# Remote Control Productions (American 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 Jay Rifkin and Hans Zimmer, 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, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, and The Dark Knight Trilogy, along with successful animated films such as the Shrek series, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, The Lion King, 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:
* Ryeland Allison
* Max Aruj
* Klaus Badelt
* Lorne Balfe
* Stephen Barton
* Michael Brook
* Tyler Bates
* Jongnic Bontemps
* Lauren Bousfield
* Nicholas Britell
* David Buckley
* Justin Burnett
* Toby Chu
* Daft Punk
* Ramin Djawadi
* James Dooley
* Clay Duncan
* Stephanie Economou
* Mike Einziger
* Pedro Eustache
* Harold Faltermeyer
* David Fleming
* Germaine Franco
* Nima Fakhrara
* Lisa Gerrard
* Tom Gire
* Nick Glennie-Smith
* Harry Gregson-Williams
* Rupert Gregson-Williams
* Gavin Greenaway
* PJ Hanke
* Don L. Harper
* Richard Harvey
* Pete Haycock
* Tom Holkenborg
* Ian Honeyman
* Ofra Haza
* James Newton Howard
* Bart Hendrickson
* Tom Howe
* Steve Jablonsky
* Henry Jackman
* Bryce Jacobs
* Andrew Kawczynski
* Harald Kloser
* Alastair King
* James S. Levine
* Michael A. Levine
* Dominic Lewis
* Henning Lohner
* Mark Mancina
* Matthew Margeson
* Johnny Marr
* David Metzger
* Tom Morello
* Steve Mazzaro
* Michael John Mollo
* Trevor Morris
* Paul Mounsey
* Blake Neely
* Julian Nott
* Atli Örvarsson
* Heitor Pereira
* Nick Phoenix
* John Powell
* Graham Preskett
* Trevor Rabin
* Guillaume Roussel
* Kevin Riepl
* Jeff Rona
* Pieter Schlosser
* Batu Sener
* Michael Stevens
* Diego Stocco
* Marc Streitenfeld
* Hangi Tavakoli
* Benson Taylor
* Martin Tillman
* John Van Tongeren
* Stuart Michael Thomas
* Steffen Thum
* Joseph Trapanese
* Brian Tyler
* Shirley Walker
* Benjamin Wallfisch
* Matthias Weber
* James B. Weiss
* Mel Wesson
* Nathan Whitehead
* Anthony B. Willis
* Christopher Willis
* will.i.am
* Eric Whitacre
* Pharrell Williams
* Robb Williamson
* Geoff Zanelli

## 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. A number of scores credited to Zimmer have been disqualified from Academy Award consideration due to uncertainty about input.