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.
Before directing films such as Se7en, Gone Girl, and The Social Network, director David Fincher directed music videos like The Rolling Stones, Sting, and Madonna in the 1980’s. He will now direct a new HBO series about the music video industry.
Fincher will direct Living On Video, which is a comedy about the industry in 1983 in Los Angeles. The series will be centered around the main character, Bobby who recently dropped out of college and headed to Hollywood hoping to direct a science fiction epic but only gets a job as a PA at a video production company.
The series will be similar to the structure of Entourage where Bobby gets into contact with directors, publicists, crew members, and record executives of the “then-exploding video industry.”
The development of Living On Video came from Fincher, Rich Wilkes (xXx) and Bob Stevenson, who was a collaborator with Fincher in his early director days. Wilkes and Stevenson are also set to write the series. The casting is still going on but a pilot is already given a thumbs-up by HBO executives.
HBO also picked up Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s tv series about a record label executive living in New York City in the 1970s.
Fincher has still been stepping in the music video directing ring even after winning an Oscar. He recently directed Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” which won a VMA for Best Direction.
The Grateful Dead will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a full-length documentary out next year. The movie, authorized by the band, will be directed by Amir Bar-Lev and Martin Scorsese as executive producer.
The untitled project will follow the band from their origins in 1965, put light on the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, and close with what the band is doing right now. Interviews will be conducted with the surviving band members, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir will all be interviewed for the project, along with more people in the band’s history. The interviews will be spread amongst with never-before-seen concert and behind-the-scenes footage.
Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, and Weir said in a statement, “Millions of stories have been told about the Grateful Dead over the years. With our 50th Anniversary coming up, we thought it might just be time to tell one ourselves and Amir is the perfect guy to help us do it. Needless to say, we are humbled to be collaborating with Martin Scorsese … The 50th will be another monumental milestone to celebrate with our fans and we cannot wait to share this film with them.”
Scorsese said, “The Grateful Dead were more than just a band. They were their own planet, populated by millions of devoted fans. I’m very happy that this picture is being made and proud to be involved.”
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