"With THE EDGE, writer David Mamet brings a special voice to the action-adventure genre, one that's substantially different from what we're used to seeing and hearing."
-- The Edge producer, Art Linson

ART LINSON most recently produced Great Expectations, starring Robert De Niro, Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Bancroft. Linson's credits range from such unusual classics as Car Wash and Melvin and Howard (winner of two Academy Awards, for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress) to commercials hits such as The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dick Tracy and Scrooged to the critically acclaimed Casualties of War, Si ngles, This Boy's Life, and Heat starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer.

Born in Chicago, Linson grew up in Hollywood, at the Knickerbocker Hotel, a name he fondly bestowed on his production. He went to the University of California at Berkeley in 1960, finished his degree at UCLA and graduated from UCLA Law school in 1967, but opted not to practice law. Instead Linson took a job working for record producer Lou Adler. For a brief period in the 1970s, Linson ran his own company, Spin Dizzy Records, recording and managing such rock musicians as Spirit and Nils Lofgren.

In the 20 years since he produced his first motion picture, Art Linson has distinguished himself in Hollywood by developing scripts and stories that attract the highest caliber talent -- resulting in some of the most successful and admired motion picture s in the last two decades.

Linson's pursuit of imaginative material led him to collaborate with many of Hollywood's finest screenwriters -- including David Mamet, Bo Goldman, David Rabe, Cameron Crowe, Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donohue and Robert Getchell. In addition, in 1993, Linson published his first book entitled A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood.