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“The Real Ghostbusters” Figures from Mondo

Mondo has launched pre-orders for “The Real Ghostbusters” 1:12 scale action figures of Egon Spengler, Boogieman, and Intro Ghost.

Spengler stands 6.5″ and comes with two heads (neutral and scared), two pairs of hands (glove and ungloved), proton pack with particle thrower wand, attachable particle stream, ghost bomb, ghost trap, swappable trap cartridge with mini ghost, and clear figure base.

Boogieman stands 8.5″ and comes with two heads (neutral and scary), two pairs of hands, and clear figure stand. Intro Ghost is 3.5″.

Priced at $202, the exclusive, timed edition set is available until March 13 and is expected to ship in September.

This is Mondo’s second “Real Ghostbusters” release, following Peter Venkman,...

Hollywood Records’ The Big Score series continues to pull back the curtain on the world of film scoring with a new episode about Nightbitch. Based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch is a dark comedy that tells the story of a stay-at-home mom who finds herself turning into a dog as she faces the pressures and demands of motherhood. The movie stars Amy Adams as Mother and features a cast including Scoot McNairy as Husband, Arleigh and Emmett Snowden as Son, and Zoë Chao as Jen.

ScreenRant is happy to offer a first look at the latest episode of the The Big Score, diving into the musical process of Nightbitch composer Nate Heller. Heller is the brother of Nightbitch director Marielle Heller, and the pair have collaborated on a number of projects in the past, including 2019’s Mr. Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

When it comes to film scores, 2024 showed us just how many modes there are to how music can complement stories. The scores we’ve chosen guide us seamlessly through some truly wild premises and fraught emotional tangles. Whether the music is leaning on big orchestra swells, mashing together weird, re-purposed bits of metal, or engineering electronic pathos, a great soundtrack can make the moments that seem most disconnected from our day-to-day lives sound like the most relatable emotional experiences.

Our favorite scores of the year add momentum and pathos to key sequences, spike dramatic moments with a bit of musical humor, and tell emotional truths the characters in their films are trying to keep hidden or do not yet understand themselves. Some scores had to do extremely heavy lifting to provide atmosphere and immersion, while some only offered the lightest of touches. But none of them, in the words of Immortan Joe,...

“Nightbitch” spends way more time on the wildness of being a parent than the wildness of turning into a dog — however interlinked those two phenomena become for the film’s protagonist (Amy Adams). Writer and director Marielle Heller wanted to take the experiences that resonated with her from the Rachel Yoder novel of the same name and find viscerally cinematic ways to represent them.

But not so unlike motherhood itself, there’s a wealth of work that goes into the success of the simplest onscreen actions — from the punch of a hash brown hitting a frying pan to a toddler (played by twins Emmett Snowden and Arleigh Snowden) waving at a garbage truck right at the moment the camera needs them to. In fact, Heller found that a lot of fun and games were required to get her youngest actors to help the film’s project of centering the ways...

Stars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden, Emmett Snowden, Jessica Harper, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan, Nate Heller | Written by Marielle Heller, Rachel Yoder | Directed by Marielle Heller

Six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams stars in Nightbitch, a lycanthropic motherhood allegory from Can You Ever Forgive Me? director Marielle Heller. Adapted from the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder, it features a tour-de-force central performance and delivers a powerful message, though audiences expecting a full-on were-woman movie may be a little disappointed.

Adams plays Mother (none of the characters are ever named), a formerly promising artist who has given up her career in order to raise her young son (adorable moppets Arleigh Snowden and Emmett Snowden) in the suburbs, while her mostly oblivious husband (Scoot McNairy) has a job that frequently takes him out of town on business trips. Mother’s life has become a seemingly endless round of fried frozen hash browns,...

Exclusive: Deadline has an exclusive track recorded for Netflix’s Russian Doll, which is set for digital release on a Seasons 1 & 2 soundtrack tomorrow via Gardener Recordings, as the show returns for its second season.

In its first season, debuting in 2019, Russian Doll introduced viewers to a woman named Nadia (Natasha Lyonne), who is caught in a time loop as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party, one night in New York City. She dies repeatedly, and always restarts at the same moment at the party, as she tries to figure out what is happening to her.

Season 2 is set four years after Nadia and her fellow looping human Alan (Charlie Barnett) discover a time portal that sends them both on an era-spanning adventure through the past. Now, once again, the two must search for a way out of the loop together. Wong’s latest soundtrack release features dream-like...

Bmi announced the winners of the performing rights organization’s annual Film, TV and Visual Media Awards on Monday, with an online unveiling of the recipients substituting for the ceremony that would have been taking place in Beverly Hills under non-quarantine conditions.

The most awards, five, went to Icelandic composer Atli Örvarsson, who won for his contributions to “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “FBI” and “FBI Most Wanted.” Örvarsson’s overall Bmi awards tally is up to 23.

Winning three trophies apiece were Tyler Bates, Brian Tyler and Mac Quayle.

Quayle won for “American Horror Story,” “9-1-1 ” and the spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star.” Brian Tyler got his honors for “Hawaii Five-0,” “Magnum P.I.” and “Yellowstone.” With these three, he now has 33 awards from Bmi. Tyler Bates’ trophies came for the theatrical films “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” and “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” along with Netflix’s “The Punisher.

