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Broadcast Pro
a day ago
- Business
- Broadcast Pro
Create Production brings Vox Cinemas' sonic identity to life with Hans Zimmer
Create Production has joined forces with Majid Al Futtaim Entertainment to unveil Fall in Love with Film, Vox Cinemas' latest brand film that signals a new chapter for the region's premier cinema operator. The cinematic tribute, released in celebration of Vox Cinemas' 25th anniversary, is underscored by an original score and sonic identity created by legendary composer Hans Zimmer. The emotionally rich film is a love letter to the power of cinema, weaving together themes of love, community, and escapism. At its heart is the story of a young boy growing up with the cinema as his lifelong companion. The narrative is brought to life by Zimmer's evocative score, blending Hollywood-style orchestration with 90s nostalgia and Arabic musical elements. As part of Vox's broader 'experience-first' strategy to reconnect with audiences, Create Production oversaw the entire creative process, from script development to full-scale production across eight regional markets. The campaign produced more than 85 assets in a variety of languages, formats, and platforms, ranging from IMAX screens to social media reels. Create also led localisation efforts across four languages and dialects, ensuring cultural resonance throughout the region. Muhammad Ashraf, Senior Producer at Create Production, said: 'Working alongside the Vox Cinemas team to develop a film worthy of Hans Zimmer's signature sound was a true privilege. We set out to craft a narrative that celebrates Vox's magic and elevates the region's sonic identity.' The brand film is currently screening in Vox Cinemas across the Middle East, with additional distribution on digital platforms, social media, and out-of-home advertising. The custom sonic branding developed for the campaign will continue to roll out throughout 2025, becoming an integral part of the Vox experience—from cinema lobbies to customer service interactions. This project adds to Create Production's portfolio of landmark regional campaigns, continuing its track record of high-profile collaborations, including previous work with Zimmer and large-scale productions across the Middle East.
Indian Express
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Ranveer Singh can't get enough of Hans Zimmer concert in Abu Dhabi; AR Rahman asks when he's coming to India
Oscar-winning music composer Hans Zimmer performed in Abu Dhabi for the first time on Saturday. He brought his 'Hans Zimmer Live' concert to the UAE capital and performed compositions from his most iconic soundtracks, including Interstellar, The Lion King, Dune, and more. Several Indian celebrities flew to Abu Dhabi to attend Zimmer's historic concert. Among them was actor Ranveer Singh. In videos shared on the Instagram Stories of Abu Dhabi Events, Singh can be seen sitting in the audience and keenly engaging with Zimmer's performance on stage. Singh looks all charged up by Zimmer's renditions and even shakes his head in disbelief at the composer's talent unravelling before him and thousands others in Abu Dhabi. Ranveer Singh today in Abu Dhabi attending Hans Zimmer concert with his best friends Navzar and Karan . He is attending the event as Abu Dhabi tourism brand ambassador.#RanveerSingh #HansZimmerLive #HansZimmer — musk_melon (@Musk_19) May 31, 2025 Meanwhile, India's own Oscar- and Grammy Award-winning music composer AR Rahman also attended Hans Zimmer Live in Abu Dhabi. He took to his Instagram handle and shared a photo of Zimmer getting a wide round of applause after his performance in Abu Dhabi. The German composer, 67, was also seen running towards a teammate in excitement on the stage. 'Watched the spectacular @hanszimmer show at Abu Dhabi… when is he coming to India? (heart eyes emoji)?' Rahman wrote in the caption. Zimmer and Rahman will collaborate to score Nitesh Tiwari's adaptation of the Ramayana. While Rahman is tight-lipped about the same, producer Namit Malhotra confirmed the development and called it a 'dream come true.' Backed by Malhotra and Kannada superstar Yash, the Ramayana adaptation stars Ranbir Kapoor as Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana, Ravi Dubey as Lakshman, Sunny Deol as Hanuman, Kunal Kapoor as Indradev, Arun Govil as Dasharath, and Lara Dutta as Kekayi among others. It will release in two installments, on Diwali 2026 and Diwali 2027 respectively. Hans Zimmer had opened up on his Abu Dhabi concert in a statement recently. 'I am very excited to be performing for the first time in the city where Dune: Part Two was filmed and served as the inspiration for the score,' he said, referring to Denis Villeneuve's blockbuster sci-fi epic, starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, which released in cinemas last year. Zimmer previously performed in Dubai in summer last year. Also Read: Hans Zimmer in talks to redefine Saudi Arabia's national anthem, lead ambitious cultural projects Zimmer is an EGOT member, with four Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. He's also composed for blockbusters like Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight, Johnny Depp-starrer action franchise Pirates of the Caribbean, and Joseph Kosinski's 2022 aerial action entertainer Top Gun: Maverick.
