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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
It was originally in production, but it got shelved. Annushka Borzakovskaya (Anya for short) is from Russia and lives in a small New England town with her single mother and her little brother. Because of what she and her family went through, she is crass and cynical. She put herself on an extreme "thin girl" diet and learned to speak without her accent. Anya is a social outcast at her private school. Sometimes, she likes to find a place where no one's looking and smoke a cigarette. One day, while going for a walk by herself in the woods, she accidentally falls down a deep well with no water in it, and sprains her ankle. What's even worse is that at the bottom of the well, there is... a SKELETON! Anya tries calling for help, but no one can hear her. While waiting in actual pain, she finds a bright light coming from... a GHOST! A girl named Emily, who is about Anya's age. She's the ghost of that skeleton. Apparently, Emily died of thirst after falling down the well 90 years ago. Eventually, help does come, and Anya is relieved. But soon after coming home, Anya sees that the ghost, Emily, has FOLLOWED HER! Her ghost can't go anywhere without her bones being moved. Somehow, a finger bone slipped into Anya's backpack, so now Emily gets to go wherever Anya goes. Eventually, Anya discovers that having a ghost friend is quite beneficial. While becoming best friends with her, Anya must also solve the mystery of Emily's death.
