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Remote Control Productions (American company)

American film score company

Field	Value
name	Remote Control Productions, Inc.
type	Private
predecessor	Media Ventures Entertainment Group
founded
founders
defunct
owner
key_people	Hans Zimmer
industry	Music
location_city	Santa Monica, California
location_country	U.S.

Remote Control Productions, Inc. is a film score company run by composer Hans Zimmer and based in Santa Monica, California. Originally known as Media Ventures Entertainment Group, which was conceived and founded by Zimmer and Jay Rifkin, the company changed its name after the partners both filed lawsuits against each other.

Remote Control Productions has been responsible for the scores for a number of successful live-action films including the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Iron Man, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Last Samurai, Transformers, Hancock, Kingdom of Heaven, The Da Vinci Code, Inception, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, and The Dark Knight Trilogy, along with successful animated films such as the Shrek series, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, The Lion King, and more. Many composers from Remote Control Productions have also worked on the scores of successful video games such as the Metal Gear and Skylanders series, The Sims 3, Gears of War 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, its sequel, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Crysis 2, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and Assassin's Creed III. Harry Gregson-Williams was the first Media Ventures composer to work in the video game industry on Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in 2001. Klaus Badelt, Stephen Barton, Steve Jablonsky, Lorne Balfe, and Hans Zimmer joined a few years later.

Composers

Composers who are working or have worked with Hans Zimmer at Remote Control Productions include:

United States Ryeland Allison
United States Max Aruj
Germany Klaus Badelt
United Kingdom Lorne Balfe
United Kingdom Stephen Barton
Canada Michael Brook
United States Tyler Bates
Norway Thomas Bergersen
United States Jongnic Bontemps
United States Lauren Bousfield
United States Nicholas Britell
United Kingdom David Buckley
United States Justin Burnett
United States Toby Chu
France Daft Punk
Germany Ramin Djawadi
United States James Dooley
United States Clay Duncan
United States Stephanie Economou
United States Mike Einziger
Venezuela Pedro Eustache
Germany Harold Faltermeyer
United States David Fleming
United States Germaine Franco
Denmark Troels Brun Folmann
Iran Nima Fakhrara
Australia Lisa Gerrard
United States Tom Gire
United States Alfie Godfrey
United Kingdom Nick Glennie-Smith
United Kingdom Harry Gregson-Williams
United Kingdom Rupert Gregson-Williams
United Kingdom Gavin Greenaway
United States PJ Hanke
United States Don L. Harper
United Kingdom Richard Harvey
United Kingdom Pete Haycock
Netherlands Tom Holkenborg
United States Ian Honeyman
Israel Ofra Haza
United States James Newton Howard
United States Bart Hendrickson
United Kingdom Tom Howe
United States Steve Jablonsky
United Kingdom Henry Jackman
Australia Bryce Jacobs
United States Andrew Kawczynski
Austria Harald Kloser
United Kingdom Alastair King
United States James S. Levine
United States Michael A. Levine
United Kingdom Dominic Lewis
Germany Henning Lohner
United States Mark Mancina
United States Matthew Margeson
United Kingdom Johnny Marr
United States David Metzger
United States Tom Morello
United States Steve Mazzaro
United States Michael John Mollo
Canada Trevor Morris
United Kingdom Paul Mounsey
United States Blake Neely
United Kingdom Julian Nott
Iceland Atli Örvarsson
Brazil Heitor Pereira
United States Nick Phoenix
United Kingdom John Powell
United Kingdom Graham Preskett
South Africa Trevor Rabin
France Guillaume Roussel
New Zealand Graeme Revell
United States Kevin Riepl
United States Jeff Rona
United States Pieter Schlosser
Turkey Batu Sener
United States Michael Stevens
Italy Diego Stocco
Germany Marc Streitenfeld
Iran Hangi Tavakoli
United Kingdom Benson Taylor
Switzerland Martin Tillman
United States John Van Tongeren
United States Stuart Michael Thomas
Germany Steffen Thum
Turkey Pinar Toprak
United States Joseph Trapanese
United States Brian Tyler
United States Shirley Walker
United Kingdom Benjamin Wallfisch
Germany Matthias Weber
United States James B. Weiss
United Kingdom Mel Wesson
United States Nathan Whitehead
United Kingdom Anthony B. Willis
United Kingdom Christopher Willis
United States will.i.am
United States Eric Whitacre
United States Pharrell Williams
United States Robb Williamson
United States Geoff Zanelli

Criticism

Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks has noted Zimmer's use of ghostwriters. Other reviewers have also criticized Zimmer's approach to scoring films, as well as Remote Control Productions' dominance.

References

"Business Search - Business Entities - Business Programs | California Secretary of State".
"Spotlight Media Venture". Studio Expresso.
Shprintz, JAnet. (December 4, 2003). "Music ends as Rifkin sues Zimmer $10 mil". Variety Media, LLC.
Munoz, Lorenza. (January 6, 2004). "Hans Zimmer Files countersuit". LA Times.
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