Business Wire
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Wire
IG Arena Hosts First Public Event Headlined by Hans Zimmer
LOS ANGELES & NAGOYA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Multiple GRAMMY®-nominated and Academy Award winning film score composer, conductor and music producer Hans Zimmer headlined the first-ever public event at Japan's new state-of-the-art IG Arena in Aichi Prefecture Nagoya. Zimmer's first-ever performance in Japan took place on May 24 in the 17,000-seat multi-purpose arena which is part of several new projects in Asia being developed by AEG, the world's leading sports and live entertainment company. AEG is known for such iconic venues and destinations as Arena and L.A. LIVE (Los Angeles), T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas), The O2 (London), Uber Arena and Platz (Berlin), Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai) and most recently, UOB LIVE (Bangkok). The company presently has other significant projects underway in Osaka, Japan and Bangkok, Thailand. IG Arena, with its hybrid oval-shaped arena, is considered one of Japan's largest and most modern sports and entertainment facilities. The venue is slated to open on July 13 hosting the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, also known as the Nagoya Basho. About IG Arena IG Arena is a hybrid oval-shaped arena built in Aichi Prefecture. It is one of the largest venues in Japan, with a maximum capacity of 17,000 people, and a 30-meter ceiling height. IG Arena will be the home of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament and the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins of the More information about IG Arena can be found here: About AEG Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, AEG is the world's leading sports and live entertainment company. The company operates in the following business segments: Music through AEG Presents, which is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performances, including the production and promotion of global and regional concert tours, an extensive portfolio of clubs, theaters and other music venues, concerts and special events and world-renowned festivals such as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Venues and Real Estate, which develops, owns and operates world-class venues, as well as major sports and entertainment districts like Arena and L.A. LIVE, Uber Platz in Berlin and The O2 in London; Sports, as the world's largest operator of high-profile sporting events and sports franchises including the LA Kings, LA Galaxy and Eisbären Berlin; Global Partnerships, which oversees worldwide sales and servicing of sponsorships including naming rights, premium seating, and other strategic partnerships. And Ticketing, through its ticketing platform, which provides more than 400 clients worldwide with ticketing services that cover the gamut of entertainments, including sporting events, arena tours, music clubs, festivals, rodeos and family events. Through its worldwide network of venues, portfolio of powerful sports and music brands and its integrated entertainment districts, AEG entertains more than 90 million guests annually. More information about AEG can be found at
CNBC
20-05-2025
- Health
- CNBC
'You'll be back': Arnold Schwarzenegger on the most important move to make to stay healthy aging into 50s, 60s and beyond
On film, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been tough to take down. But in real life, the actor and former governor of California has had his share of health issues that required surgery and replacement parts as he has aged. Through it all, he continues to work out — a daily regimen that includes a bicycle for an hour, and 45 minutes with weights — and Schwarzenegger says that movement is the key to remaining healthy in our 50s, 60s and beyond. "Do something," Schwarzenegger said at the CNBC CEO Council Summit on Monday evening in Arizona. "It doesn't matter to me if you play tennis, if you go skiing, if you play soccer, or if you lift weights ... but do something." That seems simple, but he says it is a huge issue in a world where hundreds of millions of people suffer from arthritic conditions that may require surgery, physical therapy, or body part replacement, or some combination involving all three. And too many people, according to Schwarzenegger, are afraid of taking the steps necessary, including replacing body parts, as they age even though the medical science has come a long way. The alternative to getting past the fear of technology is one that Schwarzenegger put in Terminator-like terms: "If you stop movement, then, this is the first step to death," he said. "If you rest, you rust," is another statement he has been fond of making since he took up the role of Chief Movement Officer at medical device company Zimmer Biomet last year. According to Zimmer CEO Ivan Tornos, who appeared alongside Schwarzenegger at the CNBC event for CEOs, there are 600 million people around the world living in pain, and that was a primary reason he sought out Schwarzenegger for the role in creating more awareness about the advances in medical devices. Zimmer, which was founded in 1927, is now moving into areas far beyond "plastic and metal," Tornos said, with health monitoring tech through companies including Apple and Microsoft, AI, mixed reality and robotics solutions, and 50 products launching over the next 36 months, he said. According to the Zimmer CEO, every day in the U.S. there are between 10,000 and 12,000 people turning 65, and Tornos told CNBC last November that many of these people are "waiting on the sidelines to get treatment," or are afraid to get treatment. Of the 600 million people in the world with arthritis, Tornos has estimated only 5% are doing something about it. Joint replacement survivorship was eight to 10 years three decades ago, and is now as high as 25 to 30 years and higher, he said. Getting Zimmer's board to endorse the executive role for Schwarzenegger as the messenger on how much the medical science has changed, from surgery to therapy and body part replacement, wasn't easy at first. Tornos recalled, that he told the board "I want to get The Terminator to be the spokesman of the company, and they wanted to send me to get drug screening. Some went as far as to say it would never happen, he will never listen to you." But the message resonated with