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Zack Galifianakis And Amy Adams May Join A ‘Town House’

Oliver Lyttelton — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:00 +0000

Here’s a great cinematic pairing in the making that probably will have some excellent chemistry (no really).

Zach Galifianakis and Amy Adams are reportedly in talks to join the Fox 2000 comedy project, entitled, “Town House.”

The really interesting part of the story is that Variety itself is dumbing-down. “Reportedly” means they don’t know for sure or they can’t confirm the rumor, which is basically what blogs do, but if the trades lower their standards aren’t we all fucked?

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I Can Siiiiiiiiiinnnng! ‘Once’ Is Coming To Broadway

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:17:00 +0000

How do you add extra fromage to an already semi-cheesy musical? Take it to the Broadway where people can siiiiiiiing! And emo-te! That’s the plan with the feel-good indie movie, “Once,” about buskers looking for love in Ireland (or whatever it was about). The Oscar-winning film that starred Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of the band the Swell Season (Hansard also plays in The Frames) and their love-dovey songs, is aiming to hit the Broadway stage around 2010 or 2011 once they find the most over-the-top actors for the roles and musicians who can take the existing songs and wring them free of any emotional truth so they’ll be more sentimental and saccahrine then they already were.

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Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard Has Songs In “Beauty In Trouble,” Nobody Notices

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:36:00 +0000

It’s always sad when a tiny movie goes unpublicized. When it’s a foreign film with little American distribution we get it, but when there’s an Academy Award winner involved it’s that much more triste.

Glen Hansard, the Oscar-winning composer of “Once” (along with Markéta Irglová) had some songs featured in the Czech Republic “Beauty in Trouble” directed by Jan Hrebejk, but no one seems to have noticed the film, let alone the music.

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‘Once’ Soundtrack Scores Big Sales Bump From That Oscar Telecast Nobody Apparently Watched

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Everyone was predicting that after the Oscars, the “Once” soundtrack would see a major spike in sales after it nabbed the Academy Award for Best Original Song (the track “Falling Slowly”).

And lo and behold us prognosticators were right (yeah, really hard to guess, right?). Thanks to the post-Oscar momentum, the album jumped from the #22 to number #7 on the SoundScan album charts – up 112% for a total of 47K. The album is nearing gold status (428,000 copies sold so far) and entered the Top 10 for the first time.

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‘Once’ Film Gets The Michel Gondry Sweded Treatment

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:01:00 +0000

We were worried this was going to be earnest and therefore pointless, but it’s mildly amusing.

We’re hoping the headline gives most of the context to our readers who should by now be familiar with most of the films we write about on our site, but if not:

“Once” is a low-budget Irish busker music film featuring the Frames’ Glen Hansard and Swell Season pianist/singer Marketa Irglova that recently won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

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Oscar Success Begats Publishing Deal For Swell Season ‘Once’ Duo; Twosome Touring In The Spring

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:37:00 +0000

Sometimes when one wins an Academy Award, those thathave their head’s up their asses don’t usually pay attention, pay attention. So, fresh off their Oscar victory for Best Original Song, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have unsurprisingly signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group.

Warner/Chappell will handles songs composed by by Hansard’s The Frames outfit and future recordings by the duo under the name The Swell Season.

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‘Once’ Soundtrack About To Move Major Units Next Week; Your Mom Knows Who Glen Hansard Is Now

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:01:00 +0000

Here it is: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performing their Academy Award winning Best Original Song, “Falling Slowly,” from the underdog indie-hit “Once.”

We weren’t terribly big fans of “Once,” but we it admit it was nice seeing some shaggy dog underachievers win this award. Hansard and Irglova’s speeches were also genuinely earnest ones that made you root for them all the more.

“This is amazing. What are we doing here?,” Hansard said in almost-tearful disbelief.

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‘Juno’ Wins Big At The Independent Spirit Awards

Rodrigo Perez — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:48:00 +0000

With all the Oscar buzz and anticipation some might have forgotten or overlooked the indie-Oscars, the Independent Spirit Awards.

