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Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners Sells 50% Stake in Song Catalog to Multimedia Music
Deal includes music composed by John Williams, Danny Elfman and Thomas Newman
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Multimedia Music, a company that specializes in acquiring the rights to music featured in film and TV productions, has purchased a 50% stake in the music publishing and master rights catalog from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, the companies announced today.
The eight-figure deal gives Multimedia Music partial ownership of songs from the films 1917, Green Book, Bridge of Spies, The Post and others. (It does not include the music from Spielberg’s early hit films, such as Jaws and E.T., that predate Amblin’s founding in 2015.)