To fans of the original “Predator” hoping that Alan Silvestri would reprise his role as composer for this year’s “Predators” sequel: you’re out of luck. Instead, Film Music News reports that “Iron Man 2” composer John Debney will be supplying the score for the Robert Rodriguez-produced film. Debney has worked with Rodriguez before on “Spy Kids” and “Sin City” as well as a myriad of other films.
No matter what you might think about the “Twilight” series, there is no denying the talent of the esteemed composers up until this point. This time around, according to Moviescore Magazine, the third film “Eclipse” will feature the music of Howard Shore who joins the ranks of Carter Burwell and international favorite Alexandre Desplat, who scored “Twilight” and “New Moon” respectively. With the rate the series is going and the inevitable amount of money the films will make, maybe the series’ final two films could upgrade to an even bigger Hollywood mainstay like James Newton Howard.
The Californian noisy punk duo No Age has scored a short science fiction/fashion film “Aanteni,” which you can watch here. The NSFW film is a collaboration between fashion designers Rodarte and artist Todd Cole. As you might imagine from the description, the short lacks in dialogue but features plenty of striking, surreal imagery. Considering No Age guitarist Randy Randall’s low-key collaboration with Jim Jarmusch at last September’s All Tomorrows Parties festival, we think the two would make a great hypothetical match judging from this score, especially given Jarmusch’s own music inclinations shown in “The Limits of Control.”
Electronic music producer Flying Lotus will perform a live score for artist Harry Smith’s 1962 animated film “Heaven and Earth Magic” at the 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival on March 26th, Pitchfork reports. The experimental film by Smith, famous for his Folkways “Anthology of American Folk Music” compilation as much as his avant-garde filmmaking, was also a favorite of saxophonist John Zorn, who screened the film at his own events and composed music inspired by it.