Chopping Edge Group (CEG) has acquired the music rights and royalty streams to composer Brian Tyler‘s catalog of movie and TV scores.
The catalog includes greater than 60,000 minutes of music.
The acquired soundtracks accompany movies which have generated a cumulative international field workplace of greater than $21 billion over the previous 20 years, based on CEG.
CEG didn’t disclose monetary phrases of the transaction, however described the deal as one of many largest ever accomplished for the rights of a single movie and TV composer.
Tyler‘s credit embrace the Quick & Livid franchise, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Darkish World, Loopy Wealthy Asians, The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, Rambo: Final Blood, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Now You See Me movies.
He additionally scored Taylor Sheridan‘s Yellowstone universe and composed the primary official theme for Components 1, which airs in the course of the international broadcast of each race.
“Music is how we keep in mind the tales that matter most to us. It’s the invisible thread operating by a scene or story that makes it unforgettable, and I’ve spent my profession attempting to serve these tales as truthfully as I can.”
Brian Tyler
“Music is how we keep in mind the tales that matter most to us. It’s the invisible thread operating by a scene or story that makes it unforgettable, and I’ve spent my profession attempting to serve these tales as truthfully as I can,” mentioned Brian Tyler.
“Realizing that these compositions might be within the palms of a crew that genuinely understands their worth – not simply commercially, however creatively and culturally – means every little thing to me.”
“Brian is a one-of-a-kind composer who has performed a pivotal position in shaping a few of the most iconic movies and TV reveals of the twenty first century,” mentioned Tara Finegan, COO of Chopping Edge Group.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful and proud that he has trusted us with these world-class compositions and recordings, that are the emotional heartbeat of movies and TV reveals that span a large number of genres and types, and resonate with such a broad vary of audiences.
“That high quality and breadth is what makes this catalog so compelling as a long-term funding.”
Picture credit score: Faye Thomas
“Brian is a one-of-a-kind composer who has performed a pivotal position in shaping a few of the most iconic movies and TV reveals of the twenty first century.”
Tara Finegan, Chopping Edge Group
Tyler‘s catalog joins a portfolio of greater than 400,000 owned and managed media music rights that CEG values at over $1 billion.
The corporate’s latest enlargement features a three way partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery introduced in January 2025 to co-own and co-manage the studio’s movie and TV music catalog, in a deal reported to be value greater than $1 billion.
“This funding displays our unwavering dedication to securing the perfect rights in media music and our skill to finish offers of this calibre is testomony to the status now we have established inside the composer group over a few years,” mentioned Tim Hegarty, Chopping Edge Group‘s Head of M&A.
“Movie and tv music stays one of the crucial resilient asset courses within the rights market, and this acquisition is an extra demonstration of our skill to establish and safe its highest catalogs.”
Picture credit score: Faye Thomas
“Movie and tv music stays one of the crucial resilient asset courses within the rights market, and this acquisition is an extra demonstration of our skill to establish and safe its highest catalogs.”
Tim Hegarty, Chopping Edge Group
“For an elite, rarified-air composer like Brian Tyler, it was key for us to discover a firm who actually understood the distinctive worth of his legendary physique of labor,” mentioned Sam Schwartz and Michael Gorfaine of the Gorfaine Schwartz Company, which represented Tyler. “We’re happy we discovered that within the crew at Chopping Edge.”
Tyler was named a BMI Icon in 2022, an honor beforehand given to composers together with John Williams and Alexandre Desplat.
He has additionally acquired three Emmy nominations and 12 Goldspirit Awards, together with Composer of the Yr, based on CEG.
Tyler was represented within the transaction by Dave Kaplan at Surfdog, Sam Schwartz and Michael Gorfaine of the Gorfaine Schwartz Company, Scott Edel and Mitchell Manger at Loeb & Loeb, and Jean Lee at Citrin Cooperman.
CEG was represented by Michael Poster and Mehdi Sinaki of Michelman Robinson.Music Enterprise Worldwide
