Edward R. Pressman, the veteran producer behind Wall Road and a frequent Oliver Stone collaborator, has died. He was 79.

The prolific producer died peacefully Tuesday night time at a Los Angeles hospital surrounded by his family members, together with members of his household and his firm, his son, Sam, a Pressman Movie vp manufacturing, informed The truestarz.

“He was working up till the final second [and] insisted on talking with London companions on the night time earlier than his passing,” he added in a press release. “We’ve a whole lot of work to do to honor him and convey to fruition the various initiatives he put himself into.”

The unbiased producer, recognized for financing movies he liked and people different studios wouldn’t contact, helped carry near 100 motion pictures to the massive display. That features The Crow, Conan the Barbarian, American Psycho, Dangerous Lieutenant and A lot. He was additionally recognized for often working with notable Hollywood administrators, together with Stone, Werner Herzog, Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick, Mary Harron and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in addition to repeatedly working with stars like Al Pacino, Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Irons, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas, Charlie and Martin Sheen and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

The trade maverick was described in a 1987 New York Occasions profile as “a pioneer among the many new breed of producers that’s stealing the highlight from the Hollywood studios,” and labored with lots of his collaborators firstly of their careers, discovering and fostering their expertise.

The avid producer, whose profession noticed him backing indie, worldwide and high-profile initiatives, often teamed with Stone, producing 5 totally different movies for the director. That features the 1987 drama Wall Road, which garnered Michael Douglas an Academy Award for greatest actor, and its 2010 follow-up Cash By no means Sleeps, to Warner Bros.’ 1981 Michael Caine psychological horror The Hand, based mostly on Marc Brandel’s novel The Lizard’s Tail.

He would additionally co-produce with Stone on certainly one of Bigelow’s earliest big-screen options, MGM and UA’s Blue Metal, the 1990 action-thriller led by Jamie Lee Curtis. Like his relationships with many administrators, which spanned a long time, he shepherded two of Brian De Palma’s better-known movies — 1974’s Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated rock musical comedy horror Phantom of the Paradise and his 2008 Chloë Sevigny and Stephen Rea-starrer Sisters.

Within the early ’70s, he would co-produce Malick’s directorial debut, the neo-noir crime drama Badlands, a few teen who goes on a killing spree and starring Sissy Spacek. Whereas he labored commonly throughout practically 5 a long time, with a string of movies previously few years, his earliest credit as a producer had been on three movies back-to-back with director Paul Williams for Woman (1966), Out of It (1969) and The Revolutionary (1970).

In a while, he would produce Sam Raimi’s Crime Wave, the Sylvester Stallone-directed Paradise Alley, Steven de Souza’s Road Fighter and de Souza and William Wisher’s Choose Dredd, in addition to Masters of the Universe and the unique Crow movie and its follow-up.

Pressman’s relationship with Harron started within the 2000s and would span 20 years, producing her 2000 film American Psycho, 2012’s The Moth Diaries and 2022’s Daliland — starring Ben Kingsley, Ezra Miller and Suki Waterhouse — which serves as certainly one of his last credit. Different more moderen initiatives embrace 2018’s Barry Levinson-directed Paterno that includes Al Pacino, Kathy Baker and Riley Keough and 2005’s Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman.

In 1969, Pressman based the manufacturing firm Pressman Movie and 40 years later started the method of housing his firm holdings — greater than 250 objects together with videotapes, theatrical prints and printing components associated to his productions and films acquired by Pressman Movies — with the Academy Movie Archive. Paper supplies overlaying the producer’s IP empire are housed on the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library.

Born in New York on April 11, 1943, to toymaker dad and mom Jack and Lynn Pressman, he married spouse Annie McEnroe Pressman in 1983 after assembly her 4 years earlier throughout auditions for Stone’s The Hand.

In an interview in March, the manufacturing legend spoke to plans for reviving profitable IP and pursuing unproduced initiatives whereas confirming his love — because the trade ventures into new areas like VR — of traditional big-screen tales, telling IndieWire, “I nonetheless consider within the function movie as a regular that has lasted a very long time and can proceed.”