Eric Allaman: Witless Protection

Witless Protection, the upcoming action comedy starring Eric Robert, Ivana Milicevic, Peter Stormare, Jenny McCarthy and Joe Mantegna, gets an original score by Eric Allaman. He has been in the film music business for two decades, with credits ranging from cult hit Elvira's Haunted Hills to drama comedy Latter Days and TV series Club Mario. Witless Protection, which opens on February 22 distributed by Lionsgate, is about a small-town sheriff who ventures out to rescue a woman he belives has been kidnapped. Charles Robert Carner, who has done TV movies such as Vanishing Point and Red Water, directs.

David Hirschfelder: The Children of Huang Shi

Australian composer David Hirschfelder (Elizabeth, Sliding Doors, Shine) is working with veteran director Roger Spottiswoode on his latest film, The Children of Huang Shi. It takes place in China during the Japanese occupation in 1937, telling the story about a young journalist and a brave nurse who save a group of orphaned children. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh star in the drama, which is produced by Rouge Entertainment and scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures Classics on April 3. Hirschfelder recently scored Spottiswoode's film adaptation of the Romeo Dallaire autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil.

Alex Wurman: Five Dollars a Day

Alex Wurman (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) provides the original score for Five Dollars a Day, a comedy starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone. It's directed by Nigel Cole, who previously worked with Wurman on romantic comedy A Lot Like Love in 2005. The film is produced by Capitol Films and Carol Baum Productions for release by Thinkfilm later this year. Wurman has also recently scored The Promotion, another comedy by Steve Conrad who wrote the screenplay for The Pursuit of Happyness.

Paul Haslinger: While She Was Out

Paul Haslinger is doing the music for While She Was Out, a thriller starring Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas and Craig Sheffer. Produced by Angry Films, for whom Haslinger scored Shoot 'Em Up last year, it's based on a short story by Edward Bryant about a woman who goes for a quick shopping tour and ends up in a desolate forest fighting for her life. Susan Montford, who produced Shoot 'Em Up, directs. Haslinger's other upcoming films include Prom Night and Make It Happen.

Simon Boswell: My Zinc Bed

Simon Boswell, the British composer who has written stylish scores for films such as Hackers, Shallow Grave and A Midsummer Night's Dream, is currently scoring My Zinc Bed, a drama starring Uma Thurman and Jonathan Pryce. It's based on David Hare's play and directed by Anthony Page, a 72 year old veteran who is making his first feature film since 1993! The film tells the story about a recovering alcoholic who falls in love with his boss's wife. HBO Films and BBC co-produce for release this year. Boswell was recently nominated to an International Film Music Critics Association Award for his TV score Tinman.

Aaron Zigman: Powder Blue

Prolific composer Aaron Zigman, who scored eight (!) films last year, has added two new films to his filmography on his official web site. The first one is Powder Blue, a drama written and directed by Vietnamese helmer Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon) and featuring an impressive cast including Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Lisa Kudrow, Patrick Swayze and Kris Kristofferson. The film takes place on Christmas Eve where four strangers come together by a mixture of circumstances. The other new film added to Zigman's work list is Flash of Genius, a drama directed by Marc Abraham, who is making his helming debut after many years in the producer's chair (among the films he has produced are Children of Men, Dawn of the Dead and Air Force One).