Executive Talk with Mike Knobloch: The Business of Film Music

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Executive Talk with Mike Knobloch has regrettably been postponed.  Refunds will be issued in the next few days to ticket holders.  We look forward to seeing you at our next event.

Join us for an intimate evening with Universal Pictures’ head of global film music & music publishing as we do a deep dive, behind-the-scenes look at the business of film music. Tray passed hors d’oeuvres and drinks provided. Onsite free parking. No Walk Ups will be permitted for this event.
Topics will include:

• Theatrical releases vs. streaming
• Selecting and working with the composer
• Song selection 
• Working with the director, producers and talent
• How budget affects the music
• “Wicked,” movie musicals 
• Pre-records vs live performance
• Soundtrack albums

Schedule:
6:00 – 7:15pm – Drinks, tray-passed bites, networking
7:30 – 9:00pm – Program

Pricing:
Registration October 11 – October 17:
Members (All Levels and YPC): $36
Non-Members: $60

As per venue security, no walk-ups; no registrations beyond October 17th.

As President of Music and Publishing at NBCUniversal, Mike Knobloch oversees all aspects of the studio’s music and soundtracks. In addition, he manages the administration of one of the largest music publishing catalogs, with film and television songs and scores spanning nearly a century of Universal’s storied history. The Emmy-winning and two time GRAMMY-nominated Music Supervisor and Producer’s career highlights include five of the top-twenty highest grossing films of all time globally including Jurassic World, Titanic and Avatar. Under his leadership at Universal, his department has produced three RIAA-certified Diamond hits including Furious 7’s epic anthem “See You Again,” the global phenomenon “Happy” from Despicable Me 2 and “Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey, in addition to the multi-platinum “Love Me Like You Do” and Pitch Perfect’s cultural phenomenon, “Cups.” In just the last decade, songs and soundtracks he has supervised have been streamed more than 43 billion times.

Jon Burlingame is an award-winning author, journalist and lecturer. He writes about film and TV music for Variety and has also been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and such magazines as Premiere, Emmy and The Hollywood Reporter. He teaches film-music history in the scoring program at the University of Southern California and hosts the monthly Dolby Creator podcasts with film composers. He formerly hosted the Webby-nominated For Scores podcast for the Disney Company. He has won ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism three times. One of those was for the fifth of his seven books: The Music of James Bond, published in 2012. Since then, he has written Music for Prime Time, an acclaimed history of American television themes and scoring, and his latest, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, “Peter Gunn” and Music for TV Noir, about how a little-known composer’s unexpected success scoring a TV detective series propelled him to fame and fortune. Burlingame’s earlier books include Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks and, with co-authors Geoff Leonard and Pete Walker, Music by John Barry. He has written the liner notes for dozens of albums and has produced a series of CDs of classic TV spy music from the 1960s (among them The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible and The Wild Wild West).