Metropolis, best known as the West London-based studio that has worked with artists including Queen, Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse, has launched a ‘full service’ publishing division and hired former Imagem exec Rupert Hollier as its Creative Director.
Announced at the beginning of Metropolis’s 25th year, Metropolis Music Publishing, already has several Film and TV projects in the pipeline for the next year, including supervision of the music for the forthcoming Martin Scorsese presents film, Tomorrow.
As well as its world-renowned studio complex in Chiswick, Metropolis also runs businesses including a dance record label, M: UK Records, as well as mastering, production and artist services divisions.
Hollier served as Film Synchronisation Manager at Imagem for almost five years. Now reporting to Metropolis CEO, Ian Brenchley, he will work within a team made up of the core disciplines of administration, A&R, sync and supervision.
Metropolis says it will account to its clients on a quarterly basis and monitor every performance of its Film & TV productions in the US and Canada.
Ian Brenchley, CEO of Metropolis said “Publishing was also the final part of the transition of Metropolis into a full service music company. Having worked with Ru on previous projects it seemed like the perfect fit when the opportunity came up to work together. As an executive across both the film and music landscapes, he really is without equal”
“We now have an unrivalled culture that spans music creation, recording, mixing, mastering, production and distribution. Our culture is all about harnessing those opportunities and putting the artist first, from songwriting to mixing and mastering. Our environment is a creative one and we really believe this will lead to an exciting next chapter in our history with Ru at the helm”.
Rupert Hollier, Creative Director of Metropolis Music Publishing said “Metropolis is an institution and it’s significance to both pop history but also its commitment to embracing change is something that really excites me. As a small, adaptive team, we are able to offer a point of difference, and our ancillary values always ensure it’s about the artist, providing the resources for our acts to flourish, not only in sync, but also in terms of collaborations and songwriting camps. ”
Hollier said, “We work in an incredibly diverse and flexible way across film and TV sync, providing not only supervision services, but score funding and soundtrack release.
“For us we want to represent stand out artists in their space and it is not about chasing volume but maximizing each and every opportunity for our clients”.
[Pictured L-R: Rupert Hollier with Metropolis CEO Ian Brenchley]Music Business Worldwide
