Arcade Fire scores made-in-Boston film 'The Box'

The made-in-Boston horror thriller "The Box," starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden and directed by "Donnie Darko" filmmaker Richard Kelly, is being scored by Canadian indie band Arcade Fire.

Lead singer Win Butler spills the news to Pitchfork. "Yes, me, Régine and Owen [Pallett] from Final Fantasy [did the music]," he says here. "It's kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It's instrumental music. No songs. It's interesting."

Arcade Fire's Butler continues, "We didn't really think we were going to do the whole thing, and then it just kind of was easier once we got in. It was like, 'Oh well, we'll just keep going.' It has so much to do with the editing, and your job is just to help the director. It's a very different experience."

Rumors have circulated for months after Kelly made an obscure reference on his MySpace blog. "We're starting to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first filmmakers they've ever scored a film with," he writes on May 12, 2008.

As previously reported in Loaded Gun, "The Box" has been postponed to coincide with this year's post-Halloween weekend.

Originally slotted for release on March 20, 2009, Warner Bros. moved the film's launch to Nov. 6, 2009.

Based on the short story by Richard Matheson, "The Box" stars Diaz as Norma Lewis and James Marsden as Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences.

A mysterious stranger, played by Frank Langella, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world ... someone they don't know.

Also shot in Virginia, filming locations for "The Box" include the Boston Public Library, Castle Hill in Ipswich and South Boston.

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