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He mentioned recording another rock album back in 2023, before the article was released. I’m not really convinced there’s an audience for this stuff. It seems to me that people going to the rock concerts are doing so for the Boingo material. But, yeah, all these conventions and meet-and-greets do suggest that his income has taken a big hit.
Between winning the Emmy for Wednesday, making the BAFTA/Oscar longlist for Best Original Score for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and winning the Saturn Award for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, there’s evidently still some industry support. Though Elfman was apparently locked in his house during Beetlejuice promo, he still had his name associated with a massive hit. Scoring a European movie for a semi-disgraced director (Dracula) and an indie film for one of his friends (Dead Man’s Wire) doesn’t really tell us much, but that’s already more film work than 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024 and the same amount as in 2022. He also has ‘Dark Universe’ opening soon, and he’s recording his cello concerto this fall.
I think whether or not he’s involved with Wednesday Season 2 and/or Raimi’s Send Help will be telling. If he’s working with Netflix on one of their biggest shows and with Disney for Send Help, I think he’ll continue to work in that ‘part time film composer’ space he occupied in the few years leading up to the accusations.
It’s his classical composing that seems to have taken the hit: no new commissions in over two years (that we know of anyway).
I’m naturally predisposed to side with Elfman here, but the information presented does seem very compelling. Some of those texts from Abadi are chilling.
The link would help.
https://airmail.news/issues/2025-3-29/the-alien-and-the-fawn
Airmail have done an extensive write-up of the Elfman/Abadi saga. You need to provide your email to read.
Composer Danny Elfman’s Complicated #MeToo Story: Jacob Bernstein Reports – Air Mail
It’s filled with quotes and text messages. It also details the Raimi connection which I previously noted. It seems compelling….
I had no idea that theme park stans were a thing, but they are, and according to them:
1. This sold out immediately.
2. These sorts of things are hardly ever released.
30th January 2026 – release date.
https://deadline.com/2025/02/elio-disney-release-dates-1236289608/
This will open in France on 30th July.
Serra’s score for Besson’s previous movie, Dogman, was released on CD in France. Fingers crossed the same happens here.
So… Dracula is done.
Wednesday Season 2 has finished filming.
Van Sant’s Dead Man Walking started filming a month ago.
Raimi’s Send Help started filming a few days ago.
Elfman worked on Wednesday Season 1 for two months, so I guess it’s possible he manages to fit all of them in.
This is really cool, but are they releasing an alternate or extended video or something? The actual video has none of these segments.
Has started shooting.
The writers have seemingly (and recently) deleted their tweet which suggested that Danny would score, Bill Pope would lens and Bob Murawski would edit.
Elfman was recording in Budapest yesterday. I have no idea if Dracula is recorded yet, so it could have been for that, but he previously recorded his Wednesday episodes there, so it could suggest that he’s scoring some of Season 2.
This was for Dracula.
Elfman was recording in Budapest yesterday. I have no idea if Dracula is recorded yet, so it could have been for that, but he previously recorded his Wednesday episodes there, so it could suggest that he’s scoring some of Season 2.
The score has made the BAFTA longlist. The longlist is ten scores, but five will be nominated.
I don’t expect it to get nominated there or at the Oscars (that longlist was 15 scores), but I’m really surprised by the apparent support. I can only guess that voters are thinking, “I like the Beetlejuice theme” and ticking the box.
Nominated for a Saturn Award and made the Oscar shortlist for Best Original Score…
Between this and winning the Emmy, there doesn’t seem to be much of an industry backlash to the allegations.
Starts shooting next month.
https://www.moviezine.se/nyheter/bill-skarsgard-dead-mans-wire-lords-of-war-superman-rumor
This is an excellent release. Though you can still hear the temp track bleed through, Elfman’s original music is such a mature extension of his score for the first. Excellent storytelling going on here. Such a shame so much of it wasn’t used (Aunt May’s speech being set to the love theme, to this day, drives me insane).
No other composer got Spider-Man like Elfman did. He really did nail it.
Awesome! Is there anything that’s like coming down the pike that you’re really excited about?
Caleb Landry Jones: I’m excited for this Dracula film that’ll come out soon. Danny Elfman, who I love, he’s making the music for the film. [Caleb gestures again at the Burton Batman poster, which Elfman soundtracked.] Very excited, yeah. It was a real honor to get to meet him. He came to the studio for a few days, just to get a feeling of the movie and what Luc [Besson] was doing.
“At Times It Seems You’ve Been Known to Tell”: An Interview With Caleb Landry Jones
