David Lynch has announced the Festival of Disruption, a two-day festival that will take place October 8-9th at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. The festival will have musical performances, talks, exhibits, and film screenings. The performers include St. Vincent, Sky Ferreira, Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters, Angelo Badalamenti (performing the music of “Twin Peaks”), Xiu Xiu, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Jon Hopkins, Questlove (DJ set), and more. Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, Mel Brooks, “Twin Peaks” actors Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern, and architect Frank Gehry will talk. Some of Lynch’s photography and films will also be screened. Find more about it here.
Early Sunday morning, actor Anton Yelchin was killed in a fatal traffic collision; he was 27 years old.
According to TMZ, Yelchin’s body was found between his car and a mailbox at his home in the San Fernando Valley. The engine was still running when his body was discovered according to police and it was in neutral.
Swiss Army Man is an upcoming film featuring Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The film is soundtracked by Andy Hull and Robert McDowell from Manchester Orchestra, and the first single is “Montage.” Watch a lyric video for the song that has Dano and Radcliffe singing along below. The actors provided vocal contributions as well on the recorded version. Swiss Army Man is set out on July 1st, while the soundtrack is due out on June 24th. Listen to the song below.
Swiss Army Man is directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, also known as DANIELS.
There is finally a first glimpse of All Eyez On Me, the upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic from Morgan Creek Productions. Principal filming recently ended in Las Vegas and, as FACT Magazine says, some of the footage from the editing room made its way onto Instagram.
The clip shows a contentious courthouse interview during his sexual assault trial in 1994. Actor Demetrius Shipp, Jr., who looks so much like Pac that it’s hard to tell the clip apart from the actual video, says one of the rapper’s most famous quotes: “I’m not angry at them, I’m angry at the system.”
Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver will turn 40 this year. To celebrate, Waxwork Records will release Bernard Herrmann’s score on vinyl. The album is available on yellow and tri-color (yellow, black, and white) vinyl and comes with liner notes from Scorcese. The packaging artwork is by Rich Kelly. Find the packaging shots and previews from the soundtrack below. The soundtrack is out today.
The film’s anniversary will be celebrated on April 21 at Tribeca Film Festival. Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, and others will be on a panel for the film.
The Flying Lotus-scored documentary LoveTrue will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival later this month. Directed by Alma Har’el and executive produced by Shia LaBeouf, the documentary will tell the story of three real-life relationships. Today, they have released the trailer for LoveTrue, which features some of FlyLo’s original music. In it, several of the film’s subjects, which includes children, musicians, and dancers, talk about their experiences with love. Watch it and check out the documentary’s poster below.
David Bowie released a concert film named A Reality Tour in 2004, which was filmed at the Dublin performances of his final tour in 2003. In 2010, a live album of these performances was released. On June 3rd, Friday Music will reissue the album in a 3xLP box set on 180-gram blue vinyl. Find more details here.
The day has finally arrived! Today is the day! October 21st, 2015 is the precise day that Marty McFly arrives in Back to the Future II. In a fictionally literal way, the future is now! It is a moment that istodaythedaymartymcflyarriveswhenhetravelstothefuture.com has been waiting for for years, and one that is being celebrated in a huge way.
For the first time ever, the website reads “Yes!,” and it comes with a message from the Doc Brown, Christopher Lloyd. Lloyd and Michael J. Fox have already talked about what the film had right about the future, but now Doc has words for those who might be a bit sad about the lack of some of the technology. The future is yours to write!
Check out the once-in-a-lifetime video below.
The countdown website’s creator, Richard Haderer, is celebrating the day by donation to charity. Haderer’s mother, like Fox, suffers from Parkinson’s disease, so every cent earned by visits to his website today will be donated to The Parkinson’s Foundation Austria. You can donate directly on the site as well.
Lloyd, Fox, and Lea Thompson also went to Today to talk about the legacy of the film. They discussed reading the script for the first time, the onset chemistry, and the predictions of course. Watch the interviews here.
BTTFD is huge news everywhere, and that is including USA Today. As AdWeek pointed out, the newspaper will end the Thursday edition of its print newspaper in a cover directly from the 1989 film. The cover shows the inciting incident that sends Marty and Doc to 2015, as it shows Martin McFly Jr. getting arrested.
As the top half will be recreated directly from the film with headlines such as headlines like “Jaws Without Bite is the review of Jaws 19″ and “Woman Asphyxiates in Self Adjusting Jacket,” with the logo matching the film, and the bottom half never seen on screen. Thus, Universal and writer/director Bob Gale worked with the publication to create new articles, including one that announces the remake of George McFly’s novel A Match Made in Space, and a headline that states “Public more gullible than ever.”
With only a couple of months until the release of the new James Bond film, Spectre, there has been speculation on who will be singing the new theme song. Considered include Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Ed Sheeran, Adele, and Sam Smith. Although today, Smith tweeted and Instagrammed a black-and-white photo of his hand wearing a hand, with the octopus symbol for SPECTRE, the long-running set to make its first appearance in the modern movies with Spectre. See below.
Smith confirmed this morning on Twitter that he will be singing the theme to Spectre. It is called“Writing’s On The Wall,” and he wrote it with frequent collaborator Jimmy Napes. Disclosure also provided production. The single will be out on 9/25. Here are the Teerts about it:
Arcade Fire’s first feature film, called The Reflektor Tapes, will go to theaters worldwide on September 24th for a short time. According to the official statement, the film is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”
Arcade Fire Tube first reported on last year that the film is directed by Kahlil Joseph, who has worked with FKA twigs’ “Video Girl” and short films with Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus. Based on the images released and the title, it seems like a lot of it will focus on the recording sessions and tour for the band’s Reflektor album from 2013.
Ticket information and theater listings will be posted on the film’s website, TheReflektorTapes.com soon.
An eight-minute part of the film named “Porno” has been released. It is soundtracked by the song from Reflektor of the same name. Watch below.
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