Thom Mount
Thom Mount is the former President of Universal Pictures[1][2] and one of America's well-known independent producers.[3]
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. He studied film at the California Institute of the Arts. 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 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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- ^ Barbara Zheutlin; David Talbot (1978). Creative differences: profiles of Hollywood dissidents (1st ed.). Boston: South End press. pp. 145ff.. ISBN 9780896080430. http://books.google.com/books?id=39wuAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Thom+Mount%22&dq=%22Thom+Mount%22&hl=en&ei=HkdITc-mNZKisAP_y42EAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ^ Harmetz, Aljean (17 November 1983). "Film Official Dismissed". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E7D61239F934A25752C1A965948260. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ^ "Producer Says 'Bull Durham' Sequel In Works". WTAE-TV. 8 October 2008. http://www.wtae.com/r/17662186/detail.html. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
