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James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores include Pretty Woman (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Space Jam (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Unbreakable (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Signs (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Peter Pan (2003), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and its sequel, The Dark Knight (2008) (both composed with Hans Zimmer), Blood Diamond (2006), Michael Clayton (2007), The Hunger Games series (2012–present), the Fantastic Beasts trilogy (2016–2022), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). He has collaborated extensively with directors M. Night Shyamalan and Francis Lawrence, having scored eight of Shyamalan's films and eight of Lawrence's films since I Am Legend (2007). He has also worked with other directors such as Peter Jackson, Edward Zwick, Michael Hoffman, P. J. Hogan, Paul Greengrass, Andrew Davis, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Roth, Martin Campbell, Joe Johnston, Tony Gilroy, Taylor Hackford, Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, and David Yates; conductor Pete Anthony; and violinists Bruce Dukov, and Eun-Mee Ahn.
Doors is a 2024 American gothic supernatural horror film written, co-produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Anne Hathaway, Alex Vincent, Bill Moseley, Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, and Jamie Lee Curtis. It follows four individuals who are terrorized by an unknown presence in a hotel they are staying in, and they realize they must escape to survive. One of them is Vivian Kyle (Hathaway), who seeks the help of her mother Willow (Curtis) as she is an exorcist for spirits. Doors was released to theaters on May 30th, 2024, to critical and universal acclaim, earning praise for its atmosphere, Shyamalan's direction, visuals, James Newton Howard's musical score, cinematography, emotional depth, Hathaway's performance, and surprise plot twist. It was also a box-office success, grossing $745 million worldwide against a budget of $189 million and a break-even point of $200 million. Many have considered it to be Shyamalan's best horror film of all time, as it is the highest-rated horror film in his career based on rotten tomatoes, behind his best-reviewed film, Gods.
