SPIDER-MAN 3 song soundtrack album.
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Still no sign of a Spider-Man 3 Score Album
By: Randall LarsonDate: Monday, May 14, 2007
Christopher Young fans had good news and bad news last weekend. The composer had two films open in wide release – Curtis Hanson's gambling drama Lucky You (score CD out June 5th from Varese Sarabande) and Spider-Man 3, for which no additional description is necessary.
In its opening weekend, Spider-Man 3 managed to make $151 million, $36 million more than Young's previous top grosser, Ghost Rider (score CD released by Varese Sarabande), made during its entire stay in theaters, and Young even has a silent cameo in the film, standing next to a piano in a theater as Kirsten Dunst visits her producers the day after her Broadway debut.
That's the good news; the bad news is that, as with Danny Elfman's score for Spider-Man 2, director Sam Raimi brought in other composers to write additional cues. The opening music credits read "Original Music Themes by Danny Elfman" and "Score by Christopher Young," while the end credits list a great number of specific additional cues, by Deborah Lurie (who had previously adapted Elfman's music for Deep Sea 3D) and John Debney (who, like Young, provided additional music for Spider-Man 2), while there is also a credit for the reuse of Elfman's cues from the first two Spider-Men.
Even more frustrating, there has been no news of any CD release of Young's Spider-Man 3 score. The “music from and inspired by” song soundtrack (most of which contains songs that are not heard in the movie) has been released in various formats Warner Bros., but, unlike previous Spider-Man song soundtrack releases, contains no score music at all.
- via filmscoremonthly.com
