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Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Oscars, four Grammys, and has been nominated for three Emmys and a Tony. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Lion King (1994) and for Dune (2021). His works include Gladiator, The Last Samurai, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Man of Steel, Interstellar, Dunkirk, No Time to Die, and the Dune series. Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. His studio in Santa Monica, California, has an extensive range of computer equipment and keyboards, allowing demo versions of film scores to be created quickly. Zimmer has collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, Guy Ritchie, Denis Villeneuve, and Tony Scott. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hans Zimmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Bounty of Ryder Part II is a 2026 American coming-of-age Western adventure film written and directed by Kevin Costner. Produced by Legendary Pictures and New Line Cinema and distributed by Lionsgate, it is the second installment in the Chronicles of Charlotte Ryder series, the first chronologically, and a prequel to The Bounty of Ryder. The film stars Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Nicolas Cage, alongside Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet, Vincent D'Onofrio, Costner, Annette Bening, Christopher Judge, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L. Jackson. It marks Armstrong's second collaboration with Cage after The Old Way (2023). In the film, a group of bounty hunters and lawmen have been ratted out by one of their own when a powerful gang ambushed them. Charley Ryder is taken under the wing of Clinton Ward, who is secretly her mentor, to interrogate the gang's allies in order to find out who tipped them off. The Bounty of Ryder Part II premiered in London on October 6th, 2026, and was released on November 11th; the film received widespread acclaim with praise for its visual style, Costner's direction, the action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, emotion, and performances —namely Armstrong, Cage, Judge, and Jackson. It grossed over $1.56 billion worldwide, the first Western film to pass the $1 billion dollar mark, and thus making it the highest-grossing Western film and the third-highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. A sequel to the first film entitled The Bounty of Ryder Part III: Blood or High Honor was released the following year.
