Mark Thomas: Goal! III

The third film in the Goal! series gets an original score by UK composer Mark Thomas, who is going to record the score at Abbey Road Studios next month. The film is directed by Andy Morahan (Highlander: The Final Dimension) and sees Kuno Becker returning in the role as football star underdog Santiago Munez. Supporting cast includes Nick Moran, JJ Field and Leo Gregory. LA-based Milkshake Films produces. The music for the first two films in the series was by Graeme Revell and Stephen Warbeck. Mark Thomas is also busy scoring for the small screen: he recently completed the comedy series Benidorm for Tiger Aspect and ITV as well as the television movie May Contain Nuts. Thomas' recent scores include Moondance Alexander, Back in Business and Tales of the Riverbank.

Rachel Portman: The Duchess

Rachel Portman, the Academy Award-winning composer of Emma, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, is currently working on the score for The Duchess, the 18th century drama starring Keira Knightley as aristocrat Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire. The film is based on Amanda Foreman's book, Saul Dibb directs from an screen adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher (Casanova) and acclaimed Danish writer Anders Thomas Jensen (After the Wedding). The Duchess, which is produced by BBC Films and Pathé, co-stars Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper and Charlotte Rampling and is scheduled to premiere on August 29.

Marcus Trumpp: Blood - The Last Vampire

The live action remake of the animated Blood: The Last Vampire, an award-winning Japanese film from 2000, gets an original score by Marcus Trumpp. The 34-year old German composer has previously written stylish orchestral scores for The Breed and Hollow Man 2, and has worked extensively as an orchestrator and additional music writer for Marco Beltrami on many films, including Live Free or Die Hard, I, Robot and 3:10 to Yuma. Starring Gianna Yun, Allison Miller and Masiela Lusha, the new version of Blood: The Last Vampire is directed by French helmer Chris Nahon (Kiss of the Dragon) and is about a vampire who is a member of a secret agency in post-WW2 Japan with the mission to hunt down and destroy demons in Japan after WW2.

Trevor Jones: Three and Out

Trevor Jones, the composer of such well-known scores as The Last of the Mohicans, Excalibur, Cliffhanger, Notting Hill and Angel Heart, has written the music for Three and Out, a UK comedy starring Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Arterton. The film is about ordinary persons with unique dilemmas and how far they are willing to go. Jonathan Gershfield directs for RMPC, film will premiere on April 25.

Gordy Haab: Pornstar

Gordy Haab, the young composer who won a lot of acclaim for his horror score Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, is doing the music for a drama called Pornstar. Directed by Stevie Long (who was one of the writers on Starsky and Hutch), the film explores America's obsession with sex, fame, and money. Matthew Gray Gubler, Diora Baird and Will Sasso star in the Proton Entertainment produced film. Gordy Haab's score is orchestral and features Native American drums and wind instruments as well as electronic instruments and sound design. Haab has also been hired to compose music for LucasArts' forthcoming Indiana Jones video game.

Christopher Young: Drag Me to Hell

According to Christopher Young's publicist, the composer is currently working on Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell. Raimi recently worked with Young on Spider-Man 3 and previously hired the composer to score his stylish supernatural thriller The Gift, released in 2000. Drag Me to Hell is a horror film about a young woman who gets a supernatural curse cast upon her. Alison Lohman, Justin Long and Jessica Lucas star in the film, which is scheduled to come out next year. Raimi's Buckaroo Entertainment and Ghost House Pictures produce. Christopher Young recently scored Sleepwalking and Untraceable.

John Nordstrom: Greta

Greta, a drama starring Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn and Evan Ross, gets an original score by John Nordstrom. The film tells the story about a young couple who has to fight for their love as her grandparents worry about the criminal past of the boyfriend. Nancy Bardawil, a director of music videos, helms the project for Whitewater Films. John Nordstrom previously scored Nearing Grace for the same company and producer/director Rick Rosenthal. Among his other credits are TV series One Tree Hill and TV movie Five Days to Midnight.

Velton Ray Bunch: The Tenth Circle (tv)

Velton Ray Bunch is doing the score for Lifetime Television's upcoming movie The Tenth Circle, based on the novel by Jodi Picoult and starring Kelly Preston and Ron Eldard. The film is directed by Peter Markle, a versatile filmmaker whose previous credits include theatrical features Bat-21 and Youngblood, and television episodes of The X-Files, CSI and Without a Trace on his resumee. He worked previously with Velton Ray Bunch on the TV movies Flight 93 and Faith of My Fathers. The Tenth Circle will premiere in June.