Robert W. Cort

Cort entered the motion picture industry in 1976 and one year later was named vice president of advertising, publicity and promotion for Columbia Pictures. In 1980, he became executive vice president of marketing for Fox. In his five years as a marketing chief, Cort planned and supervised the campaigns of such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Midnight Express, The China Syndrome, All That Jazz, The Empire Strikes Back and Nine to Five. He then served as executive vice president of production at Twentieth Century Fox, where he oversaw the making of Romancing the Stone, Bachelor Party, and Revenge of the Nerds.[1]

For the next eleven years, Cort was a partner and president of Interscope Communications. From 1996 to 2001, he was the managing partner with David Madden of The Cort/Madden Company, a production unit with close ties to Paramount Pictures. He currently operates Robert Cort Productions, an independent production company.[1]

Cort was a partner and president of Interscope Communications.[14]

From 1996 to 2001, Cort was the managing partner of The Cort/Madden Company, a production unit with close ties to Paramount Pictures.[15]

In 2003 Random House published Cort's novel, Action!, which garnered positive critical reviews and became a bestseller.[16][17][1]

His articles and essays have been published in The New York Times and The New Yorker.[18][19] and he is currently a professor of production on the faculty of the American Film Institute.[1]

Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Cort earned BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School,[20][1] and was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.[21]

He lives in Beverly Hills, California, with his wife, Rosalie Swedlin, a manager of writers and directors.[21]

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.[2]

• Robert W. Cort at IMDb