“Tron” fandom is small, but devoted and intense. Nearly 30 years after the 1982 “Tron” movie—a technical marvel for its time—the belated sequel from director Joseph Kosinski, “Tron: Legacy,” was released, featuring a classic soundtrack from Daft Punk, CGI-de-aging and dozens of other cutting edge VFX. Fans loved this new version, but the expensive film mostly flopped at the box-office, leaving ‘Legacy’ to live on as yet another cult film in the “Tron” franchise history.

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A new film from Italian horror master Dario Argento is always cause for celebration. Sure, much of his recent work hasn’t quite lived up to the classics of his past, including “Suspiria,” “Deep Red,” and “Inferno,” but no matter what, if Argento releases a new film, there are legions of fans that will line up to view it. And for his next film, “Black Glasses,” it appears that he’s going to entice many more fans by teaming up with Daft Punk for the film’s music.

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Argentine director Gasper Noé thrives on controversy. It’s an essential part of his filmmaking style. He loves to push boundaries and, for lack of a better word, torture his audiences. What he isn’t known for is having rocking soundtracks in his films. Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, who previously worked with Noé on “Irreversible” and “Enter the Void,” has contributed an original song to the director’s new film “Climax,” titled “Sangria.” Also on the soundtrack of “Climax” is his unreleased song “What to Do” and Daft Punk’s “Rollin’ and Scratchin’.”

Music plays a huge role in “Climax.” The film follows an urban dance troupe and is said to include some of the most stylish filmmaking of the entire festival, where he shows the group of dancers rehearse and perform routines with the pulsing electronic music in the background.

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The question has no doubt been keeping you up nights since we ran our 25 Best Movie Soundtracks of the Century: when the hell is the Playlist going to do scores? Well, here we are now, so quit your bellyaching. Of course, eagle-eyed observers may smell a rat: why was our Best Soundtracks list only 25 strong while this is one is twice as long? Well, simply put, as much as we appreciate the fine art of curation and understand how much a well-chosen pre-existing track can enhance the experience of a film and open up new avenues of music for us to explore, the even finer art of scoring —that is, creating music specifically tailored to the rhythms and cues of the film in question— is closer to our hearts.

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Watch: Trailer For Documentary 'Daft Punk Unchained' Brings Out Kanye West, Pharrell, Paul Williams, And More

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In the latest part of Disney’s blitzkrieg of a marketing campaign for the film, we now have our first look at Daft Punk in the film and….they look like Daft Punk.

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If you want to be the first on your block to have the disc on November 22nd, pre-orders are now being taken. You can snag a digital copy for $9.99, or a CD version that includes an exclusive Daft Punk film poster and an unnamed “new track” for $39.98.

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Last week in the Comic-Con milieu, a few minutes of mostly orchestral music popped up on the movie’s official website. The music was pretty stunning and involved some big “movie music” moments but not much in the way of the slinky beats that Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Cristo are known for.

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That’s about a month before the film hits theaters on December 17th, but Amazon dates this far out? Don’t be completely surprised if that date is changed. It does feel early, but then again, this could be a bonafide Daft Punk release that merits its own early release.

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On the heels of the epic Alejandro González Iñárritu directed Nike World Cup ad everyone was all hot for a couple weeks back is a re-imagining of the “Star Wars” Cantina scene for Adidas featuring Daft Punk, Noel Gallagher, Ciara, Ian Brown of the Stone Roses, David Beckham, Jay Baruchel, a show stealing Snoop Dog, and more.

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Daft Punk are evidently going to make a cameo in “Tron Legacy.” “They were in the movie,” Olivia Wilde told MTV about the French electro-house rockers who have also composed the film’s score (which will be the only truly interesting part to us).

Wondering about Nimród Antal’s “Armored,” his foll0w-up to the horror “Vacancy”?

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Rolling Stone revealed today that you will actually be able to play as Daft Punk’s robotic selves, crafting one-of-a-kind mixes and mash-ups. Even more excitingly, players will perform in a recreation of their mind-blowing 2007 concert tour.

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Sheen had teased fans about the role via his own twitter page noting that he was set to play an antagonist in a film that was “in fact not a person at all.” Further questioning and answering between fans and Sheen eventually deducted that it was the “Tron” sequel but, until today, no official word had been put out.

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Briefly: the reason that scores you buy on CD (or on the ITunes music store) are so much shorter than the actual, you know, movie, is because for every 45 minutes of recorded music that they release, they have to pay every member of the orchestra.

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Can’t say the Playlist EIC cares much for “Tron” frankly (other members clearly disagree, but then again, they’re not writing this are they…), but more of interest it what appears and sounds like the new Daft Punk score written for the film.

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Apparently they were wearing their helmets at said breakfast, which must have been extremely awkward and surely difficult where eating and drinking is concerned (maybe they just spill mimosas over their head and they than utter, “ahhhhhh.”

“Asked if they [would] tour in support of the soundtrack, Kosinski said there would definitely be Daft Punk Tron-themed events on the horizon,” writes Movieline, who are down at Comic-Con at the moment.

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