In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: " We don't even have to talk about the music.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

Burton is known for using recurring collaborators on his works ; among them are Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together ; musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but five of the films Burton has directed and / or produced ; and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter.

Burton, a fan of the eccentric musical group Oingo Boingo, asked songwriter Danny Elfman to provide the music for the film.

Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.

The film is also the fourth feature collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman.

Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work.

Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman.

Ed Wood is notable for being one of the two films directed by Tim Burton that did not feature a score by Danny Elfman.

McDowell and Burton experienced creative differences, which convinced Burton to make the film as a musical with lyrics and compositions by frequent collaborator Danny Elfman.

* Matt Taylor & Ellen Wakayama for 25th Anniversary Music Box ( Danny Elfman & Tim Burton )

But the untimely passing of Elfman created an opening for a new morning show host and after a two-week “ trial run ,” Boortz was offered the permanent position.

In addition, some theme music uses orchestra scores or original music set mood for the show, such as the Batman: The Animated Series theme song, which was drawn from the theme for the 1989 Batman film created by Danny Elfman and sets the mood for cartoon.

But as the project grew to 35mm and the storyline evolved, Richard Elfman found himself re-shooting many of the original scenes to fit the new film.

** Danny Elfman, the film's composer, provides Jack's singing voice and also the voice of Barrel.

Some of the film's sequences and characters led to director Richard Elfman being accused of racism ( because of its satirically surreal use of blackface ), and even anti-Semitism.

The film's soundtrack has also become popular, and its theme song was eventually reused by Danny Elfman, who rearranged it as The Dilbert Zone for use as the theme for the television series Dilbert.

The film's score was composed by Danny Elfman, with the album released by MCA Records.

Due to how much of Elfman's music filled the film, Elfman's representatives asked that Elfman be the only person credited for the film's score.

Poe lends vocals to two songs on the Real Steel Original Motion Picture Score (" Why We're Here " and " Parkway Motel ") composed by Danny Elfman, released November 1st, 2011.

This was also the year the cult movie Forbidden Zone was released, which included rearrangements of, and homages to, Calloway songs written by Danny Elfman, a Calloway fan.

Elfman found writing Nightmares 10 songs as " one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.

But on this soundtrack they did these songs with Danny Elfman, another famous film scorer.

On songs such as " Little Girls " and " Capitalism ", Elfman has since stated that his intentions were to write in jest from the perspective of various disputable characters, adding he was " out to offend everybody ".

Apart from performing as a live instrumentalist, Fitzgerald has also worked as a composer and songwriter, having worked with a wide range of musicians including Dweezil Zappa and Danny Elfman, and has written songs for the group No Doubt, as well as for the movie School of Rock.

( all songs written by Danny Elfman, with the exception of ' Violent Love ', originally written by Willie Dixon, uncredited on this album )

The score is composed by Danny Elfman who also provided vocals for the songs.

Other critics were more generous ; Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal called it " another great and bizarre, twangy album of alternative-singer-songwriting stories about cars and horrible relationships ", while a reviewer in the New Straits Times noted its " smart, subtly dissident, and always catchy pop ".

Following the band's dissolution, frontman Danny Elfman turned full-time to writing film scores, having composed several scores through the 1980s and early 1990s while the band was active.

Nightmare won the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film, while Elfman won Best Music.

On their way to school, Frenchy Hercules ( Marie-Pascale Elfman ) and her brother Flash ( Phil Gordon ) have a conversation with Squeezit Henderson ( Matthew Bright ), who tells them that, while being violently beaten by his mother, he had a vision of his transgendered sister René ( also played by Bright ), who had fallen into the Sixth Dimension through the door in the Hercules ' basement.

For the " Yiddishe Charleston " scene, Richard Elfman had shot the sequence with him lip-syncing to an old recording of the song, but was later unable to acquire the rights to the recording, and had to record a new version of the song while attempting to sync the new recording with the footage.

When the group began to move away from its cabaret style towards a more pop / rock format, Richard Elfman made a film based on the band's stage performance, Forbidden Zone, which was released in 1980 and filmed in black and white with a cast mostly made up of band members and friends.

Then, starting with 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Danny Elfman began scoring major films with increasing frequency, including almost all of Tim Burton's films.

Towards the end ", Elfman remembers, " it was a big production ... there was, like a semi full of stuff.

When Cunningham and Elfman ran out of money during production, Richard and Marie-Pascale Elfman helped finance the movie by selling houses, before Carl Borack put money into the production in order for Elfman to complete the film.

According to Elfman, he had originally intended the film to be screened in color, stating that the original plan was to ship the film to China, where each frame would be hand-tinted, but that this plan was not practical within the production costs.

According to Richard Elfman, Tyrrell and Villechaize fought periodically throughout the production of the film.

Richard Elfman had never gone to film school when production on the film started, and " I didn't know what I was getting into.