'Green Hornet' Will No Longer Have a Danny Elfman Score

Due to scheduling conflicts, Danny Elfman is officially off the Green Hornet movie (so sad). At the moment it appears as though James Newton Howard will be his replacement. I'm pretty disappointed by this; the world can always use more Danny Elfman movie scores, if you ask me.

Alice Review

     Alice in Wonderland came out today, and if you haven't seen it yet I'd recommend you do as soon as possible. I thought it was amazing! Helena and the rest of the actors did a fantastic job with their characters,  the animation was beautiful, and Tim Burton did a good job with the story, I thought.
      The list of great things about it goes on; Danny Elfman delivered a score that compliments the movie perfectly, as always, though I'm not sure how crazy I am about the Almost Alice soundtrack... But the instrumental tracks are lovely. The costumes were especially astounding-- Colleen Atwood is incredibly talented and I want her to make all of my clothes!
    And, of course, Helena and Johnny continue to be brilliant and talented, but I don't want to give anything away about their performances. ;)
You should go out and see the movie, either in 3D or 2D (I am yet to see it in 3D, only 2D. If you saw it in 3D you should leave a comment with what you thought, did you think the 3D made it better? Should people make an effort to see it in 3D?)
     The main complaint I've see in other reviews about Alice is regarding the story. (This may be considered a spoiler, so be warned) People expect the plot to be exactly like Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, seeing as it has that title, but the plot is that of Through the Looking Glass. I don't think the movie should be judged off of the title or prior expectations the audience has, so I recommend you look passed the fact that it's Through the Looking Glass but called Alice in Wonderland. I assume that was Disney's decision as to make the greatest profits by giving it that title.
     So just go and enjoy the characters, the familiar story with the Burton edge, and Helena's giant head.

--Sierra

Preview Danny Elfman's Wolfman Score

Listen to a few tracks from Danny Elfman's soundtrack for the new Wolfman movie, from Varesesarabande.com

01. Wolf Suite Pt 1

02. Gypsy Massacre

03. Country Carnage

04. The Traveling Montage

Danny Elfman Talks Alice in Wonderland

Read an interview with composer Danny Elfman as he talks about finding the sound of Alice at LAtimesblog.

Inteview: Danny Eflman Talks With Tim Burton

Interviewmagazine.com is featuring the complete dialogue between director Tim Burton and music composer Danny Elfman as Elfman interviews Tim.  Read the whole conversation at the link!

Danny Elfman to Orchestrate The Green Hornet

Film Score Monthly reports rumors (unconfirmed yet by Sony) that Danny Elfman will be doing the musical score for Michel Gondry's Green Hornet movie which stars Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, and Christoph Waltz. The film is currently in post production, set to be released December 12, 2010.

Wolfman Will Again Have Eflman Music?

Music Score Magazine reports that Danny Elfman's score will be used for the new Wolfman movie, after they previously said they wouldn't be using his music, instead of music by his replacement, Paul Haslinger. Elfman's tracks were said to be "old-fashioned" and they wanted a more electronic feel to the music. Not anymore, apparently *rejoice*
Wolfman is now worth seeing again (not that is wasn't before, but I personally wouldn't be able to enjoy it if the whole time I was thinking how much better the film could be with Elfman music..)

Alice in Wonderland Pictures, Soundtrack and more!

Lots of new Alice in Wonderland news!

First off, you can find a collection of 40 NEW photos at http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/16/40-photos-from-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland/.

If you haven't been there yet, check out the official Alice website, http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/, where you can listen to a clip of the soundtrack by Danny Elfman, and info about the soundtrack has been released!
An interesting track list has been announced, and is as follows:

'Alice (Underground)' (Avril Lavigne)
'The Poison' (The All-American Rejects)
'The Technicolor Phase' (Owl City)
'Her Name Is Alice' (Shinedown)
'Painting Flowers' (All Time Low)
'Where's My Angel' (Metro Station)
'Strange' (Tokio Hotel and Kerli)
'Follow Me Down' (3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch)
'Very Good Advice' (Robert Smith)
'In Transit' (Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz)
'Welcome to Mystery' (Plain White T's)
'Tea Party' (Kerli)
'The Lobster Quadrille' (Franz Ferdinand)
'Running Out of Time' (Motion City Soundtrack)
'Fell Down a Hole' (Wolfmother)
'White Rabbit' (Grace Potter And The Nocturnals)

Finally, some great Alice merchandise is available, including Alice in Wonderland makeup by Urban Decay and OPI, there is clearly a lot of hype and excitement about this film (well, why wouldn't there be?) and we'll keep you posted on the latest news!

