Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy can’t be a cheap show to make. This superhero story is based on an ambitious, colorful comic book series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá and as such it features big action setpieces, depictions of superpowers, and even a talking chimp or two.
Still it’s hard to imagine any portion of The Umbrella Academy’s budget is larger than the music clearance department. The series features a moody score from Jeff Russo but also a truly stunning amount of pop hits. The Umbrella Academy made its musical intentions clear in its first episode with the now-beloved dance scene set to Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now.” And the show’s investment in soundtrack and music has only grown from there.
“Music is such an important thing to me and I really take time to pick the songs,” showrunner Steve Blackman says.
“We...
Still it’s hard to imagine any portion of The Umbrella Academy’s budget is larger than the music clearance department. The series features a moody score from Jeff Russo but also a truly stunning amount of pop hits. The Umbrella Academy made its musical intentions clear in its first episode with the now-beloved dance scene set to Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now.” And the show’s investment in soundtrack and music has only grown from there.
“Music is such an important thing to me and I really take time to pick the songs,” showrunner Steve Blackman says.
“We...
- 7/31/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2.
The Umbrella Academy wears its influences on its sleeve. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s original comic and the Netflix series it was adapted into pay a great debt to properties like X-Men, Doom Patrol, and even The Royal Tenenbaums.
Now for its second season, The Umbrella Academy is even more devoted to Easter eggs, references, and many other real life and pop culture homages. This batch of episodes takes the Hargreeves family back to the early ‘60s where they encounter a whole new host of inspirations.
“There are tons,” showrunner Steve Blackman says of season 2 Easter eggs. “We specifically wanted to sit down and say, ‘Here are the Easter eggs we want to put in, let’s make a list of them.’ They’re everywhere. I think the fans will get a real kick once you start realizing what we’ve put in.
The Umbrella Academy wears its influences on its sleeve. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s original comic and the Netflix series it was adapted into pay a great debt to properties like X-Men, Doom Patrol, and even The Royal Tenenbaums.
Now for its second season, The Umbrella Academy is even more devoted to Easter eggs, references, and many other real life and pop culture homages. This batch of episodes takes the Hargreeves family back to the early ‘60s where they encounter a whole new host of inspirations.
“There are tons,” showrunner Steve Blackman says of season 2 Easter eggs. “We specifically wanted to sit down and say, ‘Here are the Easter eggs we want to put in, let’s make a list of them.’ They’re everywhere. I think the fans will get a real kick once you start realizing what we’ve put in.
- 7/31/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Songwriter Allee Willis, famous for her work with Earth, Wind & Fire as well as the “Friends” theme and the “The Color Purple” Broadway song score, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 72. The cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Prudence Fenton, the animator and producer who is described by a family friend as Willis’ “partner and soulmate,” was said to be “in total shock” over her best friend’s sudden death, which occurred just after 6 p.m.
Willis was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 for a catalog that included hits like Ewf’s “September” and “Boogie Wonderland,” the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance,” the Pet Shop Boys’ and Dusty Springfield’s “What Have I Done to Deserve This?,” Maxine Nightingale’s “Lead Me On,” Patti Labelle’s “Stir It Up” and the theme from “The Karate Kid,” “You’re the Best.”
“I, very thankfully, have a few songs that will not go away,...
Prudence Fenton, the animator and producer who is described by a family friend as Willis’ “partner and soulmate,” was said to be “in total shock” over her best friend’s sudden death, which occurred just after 6 p.m.
Willis was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 for a catalog that included hits like Ewf’s “September” and “Boogie Wonderland,” the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance,” the Pet Shop Boys’ and Dusty Springfield’s “What Have I Done to Deserve This?,” Maxine Nightingale’s “Lead Me On,” Patti Labelle’s “Stir It Up” and the theme from “The Karate Kid,” “You’re the Best.”
“I, very thankfully, have a few songs that will not go away,...
- 12/25/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Members of Team Experience have been asked to share their favorite holiday film. Here's Spencer Coile with his...
I vividly remember the trailer for The Family Stone when it first came out in 2005. I was thirteen, a recent film and Oscar snob, and still incredibly naïve. I was swept into the two-and-a-half-minute long saga of uptight Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) visiting her boyfriend Everett’s (Dermot Mulroney) family for their first Christmas together and the family’s cliquey antics. Add on a stellar cast and the Maxine Nightingale classic, “Right Back Where We Started From,” and I was hooked. I couldn’t possibly wait until December to see it.
And I didn’t. I waited even longer, months after it was released...
