Thom Mount

Thomas Henderson Mount (born 26 May 1948) is a former President of Universal Pictures.[1][2]

Thom Mount
Born (1948-05-26) 26 May 1948
United States
Occupationstudio executive

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he studied art at Bard College where he received a BA. He received an MFA in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

After leaving Universal in late 1984,[3] Mount founded his own company, which produced acclaimed films like Bull Durham, Tequila Sunrise, Frantic, Natural Born Killers, Can't Buy Me Love, The Indian Runner, Night Falls on Manhattan, and Death and the Maiden, which he first produced on stage in London's West End and on Broadway.[4]

Mount is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Film School, two-term president of the Producers Guild of America,[5] and has been a consultant for RKO Pictures. He started a new venture in 2012, Day for Night Productions, which focuses on developing and producing "youth" genre films of high quality.

Frequently rumored to be the model for Robert Altman's The Player, Mount said "Not me. I've never murdered a screenwriter".[6]

References
  1. Barbara Zheutlin; David Talbot (1978). Creative differences: profiles of Hollywood dissidents (1st ed.). Boston: South End press. pp. 145ff. ISBN 978-0-89608-043-0. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  2. Harmetz, Aljean (17 November 1983). "Film Official Dismissed". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  3. Crowe, Cameron (September 1985). "Independents: Thom and Nicolette Bret Mount". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  4. "Death and the Maiden". Playbill. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
  5. Madigan, Nick (29 June 1998). "Mount elected prez of Producers Guild". Variety. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  6. Neumer, Chris. "Animal House: The Movie that Changed Comedy". Stumped Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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