Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross To Deliver Keynote Q&A At 2014 Billboard + The Hollywood Reporter's Film & TV Music Conference

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross To Deliver Keynote Q&A At 2014 Billboard + The Hollywood Reporter's Film & TV Music Conference

Award-Winning Composing Team to Discuss Gone Girl Score on November 5 at 12th Annual Film & TV Music Conference in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter announce today that award-winning composing team Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will deliver the Keynote Q&A at the 2014 Billboard + Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference, taking place on November 5 and 6 in Los Angeles. Reznor and Ross will discuss their most recent collaboration on the score of the critically acclaimed film Gone Girl.

Now in its twelfth year, the Billboard + Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference is a cutting-edge, two-day seminar on the role of music in film and television. The highly anticipated conference offers attendees the unique opportunity to learn from, network, and expose their music directly to the best music supervisors, composers, directors, music editors, songwriters, and producers in the business. The event also provides a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas, featuring roundtable discussions, and other networking opportunities.

"Each year, we look forward to welcoming the industry's most talented creatives who add such an important element -- music -- to Hollywood's greatest works," said Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media's Entertainment Group, which consists of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. "We're honored to have Trent and Atticus, two of the most influential musicians working today in any genre, come and discuss their influential work, in such an intimate setting."

For the Keynote Q&A panel, Hollywood Reporter and Billboard music editor Shirley Halperin and Reznor and Ross will discuss the duo's most recent work on the score for Gone Girl.Gone Girl is the third partnership between Reznor and Ross, and director David Fincher, following Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network, for which Reznor and Ross won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

While perhaps best known as the founder and sole member of the groundbreaking industrial music project Nine Inch Nails, Reznor is a multi-talented creative force whose drive and passion has extended to film, video games, and digital music services. Ross began writing music for picture in 2004, for the television series "Touching Evil." He has since composed scores for other acclaimed television series and films, including as New York I Love You, The Book of Eli, Days of Grace and Broken City, among other projects.

Past Billboard + Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference Keynote Q&A speakers have included Christina Aguilera, LA Reid, Demi Lovato, Randy Newman, T Bone Burnett, Alex Da Kid, Alexandra Patsavas, Rita Wilson, David O Russell and Danny Elfman.

www.FilmandTVMusicConference.com

About Billboard
Billboard is the world's most influential music brand, built on the most complete and well-respected database of charts across all music genres. The Billboard charts define success in music. From the iconic Billboard magazine to Billboard.com which is the ultimate consumer-facing destination for millions of passionate music fans, to the industry's most elite conference series and influencer events including the Power 100 and Women in Music - the Billboard brand has unmatched authority among fans, artists and the industry alike.
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About The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter is the entertainment industry's flagship media brand. With in-depth reporting, analysis, unprecedented access, world-class photography and video, and feature exclusives, The Hollywood Reporter is the definitive source for breaking entertainment and business news.

Founded in 1930 as a trade-only publication, The Hollywood Reporter reached an all-time high of 17.1 million individuals worldwide online at thr.com in August 2014, and over 224,000 readers in its weekly magazine, delivering news to an audience of industry power players and consumers deeply invested in entertainment content. The Hollywood Reporter's platforms include an award-winning weekly magazine, dynamic web and mobile sites, festival and awards season apps, tablet, iPad editions, social media, and branded events. Follow The Hollywood Reporter on Twitter @thr and on Facebook at facebook.com/HollywoodReporter. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter won a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for The Hollywood Reporter in Focus: The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Fay Sliger | fay@high10media.com | 212-918-2046

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