David Permut
David Permut ( born March 23, 1954 in New York City ) is an American film producer.
Life
After completion of the College began Permut the mid-1970s a career as a film producer. His first project was the feature film Give ' Em Hell Harry (1975 ) with James Whitmore in the lead role, which grossed at production cost of only U.S. $ 320,000 over 11 million U.S. dollars. In addition to feature films he also produced shows such as Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979 ), which generated a budget of under a million U.S. dollars over 32 million sales. After these successes, he founded his own production company in 1979 and entered into a cooperation agreement with Columbia Pictures. The new company, however, published only three years later with Fatal billing a first feature film.
His first real box-office hit in 1987 had Permut setback with the crime comedy bulls do not bite, in which Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks took over the lead roles. The Marrying fell in 1991, however, the critics by and flopped according to the box office. 1992 Permut produced the comedy Captain Ron and Alan J. Pakula's thriller Consenting Adults. In the same year he signed a lucrative contract with New Line Cinema.
In 1997 he produced John Woo's action blockbuster in the body of the enemy. Subsequent projects were unable to repeat this success.