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06 May

Yasuke Soundtrack: Exploring Flying Lotus’s Magical Themes

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Audio elements and sound design, especially the score, are as fundamental to animation as the visuals. The proper use of music at the right time can make the action soar and it’s genuinely exciting that more experimental and passionate creators are embracing the sonic possibilities that television allows. Flying Lotus is an innovative musician with a flair for the extraordinary that cut his teeth on many of the surreal animated series that fill Adult Swim’s programming block. In addition to his frequent collaborations with Adult Swim, Flying Lotus’ music can be heard in everything from The Boondocks, to Grand Theft…
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30 Mar

Godzilla vs. Kong: How Junkie XL Found New Themes for Monsters’ Soundtrack

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Godzilla and King Kong are not characters one approaches lightly. As two of the most iconic monsters in cinema, the big ape and even bigger lizard carry plenty of history on their shoulders as they march into Godzilla vs. Kong, the new monster mash-up from Warner Bros. and HBO Max. Composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) is of course keenly aware of this since he had the task of updating their sounds for 2021. Holkenborg, a lifelong aficionado of nearly every style of music, cites the composer for the original King Kong (1933), Max Steiner, as a personal inspiration and…
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04 Feb

The New Sci-Fi Dracula Western Could Unearth Themes Buried in Bram Stoker’s Novel

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Dracula has risen from his grave again. The news is hardly surprising since the most adapted character in cinema getting yet another movie is as inevitable as death and neck bites. However, the new Dracula project developing at Universal Pictures is of special intrigue given who is making it and why. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Chloé Zhao, fresh off receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, has signed on to adapt Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel… as a sci-fi Western set in the future. “I’ve always been fascinated by vampires and the concept of the Other…
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25 Sep

Noah Hawley’s Star Trek to Have Wrath of Khan Inspired Themes

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A mysterious new entry in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise may be on hold over at Paramount Pictures, but its appointed writer and director, Noah Hawley, is still thinking about his approach, even as its status remains uncertain. Intriguingly, Hawley hints at a more classic-minded theme for his hibernating project, citing immortal 1982 offering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as a major source of inspiration—just not in a way one might typically think.   While the imminent fourth season premiere of Hawley’s FX series, Fargo, is the current item on his docket, he did offer some interesting…
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25 Jun

Disney World Re-Themes Splash Mountain from Song of the South to Princess and the Frog

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In a sign of Disney changing with the times, if ever so slowly, The Walt Disney Company announced Thursday that the iconic Splash Mountain theme park ride at both Disneyland and Disney World is about to get an update and be re-themed to represent the overlooked The Princess and the Frog (2009) animated feature. This decision reverses the image of a ride that has come under increasing scrutiny for decades due to its theming around Song of the South and the racist caricatures represented by Walt Disney and Joel Chandler Harris’ interpretations of Br’er Rabbit. As a consequence, the new…
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