The industry rejects DANNY ELFMAN's symphonic score for "WOLFMAN"

It seems that - despite the fact that for the time being it's still presented as a "schedule conflict" event, Elfman's "by all accounts traditional, grandly gothic effort a la Kilar’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula." [as presented in the original article which i am linking to below] sounded too old-fashioned to someone's ears.

So, they decided that the movie would benefit more from what's possibly going to turn around as a cliched, dark and moody electronic-driven score with some guitars here and there, a la usual Paul Haslinger. That, in the best of cases or otherwise - plain noise.

Read the unsetting news' piece over at cinemusic.net, by clicking HERE.

DANNY ELFMAN's "TAKING WOODSTOCK" [CD]

Check out the new score by Danny Elfman, a completely acoustic score based on guitar, which you can listen by visiting musicme.com, at this link here or by going to musicme.com and searching for "Danny Elfman" on the upper side of the site.

TAKING WOODSTOCK, Ang Lee's movie has the following synopsis according to imdb.com:

"A generation began in his backyard. From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comes Taking Woodstock, a new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. Its 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. The banks about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasnt paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbors farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever."

CD COVER for DANNY ELFMAN'S upcoming "TERMINATOR: SALVATION" score

Danny Elfman To Score ‘Terminator Salvation’

Danny Elfman, the world famous american film composer and composer of scores and songs for Tim Burton's films and the Simpsons Theme, is eventually the one who will provide the musical accompaniment for the 4th Terminator film, entitled Salvation.

Terminator Salvation is the long awaited, upcoming sci-fi film set for release on May 22, 2009. Directed by Joseph "McG" McGinty Nichol, it is the fourth Terminator film and stars Christian Bale as John Connor and Sam Worthington as the Terminator Marcus Wright. It also introduces a young version of the first film's hero, Kyle Reese, played by Anton Yelchin. The film, set in 2018, focuses on the war between humanity and Skynet.

For more information on the composer's assingment to the musical score of the film, visit the original MTV link HERE.

DANNY ELFMAN's "MILK" [CD]

Gus Van Sant's latest bio-drama is Milk, tells the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.

The original score to the much-hyped new drama is by composer Danny Elfman, who already gave us the adrenaline-packed Wanted this year along with the Philip Glass-esque Standard Operating Procedure, and Hellboy II.

The Score CD page over at amazon.com, HERE, features info, tracklisting and sound clips from the upcoming release.

New interview with DANNY ELFMAN

"In an exclusive interview for Stage and Screen Online, one of the world's most popular film composers, Danny Elfman talks to Tommy Pearson about his life and career so far. Danny was in London to record his score for the up-coming biopic, Notorious (about the rapper Notorious B.I.G); in the interview he talks about his work with Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, PeeWee), writing music for remakes and superheroes, composing TV themes (The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives), dealing with obsessive fans, and gives his views on The Dark Knight and the Academy Awards, the Simpsons Movie, why everyone steals from his Edward Scissorhands score at Christmas, what he thought of having his head chopped off in Family Guy, and why he paid for a TV spot to warn Americans about Sarah Palin.

A rare treat for all Danny Elfman fans."

Click HERE for the full audio-visual article.