I vividly remember the trailer for The Family Stone when it first came out in 2005. I was thirteen, a recent film and Oscar snob, and still incredibly naïve. I was swept into the two-and-a-half-minute long saga of uptight Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) visiting her boyfriend Everett’s (Dermot Mulroney) family for their first Christmas together and the family’s cliquey antics. Add on a stellar cast and the Maxine Nightingale classic, “Right Back Where We Started From,” and I was hooked. I couldn’t possibly wait until December to see it.
And I didn’t. I waited even longer, months after it was released...
- 12/20/2018
- by Spencer Coile
- FilmExperience
Played Out: Dyer’s Sophomore Feature Overly Familiar and Underwhelming
Director Julia Dyer, again teaming with screenwriter sister Gretchen, mount their first project since their successfully received 1996 independent feature, Late Bloomers, with a 1970s sexual revolution period piece, The Playroom. While there are certain sensational and dramatic elements that may put one in mind of a cross between something like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Flowers in the Attic, the feature, while it certainly avoids camp cliché, also avoids any type of practical engagement with its sordidly unhappy elements. While the adults in the Dyer sisters’ latest feature suffer the children, so do they suffer the patience of an audience desperately searching for a point of interest in the troupe presented to us here.
Opening with a group of four siblings in the Cantwell family, looked after by elder teen Maggie (Olivia Harris), the breaking newspaper headline on...
Director Julia Dyer, again teaming with screenwriter sister Gretchen, mount their first project since their successfully received 1996 independent feature, Late Bloomers, with a 1970s sexual revolution period piece, The Playroom. While there are certain sensational and dramatic elements that may put one in mind of a cross between something like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Flowers in the Attic, the feature, while it certainly avoids camp cliché, also avoids any type of practical engagement with its sordidly unhappy elements. While the adults in the Dyer sisters’ latest feature suffer the children, so do they suffer the patience of an audience desperately searching for a point of interest in the troupe presented to us here.
Opening with a group of four siblings in the Cantwell family, looked after by elder teen Maggie (Olivia Harris), the breaking newspaper headline on...
- 2/8/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Shrek Forever After soundtrack starts as follows: Scissor Sisters, followed by Antonion Banderas doing a mystifyingly competent cover of Bob Marley’s One Love, followed by The Carpenters. If you can’t get down with that, you need to go see a getting down doctor.
A concept album with inter-track filler courtesy of Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstilskin (who seems to be playing Rumpelstilskin in his best David-St-Hubbins-from-Spinal-Tap accent), its ethos runs in parallel to that of the films: to be cheerful and child-friendly, with a fast-paced humour to appeal to the immature adult in all of us. And whilst many soundtrack albums are happy to fill up their track-listings with bargain basement contemporary schlock, the box office conquering Shrek franchise has the time and money to be a little more considered and considerate with its musical offerings. Thus an album ostensibly aimed at kids contains tracks from the Carpenters,...
A concept album with inter-track filler courtesy of Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstilskin (who seems to be playing Rumpelstilskin in his best David-St-Hubbins-from-Spinal-Tap accent), its ethos runs in parallel to that of the films: to be cheerful and child-friendly, with a fast-paced humour to appeal to the immature adult in all of us. And whilst many soundtrack albums are happy to fill up their track-listings with bargain basement contemporary schlock, the box office conquering Shrek franchise has the time and money to be a little more considered and considerate with its musical offerings. Thus an album ostensibly aimed at kids contains tracks from the Carpenters,...
- 6/12/2010
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
Prosperity is not simply just around the corner; it's all over this playlist. Here's to sticking around for the rising. Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield No Depression - Uncle Tupelo It's Money That I Love - Randy Newman Wall Street Shuffle - 10Cc Free Money - Patti Smith Money - Pink Floyd Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) - Pet Shop Boys Got Money - Lil' Wayne featuring T-Pain Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand Money - Flying Lizards Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates Money Talks - AC/DC If I Were A Rich Man - Topol You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles Rich Woman - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays Lawyers, Guns And Money - Warren Zevon Circus Money - Walter Becker Money -...
- 10/19/2009
- by David Wild
- Huffington Post
It's catching and it feels great - boogie fever! And bringing it to the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Segerstrom Hall audience on Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. will be the Disco Groove All-Stars, including the legendary Thelma Houston, Cheryl Lynn, Tavares, Maxine Nightingale and A Taste of Honey featuring Janice-Marie, all sharing one band for a seamless evening of top disco hits.
- 10/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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