Soul, the latest Pixar movie that is sure to leave us all utterly devastated, is coming to Disney+ on Christmas Day, but Walt Disney Records is putting out two separate soundtrack albums ahead of the film’s release. One album will feature the original score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, while the other will feature jazz compositions and arrangements by Jon Batiste. Soul follows a middle school music teacher named Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) with a lifelong dream of performing jazz onstage in front of an audience. But he accidentally falls down a manhole cover and dies before getting …

Soul (coming to Disney+ on Christmas Day) is the kind of Pixar movie that could have only sprung from the mind of Pete Docter. Docter started at Pixar after graduating college, in 1990 at the age of 21. He went on to contribute to the studio’s pioneering short films and initial features like Toy Story, and made the leap to director with 2001’s Monsters, Inc. (a film that lost the inaugural Best Animated Feature Oscar to, ugh, Shrek). Since then, his projects have always stood out from the crowd – he came up with the initial concept for WALL•…

It's safe to say that Trent Reznor probably did not do the Bird Box challenge.

When the thriller The Woman in the Window hits theaters next year, it’ll be without an original score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The Oscar-winning The Social Network and Watchmen composers were originally hired to craft a score for the bestseller adaptation, which stars Amy Adams as an agoraphobic woman who witnesses a crime across the street and subsequently begins to question what she actually saw. Joe Wright—the bold filmmaker behind Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, and Darkest Hour—directed the film, but it apparently changed enough in post-production to necessitate a new score. Speaking with …

It’s no surprise that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have confirmed in a new interview that they’ll be handling the score for David Fincher’s new film Mank. But it is a bit of a surprise that they’ll be doing so by greatly limiting their available instruments for the process. The musicians broke out as film composers with Fincher’s The Social Network, for which they won an Oscar for writing one of the most iconic film scores of all time. They subsequently collaborated with Fincher on his next two films, crafting an icy soundscape for The …

Creating one of the biggest (eventually highest-grossing) films of all time on any level is a daunting challenge, but imagine being the person responsible for the look of it all—for turning those millions of dollars worth of stars and sets and VFX into actual images captured inside a camera. That was the task afforded cinematographer Trent Opaloch on Avengers: Endgame, but while he knew he was in for a daunting ride in shooting Infinity War and Endgame back-to-back, he was also well aware that he had one of the best support systems in the world. Opaloch’…

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think Trent Reznor? Is it Nine Inch Nails, his industrial metal outfit whose most popularly mainstream song describes, in graphic detail, wanting to fuck you like an animal? Is it the TV and film scores he's co-created with Atticus Ross, like the one currently thumping through Damon Lindelof's Watchmen, most of which feel like they're soundtracking an underground kink club 2,000 years into the future? Is it Pixar? It's probably not Pixar. But Reznor is, in fact, bringing his unique talents to the …

While watching the series premiere of Watchmen last night, I was struck by the immediacy and power of the score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. This is the not the first collaboration between the two musicians having previously won an Oscar for Best Score for The Social Network and also worked together on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, Patriots Day, The Vietnam War, and Mid90s just to name a few. But their work on Watchmen easily ranks as one of their best and I spent the episode wondering when I’d be able to own the …