Career To Date
In 1963, Heyman started to work as a film producer and has to date produced some 15 films, among them The Go-Between and The Hireling, which both won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1965, he also co-produced the longest running Hamlet in Broadway history, starring Richard Burton and directed by John Gielgud.
In 1973, he founded The Genesis Project, a project to create an audio-visual encyclopedia, atlas and dictionary. In 1976, it commenced translating the Bible onto film accompanied by a variety of educational materials. After completing the filming of Genesis and the Gospel of Luke (which, under the title Jesus, became the most viewed film in history), The New Media Bible was sold to an evangelical organization, having failed commercially in the age before VHS or DVD.
In 1974, Heyman began to render financial services to major film studios, and is widely credited with creating "structured financing" in the film industry. As a result of his efforts, more than $3 billion has been provided to co-finance over 150 films and television programs see list including Awakenings (Columbia), Black Rain (Paramount), Chinatown (Paramount), Edward Scissorhands (Fox), Grease (Paramount), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (Warner), Heaven Can Wait (Paramount), Home Alone (Fox), Looking For Mr Goodbar (Paramount), The Man Who Would Be King (Allied Artists), Marathon Man (Paramount), The Odessa File (Columbia), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fox), Saturday Night Fever (Paramount), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount), Trail of the Pink Panther (MGM), Victor Victoria (MGM).
In 1990, Heyman co-founded Island World, which produced and licensed film and television programs including The Cure (Universal), Eddie (Disney), Juice (Paramount), The Sandlot (Fox), Toy Soldiers (Tri-Star) and The War (Universal). Island World was sold to Polygram at the end of 1994, but Heyman retained control of the London TV production company World Productions which is still an active provider of British TV productions.
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