Bart

'That was funny!'

Isn't that very very fast for writing an almost two hour score?

The text with the picture says this: John and Tom had the privilege of contributing to the ?Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? campaign. Here they are at the Sony Scoring Stage with the Maestro himself, Mr. John Williams. So, nothing to worry about... Williams composed SWTWC, I think... But what did the Magic Box?

From HPANA The owners of Magic Box, a company that creates music for film and television, are pictured with John Williams on their site's news page. The team is working on a new trailer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: John Sponsler and Tom Gire previously contributed to the trailers for the first two Potter movies. Williams scored the soundtrack

And Lord of the Rings isn't?

But how could Shore recieve a nomination??? I've read here somewhere that there was a new rule that exclude sequels for some categories, such as 'Best Score'???!!!!! Did they make an exception, or does the chance exists that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban recieves next year a nomination (even tough it is still to soon to think about that) Wo knows the answer?

X-Men 2 - Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K.626

I've read somewhere that the Globes are fake...

And your forgetting the aging of fred and george, Madame Mallemour's carriage and animals Mad Eye Moody's magical trunk Bill and Charlie's table fight That poor muggle family in the air ...

I saw it last week. It's very, very, good movie. I see it as a homage to children-phantasy. I enjoyed it very much.

There's a new article in the Los Angeles Times. I'm sure someone here can open it and post the full article, specially because Cuaron stated somewhere in the article that he wanted to hire someone else for the music. (My guess? Patrick Doyle) From TLC: GLENCOE, SCOTLAND ? Daniel Radcliffe, or Harry Potter to you, isn't talking about casting spells or Lord Voldemort. Instead, the 14-year-old is lusting after Cameron Diaz. "I could fly to Los Angeles and introduce myself," Radcliffe says on the set of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." "I heard that she just broke up with her boyfriend." ...and goes on to talk about Dan talking about his favorite bands of the moment (Blur and the Darkness). "Rather than just idle banter, the offscreen "Harry Potter" conversations are really about what's going on in "The Prisoner of Azkaban," which, if you strip away its Quidditch games and Patronus charms, is what it's like to become a teen." The article notes that the kids are growing faster than the characters they depict, and that GoF might be their last film - but TLC says it also might not. It's still 50/50. "Radcliffe and Watson are not only taller but also handsome and beautiful, even under all the mud produced by a steady Scottish drizzle. 'It's wet and dirty and the kids are wet and dirty,' Cuarón says. 'Don't they look sexy?' It talks about the choice of Cuarón as director, which is risky for a big budget studio like Warner Bros., especially when the movie will be released among summer blockbusters. It also says JKR had a personal petition to hire Brazil's Terry Gilliam to direct PS/SS. Alan Horn, president of WB, on Cuarón's A Little Princess: "That movie confirmed to me that he could live in the world of fantasy and children and not be treacly and also be a little bit dark...And in 'Y Tu Mamá,' he got such performances out of those two young boys. Now our protagonists in 'Harry Potter' are 13, entering puberty, and he understands that. The question was: Could he handle something of this size? It can be daunting." Cuarón on taking the Harry Potter gig: "I have to confess, I was a bit ignorant about the Harry Potter thing...Then they started to talk about it, and I was like, 'Yeah, well ... I don't know.' Then someone said, 'Please, look at the material, because I really want you to give an answer.' So I read [screenwriter] Steve Kloves' script. And it was great. And then I immediately read the book. And I was, frankly, amazed by the book and the script." Cuarón on directing in an established series: "Everything is established, so I don't need to do exposition...Chris crafted with [production designer] Stuart Craig a really eloquent universe. And Chris already established all the rules, so pretty much I don't have to get into the matter of 'OK, Hogwarts is this. And you're a Muggle. And you're a wizard.'...By not having to do all this exposition, I can concentrate on character and the psychology of the characters." It goes on for a while talking about how Cuarón couldn't recast lead roles or hire a new composer, etc., because the films were already established. Columbus on producing PoA: "I wanted to make sure that the film didn't stray too far from the world that the audience and the fans have sort of fallen in love with over the course of the first two movies...It's like putting nipples on the 'Batman' suit: It can get a little strange and a little weird to the audience?. If [the fans] have to adjust to too much change, they could have been turned off by the film." Cuarón talked to filmmaking friend Guillermo del Toro for guidance before taking on the film: "Guillermo had just finished directing 'Blade 2,' ... And he said, 'Man, if you do it, I have only one piece of advice to give you: Don't try to do an Alfonso Cuarón movie. Try to serve the franchise. And by serving the franchise, you may end up doing an Alfonso Cuarón movie.' " The article says the kids are united in holding Prisoner of Azkaban as their favorite book (at the point in production at which the interview was done, book five was not yet released). More Cuarón: "Harry goes through a journey where he realizes that demons aren't just things that go bump in the night but also can be painful emotions, worries about family, friends, the future, the monsters that lie within. And that's a classic teenage issue." Dan Radcliffe on Harry: "There's a lot of teenage angst in this one, probably more than the book...It's much more of an internal journey for the children, especially for Harry. And he's much more comfortable with confrontation, especially with [Professor Severus] Snape. He's a lot angrier. If you had all this stuff happening to you in real life, you'd be pretty angry too." Emma Watson: "Hermione's becoming a rebel...She's had enough of being pushed around and she's not going to take it anymore. There's a lot more girl power in the film." David Heyman: "I think the audience will see it as a relative of the first two but as a very distinct piece of work. Columbus re: modern clothes in the movie: "Jo Rowling had always intended the characters to be wearing contemporary clothes under the cloaks...When we first tried that on the first film, it looked like a bad Halloween costume, like they were going trick-or-treating. Alfonso wanted to try something else. It will be interesting. It certainly was Jo's original intent, so he's being a little bit more faithful than I was." Production designer Stuart Craig: "[Cuarón is] very interested in eccentric detail...Hagrid's hut, for example, is now peopled with 100 strange animals. Some of them are magical and bizarre, and some of them are bats and lizards. So Alfonso has taken on what already existed and was well established and it's been embellished with these extra riches of detail. The Leaky Cauldron in the first two movies looked like a period movie; it was a very antiquated and a bit Dickensian. [The Leaky editors rejoice! Sorry.] Now there is a range of characters there, in more contemporary clothes, and there's a dart board." The article explains Cuarón's long tracking shots that will show more of Hogwarts then in the other movies, including long shots as the kids move from the Great Hall to their common rooms; it also says the filming in Scotland was aimed at better establishing the Hp world. Michael Gambon on Cuarón: "He reminds me of a kid, his enthusiasm, his mannerisms, his energy...He's always laughing around the set." The article reveals that the budget swelled to $200 million, and that Y Tu Mama had only $5m to work with. Cuarón: "No matter how much money you have, you are always 20 percent short...You can be on a low-budget movie or a big-budget movie, but you always wish you had 20 percent more. There was a point where you just dream, do whatever you want to do. And working with Steve Kloves was about dreaming. And then there was the window of frustration, where you are told, 'This is the budget, and you can't do that.' But it was always about figuring out which movie we wanted to do with these resources and trying to fit everything into what I must say is a very healthy budget. "It has been insane, but it has been good...These kinds of films are not so much about filmmaking. They are about endurance. They just go on forever. And you have to keep up the pace all the time. If you fall behind in editing, it affects all the other departments. It's like a marathon. Sometimes you're in a zone. But sometimes, all of your tendons ache. "The whole goal of taking a franchise in a new direction is what keeps them alive....Jo Rowling said to me, 'Don't be literal. Just be faithful to the spirit.' You might have hits and misses. But it's always going to be fresh."

