Edward R. Pressman, the prolific Hollywood producer behind ‘Wall Street,’ ‘American Psycho,’ ‘Badlands’ and ‘The Crow,’ among dozens of others, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 79
His death was confirmed to Deadline his company, Pressman Films.
With dozens of acclaimed and impactful films and TV movies stretching back to the late 1960s and including now-classics like Conan the Barbarian, Talk Radio, Bad Lieutenant and Brian De Palma’s 1972 Sisters, Pressman was noted for discovering talented directors early in their careers. In addition to Sisters he produced De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise, and, with the 1973 TV-movie Badlands, Terrence Malick. Jason Reitman made his directing debut in Pressman’s Thank You for Smoking.
An early collaboration with Oliver Stone on the 1981 drama The Hand paved the way for Talk Radio and the Oscar-winning Wall Street . He and Stone produced Kathryn Bigelow’s early film Blue Steel. Among the other directors with whom Pressman would forge early bonds were Alex Proyas , Sylvester Stallone and Sam Raimi .
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