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Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Mikael Håfström. He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo. Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards, serving as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances featured at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year each year, presented as the award at the end of the show. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorne Balfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Marauders Era is a 2024 American epic fantasy film written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. It stars Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ben Barnes, Andrew Garfield, Dane Dehaan, Karen Gillan, Louis Garrel, Timothee Chalamet, Vanessa Kirby, Keira Knightley, Katie McGrath, Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Peter Dinkalage, Vera Farmiga, Gerard Butler, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston and Ralph Fiennes. The film follows the story of a group of boys as creat mayhem in school, get girlfriends, bully a group of Snakes and create a map to start their legacy. The film premiered on May 15, 2024, at the Cannes Film Festival, then released worldwide on May 19, 2024. The film received positive reviews and has been deemed an improvement over the Fantastic Beasts films by many, with praise for its action sequences, mature themes, score, visual effects, darker tone, and the performances of Johnson, Barnes, Garfield, Hardy, Chalamet and Louis Garrel; criticism largely focused on the film's dialogue and aspects of Gillan, Dehaan and McGrath's performances. The film was also criticized for its 3 and a half hour runtime. It broke several box office records during its opening week and went on to earn over $868 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise at the time. It was the highest-grossing film in the U.S. and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide in 2024. The film also holds the record for the highest opening-day gross on a Thursday, making $50 million.
