If you don’t know composer Brian Tyler by name, you are very likely to know at least some of his music thanks to the catalog of blockbuster sounds that he has created. Among his musical portfolio are the soundtracks to the Fast and the Furious franchise, the Now You See Me films, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Crazy Rich Asians, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, Rambo: Last Blood, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe and the first “Official F1 Theme” for Formula 1, which airs during the global broadcast of every race.
Now, Cutting Edge Group (CEG), an investor in and manager of media music rights, has acquired the music rights and royalty streams to Tyler’s catalog of blockbuster film and TV scores, comprising more than 60,000 minutes.
Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but the company called the acquisition ” one of the largest ever completed for the rights of a single film and TV composer and comprises the soundtracks to some of the most successful works of entertainment from the past two decades, including films with a cumulative global box office of over $21 billion.” Cutting Edge says it has been focusing on “securing rights to the defining scores of modern film and television.” Its portfolio already consists of more than 400,000 owned and/or managed media music rights valued at more than $1 billion, according to the firm.
