David Weisman
David Weisman was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 11th, 1942 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 77, David Weisman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Film career
Weisman left Syracuse University's School of Fine Arts to design film-posters in Rome, where he managed to meet Federico Fellini (8 1/2) and work for Pier Paolo Pasolini after one viewing of La Dolce Vita (1960). Weisman, a mid-1960s assistant, and he supervised the graphics and title sequence for his 1967 Paramount Production, Hurry Sundown.
Weisman was a member of Andy Warhol's Factory in 1967, which collaborated to produce the experimental film Ciao! Weisman's time as mayor of Manhattan was spent co-directing with John Palmer and starring Edie Sedgwick. The film was not released until 1972 (almost five years after production began), but it did not receive much attention until 1982, when Jean Stein and George Plimpton's Edie: An American Biography was published and became a best-selling book.
Weisman's gift for languages (with fluency in French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and Dutch) made him a "incurable nomad" in the early 1980s; while in Brazil, he met and befriended fellow expat Manuel Puig. Despite Puig's refusal to purchase film rights to his fourth film, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Weisman assembled an impressive group of actors and filmmakers (including Burt Lancaster and Hector Babenco) convincing Puig to sell Weisman the right. Weisman produced the film for several years, bringing Leonard Schrader (replacing Burt Lancaster in the role of "Molina") and William Hurt ("Valentine") to star opposite Raul Julia as "Valentine." Weisman, the film's sole producer, received a Best Picture Award at the 58th Academy Awards on March 24, 1986, the first time William Hurt received the Oscar for Best Actor.
On May 13, 2010, the film was selected as the Cannes Classics opening selection at the 63rd annual Cannes International Film Festival. Weisman's efforts to protect the extensive Kiss of the Spider Woman archive as a historical artifact was discussed in The New York Times on July 10, 2010.
Naked Tango, directed and written by Leonard Schrader, and starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales, and Fernando Rey, Weisman's co-producer, Milena Canonero, were among Weisman's other films. Spike of Bensonhurst, directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Sasha Mitchell and Ernest Borgnine, and Shogun Assassin, a collection of Japanese Samurai films (dubbed in English), was released by Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Quentin Tarantino of Kill Bill: Volume 2 was credited to Weisman for clips from Shogun Assassin's Shogun Assassin.
Weisman co-authored an Edie Sedgwick book with Melissa Painter of Chronicle Books in 2006. He was at work on a similar project.
Weisman had been working with Paul Schrader and Indian writer Mushtaq Shiekh, author of two Shah Rukh Khan biographies and screenwriter of Khan's Om Shanti Om, since 2008, to create a bilingual action thriller called Xtrme City. "This film, a cross-cultural entertainment that blends the cinematic traditions of Bollywood and Hollywood," Schrader describes it as "a cross-cultural entertainment that blends the cinematic traditions of Bollywood and Hollywood." Martin Scorsese will co-produce the film alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Weisman.
Weisman Films invited Paul Schrader to write a screenplay named Little K about legendary ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, a female heir of Romanov's era and mistress to the last Tsar Nicholas II, which will be funded by the V.Vinokur Fund for the Support of Russian Arts and Culture under Kremlin's auspices.
The Hollywood Reporter published a story in 2014 that discussed Weisman's arbitration suit in the United States Federal Court concerning Edie Sedgwick's name and likeness rights under the heading "Judge Wraps Up Lawsuit vs. Sedgwick's wife is the subject of a narrow win over Sedgwick's husband."
In 2019, the Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Barbara found that Edie Sedgwick's "publicity rights" go to him, not to her widower Michael Post. Edie was not a "deceased celebrity" at the time of or as a result of her death on November 16, 1971, and she had signed all of her public relations to David Weisman in her Ciao contract. Manhattan is located in Manhattan.