Schwarzenegger, who sees the medical science available to humans as we age as part of his broader "movement" philosophy. "My business is to make people move," he said. "All over the world, to go and to pump them up and to say you can exercise, train every day." Even people who know about body part replacement technology are afraid, he said, and they are suffering. "I see it firsthand in the gym," Schwarzenegger said. "People come up to me and say 'I can't do this lift anymore, my shoulder hurts and my surgeon doesn't want to operate anymore, now wants to do shoulder replacement, but I'm afraid of it. I hear all theses stories," he said. "We have to convince people it is possible to do this," he said. "I had my hip replaced. I had my valve replaced in my heart. ... All these people complaining about problems in knees, hips and shoulders, they stop moving," he added. Tornos said there are now millions of people engaging every day in the campaign that Schwarzenegger leads for Zimmer — called "You'll be back" — an idea he said was Arnold's. "I wanted to call it 'Terminate your pain today,' and he said, 'That's a stupid idea. It's not about you. It's about them," Tornos recalled. The former governor, who remains active in various efforts including environmental policy and recently authored the book, "Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life", also linked his message on action over living in pain to the current political moment. "I don't have patience when people come to me with excuses," Schwarzenegger said. "I think that the environment always changes. The key thing is to understand that for every attack, there's a defense. And so instead of whining, I think you have got to go and move forward. ... I don't want to hear the excuse where now that Trump is in office, we cannot move forward with the environment. ... It's garbage. It's a cheap excuse." Misunderstanding about keeping our bodies healthy as we age and body part replacement, specifically, is another fallacy he wants to fix. "It is extremely important to not stop moving when you're 50 to 60 just because of joint problems," he said. Schwarzenegger stressed that surgery should never be the first choice if therapy can be effective, and body part replacement may not be necessary either. But the message too often missed is that the technology does exist today that allows people "walk out of hip surgery," he said. "When I did it I had to stay in the hospital for days and had months of therapy," he said. "I want to let people know and give them the courage to get those things fixed and continue moving." "Don't let anything get in the way," he said. "Exercise, exercise, exercise."
San Francisco Chronicle
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Is Hans Zimmer overrated as a movie composer?
Dear Mick: So glad to see Rachel Portman as your first choice among film composers — mine also. But it seems impossible to list even just a few good film composers and still leave out John Barry, James Horner and Hans Zimmer. Wyn Wachhorst, Atherton Dear Wyn: James Horner ('Titanic') was good. Barry was good too, though I tend to think of him only in connection with James Bond. As for Zimmer, he is a fine composer — his score for ' Dune ' was the best and most important element in that movie. But for the most part, I associate Zimmer with a lot of movies I either don't like (the ' Dark Knight ' trilogy) or actively detest, such as the ' Pirates of the Caribbean ' and the ' Transformers ' series. Over the years, I've just seen too many awful action sequences underscored by Zimmer's horns of hope to want to hear more. It's not his fault. They bring him in to dress up garbage. But you know how it is: When you're dressing up garbage, it's hard to keep the stink from rubbing off on you. Hi, Mick: Last night, some friends and I gathered to watch a 2024 Guy Maddin film, 'Rumours' that had received critical raves. Over the closing credits, I asked the most cinematically insightful among us to please explain what we had just spent two hours viewing. He yelled, 'That was the worst (expletive) movie I've ever watched!' I seconded his (e-)motion. Are you familiar with this film? Ben Bayol, San Francisco Hi, Ben: Yes, and it's definitely not the worst (expletive) movie I've ever watched, but that's because I've watched lots of bad (expletive) movies. Interestingly, I saw ' Rumours ' under the best possible circumstances, following an award ceremony for Cate Blanchett at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The whole audience was primed to have a good time, but after 45 minutes, I walked out of it. It wasn't terrible, but it just wasn't good. Weeks later, I did end up watching the whole thing, because I was reviewing it. The main problem with the movie is that everything it has to say, it says in the first half hour, and after that it's the same joke, played over and over. Why did critics mostly go easy on it? First, I assume most of them genuinely liked it, or at least have a positive history with Maddin's other movies. Second, it's a sincere attempt to do something good. It's not cynically made, and it's not horrible. It's about world leaders who can't find their way out of the woods, and in that way, it's a little like a satire by Luis Buñuel, only not that funny or entertaining. The title also bothered me. The movie wasn't about rumors, and that title, 'Rumours,' especially with that spelling, means only one thing — the 1977 Fleetwood Mac album. It would be like calling a movie 'Dark Side of the Moon.' The name is taken. Dear Mick LaSalle: More and more films are coming out in only Blu-ray form. Is it time for me to invest, or will this too pass? Robert Freud Bastin, Petaluma Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I admit that I probably live in a bubble, but to my mind the time to invest was about 10 years ago. But it's not too late. Make up for lost time. Blu-ray players play DVDs too, so it's not like you're buying something you might not be able to use. And you can get one for less than $100, so invest is probably too big a word for what we're talking about here. So please, by all means, go for the gusto. Throw caution to the wind. Take the bull by the horns. Seize the day. Have a question? Ask Mick LaSalle at askmicklasalle@ Include your name and city for publication, and a phone number for verification. Letters may be edited for clarity and length.
