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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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One week after his brutal battle with Kraven the Hunter, Peter Parker is still reeling from the Venom symbiote’s influence. Though he’s purged himself of the alien parasite, the damage remains — sleepless nights, violent flashbacks, and a city whispering about a monstrous black creature stalking the streets. When missing person reports skyrocket and bodies begin turning up drained and mutilated, Peter discovers the horrifying truth: the symbiote has bonded with Eddie Brock, a disgraced journalist who blames both Peter Parker and Spider-Man for destroying his career and life. Now twisted by rage and hunger, Eddie has become Venom — a dark mirror of Spider-Man, with his powers, his memories, and none of his restraint. As Venom’s reign of terror spreads through New York, Spider-Man faces the nightmare of fighting something that knows him better than anyone — his weaknesses, his fears, his guilt. Every encounter leaves Peter more battered, both physically and emotionally, as he confronts the sins of his past and the monster he helped create. Gwen watches helplessly as Peter spirals back toward the darkness he thought he’d escaped. When Venom targets those Peter loves, the line between man and monster begins to blur once more, culminating in a violent, R-rated showdown in the heart of the city — where Peter must decide if he can save Eddie Brock… or if Venom must die.
