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http://youtu.be/0Y4kZdTbasg For our first podcast of the new year, we got to talk to Ron Newcomb about his new movie Rise of the Fellowship. Rise of the Fellowship is not so much a parody, but more a love letter to all things Tolkien. It centres around Randell, a game store employee and avid gamer, who decides to take on an 'epic journey' to compete in a Lord of the Rings Online gaming competition in Florida along with a group of friends. During their 'quest' they lose one of their most precious possessions and must display depths of bravery and heroism that they never thought possible. With the aid of some unexpected allies along the way, the companions fiercely look for certainty that they can reach their destination... In the interview, we talk to Ron about the process of getting permission to create and use actual LotRO game footage for the film, as well as creating independent movies, and the state of the US movie industry in general. Ron has produced a number of independent... Support this show http://s

This week, I had the chance to catch up with our old friend Fil Eisler - aka, the artist formally known as iZLER... ;) - to talk about his recently released soundtrack album from the hit E4 TV show Revenge. The album contains music from seasons 1 & 2, which is performed by the 50-piece orchestra Fil conducts each week for the show. Eisler's music has become such an integral part of Revenge, with his beautifully dark and complex compositions adding layers of texture to the drama. We also discuss his up-coming work on Arnold Schwarzenegger &  James Cameron produced 'Years Of Living Dangerously' documentary, and new CBS show 'Reckless', plus his work on Revenge Season 3. Fil Eisler is Czech-born and English-raised composer who started his career as a touring musician. He's traveled, recorded and written with artist such as Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Dave Stewart. Along with Revenge, Fil also currently scores the US version of Shameless. Revenge, Season 3 should be returning to... Support this sho

In this week's podcast, I got the chance to chat with composer Nate Barr, who recently made Emmy history being the first composer to ever have a double nomination in the Main Title category in the same year! Nate received two Emmy nominations in 2013 for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for his work on The Americans, which airs on ITV in the UK, and Netflix's Hemlock Grove. In addition to working on the second seasons of both of these shows, Nate has scored all six seasons of HBO's Emmy-winning show, True Blood (airs on Fox in the UK), and is currently also working on kids TV show Tumbleleaf for Amazon. Barr, who began his career with Hans Zimmer, has composed music for more than 30 feature films in addition to his television experience. He has worked with some of the most highly respected directors in the business, including Alan Ball and gore-horror master Eli Roth. Roth and Barr have collaborated on Hemlock Grove and five films, including Dimension Films and Vivendi... Support this show http://s

This week I had the opportunity to talk to multi-Emmy winning composer Sean Callery, who is currently nominated for his 13th Emmy Award, for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for Sky Living's Elementary. This nomination makes Callery one of the most Emmy-nominated television composers. Sean shows no signs of slowing as he continues to work on the third season of Channel 4's award-winning drama Homeland, the second season of Sherlock Holmes-inspired drama series Elementary, and the ninth season of Sky Living's Bones, the longest-running procedural drama on US network Fox.  He is also set to score the highly anticipated 24: Live Another Day, due in April 2014. Known for composing suspense-driven scores on the smash hit series 24, Callery earned 9 Emmy nominations throughout the course of the show, which ran for 8 seasons and also included the 2008 TV movie 24: Redemption.  Of those nods, he won Emmys for Outstanding Music Composition 3 times. Callery was also nominated for an Emmy... Support this show

On this latest podcast, I talk to Multi-Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Trevor Morris, who has scored a huge array of music for TV, film and games. His film work has taken him from the heights of Mount Olympus in 'Immortals', to the White House in Gerard Butler's blockbuster 'Olympus Has Fallen'. His game work ranges from the hard driving action of EA's 'Need for Speed: Carbon', to a more sedate drive through 'Sim City', and into all out war in 'Command and Conquer'. His TV work has taken him through scifi, fantasy and horror with 'Alphas', 'Moonlight', and '666 Park Avenue', and all over historical Europe, with 'Vikings' (currently airing on LoveFilm), BBC's 'The Tudors', and Sky Atlantic's 'The Borgias'. From his studio in Santa Monica, Trevor's 'violent, yet elegant' work has made him the most Emmy-nominated composer in the last 2 years, and he's hoping to add to his current 4 Emmys and 2 Gemini Awards with his recent Emmy-nomination for the season finally of 'The Borgias'. In 2012,... Support this show http:

Defiance From the creator of Farscape and Seaquest DSV, Defiance is the first original TV series to air on the SyFy Channel since Battlestar Galatica. An epic fantasy drama combining the scope of a sci-fi blockbuster with the intimacy of a small-town drama, Defiance is set in the near future, on a completely transformed planet Earth, inhabited by the survivors of a universal war. Forced to co-habitate, the disparate group struggles to build a new society among the devastation. At the centre of this world is Lawman Jeb Nolan (Grant Bowler), who enlists the help of deputies and occasionally some civilians in the struggle to maintain law and order in the town and region. Defiance stars Grant Bowler (True Blood), Jaime Murray (Hustle), Julie Benz (Dexter) and Stephanie Leonidas (Whitechapel), and to mark the DVD & Blu-ray release of Defiance (15th July 2013), I got the chance to talk to Stephanie, who plays Irathient warrior, and Nolan's adopted daughter, Irisa Nyira. Stephanie was born... Support this show h

In this new podcast, we're chatting to iZLER, the composer of the hit US tv show Revenge (airing on E4 in the UK), and the US version of Shameless. iZLER is a UK native, and began his musical career as part of Robbie Williams' band. Now as a television composer, iZLER uses full orchestras for his Revenge compositions, which is increasingly rare in a medium dominated by sample-scores. The orchestras average 50 musicians. This season (the show's second season) he is also incorporating many non-orchestral, studio instruments, which he plays himself. For season two, he's created many new musical themes and moments but this is perhaps best seen in the episode titled "Sacrifice" which for the episode, iZLER based the music off of the rhythm of the Morse code for S.O.S. so that the music was subtly suggesting the episodes dramatic end... He is truly doing his best work on the show this season. Aside from "Revenge", iZLER has written score and songs for numerous films and TV shows including ER... Support this show ht

Welcome to the first Geektown Podcast! We're hoping to do more podcasts in the future, so if you've got any comments, ideas, or suggestions contact us. In this first episode, we interview Star Trek legend George Takei about life on Star Trek, working on video games, and talk about the suggested USS Excelsior TV Series. He even gave us a short burst of Star Trekkin'... as i said.. legend! The post Geektown Podcast 01 : The George Takei Interview! appeared first on Geektown. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.