Timbaland in Talks to Exec Produce Music for Animated Feature Starring Jamie Foxx: Exclusive
Timbalandis in final talks to serve as executive music producer on CG-animated feature Groove Tails .
The movie will star Jamie Foxxas a mouse forced to enter the world of competitive street dancing to pay an outstanding cheese debt.
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For his role, Timbaland would guide and produce the score for the kids movie along with music marketing agency Jungle Punks, who is helping the artists expand into original music for brand synchs, television and film scores, video game soundtracks and sponsorships.
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Timbaland is the latest big music talent to lend expertise to animated fare.
Pharrell Williamscomposed the scores for Universal's Despicable Me franchise, and also wrote original music for the animations, including the explosively popular song "Happy," It was also recently announced that the Grammy winner will write music for 2017's Hidden Figures from Fox 2000, starring Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer.
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DreamWorks Animation enlisted Rihannato record two original songs for 2015's Home . DreamWorks has tapped frequent Timbaland collaborator Justin Timberlaketo executive music produce, write and perform original music for its Nov. 4 release Trolls .
Minions, aliens and now anthropomorphic mice are getting the best contemporary pop music has to offer.
This article originally appeared in THR.com .
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