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With the holiday season just around the corner, people start paying a lot more attention to movies.

The big studios start unveiling their Oscar contenders, audiences start looking forward to seeing stuff (so they don't have to talk to their families for a few hours), et cetera.

We're not immune to this phenomenon either, which is why we're presenting a quick roundup of movie-related music news:

First, James Murphy is scoring Noah Baumbach's latest movie, Greenberg. The DFA boss has revealed that the music he produced for Greenberg is nothing like his earlier output as LCD Soundsystem, but that he's still "very proud of it." Check out the preview below, and ask yourself how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees Murphy's gotten for "All My Friends."

Second, the nerd-rap icon MC Paul Barman will finally release a new album, Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud. In addition to contributions by ?uestlove, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, DOOM and Masta Ace, it will feature production, "direction" and songwriting from Michel Gondry. The song titles Gondry worked on? "Divorce" and "It Can All Be Taken Away". Good times!

Finally, this year's indie music visionary-geniuses, Animal Collective, have let slip that an experimental movie they've been working on for years is almost completed. With music by the band and visuals by their long-time music video partner Danny Perez, the band offered few details about "the visual record," except to say that "there's nothing linear about it." As someone who thinks Perez has rarely executes his ideas competently (see "Summertime Clothes"), I'm not exactly surprised.