Adam Fields

Adam Fields is an American executive, entrepreneur, and film and television producer. During his career, he has produced movies for Sony Pictures, Miramax, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros., Relativity Media, and Broad Green Pictures. He founded his own production company in 1984, producing movies including Great Balls of Fire!, Brokedown Palace, Johnny Be Good, Donnie Darko, Vision Quest, Limitless, The Wedding Ringer, and Money Train. Fields’ most notable contributions as an executive include An American Werewolf in London, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club. He also produced Bad Santa 2 and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Fields also executive produced the multi-platinum soundtracks for Flashdance and Endless Love. In 1990, Fields founded Preview Tech, a firm that partnered with national consumer electronics stores to air studio and network trailers on their in-store television monitors. Fields sold Preview Tech 18 months later in a multimillion-dollar deal.

Early life Fields was born in New York City and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he started his first film company, running film festivals in the school auditoriums.

Career Fields began his career at Creative Artists Agency as assistant to agent Martin Baum. Later, he left CAA to join PolyGram Pictures and within a year became Executive Vice President of Production, overseeing development and production of their film slate.

In 1990, Fields started the film marketing company Preview Tech. The firm built a network where studio trailers and network previews were simultaneously displayed on all the television monitors in consumer electronic stores across the country.

He then executive produced Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, Safe Haven starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel, and 21 & Over with Miles Teller. as Head of New Content, and executive produced the 2014 release Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. He also launched Robert Rodriguez's film From Dusk Till Dawn into a TV series, which premiered in 2014 and has run 3 seasons to date. He was executive producer on Bad Santa 2 for Broad Green Pictures, starring Billy Bob Thornton, released in November 2016. a reboot of Look Who's Talking, and a remake of Bunny Lake is Missing.

Filmography He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film Year Film Credit 1985 Vision Quest Executive producer 1986 The Whoopee Boys 1988 Johnny Be Good Journey to the Center of the Earth Executive producer 1989 Great Balls of Fire! 1995 Money Train Executive producer 1999 Ravenous Brokedown Palace 2001 Donnie Darko 2009 S. Darko 2011 Drive Angry 2013 Safe Haven Co-producer 21 & Over Co-producer 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Executive producer 2015 The Wedding Ringer 2016 Bad Santa 2 Executive producer Masterminds Executive producer

Music department

Year Film Role 1981 Endless Love Music supervisor 1983 Flashdance 1985 Vision Quest

Production manager

Year Film Role Notes 1984 Sixteen Candles Executive in charge of production Uncredited 1985 The Breakfast Club 2011 Limitless

As writer

Year Film 1999 Brokedown Palace

As soundtrack executive producer

Year Film 1981 An American Werewolf in London 1982 Six Weeks Missing 2001 Ali