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Music Industry Profile: Film Producer and Studio Head Thom Mount
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 introduces himself and his current venture, Reliant Pictures, and discusses various aspects of using music in film – from how to get into the business and how music in film generates money, to finding the right music supervisor for a project and what he did to make the soundtracks to films like Car Wash and Smokey and the Bandit into landmark pop culture phenomena in their own right.
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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