Edward R. Pressman
Edward R. Pressman (* April 11, 1943 in New York City, NY) is an American film producer.
Life
Edward Pressman is the eldest son of the toy manufacturer Jack Pressman († 1959), which founded in 1947 by Pressman Toy, and Lynn Pressman ( born June 14, 1912 in Queens as Lynn Rambach, † July 22, 2009 in Brooklyn ), who married in 1942.
After Pressman had completed his schooling, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Following this, he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science.
About 80 films produced Pressman in his career, in which you can not detect Genre fixation. Pressman committed numerous young talents for their projects, so that their careers took a leap upward.
Pressman, the New York Independent productive producer, the conditions found pleasant in Los Angeles, so he moved there. Only in 1995 he moved back to his home, there to take a typical New York project with Al Pacino, John Cusack and Danny Aiello in attack: City Hall by Harold Becker.
Pressman specialty as a producer is to find talent and new directions in film art. He is especially known for promoting the careers of young and inspired filmmakers. So he gave, for example, Oliver Stone the opportunity to his debut The hand before then the two Oscar- winning works Wall Street and Talk Radio were filmed. With Brian De Palma on the director's chair Pressman created the thriller Sisters and The Phantom of the Paradise. Badlands was the debut of director Terrence Malick, then let Pressman Sylvester Stallone movie atrial stage to paradise. In both films Pressman served as executive producer.
At the international level Pressman worked. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was able to make his first English-language film Despair, the Taviani brothers film under Pressman Good Morning Babylon (again with Pressman as executive producer ). He also brought Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot in a special Director's Cut version on American screens, which earned one of the highest grossing results of a foreign film in the history of American cinema.
Pressman has a nose for projects for which they received the acclaim of critics and the audience. So he let the affair of Claus von Bülow film. The film was awarded the Oscar for Best Actor, Jeremy Irons. The Bad Lieutenant by Abel Ferrara and Homicide - Homicide by David Mamet have been included in many critics lists of the "10 best films of the year ".
2000 Pressman completed the film, whose rights he had already bought seven years earlier. The screenplay for American Psycho, based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis he had to rewrite several times. Christian Bale was with a film to star, who has been very controversial, in a time when a lot and was discussed extensively on violence in the media.
In September 2001, he called a new society into being, the ContentFilm, a production and distribution company in New York with John Schmidt. Pressman works closely with his friend Terrence Malick and his production company Sunflower Production.
The American Film Magazine called Pressman as the best producers of the 1980s. The BAMcinematek in New York City honored him in February 2001 with a 25- film retrospective
The international influence Pressman stems from the 1989 retrospective organized by the French Cinematheque ago. The coveted Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal for his work and his support of the French film, he was awarded. More tributes from abroad were Pressman from the National Film Theatre in London, the Pacific Film Archive and the Walker Art Center received.
In May 2012, he bought the film rights to the comic book Feeding Ground.
Pressman is a board member of the Trust of the Publick Theatre / New York Shakespeare Festival and the Directors of New York 's Film Society of Lincoln Center. He is married to actress Annie McEnroe and has a son.