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John Williams Writing Theme For ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’

January 2, 2018 9:24 am

2018 has dawned, and there's about five months until the scheduled release of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," and yet Disney's marketing machine for the movie remains at a standstill. There's still no trailer or off...

Stream John Williams’ ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Score

Kevin Jagernauth

December 15, 2017 9:48 am

News

The Force is with the world today, as everyone flocks to multiplexes for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." Rian Johnson brings everyone back to a galaxy far, far away and the results are pretty game-changing for the ...

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Kobe Bryant Shoots For The Oscars As ‘Dear Basketball’ Makes Animated Short Film Short List

Gregory Ellwood

December 4, 2017 2:13 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 10 finalists for the Animated Short Film race and none other than hometown hero Kobe Bryant has made the cut. Glen Keane's "Dear Basketball," whi...

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‘The Post’ Trailer: Steven Spielberg Releases The Pentagon Papers

Joe Blessing

November 8, 2017 2:20 am

Awards, News, Trailers

Even if audiences didn’t embrace "The BFG," any new movie from Steven Spielberg is an event, and his latest, “The Post," is shaping up to be a major Oscar contender. America’s top newspapers are in the midst of...

John Williams’ Classic Superman Theme Coming To ‘Justice League’

Kevin Jagernauth

September 28, 2017 2:32 pm

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As part of the massive makeover for "Justice League," composer Junkie XL aka Tom Holkenborg, who scored “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and was replaced by Danny Elfman., who has plenty of superhero experi...

Steven Spielberg Lines Up Composers For ‘Ready Player One’ & ‘The Papers’

Elazar Fine

July 10, 2017 12:45 pm

News

Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Zach Woods. That is the astoundingly stacked ca...

Watch The Trailer For ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary’ Featuring Hans Zimmer, John Williams & More

Oliver Lyttelton

May 4, 2017 9:30 am

News, Trailers

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We’ve always had a particular love for film music here at The Playlist. Indeed, when we started as a lowly destination on Blogspot way back when, the site had a particular focus on film scores and soundtracks, ...

59th Grammy Awards – The Full Winners List

Gregory Ellwood

February 12, 2017 8:06 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The 59th Grammy Awards were handed out at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 12. Here is a select list of all the major category nominees and winners as well as and some film related categories. R...

Composer John Williams Says He’s Never Watched A ‘Star Wars’ Movie

Kevin Jagernauth

December 22, 2016 4:59 pm

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There are few pieces of contemporary movie music as iconic as John Williams' title theme for "Star Wars" (a close second would be the "The Imperial March"). Scoring all eight saga films to date, Williams' music...

2017 Best Original Score Oscars Predictions

Gregory Ellwood

November 30, 2016 1:44 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

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Prediction based on nominations NOMINEES 1. Justin Hurwitz, “La La Land” 2. Nicholas Britell, “Moonlight” 3. Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran, “Lion” 4. Mica Levi, “Jackie” 5. Thomas Newman, “Passengers” ...

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