Andrew Lockington at the Podium
Andrew Lockington accepted the 2009 SOCAN Film Award for “Journey to the Center of the Earth” at last night’s 20th Annual SOCAN MUSIC AWARDS held at Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Canada. Other winners included Kardinal Official, Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, Finger Eleven and Feist among others.
The ceremony celebrated SOCAN’s 20 years of awarding excellence among their members. (SOCAN administers performing rights for composers, authors and music publishers in Canada.)
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Justin Timberlake in negotiations to join live-action/CG
Anna Faris and Dan Aykroyd are in negotiations to star in “Yogi Bear,” Warner Bros.’ feature take on the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Justin Timberlake is in talks to join the project, which is being directed by Eric Brevig and produced by Donald De Line and Karen Rosenfelt as a live-action/CG hybrid. Faris will play a nature documentarian who follows the antics of a bear in fictional Jellystone Park.
Aykroyd will voice Yogi, and Timberlake could end up lending his pipes for Yogi’s constant companion, Boo Boo. Jon Berg is overseeing for the studio, which hopes to get “Yogi” under way in New Zealand in December. Brad Copeland penned the current script with Joshua Sternin and Jeff Ventimilia writing the original draft.
Faris, last seen in front of the cameras with “Observe and Report,” recently has been lending her voice for such animated fare as “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.” She’s repped by Gersh and Raw Talent.
CAA-repped Aykroyd, who is working on a third “Ghostbusters” movie, was last seen on the screen in 2008’s “War, Inc.” Timberlake, repped by WME and Rick Yorn, will next be seen in the upcoming drama “Open Road,” and he recently signed to star in “The Social Network,” the Facebook movie being directed by David Fincher.
Source: Filmfestival
The World Soundtrack Academy releases the list of nominees for the World Soundtrack Discovery 2009. The name of the winner will be announced on October 17 at the World Soundtrack Awards ceremony, the closing event of the Ghent International Film Festival
Every year the advisory board of the World Soundtrack Academy chooses a ‘Discovery of the Year’ to celebrate emerging film composing talent. Famous composers as Craig Armstrong, Michael Giacchino and Gustavo Santaolalla were discovered by the board.
The nominees for 2009 are
- Lorne Balfe for Crying with Laughter
- Jérôme Lemonnier for Demain dès l’aube
- Andrew Lockington for Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Nico Muhly for The Reader
- Atli Örvarsson for Babylon AD
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT’S THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON WINS BEST SCORE OF 2008
LOCKINGTON WINS BREAKOUT COMPOSER OF THE YEAR FOR JOURNEY AND CITY OF EMBER
Alexandre Desplat wins the 2008 IFMCA’S Film Score of the Year Award for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, David Fincher’s imaginative re-telling of a 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man who ages backwards from an old man to a baby. These are the fourth and fifth awards for Desplat from the IFMCA, having been named Composer of the Year in 2006 and 2007. The score also wins Best Original Score for a Dramatic Film.
Danny Elfman is named Film Composer of the Year for his excellence in scoring four high-profile movies this year: MILK, WANTED, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY and STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. The latter score also wins Elfman an individual scoring award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature.
Canadian composer Andrew Lockington wins Breakout Composer of the Year for his two high-profile scores in 2008: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and CITY OF EMBER. Lockington is a former orchestrator for fellow Canadian composer Mychael Danna, and worked with his countryman on scores such as 8MM, GIRL INTERRUPTED and HEARTS IN ATLANTIS before embarking on his solo composing career.
Thomas Newman’s score for Pixar’s WALL*E wins Best Original Score for an Animated Feature. John Williams’ score for Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL wins Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure Film, and James Newton Howard wins for his score to THE HAPPENING in the Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film category. Javier Navarrete’s score to INKHEART, which opened in parts of Europe in 2008, receives the award for Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction Film. The Coen Brothers’ BURN AFTER READING wins Best Original Score for a Comedy Film for their longtime collaborator Carter Burwell, and Michael Giacchino wins Film Music Composition of the Year for his “Roar Overture” from CLOVERFIELD that played during the end credits of the monster ‘reality’ movie which otherwise did not include any other underscore.