Keynote: Michael De Luca, Co Chair and CEO of Warner Bros Motion Picture Group

Michael De Luca serves as Co-Chair and CEO of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, encompassing Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. WBMPG continues to build on its legacy of iconic feature franchises and world-class cinema, delivering a diverse slate of films for global audiences.

De Luca serves as Co-Chair and CEO with Pamela Abdy, sharing oversight of the Studio’s global theatrical production, marketing, and distribution operations. In addition to his Motion Picture Group responsibilities, De Luca, along with Abdy, has curatorial oversight of WBD’s TCM (Turner Classic Movies) network, in partnership with filmmakers Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. He joined Warner Bros. in 2022.

Prior to joining Warner Bros., De Luca served as MGM’s Motion Picture Group Chairman, where he oversaw all aspects of the company’s feature film slate across MGM and Orion films including Sarah Polley’s Academy Award® Best Picture-nominated “Women Talking” which earned Polley the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay, Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver; Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award® Best Picture-nominated “Licorice Pizza,” which marked MGM’s first such nomination since “Rain Man” in 1988; “Creed III,” starring and directed by Michael B. Jordan; Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan’s “Adam’s Family 2”; and Ron Howard’s “13 Lives.”

Bruce Ramer is a partner at the firm of Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc., specializing in entertainment/media law.

Mr. Ramer obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Ramer serves as a member of the Board of Trustees, University of Southern California. Bruce is also the Chair of the USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, as well as a member of the Board of Councilors of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education; member, Board of Councilors, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and member, Board of Governors, Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and former Chair. He is Executive Advisory Council Member of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. He serves as a Board of Director for the National Archives Foundation.

Bruce is the Founding Chair of the Geffen Playhouse (UCLA) Los Angeles; member of the Board of Directors of the West Coast Peabody Awards and former Chairman.