When composer Nate Heller was asked to score A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, he says he felt “equal parts joy, excitement and terror,” knowing that the music he’d create would have to stand up to the legacy of Fred Rogers.

“He was an extremely musical person. He wrote all the original songs for the show, which his bandleader Johnny Costa arranged for him and put his magic to,” Heller explains. “So, I think I felt this cautious excitement about, ‘Ooh, this is going to be so fun, to tuck into this project with all of this beloved music.’”

Directed by the composer’s sister, Marielle Heller, A Beautiful Day tells the true story of the unlikely friendship that unfolds between the beloved children’s television host and a cynical Esquire journalist sent to profile him, on the Pittsburgh set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

With the score for his biggest film to date,...

With “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes wanted to capture the “feeling” of the classic children’s series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” “Getting it as accurate and honest” as they could was “the starting point” for every other decision he and director Marielle Heller made. Watch our exclusive video interview with Lipes above.

See Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue Interview: ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ screenwriters

The TriStar release tells the true story of the friendship that developed between Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) and journalist Tom Junod (here fictionalized as Lloyd Vogel and played by Matthew Rhys), who in 1998 wrote a profile on the children’s TV star for Esquire.

The quest for authenticity started with “spending as much time as possible watching how they made the show.” So Lipes watched the entire 1998 season, when the movie takes place. While watching individual installments, “I would be...

Composer Nate Heller admits he and his director (and sister) Marielle Heller felt “a tremendous amount of responsibility” with “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” their biographical drama about beloved children’s TV show host Fred Rogers. The two wanted to “honor Fred’s legacy,” especially when it came to the music. Watch our exclusive video interview with Heller above.

See Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue Interview: ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ screenwriters

The Tristar release casts Oscar-winner Tom Hanks as the star of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” in the story of his friendship with journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a fictionalized version of real-life writer Tom Junod, whose 1998 profile of Rogers is the basis of the film. Rogers “wrote almost all of the music for the show,” Heller explains. “Between him and his band leader, Johnny Costa, they created this magical world of music.” So his first priority was...

We need Mr. Rogers now more than ever. One look at the news not only confirms that, but can easily lead to despair. Last May, when I gave a rave review to the biographical documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, I included this notion on social media: “Television gave us the Kardashians and Trump, but it also gave us Fred Rogers.” The yin to the yang that is the awfulness in this world, Rogers has a special and unsullied place in our culture. To capture him in a narrative film would take an incredibly soft touch. Not every filmmaker could do it. Luckily, everyone involved in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was more than up to the task. In just a few days, you’ll all be able to see just how amazing it is. This is one of the year’s very best works. The film is a drama,...

What do you think of the idea of the beloved Little Women — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — as material girls?

On today’s Sony Pictures panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig said she wanted to bring out the power of money over women’s choices in Little Women’s Victorian Era.

Gerwig appeared on the panel with producer Amy Pascal and actor Florence Pugh, who portrays aspiring painter Amy. She said the film’s emphasis on the fact that women had no opportunity to earn their own money in that time period helps an audience understand Amy, who wants to be an artist but also aspires to marry a wealthy man.

“(Amy) finally gets a moment to explain herself…Amy is realistic. At no point do you hate her for her decisions,” Gerwig said.

Pascal, who championed the film, said the fact Gerwig...

Few composers have as close a relationship with their directors as Nate Heller does with Marielle Heller, who happens to be his big sister. “One of the benefits of that is I’m able to sort of see what’s coming down the pike for her,” he explains. So when she signed on to helm “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” he got “a look at the script” earlier than usual. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

See Richard E. Grant (‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’) based his grifter character on a friend ‘who still owes me money’ [Exclusive Video Interview]

This Fox Searchlight release tells the true story of Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a celebrity biographer who turned to literary forgery when her drinking and abrasive personality caused her career to decline. She penned letters in the names of legendary figures like Noel Coward and Dorothy Parker and enlisted her friend Jack Hock (Richard E.

Lovable characters don’t always have to be likable. In the case of Can You Ever Forgive Me, you can make the case that our two main characters are fairly bad people. At the same time, you do quickly come to care deeply for them. That’s a credit to lead Melissa McCarthy, as well as Richard E. Grant, who arguably steals the show. This true life dramedy mines some occasionally grimy territory, but the two actors consistently rise above it all. One could make the case that both are doing their career best work here. Hitting theaters this week, this Fox Searchlight film might be an Oscar force to be reckoned with. More on that later, but this is quite a good flick. The movie is a biographical dramedy, adapting Lee Israel’s memoir of the same name. Lee (McCarthy) used to be a successful author, known for disappearing into the her biographies.

The path to becoming a composer for film scores is not standard by any means, and Nate Heller took an interesting journey. While studying music production techniques and interning at University of California, San Diego in his 20s, he started touring the country nationally with his band Wendy Darling, and soon the group landed a record deal. From there, the band's music was used in both film and television, and Heller seized the opportunity to carve out a new musical career. This month, his work can be heard in the critically acclaimed, Sundance and Berlin winning "The Diary Of A Teenage Girl," his first credited film score. Today we have some exclusive cuts to share. Read More: Sundance Review: "Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Starring Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard And Kristen Wiig Starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, the 1976 set tale follows the lonely 15 year-old Minnie (Powley) who...