Remote Control Productions (American company)
American film score company
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, Michael Clayton, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, and The Dark Knight Trilogy, along with animated films such as the Shrek series, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, The Lion King, Raya and the Last Dragon, 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:
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.
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