- The J&SBSB score soundtrack is complete and is being mastered as of today. It still has to go through copying, packaging, and all that other stuff before it hits stores. We’ll keep ya posted. The J&SBSB score CD will be released by Varese Saraband.
- Speaking of the soundtrack, The Stroke 9 “Kick Some Ass” video showed up on MuchMusic yesterday, during their “Oven Fresh” show. Those of you with satellite systems can catch it. You can vote on MUCH’s website to keep the video or kick it off the air. Help keep in on there, folks, the promotion always helps! Here’s some more info:
The Stroke 9 video for “Kick Some Ass” is now airing on MuchMusic USA’s show “Ovenfresh” which airs weekdays @ 2:30pm, 7:30pm, & 1:30am EST. Viewers can go to mmusa.tv and go to the OvenFresh section and vote to keep or lose the video. Currently the video only has a keeper rating of 30%.. Hopefully this will go up if Kev’s fans head over to the site and vote to keep it.
Then at the end of the week, MMUSA airs Ovenfresh Keepers, which is a collection of all the videos that have been voted as keepers for the week. This airs on Friday @ 7:30pm & 1:30am, and there’s several showings on Saturday & Sunday as well.
- In other score news, there is an interview with Ryan Shore, who composed the score for Bryan Johnson’s Vulgar. He comments on the film, how he was brought onto the project, and how he created the music, including an interesting bit about some “directed improvisation” for the music during the rape scene. The interview starts on page 17, including a picture of Shore at the mixing console. You might be able to find a copy of the mag in a good record store, book store, or newsstand, but they mostly work by subscription. It’s a really good mag if you’re into the music from films. We’re working on permission to print a copy here at the site as well.
- Clerks has been nominated for “Best Indie Film Ever” in UK’s Total Film magazine. To vote, you must send a postcard with your top THREE choices to:
Best ever indies
Total Film
99 Baker street
London
W1U 6FP
The winners will be screened at a festival in London this Autumn.
- Finally today, DOGMA currently has the distinction of being “Australia’s Most Complained About Movie” according to this article from The Advertiser, Adelaide Australia, dated Monday, August 6th:
Letters of complaint roll in over film
‘DOGMA, a movie about the great grand niece of Jesus Christ’s fight to stop two fallen angels entering heaven, is Australia’s most complained about movie.
The film attracted 17,904 written complaints, 100 e-mails and 12 faxes to the Office of Film and Literature in 1999-2000.
But Lolita – which attracted controversy over its sexual themes – received just 39 complaints over two years.
In a summary of complaints since 1996, it is revealed 17,500 complaints over Dogma were from a postcard campaign. The office also received 258 letters expressing the view the film should be banned because of it’s “blasphemous content”.
“Most of the complaints about Dogma appeared to be from people who hadn’t seen the film,” the report states. The office recives many complaints which “often appear to derive from letter-writing campaigns”.
Films such as ‘Crash’ (R18+) and ‘The People vs Larry Flynt’ (MA15+) were the subject of 59 such letters.’
