The Spider-Man 3 soundtrack hits stores today, featuring Snow Patrol, the Killers, the Walkmen, the Flaming Lips and many more. Marvel.com has a feature up on the new CD, including a video that looks at the “making of”:
They’ve also got pictures from the Red Carpet premiere.
My buddy Chris over at Movie Marketing Madness takes an extensive look at the marketing campaign behind Friday’s big flick:
Because of the tight packing of the big event movies in the early part of the summer it’s important to Sony that Spider-Man 3 perform well not only right out of the box but almost exclusively within that box. Shrek 3 comes out just two weeks later and Pirates of the Caribbean 3 comes out only one week after that. So there’s no long-tail or long-term play here for Sony. They have their eyes on huge opening and second weekend numbers being racked up. After that screens are going to be given over to the newer flicks. That’s why, as we’ll now see, the campaign has been absolutely huge. And that’s why Sony has to be at least a little pleased with reports that the movie’s awareness levels are huge and that, according to MovieTickets.com, early ticket demand has been strong.
Yesterday’s USA Today had a feature up on SM3 director Sam Raimi, in which the stars of the film share their thoughts on their director:
“This was the franchise he was meant to do,” Franco says. “It lets him do the action, some humor, some scary stuff, all in one genre. And all through one person, Peter Parker, that he really associates with. None of us thought it would be this big, but no one deserved all of this more. He’s put his heart into this. He loves Peter Parker.”
Forget love, says Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays a flirtatious pal of Parker’s, Gwen Stacy. “He is Peter Parker. He’s this quiet, dapper guy when you meet him. Then he gets behind the camera and does these amazing things.”
May 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
It’s an interesting, hipster-friendly soundtrack they’ve got going on with this installment, and a bit of a step up from the standard Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack, so they get props for that.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs song that leaked out a couple of weeks ago — “Sealings” — is to my understanding just an extra song they had laying around, but it’s a pretty good tune.