Up and coming composer Scott Glasgow, whose recent score for Lo is receiving critical acclaim and whose other credits include Chasing Ghosts, Hack!, The Gene Generation, Bone Dry and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, is currently composing the score for veteran director Jeff Kanew’s new film, The Legend of Awesomest Maximus, for National Lampoon. This is Glasgow’s first project with Kanew, who is the director of such comedy classics as Revenge …

The Adjustment Bureau, a feature film based on the Philip K. Dick short sci-fi story “The Adjustment Team”, will get an original score by Thomas Newman. The attachment of the American Beauty composer to the project has been confirmed to MovieScore Magazine by Universal Pictures, who will release the film on July 30. The story is an unusual one about two lovers, a politician (Matt Damon) and a ballerina (Emily Blunt), …

Universal Pictures recently hired Rolfe Kent to score their upcoming drama Charlie St Cloud, starring Zac Efron as a young man who takes a job as a caretaker of the cemetary where his brother is buried. The film is directed by Burr Steers whose previous film was the comedy 17 Again, also scored by Rolfe Kent. Charlie St Cloud, which co-stars Kim Basinger and Amanda Crews, is scheduled to be …

John Powell is the new composer hired to score Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming family movie Mars Needs Moms. Originally, Hans Zimmer was attached to the film but he had to withdraw from the project due to a scheduling conflict – Zimmer is, among other things, doing the score for the animated Rango (by Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski) which is due out in March 2011, just like Mars Needs …

Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino, who won the Oscar for his Up score a couple of days ago, continues his fruitful relationship with Walt Disney Pictures. The studio has confirmed to MovieScore Magazine that Giacchino will be writing the score for John Carter of Mars, the new film by Andrew Stanton. Interestingly, Stanton’s previous films as a director (Wall-E and Finding Nemo), were both scored by Thomas Newman. John Carter …

Screen Gems has confirmed to MovieScore Magazine that horror icon Christopher Young has been hired to compose the original score for their adaptation of the Tokyopop Manga Priest, directed by Scott Stewart (Legion) and starring Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban and Lily Collins. The film was originally supposed to come out in 2010 but has been pushed to a January 14, 2011, release. Priest is produced by, …

Composer John Ottman has updated his filmography on his official web site to include The Losers, a new project with DC Comics for whom he scored Superman Returns in 2006. Ottman, who recently scored the animated Astro Boy, is also doing the music for The Resident, a thriller directed by Renny Harlin protege Antti Jokinen, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee and Hilary Swank.
The Losers is based on Andy Diggle’s …

The upcoming comedy Furry Vengeance, to be released by Summit Entertainment on April 2, gets an original score by Edward Shearmur. He is best known for his big symphonic scores for films such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Reign of Fire and The Count of Monte Cristo, but a lot of his output lately has been focused on light comedies such as Bride Wars, Epic Movie and …

Costa Communications, who handles publicity for composer John Debney, has confirmed that Debney has been hired to compose the original music for Predators, the upcoming sci-fi action adventure written and produced by Robert Rodriguez. Debney has provided music for several of Rodriguez’ previous films, including Sin City and Spy Kids. Predators, which is scheduled to be released by Fox in July, is directed by Nimród Antal (Armored) and has been …

Polish composer Abel Korzenowski, who was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his acclaimed score for A Single Man, has a new project on his schedule: Rabbit Hole. It’s a drama directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as a couple who are trying to find meaning in their lives after the death of their four-year-old child in a car …