BILL BADALATO (executive producer) has produced three films with Jim Abrahams -- Mafia!, Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux as well as Alien: Resurrection, starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder; Broken Arrow starring John Travolta; Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes; the aerial-action filmFire Birds; Men of Honor starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr.; and 1969.

Badalato has served as executive producer on many features, including Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill, Benny & Joon and the smash hit Top Gun. He has also produced the telefilms Laguna Heat and HBO's Dead Solid Perfect, based on the novel by Dan Jenkins.

He has overseen production on a long list of feature films, including Nighthawks, The Man with Two Brains, Cat People, Young Doctors in Love, Continental Divide and Jaws II.

Born in Watertown, New York, Badalato studied economics at Cornell University and completed his graduate studies at New York's New School for Social Research. Starting his professional career producing commercials,