
James Jacks
Known for production · Born 29 December 1947 · Died 20 January 2014 · aged 66 · USA
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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.
Known for

The Mummy
1999

The Mummy Returns
2001

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008

The Scorpion King
2002

Tombstone
1993

Raising Arizona
1987

Dazed and Confused
1993

The Jackal
1997

Rat Race
2001

Intolerable Cruelty
2003

The Gift
2000

Mallrats
1995