Dr. Rick

My oh my. Miracles do exist.
 
 

70. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)
Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series, or other visual media.
Barbie - Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, composers Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ludwig Göransson, composer The Fabelmans - John Williams, composer Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny - John Williams, composer Oppenheimer - Ludwig Göransson, composer  
84. Best Instrumental Composition
A Composer's Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.
Amerikkan Skin - Lakecia Benjamin, composer (Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Angela Davis) Can You Hear The Music - Ludwig Göransson, composer (Ludwig Göransson) Cutey And The Dragon - Gordon Goodwin & Raymond Scott, composers (Quartet San Francisco Featuring Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band) Helena's Theme - John Williams, composer (John Williams) Motion - Edgar Meyer, composer (Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)  
https://www.grammy.com/news/2024-grammys-nominees-song-of-the-year

In retrospect, what they should have done after Endgame was given most of the legacy characters from the Infinity Saga a rest and just rebooted with X-Men and Fantastic 4. Keep it in the same universe, sure, but keep the references to the Avengers crew to a minimum.
 
Because IMO most of what's come post-Endgame, even the good stuff, has felt like a leftover. Anticlimactic. You really can't top Endgame, so why even try?  And I really don't think most people are interested in seeing new versions of iconic characters, at least this soon.
 
It's gotten too big, too sprawling, too many shows and too many characters. The multiverse just makes it worse, confuses audiences and lowers the stakes, knowing that there are an infinite number of your favourite heroes that can be brought back at any time. Now, if the rumours are true, they're just going to tease us with classic Avengers coming back in cameos in the new films just to get people to show up in the cinema. It's neither authentic nor sustainable. 
 
Eventually they're just going to have to blow it all up and start over. Hopefully, after a long pause.

I found both, Eternals and Wakanda Forever, empty, boring and pointless. 

GOTG 3 is by far the best of that bunch.  Eternals, BPWF, and Ant-Man3 were all lackluster and extremely disappointing.  Haven't and won't go see Marvels in the theatres, I'll wait until it's on D+

GOTG 3 is by far the best of that bunch.  Eternals, BPWF, and Ant-Man3 were all lackluster and extremely disappointing.  Haven't and won't go see Marvels in the theatres, I'll wait until it's on D+

Mine was delivered today as well, giving it a spin 

Mine was delivered today as well, giving it a spin 

In the wild

IT CAME EARLY

Top men are on the job

Here’s the event running order which hopefully paints a picture. We aren’t going to mention the clips from Mike publicly, but I’m sure those who were there can private message each other. We never said to not talk about the event after the fact. “The first rule of TLOJW is to talk about TLOJW” 😁
 
- CLIP: Video Introduction - 6 min
- Greetings and presentation of guests
- JW in London: an historical overview
- Remembering the Star Wars 1977 sessions with Eric and Hugh
- CLIP: 
- Working with JW as orchestra musicians (Eric and Hugh)
- CLIP: 
- Commentary
- CLIP: The Fury "A-B Comparison"
- JW on the scoring stage: how he works with the orchestra 
- CLIP:
- Commentary / Audience Q&A
 
INTERMISSION (10 min)
 
- Dracula: an overview (Emilio) 
- CLIP: Dracula's Death film clip - 6 min
- Commentary
- Techniques of film score recording
- CLIP: 
- Commentary
- CLIP: 
- Commentary
- CLIP: 
- Commentary / Audience Q&A
- Final greetings and prize draw raffle sorting 
 
The prize draw contents (10 Universal Studios branded goody bags - thank you Dave Norris!) consisted of:

JW scored 4K discs from UHE
La La Land Records & Intrada JW albums
Japanese imports of various JW albums 
DG Store exclusives of Blu-rays & Vinyls 
TLOJW T-shirts
Elmer Bernstein Commemorative Programme with a personal note from JW

The 2 star prize premium goody bags consisted of the above plus Taschen books, extra DG Store exclusives, the John T. Williams Jazz Beginnings album and a JW signed photo.
 
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Seeing the new remaster of Jaws in Dolby Atmos with the proper 3D glasses was very memorable and a perfect end to the event. Both Eric & Hugh were particularly impressed! They hadn’t seen it since 1976!
 
We had a diverse audience and some composers and conductors were in attendance. Plus our poster artist Paul Shipper (who kindly signed many of the deluxe prints everyone received), voice actor Marc Silk and producers from LA & London. Thank you once again for attending. It was so great to meet many new and old friends.
 
The dinner afterwards was a cluster f@#k but it was a last minute change so couldn’t be helped. Food and service was good (Zizzi).
 
It was a joy to host this with Maurizio and we hope to do more in the future.
 

 


I love how people laughed at this, it actually was Jaws in 3D, not Jaws 3D!!!!! :-)

Mike M is happy with the clips being discussed, so be gone ambiguity! Here’s the array of audio / video treats which were played and Maurizio did sterling work editing the audio to video. All very elegant:
 
- CLIP: 1st SW cue ever recorded, aka "The Swashbucklers" - 6 min
 
- CLIP: JW on the scoring stage - Harry Potter Logo raw takes - 5 min
 
- CLIP: The Lost World raw session inserts - 5 min
 
- CLIP: Amazing Stories End Titles (components + full mix) - 4 min
 
- CLIP: CE3K Wild Choir Sweeteners - 5 min
 
- CLIP: E.T. Bike Chase Take 1 session - 4 min
 
- CLIP: Harry Potter Fluffy’s Harp rehearsals - 10 min

I think for me, one of the best things about this was hearing the 2 LSO musicians so genuinely excited, honoured, and proud to have worked with Williams. Also to see in person from their camaraderie with each other, and even their body language, how much it meant to them. And these are guys who have worked with EVERYONE from the film and classical world. 
Also the audio and video clips that Mike treated us to (which we’re not allowed to talk about) were just incredible. 
And I got to meet some lovely people. 
And I won a really decent haul of goodies in the raffle. 

How is there still barely any commentary here about the event? I know people were asked not to share specifics about the talk, but there must be stories of the weekend as a whole that can be shared!

Right, so that's Hook, HP4, Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and three other releases I won't have to spend money on yet. Bring it on!

sigh, FIIINE, if you insist...
 

LLL BLACK FRIDAY 2023 INFORMATION
 
We finally have all the information for our last batch of 2023

Of the 8 titles that were heading toward the finish line, 6 of them managed to cross it in time, meaning 2 of those planned BF titles are coming out in 2024 (hopefully 1st quarter)

So that means 6 titles made the cut.

But wait -- there's more!

We just got rights to a new film coming out so that too will be part of the Black Friday batch taking the total to 7 titles!

Here is the financial breakdown for those who want to plan out their budget

PROJECT 1 - $39.98
PROJECT 2 - $29.98
PROJECT 3 - $29.98
PROJECT 4 - $29.98
PROJECT 5 - $21.98
PROJECT 6 - $21.98
PROJECT 7 - $16.98


We plan on announcing the titles at 9pm pst on November 23, 2023...and then we will start taking orders shortly after the announcement starting at 9:15 pm pst

See y'all in 20 days!

MV
 
https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=152550&forumID=1&archive=0

Just got a shipping notice for the CD I picked up 8/24.

Shipped as well!

Yea, shipped.

CD shipped for me too!

Mine shipped as well!