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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.
After dying in a freak treadmill accident, mild-mannered slacker Doug Bellamy wakes up in the afterlife—not in heaven or hell, but in the soul-sucking offices of Reaper Inc., the bureaucratic agency responsible for collecting and processing the dead. Mistaken for a new employee due to a clerical error, Doug is assigned a cubicle, a scythe, and a quota. With no training and even less motivation, he starts bending the rules—accidentally saving lives, skipping pickups, and causing widespread glitches between the living and the dead. As ghost sightings, near-death resurrections, and existential paperwork pile up, Doug teams up with Val, a sardonic veteran reaper, to fix the mess before he's audited out of existence. But the deeper they dig into Reaper Inc.’s soul-shuffling system, the more they uncover a cosmic conspiracy buried beneath centuries of red tape. Now, Doug must choose: restore order to the afterlife… or blow it all up and reboot death itself.
