MICHAEL BESMAN (Producer) began his entertainment career assisting director Michael Wadleigh on the horror film Wolfen and producer Aaron Russo on the Eddie Murphy comedy Trading Places. In 1983, he became a production executive at Paramount Pictures and cut his teeth working on such films as Witness, Beverly Hills Cop, Summer School, and Star Trek 4.

In 1987, Besman went to work for the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company, and supervised the blockbuster Batman. In 1989, when Guber and Peters were named co-chairmen of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Besman was appointed executive vice-president of production for TriStar Pictures. He supervised such films as Sleepless in Seattle, Single White Female, Jumanji, Wings of Courage, Devil in a Blue Dress and As Good As It Gets.

Besman started his producing career in 1997 with Jean-Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt. He followed up with Don Roos' critically acclaimed The Opposite of Sex, with Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow. The film earned two Independent Spirit Awards, for best first feature and best screenplay, and was nominated