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I think I may have actually gotten a placement. It’s in a movie called “Mini’s First Time”. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425253/ The listing I submitted to was TAXI Dispatch listing: D050922LA - A wide variety of LATIN SONGS & INSTRUMENTALS from Mambo to Salsa to Brazilian to Mexican to Cha Cha Cha to Mariachi is needed by the Music Supervisor for a major independent feature film that has a star-studded ensemble cast. The film is about the young daughter of an alcoholic mother, who seduces her step-father and convinces him to help have her mother declared insane and institutionalized. And then the twist -- their conspiracy causes the mother’s accidental death. The film has numerous cues/scenes for this style of music. The supervisor asked us to be very selective in what we forward to him, so please submit your very best and most appropriate tunes. Broadcast quality needed. yada yada yada …Well, I got contacted by the music director for the film and we struck a licensing deal, signed the papers, I got a check in the mail and the rest should eventually become history. At this point though, since the film is still in production, I’m fearful something may still thwart my excitement and go wrong. I can’t help it, that’s just me being a worry wart. The shelves are stacked with dozens of films that were made but never released due to some legal issue or other such nonsense.But, if none of that bad stuff happens, you may soon be able to hear my tune ‘Uma Cobra Louca!’ in a real movie with real stars in it, in a real theater with a real movie credit to my name at the end. I wrote the tune as a tribute to Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of my long time musical heroes. The tune is a simple cha cha about a snake that eats a rodent gorged with loco weed. The snake writhes and twists in a field, performing his last painful, fatal dance as a farmer watches exclaiming: “That’s One Crazy Snake! (Uma Cobra Louca! – in Portuguese for Jobim).You can listen to the tune at my Broadjam.com website. Click on the “Active Playlist” button on the left and it’s track number 10 on my CD Piece Offering. I don't even know when the film is supposed to be released. The use is in a dance scene at a Mexican resort between Baldwin and Reed for about 1:50 seconds. If I'm real lucky it may even be used in the trailer. By the way, I got both the composers cut AND the publishers cut. Keep your fingers crossed for me and wish me luck guys, and quick, someone pinch me, I still think I’m dreaming.One last thing; Thanks TAXI. It's taken quite a while but I still believe in myself and have been fishing in the TAXI sea going on four years now with the same bait. Looks like a fish finally swam by that liked the smell of my chum. I guess persistence does pay off.

Hey, congrats, Nick! That sounds great. Who's playing the trumpet? --- very good stuff.That just shows it pays to add a "real" musician to instrumentals like that (if that's a sample I'll eat my shorts! ).Ern

Hey!Congratulations! This is a very nice piece. And because it came from Taxi and straight to the music director it would appear that you were also able to satisify one of your basic wishes from another thread, that you keep 100% of everything. Pretty cool.Dave

Congratulations on your success!

Thanks! That's Blake Wallace playing trumpet. Here's a blurb about all the cats on the CD from my web site:http://www.nickkepics.com/album.htmThe musicians are all real (except for the keyboards, they're synthesized). Blake said that of all the tunes on Piece Offering, this particular tune was the most difficult technically. He had to use a real big classical mouthpiece to get it to come out right. I have no idea what that means but I suppose other trumpet players would understand it.

Hey!!!! Great work, Nick!Good to hear it's working for someone...

Congratulations Nick!!This movie was recently screened at a film festival here in LA, so I think it's finished. I know because I have a song in it too... I'll keep you posted if I hear anything about the release date. It has some pretty major actors in it so I'd be surprised if it didn't come out; probably just in limited release, but who knows...matto

Quote:This movie was recently screened at a film festival here in LA, so I think it's finished. I know because I have a song in it too... Gee, now I feel like an "outsider"...

Thanks for all the congrats everybody. So Matto, tell me, how did you get your tune in that movie? Was it through TAXI? Which tune is it? Is there a site where we can go to hear it? What scene is it in? That's so cool. Small world huh?Please let me know about the release if you can. I know nothing. Did you go through Richard Walters at Smash Music for your deal?

Quote:It has some pretty major actors in it so I'd be surprised if it didn't come out; probably just in limited release, but who knows...mattoFunny story about that - I was in a group that did the underscore for a movie, provided feature songs, and even appeared in the movie. It starred Sean Young, Keith Coogan, Sally Kirkland, Steve Railsback, and Daine Ladd. At the time we were shooting, Ms. Ladd was up for an Oscar nomination, making show business history when she and her daughter, Laura Dern, became the first mother-daughter duo to be nominated for an Oscar in the same picture, Ramblin' Rose.I gotta tell you, I KNEW we were on our way. This was back in 1991.The movie, called Forever, was screened at Cannes, and I believe to date, no film has ever received worse reviews. I still have the issue of Variety with the review it published...It did finally come out on video (pre-DVD)... your mileage may vary... I wish you guys the best on your release...