Brian Tyler has been hired to score the pilot of the TV show Hawaii Five-O. The show is based on the classic TV show from the 60’s with the same name revolving around an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police. The show’s cast include Daniel Dae Kim, Alex O’Loughlin, Grace Park, James Marsters and Scott Caan. The show will be produced by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, who wrote and produced episodes of Fringe and Alias and wrote such features as The Island, Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek and both Transformers movies. They also produced the DJ Caruso-directed Eagle Eye, which was scored by Brian Tyler. Hawaii Five-O will air on CBS starting this fall if it gets picked up. No information yet on Tyler’s involvement in the show if it goes on air.
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Straw Dogs score released
Intrada Records announced today the world premiere release of Jerry Fielding’s score for Straw Dogs. The movie from 1971 directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) stars Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, a young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Intrada is releasing the complete score limited to 2000 copies including about 42 minutes of music. To listen to sound clips and order the CD, check out Intrada’s CD page.
Patrick Doyle to score new animation
Patrick Doyle will provide the score for the upcoming animated feature Sir Billi. In the movie, a retired veterinarian living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he’s a dog, an Admiral who’s afraid of the water and a beaver who was raised by rabbits. The movie’s voice talent includes Sean Connery, Alan Cumming and Miriam Margolyes. Doyle himself is also going to voice one of the characters in the film. The movie is currently in post production and no release date has been announced so far.
Death at a Funeral score album coming
Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Christophe Beck’s score for the comedy Death at a Funeral on April 13. The album will be available as a download and CD-R release on Amazon. No tracklisting is available yet. To find out more about the movie, check out our previous news article.
Örvarsson to score The Eagle of the Ninth
Atli Örvarsson confirmed on his website that he has been hired to score the upcoming historical drama The Eagle of the Ninth. The movie stars Channing Tatum, Mark Strong, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland. The film takes place in 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, when a young centurion arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father who commanded the team. The movie is directed by Kevin Macdonald, who previously worked with composer Alex Heffes on his features Touching The Void, The Last King of Scotland and State of Play. Focus Features is planning to release the movie on September 24.
Expanded Eraser score released
La-Land-Land Records has released an expanded score album for Alan Silvestri’s Eraser earlier this week. The CD includes almost 80 minutes of the score, including more than 30 minutes of unreleased material. The album is limited to 3000 copies. Eraser centers around a Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons. The movie directed by Chuck Russell stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams and James Caan. Click here to listen to soundclips and order the CD.
BREAKING NEWS! James Horner to take over The Karate Kid remake
According to the Gorfaine/Schwartz agency, James Horner has replaced Atli Örvarsson on the remake of The Karate Kid. In the movie, work causes a single mother and her young son to move to China, where the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master. The movie directed by Harald Zwart (Agent Cody Banks, The Pink Panther 2) stars Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith and is set to open on June 11 (check out the official movie page to watch the trailer). The movie marks Horner’s first scoring assignment after spending almost two years working on James Cameron’s Avatar.
Clash of the Titans Score Update
Sound clips from Ramin Djawadi’s score for Clash Of The Titans have been uploaded on iTunes (click here to check them out). The album will be released this coming Tuesday, March 30 by WaterTower Music. Apart from Djawadi’s score, the album features the song The Storm That Brought You to Me, credited to Djawadi, Tina Dico & Neil Davidge. Djawadi reportedly wrote about 90 minutes of music for the score in about 4 weeks when he came in as a replacement composer for Craig Armstrong.
Here’s the album tracklisting:
Pereira to score From Prada To Nada
Heitor Pereira has been hired to score the upcoming romantic comedy drama From Prada To Nada. The movie is a Latina spin on Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” where two spoiled sisters who have been left penniless after their father’s sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles. The movie stars Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega and Adriana Baraza and is scheduled to be released by Lionsgate in 2011.
Marcelo Zarvos to take over The Beaver
The Gorfaine/Schwartz agency has confirmed that Marcelo Zarvos will score the Jodie Foster-directed comedy drama The Beaver. He is replacing Brian Reitzell, who was originally attached to score the movie according to his agency Evolution Music Partners (also see our news entry). In the movie, Mel Gibson plays a depressed toy company CEO with a failed marriage starts to wear a beaver puppet on his hand as a form of therapy, much to the initial bemusement of his family. The movie co-stars Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Summit Entertainment will release the film later this year.