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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Danny Elfman
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Nine months after the chaos of the Rhino’s rampage, Peter Parker is nearing the end of his first year at Empire State University with Gwen — trying to juggle studies, love, work and a city that never stops bleeding. During a raid on an Oscorp facility to stop the Shocker (Herman Schultz), a massive explosion leaves Peter severely injured — and accidentally releases a strange black organism known as the Venom Symbiote. The alien bonds with him, healing his wounds and amplifying his powers, but also feeding on his rage and grief. As Peter grows faster, stronger, and more ruthless, a new predator arrives in New York: Sergei Kravinoff, the world’s deadliest hunter, seeking to claim Spider-Man as his ultimate trophy. What follows is a brutal game of predator and prey — one where Peter may no longer know which side he’s on. Spider-Man: The Last Hunt is a dark, R-rated evolution of Peter’s story — a visceral battle between man, monster, and morality. As Kraven tracks him through the streets and rooftops of New York, Spider-Man’s growing bloodlust and aggression begin to consume him, straining his relationship with Gwen and terrifying those who once saw him as a hero. Kraven doesn’t just want to kill Spider-Man; he wants to break him — to prove that even gods bleed. In a savage, rain-soaked finale, Peter must fight both the hunter and the darkness inside himself, realizing that the greatest enemy isn’t Kraven or Venom… it’s what he’s becoming while trying to survive.
