Conde Nast is debuting a new magazine called Movies Rock. It's a unusual publication focusing on both movie and music. L.A. Times calls it a publication "dedicated to the intersection of pop music and moviemaking."
Enter Movies Rock, a custom publishing supplement that will be mailed to about 16 million subscribers of 14 Conde Nast magazines -- such as Vanity Fair, Vogue and GQ -- beginning Nov. 1. Concocted by Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter as a counterpart to an earlier Conde Nast advertorial effort, Fashion Rocks (which, as its title suggests, encompasses haute couture and rock stardom), Movies Rock functions as eye candy for the coffee table and a kind of behind-the-music and behind-the-scenes compendium for iPod listeners and cineastes alike.
Edited by Mitch Glazer, a successful freelance writer turned movie scribe ("Scrooged," "The Recruit"), the glossy annual is intended as a reflection of what's hot in popular culture.
"This year going into next, you've got 'La Vie en Rose,' 'Sweeney Todd,' 'El Cantante,' 'I'm Not There,' 'August Rush,' 'Once' -- it's definitely of the moment," Glazer said, naming a number of high-profile music-driven films. "So Graydon's idea was to do a 13th issue of Vanity Fair devoted to the place where movies and music meet."
Bill Murray, extravagantly kitted out in a rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and shiny pompadour, poses as Elvis on the cover. Inside, familiar Vanity Fair photographers -- Mark Seliger, Jean Baptiste Mondino and Bruce Weber -- have snapped a who's who of musicians and actors who somehow straddle the movie-music divide: Kanye West, Nelly, Billy Bob Thornton, Eve, Freddie Highmore, Chris Brown and Zooey Deschanel among them.
The magazine is also being promoted with a December 2nd rock concert at the Kodak Theatre. You can read more about the rock concert here and here. Conde Nast also has a title called Fashion Rocks.
Conde Nast is debuting a new magazine called Movies Rock. It's a unusual publication focusing on both movie and music. L.A. Times calls it a publication "dedicated to the intersection of pop music and moviemaking."