New Alice Trailer!

A new Alice in Wonderland trailer came out midnight last night, if you haven't seen it yet, or want to watch it again for the 50th time like me, (it's so amazing!) here it is:

Will Danny Elfman Compose Again For Spider-Man 4?

Director Sam Raimi is planning a 4th Spider-Man movie (hopefully with a big role for Bruce Campbell, but that's for a different blog) and we wanna know if Danny Elfman will do the music again. Unfortunately we don't know yet, when asked by MTV he says, " Who knows? Only the great gods of the movie world could answer that question. Imagine a chess game, the Greek gods moving us around — that's how it is in the movie world. Somebody's moving me about from one square to another, but I have no idea what square I'm headed to next."

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

We'll just have to keep waiting...

Wolfman Will No Longer Have Danny Elfman Music?

Danny Elfman was said to be composing the music for the new Wolfman movie, but now they're saying he's been replaced by Paul Haslinger (composed the score for the first and third Underworld movies). Officials are saying this is due to schedueling conflicts, the release date has already been pushed around a few times, and he's just not working out (some internet rumors are saying Danny has "problems with the film" but that's not confirmed.) Danny Elfman's score has already been writen and recorded and has been called “a traditional, grandly gothic effort a la Kilar’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Cinemusic.
I assume we'll probably get to hear at least some of this tracks at some point, either if they leak on the internet or are possibly released by the filmmakers or put on the DVD. We'll be seeing Wolfman set to Paul Haslinger music in January 2010.

Source: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/09/wolfman-composer-replaced-danny-elfman-is-out-paul-haslinger-is-in/

New Extended Alice Trailer Came Out Today

Check out this new, extended Alice in Wonderland trailer that come out today, tell us what you think!


Alice in Wonderland - Extended Trailer

Neglect?

There has been a lack of Helena news lately, so I'm sorry you haven't been able to get you HBC (and friends) fix from HBCfanclub, but when there's more movie news it'll be here!

But hey, it's October! If there's a time of year that SCREAMS Tim Burton creatures, Helena Hair, Johnny Depp's brooding eyes and Danny Elfman tunes it's Halloween.  And it's time for you to start working on your Halloween costume! (NO ONE is too old for Halloween!) If you're at a loss of who to dress up as, why not dress up as your favorite Nightmare Before Christmas character? How about Bellatrix or another Potter character? And there's always Capt. Jack Sparrow! When Hallows eve comes around and you put on your Burton-esk attire and gel up your hair to look like Helena's, snap a picture of yourself and send it our way, and we'll put it on the site!

Until then, you should watch some Depp/HBC/Burton movies and please your ears with Danny Elfman orchastration =)

The 5th Contest is....

A TRIVIA question! WooHoo!

If you want to be entered to win a 9 Movie Book, simply answer this question:
Who are two of Danny Elfman's musical inspirations? (Hint: the answer can be found at one of the sites on our link list).

Send the answer to HBCfanclub@gmail.com

The Wolfman Trailer-- Set To Danny Elfman Music!

The remake of the classic 1941 monster classic, The Wolfman, by George Waggner that starred Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi, finally has a trailer-- watch it here!

Look for this movie, with original music by the wonderful Danny Elfman, in theaters February 12th, 2010.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Trailer

An international trailer for "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" has finally arrived via Yahoo! UK. Providing many never-before-seen footage, the promo video offers a lot of footage with Heath Ledger portraying the mysterious stranger Tony character and shares first shots at the three actors, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, who fill in the role following his sudden death. (http://www.aceshowbiz.com)



Also, here's a picture of Danny Elfman at the LA premiere of Taking Woodstock:

Danny Elfman takes Woodstock

Danny Elfman orchestrates a new movie starring comedian Demetri Martin, Taking Woodstock, look for it in theaters August 28th.

Terminator Salvation!

Coming out TOMORROW! Be on the look out for midnight showing too!

Another little reminder:
May 26th-- Helena Bonham Carter's Birthday
May 27th-- Danny Elfman's Brithday
be sure to watch some helena movies and rock out to oingo boingo in celebration of these talented people!

Tim Burton's 9 Trailer #2

Video Game - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 1:12 pm by: Peter Sciretta
G4’s Attack of the Show has premiered a new trailer for 9, a computer animated film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch), directed by former WETA Digital artist Shane Acker, and featuring the music of Danny Elfman. Based on Acker’s Academy Award-nominated 2005 film festival short (watch it on YouTube), 9 is a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened. Watch the new trailer after the jump.


http://www.slashfilm.com/