David Weissman(II)
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Actor
David Diamond and David Weissman's partnership is rooted in a 30 year friendship that dates back to their high school days together at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia. They parted company for college while Diamond majored in Cinema Studies at NYU and Weissman studied Chinese history, first at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then at the University of Michigan. Weissman received two Masters Degrees in the subject, one from the University of Wisconsin and the second from Brown University, before setting aside academic aspirations to join Diamond, who had settled in Los Angeles to pursue a writing career.
The partners sold their first spec script, "The Whiz Kid" to 20th Century Fox in 1994. They followed with a series of original ideas for comedies, beginning with "Guam Goes to the Moon" and their first produced credit in 2000, Universal Pictures' "The Family Man," starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. A collaboration with Ivan Reitman came next with Diamond and Weissman writing the Dreamworks Pictures sci-fi comedy "Evolution."
In 2005, Diamond and Weissman partnered with "Wedding Crashers" producer Andrew Panay on a series of feature comedies yielding five consecutive pitch sales and two additional produced credits, "Old Dogs," starring John Travolta and Robin Williams (2009), and the romantic comedy "When In Rome," starring Kristin Bell and Josh Duhamel (2010).
Also in 2005, the team wrote their first television pilot script, for 20th Television and CBS. The resulting untitled pilot starred John Leguizamo. More pilot sales followed for both half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas at NBC, ABC, FOX, and TBS.
Now in the fourth decade of their friendship, and the third decade of their writing partnership, Diamond and Weissman continue to explore concept and character driven stories that add up to more than the sum of their parts. In their more than twenty years collaborating with producers, directors, actors and studio executives, markets have changed dramatically and trends have come and gone, but what is real and true, and ultimately uplifting, continues to resonate with audiences. This is the audience to whom, and for whom, Diamond and Weissman continue to write every day.
Diamond and Weissman are both married and have five children between them, from middle school to college age.
The partners sold their first spec script, "The Whiz Kid" to 20th Century Fox in 1994. They followed with a series of original ideas for comedies, beginning with "Guam Goes to the Moon" and their first produced credit in 2000, Universal Pictures' "The Family Man," starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. A collaboration with Ivan Reitman came next with Diamond and Weissman writing the Dreamworks Pictures sci-fi comedy "Evolution."
In 2005, Diamond and Weissman partnered with "Wedding Crashers" producer Andrew Panay on a series of feature comedies yielding five consecutive pitch sales and two additional produced credits, "Old Dogs," starring John Travolta and Robin Williams (2009), and the romantic comedy "When In Rome," starring Kristin Bell and Josh Duhamel (2010).
Also in 2005, the team wrote their first television pilot script, for 20th Television and CBS. The resulting untitled pilot starred John Leguizamo. More pilot sales followed for both half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas at NBC, ABC, FOX, and TBS.
Now in the fourth decade of their friendship, and the third decade of their writing partnership, Diamond and Weissman continue to explore concept and character driven stories that add up to more than the sum of their parts. In their more than twenty years collaborating with producers, directors, actors and studio executives, markets have changed dramatically and trends have come and gone, but what is real and true, and ultimately uplifting, continues to resonate with audiences. This is the audience to whom, and for whom, Diamond and Weissman continue to write every day.
Diamond and Weissman are both married and have five children between them, from middle school to college age.
