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'Once' Duo Gets a Music Publishing Deal

Posted Feb 29th 2008 2:32PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Independent, Music & Musicals, Deals

Things for Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard continue to come up roses. Their little film went from little indie to big international deal. They won an Oscar for "Falling Slowly." Not surprisingly, their good fortune continues. Variety reports that the pair have signed a deal with Warner/Chappell Music -- part of Warner Music Group -- to get their catalog of music published.

Warner will go through all of their catalog -- not only the songs from Once, but also Hansard's work with the Frames and the music appearing on Glen and Marketa's debut album as The Swell Season. Now, to be clear, this isn't a recording contract -- it's only a publishing deal. Glen Brunman of Warner/Chappell says: "Glen's and Mar's songs have touched so many who have seen the film Once. Glen's work with the Frames we'll continue to rock, and we'll make sure that it reaches an even wider audience."

In the meantime, the duo are touring the U.S. from late April to mid-June, if you want to see them up-close and live. Good luck, Marketa and Glen!

Oscars in Rewind: Falling Slowly Provides Best Oscar Moment

Posted Feb 25th 2008 1:05PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Awards, Oscar Watch, Trailers and Clips

A lot of people will be talking about Marion Cotillard today, whose teary-eyed acceptance speech was just beyond cute. But I feel the night's greatest moment came in two parts -- first when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performed Falling Slowly (from the movie Once) on stage, and then when both accepted the Oscar for best song. In a very cool moment, Irglova was cut off at the mic before she could thank anyone, and so after the commercial break Jon Stewart brought her back on stage to finish what she was about to say.

Talk about two kids who deserved a break. This song, from a film that was made for roughly $100,000, beat out Disney and their -- what? -- 13 Enchanted nominations. Was it me, or did each of those Enchanted songs sound exactly the same? This time, however, the Oscar went to the little guy (and girl). You could totally tell that there was a ton of love behind that song -- and even though it was obvious Hansard and Irglova were nervous at the beginning, they finished it off in spectacular fashion. Above, check out their performance at the Oscars, then head after the jump to see both acceptance speeches.

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Indies on DVD: 'Once,' 'Mr. Warmth,' 'Deep Water'

Posted Dec 18th 2007 11:00AM by Peter Martin
Filed under: Documentary, Drama, Independent, Music & Musicals, New on DVD, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Indie

One of the true underdog stories of the year, "art house musical" Once arrives on DVD today from Fox Searchlight. Written and directed by John Carney, the film won the Audience Award at Sundance back in January and ended up earning more than nine million dollars in the US. James Berardinelli at Reel Views wrote: "This isn't a perfect motion picture but, in the midst of summer's vapid pursuit of spectacle, a movie that provides real heart and emotion is a rare find." The DVD includes music and film commentaries by Carney and actors/musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, two featurettes and an animated "webisode."

I don't understand why John Landis' Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project was selected to screen at the New York Film Festival. It's a fine celebrity documentary with plenty of well-known faces praising the acerbic, long-lived insult comic, Landis keeps the pace snappy, and it's quite entertaining, but it fits in quite well on HBO (where I saw it) and if there were any transcendent angles, I missed them entirely. Cinematical's Jette Kernion had a similar reaction. The DVD from Vivendi is a two-disk "collector's edition," but I haven't been able to find specific details on what's included.

Deep Water sounds intriguing: the "stunning true story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race." Richard von Busack felt that the documentary by Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell "seems like a last word; the film gives a full and aesthetically satisfying overview" of the events that occurred, effectively meshing interviews with dramatizations. (His review is well worth clicking through to read in its entirety.) The DVD includes additional interviews with sailors, family members and journalists involved with the race.

The Beatles and 'Happy Feet' Recognized in Movie-Related Grammy Nominations

Posted Dec 6th 2007 6:02PM by Christopher Campbell
Filed under: Animation, Drama, Music & Musicals, Awards, James Bond

With its concentration on the music industry, it's easy to forget that the Grammys have a few movie-related categories. They include best compilation soundtrack album, best score soundtrack album and best song written for motion picture, television or other visual media. One thing that's always odd with the Grammys, though, is how many nominees are so old. Take a look at the score/composer nominees, for example: Babel (Gustavo Santaolalla); Blood Diamond (James Newton Howard); The Departed (Howard Shore); Happy Feet (John Powell); Pan's Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete); Ratatouille (Michael Giacchino). Only the last of those films came out in 2007. But the eligibility period for the Grammys is always October of the previous year until the end of September of the current year. All but Ratatouille's soundtrack were released in October, November and December of 2006. Since the Grammy ceremony is only a couple weeks prior to the Oscars, the ancient films honored are easily seen as that much more old news (Babel won the 2007 Academy Award for score).

Happy Feet was also recognized in the best song category, for "The Song of My Heart" by Prince (who already has the best soundtrack of all time), despite its not having received an Oscar nomination. Same goes for one of its competitors, Casino Royale theme song "You Know My Name", co-written (with David Arnold) and performed by Chris Cornell. Dreamgirls' "Love You I Do", written by Siedah Garrett and Henry Krieger (performed by Jennifer Hudson) is the only overlap from last February's Oscar nominees (it lost to Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth). The other recognized tracks, both from 2007 releases, are Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild and Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová's duet "Falling Slowly" from Once.

Once is also a contender for best compilation soundtrack, though it faces a huge challenger in The Beatles, who are recognized for the album for the Cirque du Soleil show Love (how does that fall into this category and not the one for musical show album?) and indirectly for the soundtrack to the movie Across the Universe, which features covers of the band's tunes performed by the movie's cast. Other soundtrack nominees are retro musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray. Sorry, fans of High School Musical 2.

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'Once' Duo Gets a Music Publishing Deal

Oscars in Rewind: Falling Slowly Provides Best Oscar Moment

Indies on DVD: 'Once,' 'Mr. Warmth,' 'Deep Water'

The Beatles and 'Happy Feet' Recognized in Movie-Related Grammy Nominations

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