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DANNY ELFMAN’S DARK SHADOWS ORIGINAL SCORE MAY 8

Film Marks 14th Collaboration Between Composer Danny Elfman And
Director Tim Burton

(April 17, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – WaterTower Music will release
Dark Shadows – Original Score digitally and in stores on May 8, 2012.
The album features original music by Grammy Award-winning and four-
time Oscar®-nominated composer Danny Elfman, which is featured in
director Tim Burton’s new gothic comedy Dark Shadows.

For more than 25 years, Burton and Elfman have collaborated on some of
the cinema’s most beloved and recognizable films and soundtracks,
including Big Fish, for which Elfman received an Oscar® nomination;
Beetlejuice; Batman; Edward Scissorhands; Sleepy Hollow; Corpse Bride;
and, more recently, Alice in Wonderland.

“Tim had some specific ideas about the music on Dark Shadows,” says
Elfman. “I knew that the bigger dramatic scenes would be played in a
rather grand theatrical manner, but the real treat was tapping into
the retro pallet Tim had imagined. He wanted something that payed
homage to both the original TV series and other '70s horror genres as
well. For that we kept it minimal, eerie, and atmospheric with only
electronics and a few solo instruments carrying the melodies.”

Elfman has also received Oscar® nominations for his scores for Barry
Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black, and Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting and
Milk. Movie audiences worldwide have also heard Danny Elfman’s unique
sound and style in some 80 film scores, including Sam Raimi’s Spider-
Man; Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible; Martin Brest’s Midnight
Run; Jon Amiel’s Sommersby; the Hughes Brothers’ Dead Presidents; Rob
Marshall’s Academy Award-winning Chicago; and Shawn Levy’s Real Steel.

In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas,
set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. Two
decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or
at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood
Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he
makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard
(Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him
to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then
burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently
freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972.
He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has
fallen into ruin and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family
have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.

Warner Bros. Pictures, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures,
presents an Infinitum Nihil/GK Films/Zanuck Company production, a Tim
Burton Film Dark Shadows in theaters and IMAX on May 11, 2012. “Dark
Shadows” stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter,
Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloe Grace Moretz,
Bella Heathcote and Gully McGrath.
The Dark Shadows -- Original Score on WaterTower Music will be
available digitally and in stores on May 8, 2012; and on the same
date, WaterTower Music will also be releasing the Dark Shadows –
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, containing eleven songs from the
film.

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