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Life and career. Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner.
SCREENWRITER and novelist Art Linson talks about adapting his book for the big screen version of What Just Happened, working with Robert De Niro and how he’s survived the Hollywood game depicted in the film…. Q. Your book is subtitled Bitter Tales from the Hollywood Front Line, but the film, which is fictionalised, is more bittersweet and ...
Art Linson. Producer: Into the Wild. Art Linson has produced critically acclaimed movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables , Fast Times at Ridgemont High , Into the Wild, and two time Oscar winner Melvin and Howard. Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX ...
This film producer’s honest, hilarious behind-the-scenes memoir “details the planning, handholding and power games involved in making movies” (Publishers Weekly).Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century—Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club—and has worked with some of America’s finest actors and directors.
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Full name, Arthur Larry Linson; born March 16, 1942, in Chicago, IL; married second wife, c. 1995; children: John (a producer). Education: University of California, Los Angeles, law degree, 1967; also attended University of California, Berkeley.
Film Producer:
(With Michael Gruskoff) Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (also known as Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers), Warner Bros., 1975. (With Gary Stromberg) Car Wash,Universal, 1976. American Hot Wax,Paramount, 1978. (With Don Phillips) Melvin and Howard,Universal, 1980. Where the Buffalo Roam,Universal, 1980. (With Irving Azoff) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (also known as Fast Times), Universal, 1982. (With Cameron Crowe and Phillips) The Wild Life,Universal, 1984. The Untouchables,Paramount, 1987....
Film Executive Producer:
(With Barrie M. Osborne and Floyd Mutrux) Dick Tracy,Buena Vista, 1990. Singles,Warner Bros., 1992. Lords of Dogtown (also known as American Knights and Dogtown Boys), TriStar, 2005.
Film Director:
Where the Buffalo Roam,Universal, 1980. The Wild Life,Universal, 1984.
Videos:
Himself, The Making of "Casualties of War" (short), Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001. Himself, The Untouchables: The Classic(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Untouchables: Re-inventing the Genre(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Making of "Heat," Warner Home Video, 2005.
Video Work:
Still photographer, The Making of "Heat," Warner Home Video, 2005.
Screenplays:
(Story) American Hot Wax,Paramount, 1978. (With Cameron Crowe) The Wild Life,Universal, 1984. (Story) Sunset Strip (also known as Untitled Sunset Strip Project), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000. Wrote the screenplay Cover Me.Provided the stories for other films.
Teleplays; Pilots:
(With William Finkelstein) What Just Happened? (based on his book What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line), HBO, c. 2008.
Nonfiction:
A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Europe,Grove Press, 1993. What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line,Bloomsbury, 2002.
Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network. Yellowstone has become the most popular scripted series in ...
Oct 3, 2008 · Books. What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line. Art Linson. Grove Press, Oct 3, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 224 pages. As a Hollywood film producer, Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the last half century-- Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club ...