The awards which took place Saturday early evening, live on IFC were a low-key and relaxed affair and the indie hit of the year, “Juno,” was naturally the big winner.

The film took Best Picture, Best Actress for diminutive star Ellen Page and Best First Screenplay for Diablo Cody. Director Jason Reitman was however, bested by “The Diving Bell & The Butterfly” filmmaker Julian Schnabel.

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‘Once’ Team Performing At The Independent Spirit Awards

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:23:00 +0000

The songwriters of the indie-hit “Once,” Glen Hansard (of musical group The Frames) and Marketa Irglova, will be performing live during the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards. The event which takes place on Saturday, February 23 is unfortunatley hosted by insufferable one-trick-pony comedian Rainn Wilson, but the good news is that the Spirited Awards was granted a waiver by the Writer’s Guild of America back in December (the WGA likes them indies) so the show was written well in advance and won’t be rushed out the doors like the Oscars.

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‘Once’ Song Was Originally Made Oscar-Eligible At The ’11th Hour’; Tracks Legitimacy Questioned & Was Reevaluated After Its Oscar Nomination

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Remember how we went on about how the song, “Falling Slowly” from “Once” was not ineligible for an Oscar, despite the fact it was already released on two albums before the film came out and despite your grumblings that if that was eligible, why wasn’t Jonny frickin’ Greenwood eligible, remember?

Then we pointed out how the Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova-penned song was written for “Once,” waaaaay before the film found is proper U.S.

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‘Once’ Song is NOT Ineligible For Oscar In Spite Of Your Whining; Director’s Letter Saves The Day

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:30:00 +0000

If you’re a regular Pitchfork/Bk Vegan music blog reader you might be wondering and grumbling to yourself about Jonny Greenwood’s disqualification at this year’s Oscar nominations for his haunting “There Will Be Blood” score; how unfair it was and how you’re not going to tune into the Oscars this year because of it [ed. that’ll fucking show them].

Additionally, if you’re a Rolling Stone/Stereogum reader you might be further pissing and moaning that Eddie Vedder and Sondre Lerche were shut out of the original song Oscar categories and “Enchanted” scored three delightful nominations, hogging up almost the entire category (you’re like, “wtf!!?”)

And finally, if you’re an inquiring and astute music fan you’re thinking to yourself in bitter lashing-out frustration, “How the fuck is it that Jonny Greenwood gets disqualified and yet the bullshit ‘Once’ soundtrack songs by Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova are still eligible?” (even though they’re in two different categories, you’re so incensed, you’re not thinking clearly)

After all, the duo’s nominated song, “Falling Slowly,” has been released twice before.

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Eddie Vedder, Sondre Lerche, ‘Once,’ ‘Walk Hard,’ Fountains’ Adam Schlesinger Among Artists Up For Oscar Contention; 59 Songs Eligible For Award Gold

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:37:00 +0000

Remember the unlikely turn of phrase, “Academy Award winners Three 6 Mafia”?

Well, this year you might be able to add names like Eddie Vedder, Sondre Lerche, John C. Reilly, Glen Hansard and a bunch of other seemingly strange contemporary musicians to this odd sentence.

59 songs have been made eligible for Academy Award contention (this is originally composed songs specifically for films, not existing songs used in films or score) this year and they include a bunch of the films and soundtracks we’ve been discussing this year.

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Film & TV Conference Validates The Playlist’s Existence

astrudsands — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:52:00 +0000

Billboard and the Hollywood Reporter got together last week to throw an entire conference about Film & TV Music at the Beverly Hilton. We’re certain our invitation was lost in the mail.

Even if it wasn’t, we were especially intrigued by both mags’ coverage of the songwriter’s session panel which featured Sondre Lerche, Jesse Harris and (Alanis Morissette collaborator) Glen Ballard.

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