{"id":5336,"date":"2026-02-10T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/paul-thomas-anderson-jonny-greenwood-want-phantom-thread-score-pulled-from-melania-movie\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:59:05","slug":"paul-thomas-anderson-jonny-greenwood-want-phantom-thread-score-pulled-from-melania-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/paul-thomas-anderson-jonny-greenwood-want-phantom-thread-score-pulled-from-melania-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson, Jonny Greenwood want ‘Phantom Thread’ score pulled from ‘Melania’ movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar-nominated director Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood have formally requested that a piece of music from their 2017 film \u201cPhantom Thread\u201d be removed from the new documentary<\/a> about first lady Melania Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has come to our attention that a piece of music from \u2018Phantom Thread\u2019 has been used in the \u2018Melania\u2019 documentary,\u201d Anderson and Greenwood said in a joint statement Monday. \u201cWhile Jonny Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, Universal failed to consult Jonny on third third-party use, which is a breach of his composer agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a result,\u201d the pair added, \u201cJonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenwood composed the lush orchestral score for \u201cPhantom Thread,\u201d a drama about a temperamental dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) in 1950s London. \u201cPhantom Thread\u201d was released by Focus Features, a unit of NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News.<\/p>\n

Amazon MGM Studios, the company that acquired distribution rights to \u201cMelania\u201d for $40 million, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelania\u201d follows the first lady in the 20 days leading up to President Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. It was directed by Brett Ratner (\u201cRush Hour\u201d), marking his first directorial effort since he faced sexual misconduct allegations in 2017. <\/p>\n

He has denied those allegations, and he has not been charged.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelania\u201d has so far grossed more than $13 million in North America, according to Box Office Mojo<\/a>, a website owned by Amazon. It has earned largely negative reviews from professional critics, with a Rotten Tomatoes score<\/a> of 8%.<\/p>\n

Anderson\u2019s latest film, \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d recently collected 13 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards in March, including best picture and best director. \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d chronicles a group of faded leftist revolutionaries on the run from a brutal military officer.<\/p>\n

Greenwood composed the score for \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d as well as the Anderson films \u201cThere Will Be Blood,\u201d \u201cThe Master\u201d and \u201cInherent Vice.\u201d He has been nominated three times for the best original score Oscar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oscar-nominated director Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood have formally requested that a piece of music from their 2017 film \u201cPhantom Thread\u201d be removed from the new documentary about first lady Melania Trump. \u201cIt has come to our attention that a piece of music from \u2018Phantom Thread\u2019 has been used in the \u2018Melania\u2019 documentary,\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}