James Jacks

Known for ProductionBorn 1947-12-29Died 2014-01-20USA

James "Jim" Jacks (December 29, 1947 – January 20, 2014 was an American film producer of several blockbuster films, and was also known for cultivating visionary independent film auteurs, having produced the first Hollywood films of Richard Linklater, Joel and Ethan Coen (the Coen Brothers), and Kevin Smith. Born December 29, 1947, Jacks grew up in a military family. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and from Cornell University with an MBA. He was working as a Wall Street financial analyst when he decided to be a screenwriter. Unsuccessful, he became head of production at Circle Films in the early- to mid-1980s and then senior vice-president of production at Universal Studios from the late-1980s into the early-1990s. In 1992, he became an independent producer with Alphaville Films, which he co-founded with Sean Daniel. He left Alphaville Films in 2004. The shrimp parmigiana at the Los Angeles restaurant Dan Tana's is named for him. Jacks died on January 20, 2014, of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home at the age of 66. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Jacks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Making Dazed

Tombstone

Attila

Dazed and Confused

A Simple Plan

The Mummy

Raising Arizona

Heart and Souls

Mallrats

The Gift

Hard Target

The Mummy Returns

The Jackal

Building A Better Mummy

Attila

Rat Race

Dark Blue

The Hunted

Village of the Damned

Scorpion King: Book of Souls

The Rock - Just Bring It!

Intolerable Cruelty

Michael

The Scorpion King

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Down to Earth

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

Don't Look Back

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption

Erection of an Epic - The Making of Mallrats

Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy