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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.
Danny Elfman
Composer
for Composer in Cordell: Supernatural Criminal Investigator (1992)
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In a world where both humans and supernatural beings co-exist. Former detective turned criminal investigator, Eric Cordell (Christian Slater) is looking into the case of the grisly murders that have been popping up left and right, similar to what happened to his twin brother prior when Eric was a detective that night. However, Supervisory Criminal Investigator, Charles Rhodes (Clancy Brown) brings in vampire FBI agent, Colette Newman (Heather Langenkamp) to work alongside Cordell on the case, while the two were analyzing evidence on the recent murders, Cordell stumbled into the ghost of the victim at the crime scene. Larry Thomas (Jim Varney), after giving information about his killer accompanies them to solve the case and catch the individual responsible for the murders, including Larry. However things turn serious when Eric realizes that the killings were done by the dream demon, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). The same man that killed his brother. Unbeknownst to the three, inside the local sewers there's a chain of arms trafficking run by the werewolf crime boss, Xander Vexx (Denis Leary) who's been keeping an eye on the trio, thanks to the corrupt officials in the same work place that Cordell is a part of. Later on, Krueger stumbled into the crime boss when he killed one of his clients, who was one of his targets. The stakes grew higher when Vexx and Krueger compromised to work together against them, can the three stop the two villains once and for all?
