David Lancaster

Co-President

David Lancaster is the Co-President of Bold Films. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved in the development, finance, production and distribution of over 30 motion pictures and several major stage plays. His most recent production, DRIVE, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling, was released by FILMDISTRICT and has grossed over $80 million worldwide.

He began his career on Broadway as co-producer of Marsha Norman’s NIGHT, MOTHER starring Kathy Bates. He then served as associate producer of David Mamet’s AMERICAN BUFFALO starring Al Pacino and Beth Henley’s THE WAKE OF JAMIE FOSTER, the follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning CRIMES OF THE HEART. Broadway led Lancaster to his feature film debut - the Golden Globe-winning feature film adaptation of NIGHT, MOTHER starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek for Universal. He subsequently produced the award-winning Robert Altman drama THE LAUNDROMAT for HBO, starring Carol Burnett and Amy Madigan.

In 1990 he founded David Lancaster Productions with the mission of producing unique, compelling, high quality motion picture and television projects. Among them were the New Orleans character drama A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG starring John Travolta & Scarlett Johansson and the Stephen King thriller RIDING THE BULLET starring David Arquette, Erica Christensen, Cliff Robertson, and Barbara Hershey. Others features include the urban romantic comedy LOVING JEZEBEL, Winner of the 2000 SXSW Audience Award, action/horror adventure WES CRAVEN’S: THE BREED, starring Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson & Taryn Manning and the sci-fi thriller HOLLOW MAN 2, starring Christian Slater.

In 2006 Lancaster joined Bold Films as Co-President and serves as Producer on all of the company’s features. With over 27 years of entertainment experience to his credit, Lancaster brings a wealth of production knowledge and industry relationships to the company. His first task at Bold Films was to oversee post-production on the Golden Globe Best Picture Nominated RFK drama BOBBY, from Director Emilio Estevez. Since his arrival, Lancaster has also produced the Joe Dante directed suspense thriller THE HOLE 3D, STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: MARAUDER written and directed by Ed Neumeier, the 2008 Toronto Film Festival Selection MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, starring Susan Sarandon and Anton Yelchin, and 2010 the apocalyptic thriller LEGION. He is currently in post on the found footage thriller EVIDENCE, directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. He continues his role as company head and Producer on the upcoming Bold slate including the suspense thriller ABOVE SUSPICION, from Director Philip Noyce.

David Lancaster is a native Texan and currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Karen.