David Linde

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David Linde (born February 8, 1960 ) is an American film producer .

Life

David Linde began his career as Vice President at Fox / Lober, where he was responsible for buying and selling more than 300 independent films as Vice President . He was also responsible for rights management for theatrical productions for Paramount Pictures .

In 1991 he moved to Miramax , where he initially worked as Vice President of Acquisitions until he was appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Sales at the newly founded Miramax Films International. As a result, he was involved in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction , Woody Allen's lover Aphrodite and Anthony Minghella's The English Patient .

In January 1997 he founded the independent film production company Good Machine with James Schamus and Ted Hope . His best-known productions from this period include Ang Lee's Tiger and Dragon and Alfonso Cuarón Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life , where he was executive producer. In 2002 they sold the company to Universal Pictures and founded Focus Features . There he was co-president and president of the Rogue Pictures division . This took care of, among others, Roman Polański's The Pianist , Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation , Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain , Todd Solondz ' Happiness and Fernando Meirelle's The Eternal Gardener . In 2008 he oversaw the sale of the production company to Relativity Media .

He then moved to Universal Pictures with Marc Shmuger , where he became chairman. Shmuger and Linde were fired from Universal Pictures in October 2009. In 2011 he also founded Lava Bear Films , of which he was CEO until October 2015. He then moved to Participant Media as CEO . His most recent productions include Biutiful (2010) by Alejandro González Iñárritu , 360 (2011) by Fernando Meirelles, The Flowers of War by Zhang Yimou and Arrival (2016). For the latter, he received a nomination in the category Best Film for the 2017 Academy Awards .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sydney Levine: TIFF 2011 and into AFM . In: indieWIRE , October 11, 2011. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 18, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.indiewire.com 
  2. ^ David Linde "Produced By" Conference Bio . Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.producedbyconference.com
  3. ↑ Monica Roman: LINDE, GOOD MACHINE PARTNER . In: Variety , December 16, 1996. 
  4. ^ Sheila Johnston: Y Tu Mama Tambien - Film Review . In: Screen Daily , September 14, 2001. 
  5. ↑ October Machine-ready . In: Variety , July 30, 1997. 
  6. ↑ Dana Harris: Good Machine buy age Focus at U . In: Variety , May 2, 2002. 
  7. ↑ David Rooney: Focus widens lens with Rogue . In: Variety , March 24, 2004. 
  8. ↑ Brooks Barnes: For Illumination Entertainment, Animation Meets Economic Reality . In: The New York Times , April 3, 2011. 
  9. ↑ Nikki Finke: Why Karma Is A Bitch For Marc Shmuger . In: deadline.com of October 5, 2009.
  10. ^ David Linde Named CEO of Participant Media , The Hollywood Reporter. October 13, 2015. Accessed October 13, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Linde, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1960