Michael Peyser (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) -- Michael Peyser has produced a wide range of critically and commercially successful films. In 1996, after forming a producing partnership with director Jan De Bont in a deal with 20th Century Fox, Peyser produced De Bont's Speed 2. Before partnering with De Bont, Peyser produced Matilda, Hackers, Camp Nowhere, The Night We Never Met, The Distinguished Gentleman, Big Business, and the wildly successful Ruthless People. He was executive producer on Desperately Seeking Susan and the thriller FX.

Peyser was one of the founding partners and a senior vice president of Hollywood Pictures, one of the major divisions of The Walt Disney Studios.

A graduate of Hampshire College in Massachusetts, Peyser began his career in the film industry working on Hair and the classic Marathon Man. Soon after, he began a long association with Woody Allen working on such productions as Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.

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