James L. Venable

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James L. Venable
Born	James Lewis Venable (1967-05-19) May 19, 1967 (age 58) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Genres	Film score
Occupation	Film composer

James Lewis Venable (born May 19, 1967) ^[1] is an American composer, working primarily in American film and television. He is known for his scores to the animated television series The Powerpuff Girls , Samurai Jack , and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends . The latter was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2005, the same score won a 2005 Annie Award—Venable's third—for achievement in music for an animated series. Among Venable's feature film scores are Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , Scary Movie 3 , 4 , and 5 and EuroTrip . On August 3, 2004, Venable released an electronica album titled Holding Space with Screaming Fan Records. ^[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Note
2001	Iron Monkey	Yuen Woo-Ping	Composed score for U.S release
	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Kevin Smith	1st of 6 collaborations with Smith
2002	The Powerpuff Girls Movie	Craig McCracken	—N/a
2003	Scary Movie 3	David Zucker	1st of 3 collaborations with Zucker
2004	EuroTrip	Jeff Schaffer	—N/a
	Jersey Girl	Kevin Smith	—N/a
	The Year of the Yao	Adam Del Deo James D. Stern	Documentary film
2005	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo	Mike Bigelow	Themes music composed by John Debney
	Venom	Jim Gillespie
2006	Scary Movie 4	David Zucker	—N/a
	Clerks II	Kevin Smith	—N/a
	Kickin' It Old Skool	Harvey Glazer	—N/a
2007	The Last Day of Summer	Blair Treu	Television film
2008	Turok: Son of Stone	Curt Geda Dan Riba Frank Squillace Tad Stones	—N/a
	Superhero Movie	Craig Mazin	—N/a
	Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Kevin Smith	—N/a
	An American Carol	David Zucker	—N/a
2009	Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel	Gareth Carrivick	—N/a
	I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell	Bob Gosse	—N/a
2010	Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths	Sam Liu Lauren Montgomery	Additional music by Christopher Drake
2013	Scary Movie 5	Malcolm D. Lee	—N/a
	Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie!	Steve Stark	—N/a
2018	Supercon	Zak Knutson	—N/a
2019	Jay and Silent Bob Reboot	Kevin Smith	—N/a
2022	Clerks III		—N/a

Television

Year	Film	Notes
1998–2005	The Powerpuff Girls	with Steve Rucker and Tom Chase
2000–2001	Clerks: The Animated Series	—N/a
2001–2004	Samurai Jack	with will.i.am
2002–2006	My Life as a Teenage Robot	with Paul Dinletir
2002–2003	3-South	—N/a
2003–2005	Star Wars: Clone Wars	with Paul Dinletir
2004–2009	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	with Jennifer Kes Remington
2008	The Mighty B!	First episode only "Original music" credit
2014-2017	Clarence	with Simon Panrucker

Video games

Year	Game	Notes
TBA	The Adventures of Breadman [3]
2007	Spider-Man: Friend or Foe	With Mike Reagan

References

1. "2001 Scoring Primetime". The Hollywood Reporter. Vol. 369, no. 34. August 21, 2001. p. 38. ISSN   0018-3660.
2. Holding Space. ASIN   B0002L57ZU.
3. Psyko (June 22, 2019). "The Adventures of Breadman llegará a Nintendo Switch si logra financiarse en kickstarter". Nintenderos (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-13.

External links

• Official website
• James L. Venable at IMDb
• James L. Venable discography at Discogs