Posts Tagged ‘Hans Zimmer’

Four new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Gore Verbinski’s animated movie Rango starring Johnny Depp features music by Hans Zimmer. Visit our previous article announcing the soundtrack album to find out more. The soundtrack is now available to download at Amazon and iTunes and will be released on CD on March 15. […]

La-La Land Records has released an expanded soundtrack for the 1996 action movie Broken Arrow. The film’s music is written by Hans Zimmer. The soundtrack album comes in a 2 disc-set and features more than 30 minutes of previously unreleased music for a total running time of almost two hours. The soundtrack is limited to […]

‘Rango’ Soundtrack Preview

Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Paramount Pictures has revealed a new clip from the upcoming animated movie Rango directed by Gore Verbinski. The clip features Hans Zimmer’s orchestral arrangement of the Rango theme song by Los Lobos that was previewed a few weeks ago on the Los Angeles Times Music Blog. Watch the clip below after the jump and visit […]

Hans Zimmer revealed in a recent interview on KCRW that he is currently collaborating with the Mexican music duo Rodrigo y Gabriela on his score for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Rodrigo y Gabriela are known for their fast, rhythmic acoustic guitar performances. Visit the duo’s official webpage to find out more about […]

‘Rango’ Soundtrack album announced

Posted: February 1, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Anti Records has announced a soundtrack album for Gore Verbinski’s upcoming animated film Rango. The album includes the original score by Hans Zimmer, as well as songs by Los Lobos. For an audio preview of Los Lobos’ Rango theme song, check out this LA Times article. The soundtrack will be released on Februray 25 as […]

Following the announcement of the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, reactions from all nominated composers have appeared online. John Powell on How to Train Your Dragon: Visit Movieline for a short interview with Powell on his very first Oscar nomination and also check out Variety and The Hollywood Reporter for a short reaction from […]

Last night, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Critic’s Choice Award for their score for David Fincher’s The Social Network. The movie was also awarded the best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay prize. The score beat out the scores for Black Swan (Clint Mansell), Inception (Hans Zimmer), The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat) […]

Two new movies open wide this weekend: The comic book adaptation The Green Hornet is directed by Michel Gondry and stars Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz and Cameron Diaz. The film’s score is composed by James Newton Howard. While no soundtrack release has been announced, an album is reportedly in the works. In the […]

Three new movies are opening wide this weekend: Tron: Legacy features a score by Daft Punk. Click here to check out our posting on the soundtrack album announcement. Variety published an article on how the music of the French Duo grew from a supporting player to a starring role over the course of the movie’s […]

The Hollywood Reporter had a chance to talk to composer Hans Zimmer about his involvement in the upcoming Superman adaptation directed by Zack Snyder, which was reported last week by NBC San Diego as reported here. The news spread last week after Zimmer did some interviews at the DVD/Blu-Ray release party for Incpetion, which according […]