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- He first met Simpson at a screening of 1973's The Harder They Come at Warner Brothers. The two worked together and created Bruckheimer's first big hit, 1983's Flashdance, which brought in $95 million. He had a number of other hits during that time period, including the Beverly Hills Cop films, Top Gun, and Days of Thunder.
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On August 9, 1983, Bruckheimer and Simpson struck a three-year agreement with Paramount to produce theatrical and television projects through his new Simpson/Bruckheimer Productions company.
May 10, 1998 · The breakup, which Bruckheimer says was amicable, did not become public until December. One month later, Simpson, 52, was found dead of a drug overdose in one of the bathrooms of his Bel-Air...
Jan 26, 1996 · The two men first started working together in 1979, when Mr. Simpson was president of production at Paramount and Mr. Bruckheimer was brought in to produce the Richard Gere movie...
May 30, 2022 · Paramount Pictures gave Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer an early holiday gift in December 1984 with the formal greenlight for what was dubbed “Top Guns,” as the tale was titled in the ...
Bruckheimer had known Simpson since the early 1970s. They had met through friends in the film industry, and lived together briefly in 1974 when Bruckheimer and his first wife, Bonnie, were separated. Simpson and Bruckheimer began their professional affiliation in the early 1980s at Paramount.
Sep 24, 2014 · Bruckheimer then found his perfect partner in Don Simpson. Simpson, known as “Mr. Inside” for his industry schmoozing, was an ideal counterpart to Bruckheimer, who with his eye for marketable filmmaking earned the moniker “Mr. Outside.”
Jun 4, 2021 · The formula of testosterone-inflected, high-concept action-adventure synonymous with producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer was executed to near-perfection in 1996 with The Rock, an action movie that did everything right.
