News of Ennio Morricone dead was confirmed by his attorney. The Oscar-winning composer of The Hateful Eight and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was 91.
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The Quentin Tarantino Ennio Morricone collaboration will keep on going, as Morricone says he's already planning to score Tarantino's next movie.
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For the first time, a Quentin Tarantino film will have an original score, and Ennio Morricone will be the one to compose The Hateful Eight score.
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Legendary composer Ennio Morricone has some choice words for one of his biggest fans, Quentin Tarantino. The composer behind such movie music masterworks as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and The Mission has his music prominently used in Tarantino's latest film, Django Unchained. However, Morricone recently stated that he doesn't like how Tarantino works with music…
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Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx were part of the BET awards tonight, and they didn't show up empty-handed. A new 60-second spot for Tarantino's upcoming movie Django Unchained debuted during the show, and has now appeared online. This spot features a new overt nod to classic spaghetti westerns, as the beginning of the spot features…
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When film fans hear the word "composer," we immediately think of a film composer. Maybe our minds even drift to some of our favorite scores by the likes of John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer or Jerry Goldsmith. When that happens, it's easy to forget that a composer can write music for things other than…
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If the '80s gave a sniffling speech at the Decade Achievement Awards, Harold Faltermeyer and his scores would be thanked somewhere after Shigeru Miyamoto and Super Mario Bros. and Magic Johnson's Lakers. A classically trained German composer with an affinity for rock and disco, Faltermeyer got his start in Hollywood assisting mustachioed electro-don Georgio Moroder on soundtracks…
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In this special episode of the /Filmcast, Dan Trachtenberg from The Totally Rad Show joins David Chen to geek out about their favorite soundtracks. To listen to all of the songs that Dan mentioned during this episode in their entirety, click here to go to Grooveshark. To listen to all of the songs that Dave…
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