You and a guest can enjoy a virtual meeting with the president of music and publishing at NBCUniversal, Mike Knobloch! Ask him about the process of getting the right song into the right film.
Mike Knobloch is President of Music and Publishing at NBCUniversal, and oversees all aspects of the studio's music and soundtracks. In addition, he manages one of the industry’s largest film and television music publishing catalogs, with songs and scores spanning nearly a century of Universal’s storied history.
With more than 25 years of experience, the GRAMMY-nominated Music Supervisor and Producer’s career highlights include 4 of the top-10 highest grossing films of all time, including Jurassic World, Furious 7, Titanic and Avatar. Over the last decade, songs and soundtracks he's supervised have been streamed more than 42B times.
At Universal, Knobloch has overseen the music for the studio's most successful franchises including Fast & Furious, Pitch Perfect, Despicable Me and Fifty Shades of Grey. He has supervised noteworthy musicals and other critically acclaimed projects including Illumination's Sing franchise, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch and The Secret Life of Pets films, Les Misérables, Straight Outta Compton, Yesterday, The High Note, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Marry Me, DreamWorks Animation's Trolls World Tour and the GRAMMY-nominated soundtrack to Dear Evan Hansen. Other highlights include Furious 7's anthem "See You Again," the global phenomenon "Happy" from Despicable Me 2, "Earned It" and "Love Me Like You Do" from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Pitch Perfect's "Cups."
As a passionately committed advocate for representation in music for visual media, Knobloch and Universal’s GTDI group launched the company’s Composer Diversity Initiative in 2018. This first-of-its-kind program identifies and develops talent with a focus on underrepresented groups in the industry.
Prior to his arrival at Universal in 2010, Knobloch was the Executive Vice President of Film Music at 20th Century Fox. His credits there since 1996 include The Devil Wears Prada, Moulin Rouge, From Hell, In America, There’s Something About Mary, Napoleon Dynamite, Drumline, Walk the Line, Man On Fire, Dodgeball, The Day After Tomorrow, The Simpsons Movie, and the X-Men, Ice Age and Alvin & the Chipmunks franchises.
He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has served on the national boards for both The Recording Academy / GRAMMYs and its philanthropic arm, MusiCares.
Knobloch received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Northwestern University where he has served for nearly two decades on the Dean’s Advisory Committee at the School of Communication, and he is currently an Advisory Board Member for Northwestern’s Sound Arts and Industries program.