James Jacks

James "Jim" Jacks (December 29, 1947 – January 20, 2014^[1]) was an American film producer of several blockbuster films.

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.^[2] He left Alphaville Films in 2004.^[3]

Jacks died on January 20, 2014 of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home at the age of 66.^[4]

Selected filmography

• Raising Arizona (1987)
• Heart and Souls (1993)
• Tombstone (1993)
• Hard Target (1993)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Mallrats (1995)
• Village of the Damned (1995)
• Don't Look Back (1996)
• Michael (1996)
• The Jackal (1997)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• The Mummy (1999)
• The Gift (2000)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
• Attila (2001)
• Rat Race (2001)
• Down to Earth (2001)
• The Scorpion King (2002)
• Dark Blue (2002)
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
• The Hunted (2003)
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
• The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008)
• The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)

References

External links

• James Jacks at the Internet Movie Database
• Rest in Peace, Mr. Mallrats... by Kevin Smith