Background
Berman was born in New York in 1952.
Berman was born in New York in 1952.
Georgetown University Law Center. Bennington College.
He is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Village Roadshow Pictures, a position he has held since 1997. His credits as an executive producer include American Sniper, The Lego Movie, The Great Gatsby, the Ocean"s trilogy, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Happy Feet and The Matrix trilogy. Berman is noted for his collection of contemporary American photographs.
In 2004, he was listed among the world’s top 25 photography collectors by ARTNews.
As a teenager, he developed a passion for photography and contemplated a career as a photographer. He continued to pursue photography throughout high school and into college, where, as a student at Bennington College, he would take frequent road trips to shoot photos of 20th century Americana.
Berman"s focus shifted to film after he was accepted at the California Institute of the Arts film school. "I didn"t think I could make a living at photography," Berman said in a 2007 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
"And when I got into film school, I didn"t think I could do both."
In addition to Bennington and CalArts, Berman attended University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in United States history.
He also attended Georgetown University Law School, earning a juris doctor in 1978. Berman began working with Jack Valenti at the MPAA while a student at Georgetown. After he received his degree, he was hired as an assistant to Peter Guber at Casablanca Filmworks.
In 1979, he moved to Universal Pictures, where he worked for Sean Daniel and Joel Silver.
Less than three years later, he was named vice president of production. In 1984, Berman was recruited by Warner Brothers
Pictures as a vice president of production, and in 1987 was promoted to senior vice president of production. He was named president of theatrical production in 1989 and president of worldwide theatrical production in 1991.
During his tenure at Warner Brothers he produced and distributed films including Goodfellas, Batman Forever, John F Kennedy, The Fugitive, The Bodyguard, and Driving Mission Daisy.
In May 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, an independent motion picture company affiliated with Warner Brothers In 1997, Warner Bros entered into a joint venture with Village Roadshow Pictures, and Berman was appointed chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The company established a second joint partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014. In 1991, Berman was given an Edward South. Curtis photograph of a thatched American Indian shelter as a gift.
lieutenant inspired him to begin a photography collection, which grew to include more than 2600 works by photographers including William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Richard Misrach, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans.
Quotations: "I didn"t think I could make a living at photography,".