Anything Goes : Veteran Hollywood Marketing & PR Specialist Joins The Production Team for "The Head Game Movie" by LaMont Johnson

We are proud to announce the addition of Blaise Noto, veteran Hollywood Marketing and PR specialist to The Head Game’s production and development team. With a career that has spanned over 35-years, Blaise J. Noto was one of Hollywood's top marketing and publicity specialist. At Paramount Pictures, where he served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Publicity, he spearheaded the Academy Awards campaigns for the Oscar-winning Best Pictures "Titanic," "Braveheart" and "Forrest Gump." He also was Executive President of Publicity at Columbia Pictures, and held key marketing positions at Warner Bros., United Artists, Orion Pictures, and Vestron and for producer Dino De Laurentiis. He presently is President of Blaise Noto & Associates, an international award-winning marketing firm for entertainment and the arts based in Chapel Hill, NC. Blaise is a four-time recipient of the Publicist Guild of America’s “Best Motion Picture Publicity Campaign” for “Titanic,” “Forrest Gump,” “Braveheart" and “Spider-Man," and was nominated for Nickelodeon's "The Rugrats Movie." Most recently, he was Associate Producer on the feature film "Heart of a Dragon" that filmed in Beijing and on the Great Wall of China, and on the documentary feature film "When the Mountain Calls: Nepal-Tibet-Bhutan" that aired on 144 PBS station nationwide in 2012. In the music arena, Blaise Noto has worked on the publicity and promotion of numerous Oscar®, Grammy® and Golden Globe® winning songs including “My Heart Will Go On,” “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” “Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)," “Nobody Does It Better,” “Blame Canada,” among others, and on numerous award-winning motion picture soundtrack scores including “Titanic,” “The Passion of the Christ,” "Dirty Dancing" "Forrest Gump,” “Braveheart,” “Ghost,” and “Chariots of Fire.” He is a long-standing member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Publicists Guild of America/Cinematographers Guild. Blaise received his B.A. in Sociology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and his M.A. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, he was invited by the Chinese government to teach marketing at the Beijing Film Academy. He presently teaches Marketing & Distribution at UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem in the School of Filmmaking; and at William Peace University in Raleigh teaching Media & Culture and Introduction to Public Relations. Also, he has lectured in marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA and the University of Hawaii.