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ELFMAN BLOWS UP RUMORS, DAMMIT
Inside.com, the entertainment news site (well, more like a online wannabe Variety) reported on 7-17-01: "Studio executives also are said to have requested significant changes in composer Danny Elfman's score. Honchos asked the longtime Burton collaborator to make the music more ''heroic'' sounding, says one source. ''They wanted to be able to sell the film as a sci-fi 'Gladiator.'' This of course created a domino effect, the next day every online  movie site had qouted the Inside.com article, and days later so would the "mainstream" print and television media. The report was false, and here on MFADP I refuted the claims.It wasn't until last week during the press junket for PLANET OF THE APES did Danny Elfman's side of the story break. He denied the rumors in interviews with Film Score Monthly and Soundtrack Magazine. Finally a letter to the Los Angeles Times (7-28-01) from Danny Elfman himself cleared the air for good: "We all know that one of the most interesting and often amusing things about the Internet as "news source" is that absolutely anyone can say anything based on everything from true facts to jealousy and alien intervention. At a PLANET OF THE APES press junket in New York last week, I was asked about 100 times about the story printed in The Times of my forced "rescoring" of the music. I'm absolutely amazed. Not that the story appeared on the Net but that you printed it verbatim without checking on the validity. The facts are these: If anyone was unhappy in any way, they never told me. We not only didn't rescore anything, but I canceled two sessions that I had been holding just in case we did need extra time and we were finished ahead of schedule." So there you have it. PLANET OF THE APES had the highest non-holiday opening at the box office ever, with a three day estimated total of $69.6 million. The opening crushed JURASSIC PARK 3 and AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, which came in second and third. ELFMAN IN A.P. ON APES A short interview with Danny Elfman appeared on the Associate Press newswire. You can read the entire interview on MFADP's Discussion Board. T.V. WATCH Danny Elfman will appear on E! News Daily on Monday, July 30th. Check your TV program guide for details. A&E Biography examines the life of Tim Burton on Tuesday, July 31st at 8pm EST. The celebrity episode of WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE on Friday, July 27th had Danny Elfman as an answer to the $64,000 question "Who wrote the themes to The Simpsons, Batman and Beetlejuice?" Former New Kid on The Block Joe McIntyre got the answer correct. |
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