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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 Raya and the Kingdom of Kumandra
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The film takes place three years after the events of Raya and the Last Dragon as Chief Benja and his daughter Raya have reached an agreement with the people of Fang as they would have peace in their lands as he and Chief Virana have agreed that the best way to achieve it is for a marriage to take place. When Raya tells Benja to marry Virana to unify their lands, Benja approves to say yes. Benja also tells Raya that her duty as princess of Heart is to see for their land and for their people and they have arranged this wedding to be hers with Princess Namaari or the Spine Chief on her 21st birthday. Meanwhile, the dark dragon, Quynh, half dragon, half Druun, returns to Kumandra from the underworld as he brings the Druun back to life and discovers the hidden kingdom known as Horn then he declares his revenge on the people and dragons of Kumandra, including Sisu and her brothers and sisters by war. It's up to Raya and her new fearless friends to set the dark dragon free from his evil manner once and for all.
