Future Ruins film music festival canceled, refunds issued

Future Ruins, a filmmusic festival curated by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, scheduled for November 8 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, has been canceled, organizers announced Friday. The team said a range of logistical challenges made it impossible to deliver the immersive, multi-stage experience as originally planned, and that they would rather pause and reevaluate than present a compromised event.

"Unfortunately Future Ruins will not move forward this year," the organizers wrote in a statement posted on the festival's website and social media pages. "The reality is, due to a number of logistical challenges and complications, we feel we cannot provide the experience that's defined what this event was always intended to be. Rather than compromise, we're choosing to rethink and reevaluate." The statement added that refunds will be issued automatically and that ticket holders will receive an email with further information.

The inaugural festival had been billed as a daylong, three-stage showcase bringing prominent film and television composers out from behind the screen to perform live reworkings of their scores. Presented by Live Nation, the event was described...