The great film producer Ed Pressman has died in Los Angeles. He was 79, and beloved in the industry.

I’m lucky to say Ed, his wife Anne and son Sam have been friends of mine for a long time. The Pressmans are uniquely lovely people in a terrible business. How Ed managed to maintain integrity and still be hugely successful is a mystery. He was always up against a tough world but made it work.

Ed burst onto the movie scene in 1973 when he produced Terence Malick’s debut film, “Badlands.” His dozens of credits that followed included Oliver Stone’s two “Wall Street” movies, “The Crow” series, and a terrific Al Pacino film called “City Hall.” Some of his other major successes were Barry Levinson and Pacino’s Emmy nominated “Paterno” for HBO, “American Psycho,” the excellent “Blue Steel” with Ron Silver and Jamie Lee Curtis, “Reversal of Fortune” with Jeremy Irons, Abel Ferrara’s best movie, “Bad Lieutenant,” with Harvey Keitel, Charles Burnett’s acclaimed “To Sleep with Anger,” John Byrum’s “Heartbeat” about the Beat Generation poets, and the “Conan the Barbarian” series, and a cult film I loved called “Cherry 2000” with Melanie Griffith. And that’s just a sampling.

What Ed did which was so brilliant: he made movies in New York, he made moneymakers and art films, mixing it up and taking chances on small films that would last and be eminently watchable over the years. He was awarded the prestigious John Cassavetes Award from the Spirit Awards in 1991 for exactly that reason.

A light dims in Hollywood and New York. Condolences to Ed’s remarkable family. Look for tributes today on Twitter. He will be sorely missed and always remembered. Producer Cassian Elwes posted: “Ed and his wife Annie befriended me when I was just starting out and invited me to parties and events when I knew no one. That type of acknowledgment and acceptance meant everything to a 23 year old wannabe and I will never forget it. Lastly about pressman. He’s the guy I looked up to in the business because he never took no for an answer. He made sh.. happen which I aspire to every day.”

I’ve no doubt Paramount Pictures and the producers of “80 for Brady” are disappointed over Monday’s NFL results.

Tom Brady’s football season ended with a decisive loss to the Dallas Cowboys for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady now faces either retirement — which is unlikely– or a move to a better team like the Miami Dophins.

For Paramount, Brady in the Super Bowl would have been marketing magic. That’s because the studio has a movie set for release on February 3rd called “80 for Brady.” It’s the true story of four older female New England Patriots super fans who follow Brady to the Super Bowl. In the film, the women are played by Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Moreno, and Lily Tomlin.

A lot has gone into this film. Diane Warren wrote a title song that’s sung by superstars Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry, Belinda Carlisle, and Gloria Estefan.

When all this was greenlit, I’m sure everyone involved thought: What could go wrong? Well, just Tom Brady — who makes a cameo in the film — having a bad season. And he did. The Buccaneers finished with eight wins and nine losses for the season. Brady is ready to leave the Buccaneers and end his career with a winning team. While he’s waiting, he may at least get a hit movie. Advance word on “80 for Brady” is that it’s a lot of fun, and a good potential winter hit — regardless of how the Buccaneers did. Fonda, et al may wind up the winning team of the season.

PS Youngster Sally Field– only just 76 — will be honored next month by the Screen Actor’s Guild for Lifetime Achievement. It’s about time. She’s only won 2 Oscars and rafts of other prizes.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert aka “The Daniels” took the CCA by storm yesterday with their crazy, innovative “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The multifaceted multiverse movie took home Best Picture, Director, and three more awards at the show last night. They’re on a roll with indie film fans and critics. (Not clear yet how the older Academy will deal with them.)

The Daniels are Emerson College graduates, friends since school, and are truly nice, humble guys. They love to talk about film, and especially editing. The editing in “EEAAO” is superb, with images inside of other images, collages and kaleidoscopes. It’s very weird that they weren’t short listed by the Academy for Visual Effects. Go figure.

And guess what? The Daniels are indie no more. Even though A24 released “EEAAO,” the next film will be at Universal Pictures. The guys signed a five year deal back in August. They’re already writing the first film in the deal, Scheinert says the new film will have at least surface connections their $60 million hit. He told me, “We don’t want to repeat ourselves, but we know what fans expect.” In other words, no more hot dog fingers, or bagels, but new ideas just as good if not better.

Before I finished talking to Daniel Kwan, he ran into “Better Call Saul” winner Giancarlo Esposito They hit it off like a house on fire. and the new movie hasn’t been cast yet. Stay tuned!