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Origin | United States |
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | Film composer, orchestrator, arranger |
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Years active | 2007–present |
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Website | thenewtonbrothers |
John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart, known collectively as The Newton Brothers, are American film score composers, record producers, conductors, and multi-instrumentalists. Their works include scores for several films with director Mike Flanagan, having composed for every project of his since Oculus (2013), and various other films and television series. Despite the name, they are not related. [1]
Early on in their lives both Andy and Taylor were inspired to combine music and visuals and seek a career in film composition. They are both accomplished musicians and multi-instrumentalists who can play piano, guitar, bass, clarinet, flute, accordion, saxophone, harmonica, percussion, organ, kazoo and cello. Together they apprenticed under Hans Zimmer and co-scored with Danny Elfman on the Mike Flanagan thriller Before I Wake. [2]
The Newton Brothers have been scoring feature films together for over a decade, catching their big break scoring Tony Kaye's acclaimed drama, Detachment , which starred and was produced by Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody. [3] In 2013 they began their work in horror films with Mike Flanaghan and Blumhouse Productions including Oculus , which The Irish Times said, "Andy and Taylor Newton's dynamic combination of simple melodic fragments, aleatory noise (broken glass, metal scrapes) and a solemn choir gradually inject the seriously spooky Oculus with nerve-shredding suspense and skin-crawling dread," [4] and Ouija: Origin of Evil . [5] They have since gone on to score multiple horror genre projects for film and television.
Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio |
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2010 | John Stalberg Jr. | Anchor Bay Films | |
2011 | Detachment | Tony Kaye | Tribeca Film |
Magic Man | Stuart Cooper | Raskin Productions/Hollywood Storm | |
Revolucion | Rodrigo Garcia | Canana Films/Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia/Mantarraya Producciones | |
2012 | Diving Normal | Kristjan Thor | Round One Production |
2013 | Catch Hell | Ryan Phillippe | Palm Star Media/Twisted Pictures |
Hair Brained | Billy Kent | Love Lane Pictures | |
Pawn Shop Chronicles | Wayne Kramer | Anchor Bay Films | |
Proxy | Zach Parker | Along The Tracks/FSC Productions | |
Chloe and Theo | Ezna Sands | Arctica Films | |
2014 | Careful What You Wish For | Liz Allen | Starz |
Life of Crime | Dan Schecter | Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions | |
Oculus | Mike Flanagan | Relativity | |
See No Evil 2 | The Soska Sisters | Lionsgate | |
The Prince | Brian A. Miller | ||
The Road Within | Gren Wells | Troika | |
2015 | Before I Wake | Mike Flanagan | Relativity |
Chasing Life | Various | ABC | |
The Runner | Austin Stark | Alchemy | |
Vendetta | The Soska Sisters | Lionsgate | |
2016 | Amateur Night | Lisa Addario & Joe Syracuse | Cinedigm |
Blood in the Water | Ben Cummings & Orson Cummings | Level 33 Entertainment/SSS Entertainment/levelFILM | |
Hush | Mike Flanagan | Blumhouse | |
Ouija: Origin of Evil | Universal Pictures/Blumhouse | ||
Urge | Aaron Kaufman | Lionsgate | |
2017 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Various | BBC |
Gerald's Game | Mike Flanagan | Netflix | |
Inversion | Zach Parker | ||
Open Water 3: Cage Dive | Gerald Rescionato | Lionsgate | |
The Bye Bye Man | Stacy Title | STX | |
2018 | Escape Plan 2: Hades | Steven C. Miller | Lionsgate |
Falling Water | Various | Universal / USA | |
Into the Dark | Paul Davis | Blumhouse / Hulu | |
The Haunting of Hill House | Mike Flanagan | Paramount, Netflix, Amblin, Intrepid | |
2019 | Mary | Michael Goi | RLJE Films |
Doctor Sleep | Mike Flanagan | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
Line of Duty | Steven C. Miller | Saban Films, Lionsgate | |
2020 | The Grudge | Nicolas Pesce | Sony Pictures Releasing |
The Haunting of Bly Manor | Mike Flanagan | Paramount, Netflix, Amblin, Intrepid | |
2020-2021 | The Walking Dead: World Beyond | Various | Skybound Entertainment, AMC Studios |
2021 | The God Committee | Austin Stark | Crystal City Entertainment, Paper Street Films, Phiphen Pictures |
The Forever Purge | Everardo Gout | Universal Pictures | |
Midnight Mass | Mike Flanagan | Netflix | |
2021–present | Joe Pickett | Various | Spectrum Originals |
2022 | The Midnight Club | Mike Flanagan | Netflix |
2023 | The Fall of the House of Usher | Netflix, Intrepid | |
2023–present | Goosebumps | Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller | Disney+, Hulu |
2023 | Five Nights at Freddy's | Emma Tammi | Universal Pictures/Blumhouse |
2024-present | X-Men '97 | Jake Castorena and Chase Conley | Disney+ |
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