APMAS has decided that the “The Dark Knight” score is ineligible for Oscar consideration, just like “Batman Begins,” because its music cue sheet listed five names as composers, not exactly uncommon practice because it ensures all personal involved in a film’s music composition and design get the royalties they deserve, – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard as well as Alex Gibson (music editor), Mel Wesson (music designer) and Lorne Balfe (composer), the latter three all signed an affidavit that would ensure it remained common knowledge that Zimmer and Howard’s work formed the basis of the score.

However, apparently somewhere between 30% and 40% of the score was not written by Zimmer and Howard. I mean, I had heard around town that the score would probably be disqualified anyway, so it isn’t a surprise, but seeing it in black and white and seeing it disqualified for such reasons bugs me. Its one of the greatest scores of the year, perhaps even the decade. Outrage here we come… [Slashfilm and Variety]

Well, Hans Zimmer still has a chance at scoring a Best Original Song nomination with will.i.am for “Madagascar 2”…not. In Contention have an original song from “Nothing But the Truth,” in theatres December 19th, by Coby Jones called “Nothing but the Truth,” that probably won’t get nominated for Best Original Song because as okay as it is, not a bad song by any stretch, its far too mellow to compete with High School Musical, for example. However, it would be massively awesome if “Little Person,” equally mellow and low key, from “Synecdoche, New York” by Jon Brion got a nomination though. [Untitled Records]

Also speaking of scores, the instrumental score of “Twilight” by Carter Burwell will be released on the 9th of December, while it’s soundtrack (featuring Paramore, Muse, Linkin Park, Robert Pattinson too) just jumped straight to the top of the Billboard 200, much like the soundtracks for “Juno” and “Mamma Mia!,” beating out AC/DC. And it’s only week one. [The Playlist, who spoke at length to MTV in a podcast discussing the “Twilight” soundtrack amongst other topics]

And speaking of “Twilight,” because you know I just cant seem to stop talking about it these days but then again it’s the same with a lot of people – I guess we’ve run out of actual news to report, Robert Pattinson inadvertently calls ‘Twilight’ author Stephanie Meyer crazy in response to an interview question by E! Online, not a nice way of talking about someone who thinks you deserve an Oscar, but at least it is honest:

“When I read it I was convinced Stephenie was convinced she was Bella and it was like it was a book that wasn’t supposed to be published. It was like reading her sexual fantasy, especially when she said it was based on a dream and it was like, ‘Oh I’ve had this dream about this really sexy guy,’ and she just writes this book about it. Like some things about Edward are so specific, I was just convinced, like, ‘This woman is mad. She’s completely mad and she’s in love with her own fictional creation.’ And sometimes you would feel uncomfortable reading this thing.”

I ask, if an older woman wrote a novel about two much younger adults partaking in a forbidden love affair, surely it is common knowledge that she wrote as a metaphorical take on her “love” for the character of Edward, whom she thought up while in dream land? Get a load of “Breaking Dawn,” it’s a lusty sex fantasy incarnate (seriously, download it here if you are too lazy/poor to actually buy the book.) Anyway, apparently Pattinson signed up for a “Twilight” trilogy, and if it ever amounts to that. [Rope of Silicon, where you can watch the interview referenced above]

Meryl Streep has signed on to play a library worker in “Dewey” who watched as a kitten made an impact on a town after it became the library mascot when it wandered into the library one cold, lonely night, an adaptation of the fact-based novel “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World” by Vicki Myron, *cough-interesting spin on the cat lady idea-cough* Well, okay then. In other casting news, Chris Cooper and one-time rocker Reeve Carney will be in Julie Taymor’s “Tempest,” joining Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Ben Winshaw, Felicity Jones and possibly Geoffrey Rush.

While everyone is talking about the “2012″ trailer that crashed online yesterday, I am far more interested in the trailer for Sony Classics’ “O’Horten,” that Mike Goodridge seemed taken by, “Bent Hamer’s unique blend of absurdist humour and aching melancholy has never worked better than in O’Horten,” a film I will see in December (never in my life have I had so much riding on the fact that I have no plans for a single month than I have for this December). It tells the story of a retired train driver Odd Horten who realises his life can no longer be lived according the timely train schedules, drifting from train station to train station but instead his life is full of newer, less comfortably defined possibilities.