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| "The Expendables" Score Album Details: Music by Brian Tyler By Staff posted Sep 4, 2010, 14:35 |
Lionsgate Records releases Brian's score for Sylvester Stallone's "The Expendables" on CD and digitally. Catch "The Expendables" in theaters.
Brian Tyler began composing music at an early age, and by his teens he was performing his own concert pieces around the United States and Russia. He began scoring features shortly after received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his master's degree from Harvard University.
His films include "Eagle Eye“ from producer Steven Spielberg, the box office hit Fast and Furious, Law Abiding Citizen starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, Sylvester Stallone's Rambo, and Constantine based on the famed graphic novel. He also scored The Hunted for Academy Award®-winning director William Friedkin. Tyler is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist (drums, piano, guitar, bass, cello, percussion) and conductor.
Tyler also scored director Bill Paxton's sweeping The Greatest Game Ever Played and the science-fiction films Alien vs Predator: Requiem and The Final Destination. Tyler was awarded Cinemusic's designation as Best New Film Composer of the Year in 2001 and in 2002, he received an Emmy nomination for his score for The Last Call. In 2008, he received an ASCAP Award for Eagle Eye and in 2006 for Constantine. In July of 2006 his score for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts. Tyler’s score for Bill Paxton’s Frailty won a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 while his soundtrack for Children of Dune was the #4 best selling album on Amazon.com during March of 2003.
Other credits include 20th Century Fox’s Dragonball, Annapolis, Timeline, Darkness Falls, the Indian historical epic Partition, the quirky guitar driven score for Bubba Ho-tep, and Star Trek: Enterprise. His music has been used in a multitude of film trailers including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Departed, and The Chronicles of Narnia. He is soon to score the science fiction war epic Battle Los Angeles for Sony Pictures.
His love of film was greatly inspired by his grandfather Walter Tyler, who received ten Academy Award® nominations for art direction.
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