “Lone Survivor,” “The Host,” “Dredd,” “Escape Plan” and “Broken City.” Multimedia said that, cumulatively, the films have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars at the global box office and even more through ancillary channels.

Composers with works featured in the catalog include Max Richter, Lorne Balfe (“Frozen Ground”), John Paesano (“Hirokin”), John Debney (“Alex Cross”), Atticus Ross (“Broken City”), Antonio Pinto (“The Host”), Steve Jablonsky (“Lone Survivor”), Clinton Shorter (“2 Guns”) and Paul Leonard Morgan (“Dredd”).

“We are thrilled to acquire this catalog of premium film scores,” said Multimedia Music managing partner James Gibb. “Atlantic Screen Music includes scores from highly successful films produced by leading filmmakers,...

The award ceremony is set to take place at the Music Center De Bijloke in Ghent.

US film composer and jazz artist Mark Isham will be this year’s guest of honour at the 22nd World Soundtrack Awards on October 22.

The awards ceremony will be held as part of the Film Fest Ghent taking place at the Music Center De Bijloke in Ghent, Belgium.

Isham’s most notable credits include Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break, Shaka King’s Judas And The Black Messiah, Paul Haggis’ Crash and Michael Apted’s Nell. He was Golden Globe-nominated for the latter.

He is...

Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf have co-directed the film.

UK production stalwart Revolution Films is making its distribution debut with Eleven Days In May, a documentary narrated by Kate Winslet about the bombing of Gaza in May 2021.

It filmed in 2021 and completed post-production in January this year. It is co-directed by Mohammed Sawwaf of Palestinian production company Alef Multimedia, and Revolution founder Michael Winterbottom.

At least 60 children were killed in the Palestinian territory of Gaza over the course of 11 days of bombing in May 2021.

Eleven Days In May is described by Revolution as “a simple memorial to the children who lost their lives.

Apple TV+'s series "Invasion" is not your typical alien show. The series takes place all across the globe as seemingly random people are impacted by first contact from extraterrestrials. The series' budget appears to be as massive as its scope, but its stories mostly stay grounded thanks to a few standout performances and an emotional score by Max Richter.

The first season of "Invasion" was apparently a success, as Apple has already ordered a second one. "I'm super excited about what we're planning for season two, expanding our universe in the most intimate and epic ways," series co-creator Simon Kinberg said when the news of the...

The post Invasion Season 1 Ending Explained: The Visitors Haven't Left appeared first on /Film.

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched the first three episodes of “Invasion,” Apple Plus’ new drama that premiered Friday, Oct. 22.

Despite its ominous title, “Invasion” makes a slow burn out of revealing its basic premise. You’d know more about the new drama by reading its logline — “the series follows an alien invasion” — than by watching its first three episodes, which dropped Oct. 22 on Apple TV Plus. Though there’s something — or some thing? — creeps its way around the world by leveling buildings, smashing space stations, and giving kids nosebleeds, “Invasion” keeps its cards close to the chest. Rather than so much as utter the word “alien” in these initial episodes, “Invasion” focuses on the global ripple effects of increasing panic — which might be fine, if it also did a decent job developing its many characters along the way.

From co-creators Simon Kinberg (“The Martian”) and...

‘Cruella’, ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ and ‘Minari’ composers have all been nominated.

The World Soundtrack Awards has unveiled the first nominations for its 2021 edition, which will take place in its traditional slot as the closing event of Film Fest Ghent on October 23.

The ceremony is scheduled as a physical event this year and will be held at the opera house in Ghent for the first time.

Nicholas Britell, Daniel Pemberton and Emile Mosseri have received two nominations each.

Nainita Desai has benefitted from a rule change that sees documentary scores now eligible for all film score categories. Desai is...

German-born UK composer is known for his work on ‘Mary Queen Of Scots’ and ‘Waltz With Bashir’.

The World Soundtrack Awards has named award-winning composer Max Richter as the guest of honour for its upcoming edition in October.

The German-born, UK composer is known for writing scores spanning both film and TV from period feature Mary Queen Of Scots and Oscar-nominated animation Waltz With Bashir to HBO’s The Leftovers and BBC drama Taboo. He has also recorded nearly a dozen solo albums.

Richter will attend the 21st edition of the awards, which will take place in-person as part of...

With today’s release of Ludovico Einaudi’s “Cinema,” Universal Music Group confirms its status as one of the world’s most soundtrack-friendly music companies.

Music by Einaudi, the Italian composer and pianist, was featured in recent Oscar winners “Nomadland” and”The Father.” “Cinema” collects 28 pieces featured in those films and such earlier projects as “The Water Diviner,” “The Intouchables” and the miniseries “Doctor Zhivago.”

Each of the last seven Academy Award winners for original score was released or distributed by a Umg label or composed by a Umg artist, according to a spokesperson. Umg artists Jon Batiste and Hildur Guðnadóttir were the composers of “Soul” and “Joker,” respectively. “Grand Budapest Hotel” was on Abkco, “The Hateful Eight” and “The Shape of Water” on Decca, and “La La Land” and the “Black Panther” song album on Interscope.

