![]() SOUNDTRACK COPIES SOLD: 199,000 (Sales through the week ending Februaccording to Nielsen SoundScan) NOMINATED SONGS: “Happy Working Song,” “So Close” and “That’s How You Know”ĪRTIST(S): Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Eleven-year-old Nash, who previously portrayed a young Fantasia Barrino in a 2006 TV movie, will perform “Raise It Up” at the Academy Awards. Warner Bros’ marketing push was heavily supported by Sony Music, which issued the movie’s soundtrack on November 6. “The way the (main character) is going to find his parents is through music - not the Internet or the Yellow Pages.” “The heart of the story is how we respond and connect through music,” score composer Mark Mancina says. hosted several in-school music programs across the United States. Because the film centers on a young musical prodigy who was separated from his parents at birth, Warner Bros. “August Rush,” which stars Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Freddie Highmore and Jamia Simone Nash, unfolds as a sophisticated fairy tale in which characters are defined by the music they perform. “All they have to do is Google my name and the Frames come up.” “If people like the music enough to want to hear it again, they’ll draw a line between me and the band,” he says. Thanks to strong word-of-mouth, Columbia’s “Once” soundtrack has sold over 350,000 copies Stateside, according to Nielsen SoundScan, many times more than that of any Frames record. The Frames are superstars at home but little-known in the United States. Hansard plays a busker in the movie, which also stars his bandmate in the Swell Season, Czech singer/pianist Marketa Irglova. “It’s as plain as the nose on my face that you should be the guy in this film,” he told Hansard, who reluctantly agreed. ![]() “But John said, ‘Then I’d have to use his songs, and I really like these ones I’ve already chosen.’” A few days later, Carney had an epiphany. “I actually recommended Damien Rice,” Hansard recalls. ![]() But its male star, Glen Hansard of veteran Irish band the Frames, almost didn’t appear in the movie at all.ĭirector John Carney had already opted to use Hansard’s songs in “Once” before casting, but after the intended star dropped out, he turned to the singer/songwriter, who previously appeared in the film “The Commitments,” to fill the role. “Once,” the little film that could, was released last May and earned more than $9 million at the box office. (Sales through the week ending Februaccording to Nielsen SoundScan) ![]()
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