Well I’ve read it on several places, and it’s now also been posted on Wikipedia! I believe it to be true! This is so exciting, I’m going nuts!
Apprently it’s also been decided that he is going to o the soundtrack for 1906, we know Brad Bird wanted Michael to do it, and it looks like he will be doing it!
I’m so EXCITED! 
This made my day! I mean… Ok I’m rambling on here, but I’m just so happy!
Thanks Simon. I looked at Michael’s Wikipedia page but can’t find the source about him scoring Newt. That is just really great news if it is indeed true.
Would be very awesome. Wondering how the score will turn out for Newt, seems like it could be very different considering the setting.
Oh don’t think it’s on his page but it’s posted on “newt”'s wikipedia page!
I think it’s true! I’m so looking forward to this! To bad it’s in like 2 years! 
Congratulations on your Golden Globe good sir!
I’m so happy for Michael Giachinno! Can we say that he is the Composer of the Decade?
Big congrats to MG for that Golden Globe! Justly deserved for certain. 
Check out the video of MG in the Golden Globes press room after he won.
Haha, great guy. Love the dialogue between him and Pete at the end, “BOO! BOO!” 
Although I’ve admired Mr G’s work only recently, I have not seen his face or heard his voice before watching that post-ceremony interview. Charming guy. I like the parting quote:
[spoil]“I’ll make you all dinner one night, I swear.”[/spoil]
Laugh out loud? Congrats, Jiahkeenoh.
Yeah, MG & Pete were too funny. I did a search to see if I could find a clip of Pete in the press room, but no luck.
Giacchino just has to win the Oscar for this! I’m biased, I know, but I just feel like the main theme from Up deserves to go into movie history as one of those iconic pieces of classic film music that people will know for years to come.
Actually, you can find Pete’s press conference at PixarTalk, I watched it earlier tonight. It was pretty funny actually, he seemed totally geeky and awkward, he looks like a normal guy stuck in front of a huge audience. It’s kinda funny watching the goofy faces he makes between questions, seems like a totally down to earth dude.
Thanks for the pointer, ffdude - that was good.
Congratulations to Mr. Giacchino on his Golden Globe, and fingers crossed for the Oscar! Plus, it would be amazing if he were to be doing the soundtrack for Newt- for some reason, I can really imagine his style suiting the film.
Hah, just watched the video clip, thanks. Glad to see he won the Golden Globe… we’re all hoping he brings home the Oscar this time as well.
Michael Giacchino won two of his four Grammy awards earlier today!
Of course, unless he had tied with himself in the Best Score Soundtrack category, he could have only won a maximum of three anyway (he was nominated there for both Up and Star Trek).
So, Up won for Best Score Soundtrack, and he also won for Best Instrumental Composition for Married Life. The one category he was nominated in, that he didn’t take home the prize in, was Best Instumental Arrangement, where he and Tim Simonec were nominated for their arrangement for Up With End Credits.
ALSO, on Friday, Mr. Giacchino was nominated 9 times (in 7 categories) by the IMFCA. See here for details: [url]http://filmmusiccritics.org/[/url]
-E
Congratulations to Mr. Giacchino for taking home two Grammy awards!! He certainly deserves them.
– Mitch
I posted this over in the Up forum, but Michael Giacchino won 4 awards from the International Film Music Critics Association: Film Composer of the Year (!), Film Score of the Year for Up, Best Original Score for an Animated Feature for Up, and Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction film for Star Trek.
Oscars are Sunday! I will be on the edge of my seat!
Some important news:
There’s a brand new interview with Michael talking about the oscar nomination for Up’s score that was just broadcast on the local classical radio station (KUSC) a couple days ago. You can now download the podcast:
kusc.podbean.com/category/jim-svejda-interviews/
(If reading this a couple of weeks later than when I’m posting this, scroll down to find the Feb 25th 2010 podcast).
Some news that I didn’t want to post on until after it was officially announced has now been mentioned in this interview, so I suppose it’s safe now to post about it: Michael will be scoring Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars. Other than finishing up Lost, he’s been taking some time off… but has said his next movie will be Mars, which I beleive has a tentative release date of 2012.