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James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Space Jam (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Signs (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Peter Pan (2003), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel, The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Blood Diamond (2006), Michael Clayton (2007), The Hunger Games series (2012–present), the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films and eight of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Peter Jackson, Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P. J. Hogan, Paul Greengrass, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Roth, Martin Campbell, Joe Johnston, Tony Gilroy, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates; conductor Pete Anthony; and violinists Bruce Dukov, and Eun-Mee Ahn.
James Newton Howard
Composer
for Composer in Kong: Skull Island (2017)
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When the secret organisation known as Monarch identifies this destination as the origin of mysterious new super-species, they launch an expedition to uncover its secrets.What they discover on Skull Island is an adventure beyond any human experience. An exotic paradise of wonders and terrors, where flora and fauna have merged into an Eden of supernatural jungle creatures. As one group struggles to escape and the other declares war on Kong, it is revealed that the mighty primate is at the centre of a battle for dominance on the island, locked in a ‘survival of the fittest’ clash with the terrifying apex predators responsible for the annihilation of his loved ones. Driven by vengeance, Kong will become the fury of nature and fight to reclaim his rightful place on the throne as the island’s most powerful beast, revealing the story of how Kong became king.
