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Anton Sanko
has just delivered a beautiful and inventive score for the moving drama Rabbit Hole which stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhardt, and is directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The film, which will receive a gala premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (more below), is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. -
Brian Reitzell
has just signed on to compose the score, write, produce and collaborate on songs, and music supervise Red Riding Hood, Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming fantasy for Warner Brothers, which stars Amanda Seyfried as the main character. The film is currently shooting.
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EMP clients will have a major presence at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Appropriately, Toronto resident Jonathan Goldsmith will have two films represented, both in Gala Premieres at the largest festival venue Roy Thompson Hall. Score: The Hockey Musical opens the festival and later in the week Casino Jack, George Hickenlooper’s take on Republican political hack Jack Abramoff starring Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper and John Lovitz will premiere. Also at Roy Thompson Hall will be the premiere of Janie Jones starring Abigail Breslin. Eef Barzelay scored the film and also wrote and produced six songs for Alessandro Nivola’s singer/songwriter character. Composer Anton Sanko will be a part of the big star (Nicole Kidman/Aaron Eckhart) red carpet premiere of director John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole at the Elgin Theater, and Brian Reitzell has scored director Mike Mills’ entry Beginners, which stars Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor. Music Supervisor Liz Gallagher will be represented by director Richard Lewis’ Barney’s Version, which stars Dustin Hoffman. John Carpenter’s The Ward, scored by Mark Kilian, is joining the festival’s Midnight Madness lineup, and Justin Chadwick’sThe First Grader. scored by Alex Heffes, will also be showing at the festival.
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Liz Gallacher
Liz is supervising a trio of films in various stages of production. She’s finishing work on Cemetery Junction, the Ricky Gervais vehicle to be released by Sony.
Liz is working on the Indie Barney’s Version, starring Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman and Rosamund Pike, and the recent Sundance sensation, The Romantics, starring Katie Holmes, Anna Pacquin, Josh Duhamel and Malin Ackerman.
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Abel Korzeniowski
Plaudits are streaming in for Golden Globe nominee Abel Korzeniowski. His exquisite score to Tom Ford’s A Single Man continues to be a pick on Best Film Scores of 2009 lists in dozens of print and media outlets. Most recently, the score has been nominated as World Film Score of the Year and Abel individually Discovery of the Year by the very prestigious World Soundtrack Awards, to be presented at the Ghent Film Festival this fall. The film is now available on DVD. The soundtrack album is available through Relativity Music Group.
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Alex Heffes
EMP would like to welcome Alex Heffes to Los Angeles! Alex has moved here from England to begin work on Mikael Håfström‘s upcoming film The Rite, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alice Braga. This film is slated for release in early 2011.
In other news, Alex also scored Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, which premiered to great international acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was rated first among all Cannes films in Indiewire’s survey of 19 critics at the festival. Narrated by Academy Award winner Matt Damon, Inside Job is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. Sony Pictures Classics will be distributing the film worldwide.
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Andrew Hollander
Busy composer Andrew Hollander is currently scoring The Six Month Rule, his second collaboration with Director/actor Blaine Weaver, and has just finished scoring An Invisible Sign of My Own, starring Jessica Alba, due out later this year. He worked on The Perfect Age of Rock and Roll for director Scott Rosenbaum and producer Spike Lee. The Perfect Age of Rock and Roll won Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking at the Newport Beach Film Festival. The film features Hollander’s collaborations with Steve Conte of New York Dolls, as well as a version of Train Kept a Rollin that he produced with legendary blues musicians Pinetop Perkins and Hubert Sumlin. Meet Monica Velour, the film he scored for first time director Keith Bearden, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The deceptively sweet film features a star turn by Kim Cattrall as an ex-porn star who is befriended by a nerdy high school guy who has idolized her.