Superhero Bits: ‘Doom Patrol’ Set Photos, Why Hans Zimmer Joined ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

Want a first look at Robotman on the set of Doom Patrol? Need a crash course on the revamped origin of Captain Marvel? How does the dialogue count of all the Avengers stack up against each other? When will the Supergirl movie take place? Can the X-Men be introduced in the MCU without breaking continuity? […]

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ trailer reveals Han’s roots

Wondering how Lucasfilm and Disney would handle that long-in-the-making Han Solo movie? You now have an idea of what to expect. They’ve released the full teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story… and it’s definitely Han. Alden Ehrenreich may not sound that much like Harrison Ford, but the clip otherwise gives a good feel […]

‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ Score Brings Hans Zimmer Out of Superhero Retirement

There’s no putting this rock god into retirement. Last year, Hans Zimmer dramatically announced that he was “retiring from the superhero business” after he was beaten down from composing the score for Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. But that retirement was short-lived, as it appears that the Oscar-winning composer is returning to superhero movies to score Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: […]

Hans Zimmer’s Favorite Film Composer? Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood

Hans Zimmer is a movie soundtrack legend, having scored over 100 films and TV shows, including The Dark Knight and Man of Steel. Yet even a mega-composer like Zimmer still gets starstruck. In a recent interview, Zimmer named his own personal favorite film composer: Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.   Despite his prolific career and world-renown, Zimmer isn’t above geeking out about […]

The Water Cooler: ‘The Lion King’ Sing-Along, the Quest for a Great Cooking Show, and a Hans Zimmer Concert

Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Ben attends a sing-along screening of The Lion King, Peter tries to sell his DVD collection, Jacob gets hooked on Top Chef, Jack reads some Stephen […]

Hans Zimmer’s ‘Dunkirk’ Score and Michael Giacchino’s ‘Apes’ Score Release Tracks Online

Christopher Nolan‘s highly-anticipated Dunkirk apparently isn’t a war movie, but it shares at least one thing in common with Matt Reeves‘ War For the Planet of the Apes: they both have songs from their soundtracks available to listen to right now. Let’s take a listen to a track from the Dunkirk score first. This comes from Nolan’s regular […]

Watch: Hans Zimmer Rocks Coachella with ‘Inception’ Medley

2017’s Coachella music festival is under way in Southern California, and while attendees may have flocked to the desert to seek out shows from Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga, one of the festival’s acts that might be of more immediate interest to a film-loving community like /Film’s is composer Hans Zimmer. Last night, Zimmer took the stage with […]

20 Honest and Magical Life Lessons from Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

Happy birthday to Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who is best known for his fairy tales like The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and The Ugly Duckling. “In Denmark they mention Andersen in the same breath as Shakespeare and Goethe, and not without reason,” writes The Independent. “Unlike the brothers Grimm who were merely […]

Composer Hans Zimmer on the Questions That Drive Him [Interview]

If you want to learn about composing movie music, why not go to one of the masters? The opportunity to take a class from Hans Zimmer is now only a few clicks away. The man behind the scores for The Thin Red Line, Inception, Thelma & Louse, and other favorites is now available to teach movie fans a thing or two […]

Hans Zimmer Gave Up Scoring ‘Batman’ Movies Because Of Zack Snyder’s Version Of The Dark Knight

After Hans Zimmer completed his work on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, he shared the news that he was no longer scoring comic book movies. “[Batman v Superman] was very hard for me to do, to try to find new language,” he told BBC Hardtalk. “I did Batman Begins with Chris [Nolan] 12 years ago, so The […]