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Where the Arcade Fire are concerned, people tend to get excited. A little too excited, it would seem, in the case of Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly and noted producer/engineer Markus Dravs.

As you may have read in these pages earlier this week, online remarks from both Kelly ("We're staring to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first filmmakers they've ever scored a film with," he wrote in a May 12 MySpace post) and Dravs ("[I'm] off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a Sound-track for the forth coming Richard Kelly film," read a note on his website that has since been removed) seemed to suggest the Arcade Fire were scoring Kelly's new film, The Box.

Well, turns out this isn't exactly true. We'll let Win Butler tell it. As he wrote in a recent web "Scrapbook" post charmingly titled "NO SOUNDTRACKS GO":

Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great spring... just to let you all know that (internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film. We are all off for the summer, writing songs, reading books, and keeping our plants alive. Regine, Owen Pallet [sic] and I may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly's new movie...we met at a show this year and hit it off, but we are not planning on doing any major work for a while, and this would not constitute a soundtrack or a release.

So there you go. And hey, even an instrumental or two from these guys is still gonna rule. Until then, dudes, have fun tending to your tulips and winning primaries for Obama.