In the 2000s, Zimmer composed scores for Hollywood blockbuster films including three Ridley Scott films, "Gladiator" (2000), "Black Hawk Down" and "Hannibal" (2001), followed by "The Last Samurai" (2003), "Madagascar" (2005), "The Da Vinci Code" (2006), "The Simpsons Movie" (2007), "Angels & Demons" (2009), and "Sherlock Holmes" (2009). Other work in the 2000s included the Spanish language film "Casi Divas", and "The Burning Plain" (2009). He composed the theme for the television boxing series "The Contender" and worked with Lorne Balfe on the music for "", which was his first video game project. Zimmer also collaborated with composers Borislav Slavov and Tilman Sillescu to create the score for the video game "Crysis 2".