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Film Producer Thom Mount on Creating Soundtracks for “Car Wash,” “Smokey and the Bandit” and Other Films
Thom Mount
In the course of his thirty-five year career in the film industry, producer and studio head Thom Mount has made an indelible mark on the American film industry. Appointed head of Universal Studios at the age of 26, he was responsible for the studio’s success in the late 1970s and 1980s with films like The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Car Wash, National Lampoon’s Animal House and Smokey and the Bandit. After leaving Universal in 1983, Mount founded his own company, which produced acclaimed films like Bull Durham, Tequila Sunrise and Sidney Lumet’s Death and the Maiden. Mount is also a co-founder of the Los Angeles Film School, and has started a new venture, Reliant Pictures, which will focus on releasing genre films of high quality. |
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Description: Film producer and studio head Thom Mount discusses the relationship between films and their music soundtracks, and the influence that soundtracks have on both films and on popular culture. He also shares stories from his career about breaking now-legendary soundtracks, and how those albums and singles became pop culture events of their own.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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