Karyn Rachtman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Karyn Rachtman
Occupation	American Film Producer
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1964(1964-02-19)
Age	60
Birthplace	Van Nuys
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Karyn Rachtman Biography

Karyn Rachtman is one of the most popular and richest American film producer who was born on February 19, 1964 in Van Nuys, California, United States. Karyn Rachtman was born Los Angeles, California, to Peter Rachtman, a music manager as well as Sheila Watson, an educator. Her parents divorced as an infant and she along with her brother Riki resided mostly together with the mother of their children. When she was a kid Rachtman was “obsessed” with music, and would visit her father’s home during the weekends to listen to his music. Rachtman was first introduced in the world of film via an actress named Karen Black, who her father was with in the 1970s.

in 1994 Rachtman was involved in 15 movies, which included two in tandem: Reality Bites, with director Ben Stiller, and Pulp Fiction together with Tarantino. In 1994, the Reality Bites soundtrack was one of the most popular records of 1994. Its leading single Lily Loeb’s “Stay (I Missed You),” was the first track by an artist who was not a major label to reach the top spot in the Billboard Pop Charts. The inclusion for music on Pulp Fiction was a “milestone in creative music supervision” that “dramatically changed how most movie producers thought about the music that accompanied their films.” Its Pulp Fiction soundtrack is sold 4 million copies since the release of the film.

She music supervised and executive produced Archie’s Final Project (originally released as My Suicide) in 2009, a dark comedy about a teenager who becomes the most popular kid in his high school when he announces he is going to kill himself on camera for his final video class project. The film won the 2009 Best Feature at the Berlin Film Festival, in addition to other awards. She produced Sweet Mickey for President with Pras Michael, who she first met while working on Bulworth. She began the project as an executive producer, and became a producer as she got more involved in the hands-on production of the film. A documentary about Michael Martely, a colorful musician who ran for president of Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake that devastated the country, it was a selection for film festivals including the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival where it won the juried award for Best Documentary as well as the audience award.

At 15, Rachtman—a “wayward” teenager—was sent to live with her father, who had moved to New Zealand. She dropped out of high school, and remained in New Zealand for a year. She attended cosmetology school when she returned to Los Angeles.

In the late 90s, when the interaction between the music and film industries began to become more interconnected The role that the supervisor of music “became far more important as the potential economic benefits of soundtrack albums continued to grow,” and Rachtman was sought out by record companies and film makers. She was appointed vice president of A&R and soundtracks of Capitol Records, and in 1997, with the help of Beatty, she was named head of soundtracks to Interscope Records. At Interscope she was in charge of music supervision and/or executively produced soundtracks Moulin Rouge!, Office Space as well as the Rugrats Movie, Bulworth, and Mystery Men. She also got her own label, Gazillion Records. After quitting Interscope, Rachtman once again worked on her own, eventually she was music supervising films like Laurel Canyon, North Country, Holes and the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. .

Karyn Rachtman Net Worth

Karyn Rachtman is one of the richest American Film Producer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karyn Rachtman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rachtman relocated into New York in 1982. She worked in a clothing shop where she met Paula Erickson, then the head of music at Cannon Films in LA. After learning the fact that Erickson “got paid to put cool old songs in movies,” she asked to become her assistant and then moved back in Los Angeles. In Cannon, Rachtman learned how to create cue sheets, clean music and negotiate rights to music and was a part of films such as Rappin’ and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. She quit Cannon to become a plugger at Island Music, and then cleared music for music supervisors who had been in place for a while as an independent musician. She was recruited to work with Peter Bogdanovich to music supervise Texasville and was awarded her first role as a music supervisor for the big screen. She established her own company, Mind Your Music, in the following year.

In 1992 the director Stacey Sher introduced Rachtman to Quentin Tarantino, who was developing his feature-length debut film, Reservoir Dogs. He wanted to use songs from the Stealers Wheel song “Stuck in the Middle With You” as a key scene, and the music supervisor for the film was unable to obtain the rights needed. After a lengthy negotiations, Rachtman acquired the song and Tarantino appointed her to be Music supervisor on Reservoir Dogs. Rachtman delivered her soundtrack to MCA and the resulting record deal was paid for the songs that were eventually utilized in the movie. The music that was used in Reservoir Dogs, particularly “Stuck in the Middle with You” -“Stuck in the Middle with You” – “would change cinema thereafter.”

In 2002, Rachtman went to Scholastic with an idea for a series of children’s picture books called Hip Kid Hop. Inspired by the read-along books of her childhood, as well as the similarities between hip-hop’s language and the language of books for children, Hip Kid Hop was geared toward readers aged 4–10. The first books in the series, by LL Cool J and Doug E. Fresh, were “morality tales and stories about developing personal strength.” Each book came with a read-along CD.

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Karyn Ranked on the list of most popular American film producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Karyn Rachtman celebrates birthday on February 19 of every year.