Роберт Ф. Ньюмайер: Америкалық фильм өндірушісінің өмірі мен қызметі

American film producer

Robert F. Newmyer (May 30, 1956 – December 12, 2005) was an American film producer, both commercial and independent.

Robert Frederick Newmyer (Bobby) was born on May 30, 1956, in Washington, D. C., to James and Virginia Newmyer. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1974, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from Swarthmore College in 1978 and afterward worked as a real estate developer in Telluride, Colorado. In 1982 he received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1982. grossing over $24 million on a budget just over $1 million. Soderbergh later recalled that "It was Bob who thought maybe I had something that more than ten people would see." Newmyer and Jeffrey Silver then formed "Outlaw Productions", the name derived from Newmyer's favorite Clint Eastwood character, the outlaw Josey Wales. The production company had, for a time, a long term deal with Warner Brothers. Chairwoman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Amy Pascal said,"Bobby was a true maverick and a true risk taker.

Newmyer was married to wife Deborah Jelin Newmyer for nineteen years. They had four children, Sofi, Teddy, James and Billi, all of Los Angeles; his parents, and his two sisters, Elsa Newmyer of the District of Columbia and Lory Newmyer of Hull, Massachusetts. In addition to the film Breach, at the time of his death, Newmyer had The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause in production, and Phat Girlz in postproduction. To finance the romantic comedy Phat Girlz, he put up nearly $3 million of his own money, liquidating assets and remortgaging his homes. The Lost Boys of Sudan was in development for Paramount Pictures. (It was eventually released in 2014 by Warner Bros. as The Good Lie). The Bobby Newmyer Memorial Fund was established to further his work with Sudanese refugees. founded in 1987 by the late Robert Newmyer and Jeffrey Silver. They have produced independent films as well as major studio features. In 2015, the President was Newmyer's widow, Deb Newmyer, an independent movie and television producer in her own right, who worked at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment for 12 years. In 2006, Deb Newmyer and her Outlaw company received a first look deal with Sony.