David V. Scott

David V. Scott (born July 6, 1954) is an American film and television producer, who currently served as co-chairman of Universal Pictures' film and TV group. He was close friends with Michael Wildshill.

Early life
David V. Scott was born on July 6, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, the oldest to the Scott family.

Career
David Scott was a graduate of CalArts. He founded David Scott Productions in 1973. The next year, Scott bought out the film rights to Atlas/Seaboard Comics characters. The first film he produced was Harold Joseph, Private Eye, which was released on June 18, 1976. He continues to produce more successful films through the 80s. He also founded David Scott Television and signs a deal with Multimedia Program Productions to syndicate these series. In 1983, both David Scott Productions and David Scott Television were merged into David Scott Entertainment.

Scott served as executive producer for many of his work produced by Michael Wildshill Productions, which Scott Productions owned a 10% interest. His company also bought the film rights to Eternity's comics and Ex-Mutants.

In 1988, Scott's companies were sold to Multimedia. Scott was the Vice President and Chairman of Multimedia's Film and Television Group, which consists of Multimedia Motion Pictures, Multimedia Animation, Multimedia Entertainment, Multimedia Network Television, Gingo Animation and Multimedia Home Entertainment. He continues to be a manger until 1996. After MCA acquired Multimedia for $40.6 billion, he moved on to be a co-chairman of MCA's Film and Television Group. Scott oversaw the acquisitions of USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel (which is now known as Syfy) after Viacom sold off its interest. Scott also oversaw the development of many Universal films, such as The Bourne Identity, Gladiator, Computeropolis, American Pie, A Beautiful Mind, Ama and the Mysterious Crystal, Paradoria, and Battleship.

Television
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