Similarly, the last seven Grammy-winning scores, and the last seven BAFTA winners, were also Umg-affiliated.

Natalie John's Max Richter's Sleep is playing exclusively on Mubi starting March 19, 2021 in many countries.The irony of my own exhaustion as I embarked upon the making of this film is not lost on me. I was about to board a flight to Indonesia from Los Angeles when I got the call from executive producer, Julie Jakobek, asking if I wanted to write a treatment for this film. Of course I did, though I wasn’t quite sure how I’d do it with two projects in full swing and the Los Angeles Sleep dates a little over a month away. And so, on a 20-hour flight, already exhausted and sleep-deprived, with Richter’s Sleep in my ears, I began writing.I’m no "night owl." I wake with the birds, full of life and hope. By the time I crawl into bed at night I’m a cynical creature.

Isobel Waller-Bridge, whose film and TV work includes the scores for “Fleabag,” “Emma” and Netflix’s upcoming “Munich,” has signed a deal with Decca Publishing, the four-year-old publishing company that specializes in handling the catalogs of outside-the-box composers like Max Richter and Clint Mansell.

Waller-Bridge also recently signed with the Mercury Kx label with the intention of putting out an EP this year and a full album next year. A newly released solo piano piece, “Illuminations,” is an indication of what the composer might be putting out on her own, on top of the work she’s done for films, theatrical pieces in her native Britain and even a pandemic-era online Parisian fashion show she scored for Alexander McQueen.

Prior to meeting Decca’s EVP, Natasha Baldwin, Waller-Bridge tells Variety, “I hadn’t given publishing an awful lot of thought, which is really to my detriment, because your publishing is paramount to your work.

After premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Max Richter’s Sleep — a documentary about the composer’s epic eight-hour overnight concerts that encouraged its attendees to sleep during the performance — will make its U.S. streaming debut on Mubi beginning March 19th, which is also World Sleep Day.

This new trailer for the Natalie Johns-directed documentary goes behind the scenes as Richter and his creative partner Yulia Mahr prepare for their eight-hour, 560-bed outdoor performance in Los Angeles’ Grand Park in 2018.

“Music is my vehicle for traveling through the world,...

Exclusive: Arthouse streamer Mubi has made three hires to its U.S. and UK teams.

Corey Wilson has joined as Director of Marketing, U.S; Chris Mason Wells joins as Director of Distribution, U.S.; and Natalie Ralph has been hired as Director of Distribution, UK.

Wilson joins from Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, where he served as Director of Brand Partnerships and Sponsorship. There he developed and expanded national studio and entertainment partnerships for the company. Prior to Alamo Drafthouse, he helped develop and lead digital marketing strategies at NBCUniversal-owned Fandango.

New York-based Mason Wells joins from U.S. distributor Kino Lorber, where he served as Director of Theatrical Sales. Previously Wells was Director of Programming for the Quad Cinema in New York, and has curated film series for the IFC Center, Anthology Film Archives, and Bam.

Based in London, Ralph joins after six years at Studiocanal UK, where she...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between.

Today, we’ve got a great guest on to talk about a great Scotsman – Ewan McGregor! Conor and I are blessed to have the wonderful Fiona Underhill (of JumpCut Online) on to talk through the underrated actor’s incredibly diverse career. We focus on: The Pillow Book, A Life Less Ordinary, Down With Love, and Perfect Sense.

We dish on Ewan’s iconic looks, the full frontal nudity that punctuated his early films, the conflicted accent work, that James Joyce movie he did, and the long feud between him and Danny Boyle that happened because of The Beach.

Additional items include the animated film Robots (from the now-shuttered studio Blue Sky), an especially-effective short film called Desserts, and...

The year 2018 was a hellish one for Californians, as seemingly at any given time there was at least one wildfire blazing up and down the coast. Two such natural disasters, the Camp Fire in Paradise, Northern California, and the Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, proved to be among the most destructive in the state’s history, and they’re given a sweeping, almost epic overview from “Crash Reel” filmmaker Lucy Walker with “Bring Your Own Brigade.” The film tries to distill all of California’s current wildfire crisis — with the state serving as a microcosm for the world — into a whopping near two hour and 10 minutes.

The result is , as the film moves so quickly from one talking point to the next almost to the point of inducing whiplash. Still, the insane archival footage of the infernos as they happened makes for an occasionally arresting viewing experience.

In August 2020, Bradley Rainey was named head of WME’s music for visual media department, succeeding veteran agent Amos Newman and taking on a roster of Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winners including Hans Zimmer, Randy Newman, Ludwig Göransson, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, among others. The 35-year-old Rainey, a graduate of USC’s film school, was well positioned for the promotion. He helped build the division in 2011, after three years at Endeavor and a stint in the agency’s mailroom. Variety recently spoke with Rainey about the challenges facing composers in an ever-changing business environment.

How has this year been in terms of the pandemic and its impact on your clients?

Navigating uncertainty across the industry has also exposed a lot of holes. We need to tackle [the financial implications of] streaming. We’re seeing a lot of studio films jump past a theatrical window. Artists might be bypassing box office that’s no longer available,...