Reel Trivia

Michael Giacchino is one of Hollywood's most in demand composers who has worked on massive franchises like Planet of the Apes, Star Trek and huge studios like Pixar and Marvel. He's next big project is the score for Matt Reeves' The Batman . What you might not know is that Giacchino loves to uses puns when he gives titles to his scores… Giacchino's big movie break came with The Incredibles and on the whole has fairly typical titles for it's soundtrack. It's final track which plays over the title credits is 'The Incredits'. It's 2009's Star Trek where the puns really come out with tracks including 'Enterprising Young Men', 'Nice to Meld You' and 'Does It Still McFly?'. Giacchino also got a lot of mileage out of the character Nero using his names for tracks entitled 'Nero Sighted', 'Nero Death Experience' and 'Nero Fiddles, Narada Burns'. He received quite a lot of criticism online for these ...

It's recently been announced that Billie Eilish will be singing the theme to No Time to Die and she becomes the latest in a long line of Bond theme performers. The songs are a key part of the films and in many cases more than one artists was asked to pitched a title song. Many of those not selected have not been revealed to the wider world but there are a handful of alternate Bond themes out there that were rejected but released elsewhere. Thunderball  The original title song for Thunderball was "Mr. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" taken from an Italian journalist who used the phrase to describe James Bond. It was originally recorded by Bond-theme legend Shirley Bassey though is perhaps better known from a later version recorded by Dionne Warwick. There's not a lot wrong with the song but producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman felt the theme really needed to have the film's title in the lyrics. In the end it was Tom Jones who gave us "Thunderball...