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Venture Bros Movie announced!

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The long-awaited Venture Bros movie “Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart” will be available to purchase digitally on July 21 2023; it hits Blu-ray Disc on July 25 2023. The movie features an all-new score by JG Thirlwell.
The story is described as “Doc’s latest invention will either bankrupt Team Venture or launch them to new heights, as Hank searches for himself, Dean searches for Hank, the Monarch searches for answers, and a mysterious woman from their pasts threatens to bring their entire world crashing down on them.”
Thirlwell describes the movie as “epic”.
The film will be broadcast on Adult Swim on Sep 1 2023. Go Team Venture!

Venture Bros movie announced

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Adult Swim has announced that it will be creating three feature length movies from some of it’s most popular shows, including Venture Bros. In the The Venture Bros. movie, “Doc’s latest invention will either bankrupt the Ventures or launch them to new heights, as Hank searches for himself, Dean searches for Hank, The Monarch searches for answers, and a mysterious woman from their pasts threatens to bring their entire world crashing down on them. ”

The film will get a release worldwide on Blu-ray/DVD and PVOD for 90 days before hitting HBO Max and Adult Swim.

Expect an exciting new exclusive score by JG Thirlwell.

The other films to be produced will be based in Metalocalypse and Aqua Team Hunger Force.

Venture Bros nominated for Annie Award

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Screen Shot 2018-12-04 at 4.50.32 PMVenture Bros has been nominated for an Annie Award in the “Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production” category. The other shows competing in that category are Bojack Horseman, Bob’s Burgers, Big Mouth and Human Kind Of. The Annies are the Oscars of animation, honoring the best in the field. JG Thirlwell creates the musical score for Venture Bros, which airs on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block of programming. Go Team Venture!

Xordox performs at Adult Swim Festival in Los Angeles

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AdultSwim_1080x1080Xordox will perform on October 6 2018 at the inaugural Adult Swim Music Festival in Los Angeles . The Festival stretches over then weekend of October 6 and 7, and includes performances by Run The Jewels, Zola Jesus, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Dan Deacon, T-Pain, Big Freedia, Mastodon, Com Truise, High On Fire and many more. The festival will be held at ROW DTLA, 777 Alameda st Los Angeles 90021. Single day or weekend pass tickets are available here.

For this iteration of Xordox, Thirlwell will be joined by long-time musical collaborator Simon Hanes (of Tredici Bacci) on additional keyboards. They will play in front of a visual backdrop created exclusively by Swedish artist Sten Backman. The Xordox album Neospection was released by Editions Mego and is available here.

"Go Team Venture" Venture Bros Art Book to be released in April 2018

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imageedit_4_2041589144-thumb-500x667-574480Publisher Dark Horse will release the deluxe hard cover art book Go Team Venture!: The Art and Making of The Venture Bros., a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the Adult Swim fan-favorite. Written by journalist Ken Plume in conversation with series executive producers Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer—and featuring an introduction from Wonder Boy himself, Patton Oswalt—Go Team Venture! spans the entire history of the show, from early concept sketches to future teases.

“The Venture Brothers is one of those shows, like Archer, 30 Rock , and Arrested Development , that stands up to repeated viewings,” said Oswalt. “It practically demands them. And this book more than enriches your repeated visits.”

“Go Team Venture!: The Art and Making of The Venture Bros. hardcover hits the shelves 0n July 18 2018.

Venture Bros. Season 6 on DVD and Blu-ray

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venture-bros-poster-patrick-ledgerAdult Swim has announced that The Venture Bros. Season 6 will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 4, 2016. The season features new musical score from JG Thirlwell throughout.

The cult hit series from creator Jackson Publick (The Tick) scored No. 1 rankings among adults and men 18-24, 18-34 and 18-49 for its timeslot when the hotly anticipated sixth season first aired earlier this year, after a 2 ½ year hiatus.

The home entertainment release contains all eight epic episodes from season six, plus the new-to-disc 2015 All This and Gargantua-2 45-minute special. Thirlwell’s musical score for this special was nominated for an Annie Award, the highest accolade in the field of animation.

Episodes included are: “Hostile Makeover,” “Maybe No Go,” “Faking Miracles,” “Rapacity in Blue,” “Tanks for Nuthin’,” “It Happening One Night,” “A Party for Tarzan” , “Red Means Stop” plus “All This and Gargantua-2“. Bonus material includes commentaries for every episode and deleted scenes.

Venture Bros Soundtrack Volume 2 out now!

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11183_JKTWe are thrilled to announce the release of the second volume of JG Thirlwell‘s soundtracks to The Venture Bros. The album is released on Thirlwell’s Ectopic Ents label in an arrangement with Adult Swim / Williams Street Records, and is available on CD, vinyl and digitally. The CD version contains 16 tracks and there are 13 tracks on the vinyl LP version. The vinyl also comes with a download code so the buyer may obtain the full album digitally.

The album is available NOW exclusively from the Foetus Shoppe  and will be in retail stores, distributed by Virtual thru Sony Red, from June 3 2016.

 

JG Thirlwell scores "Archer" series on FX

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Screen shot 2016-03-22 at 8.06.41 AMJG Thirlwell is creating the musical score for the new season of the critically acclaimed hit show Archer. Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around a former spy agency turned private investigation firm and the lives of its employees. The new season, which is Archer‘s seventh, begins airing on March 31 2016 in the US on the FX network. Until now Archer has been using stock music for their score, and this is their first season with a composer. JG will also continue work on Venture Bros for Adult Swim / Cartoon Network, and will be releasing Volume 2 of Venture Bros soundtracks on his Ectopic Ents label through an arrangement with Adult Swim very soon. Thirlwell was recently nominated for an Annie Award for his work on the Venture Bros, which is the highest honor in the field of animation.

All new Venture Bros special for Jan 2015

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vb2014-special-announceA brand new one hour Venture Bros special will be airing January 19th, 2015 (at midnight ET/PT) on Adult Swim / Cartoon Network.

“Space. The final frontier, where no one can hear you scream, revenge is only served cold, and the drinks are comped in the casino. Join the Ventures—and pretty much everyone they’ve ever crossed paths with—as they rocket to the Gargantua-2 space station for an epic, hour-long adventure that will change the Ventureverse as we know it forever.”
This double episode will feature a ton of new music by JG Thirlwell. The rest of season six will be airing at a later date.