I think Zemeckis (is that written so?) might be a better choice for Tintin...

From Dark Horizons Many have been wondering how the "Tintin" movie in development is going and according to French magazine Capital, it might be further along than expected. Seems that Steven Spielberg will produce and or possibly direct not one but potentially three adaptations of the famous comic according to the mag. The "deal is nearly signed" and shooting is aiming to begin next winter for a release in 2006. The three movies to be made apparently will be based on two of the two-part comics (the space one is considered too "old fashioned") and one using two comics with the same characters. Thus it'll be the sunken treasure adventure "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure", the China/Tibet drug trade and Yeti antics of "The Blue Lotus" and "Tintin in Tibet", and my personal fave - the Incan mystery "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun".

Probably somewhere in March

Cuaron has stated several times that he doesn't see Hollywood as some heaven for filmmaking, but just as a stop in his creative life.

This is normal. The organisation, in this case the Filmfestival van Vlaanderen, must sent first the tickets to the Sportpaleisorganisation and then they can sent it to the visitors.

A bit more information for the one attending. In a Belgium magazine called 'Knack'. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE SUITE. bla bla bla bla bla bla... Shore has adapted his own complex score to a symphonic suite in six mouvements. He'll conduct this suite with more than 200 (!!!) musicians and a liveprojection with the Flemish Radio Orchestra and a choir for the continental European premiere.

And here's the first proof that Cuaron has done some radical changes! So... Who can remember this Jack-in-the box from the book? And, it's related somehow to Macbeth, where also the lyrics from 'Something wicked this way comes' came from...

Do you have a problem with that?

Oh no, everybody knows that.

Yes, I'm the male version of Britney... I suppose that the studios knew that hiring Cuaron means that they were hiring a very obstinate director... And if you look at the poor quality of the scripts from the first two movies, I'm sure that Cuaron himself forced a few changes

I'm looking forward to hear to score also. 5 months, probably 4, is sooner than you think! I'm not going to listen the score before seeing the movie! I'm pretty sure Cuaron has changed a lot at the story, so I want to be completely surprised. In the assumption that Williams will create a Dementor motif/theme, a theme that I especially looking forward to, I want to hear it for the first time in cinema.

And I thought that Harris wasn't already dying in the first movie. Perhaps he was already ill, but not life threatening...

Thank you! Yes, the trailer is very good!

Does anyone knows which music is used in the teaser trailer from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/sk...orldoftomorrow/ that's the link to the quicktime trailer. Thank you, Bart