Nina Jacobson

Nina Jacobson (2006)

Nina Jacobson (born November 30, 1965 in Los Angeles ) is an American film producer . Until July 2006, she was President of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group , a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company . Together with Dawn Steel , Gail Berman and Sherry Lansing, she was one of the few women at the helm of a Hollywood studio since the 1980s. In 2007 she founded her own production company under the name Color Force .

Life

Early years

Born in Los Angeles to Jewish parents, Nina Jacobson attended Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island .

She began her career in the film industry as a documentary researcher. In the year of her graduation in 1987, she went to Disney, where her duties included analyzing scripts with regard to their suitability for filming. However, after a change in management, she was dismissed. In 1988 she joined Silver Pictures as Head of Film Development. She then led development at MacDonald / Parkes Productions before moving to Universal Pictures as Senior Vice President of Production . During this time, the productions Twelve Monkeys and Confusion - Sommer der Ausflippten were realized there.

Jacobson later became a senior film producer at DreamWorks SKG , where she was responsible for developing the film Shadow of Truth . Their merit was also the idea behind the first computer-animated DreamWorks production, Antz . When asked about her way of working, she said: “We start with the obligatory chat about the weather, traffic, sports or politics. Then somebody concludes the chitchat (usually me) and the writer does his or her schpiel. The 'dog and pony.' The desired outcome is for me to love the story and want to buy it. But a big part of my job is to pass. I leap only once every six to eight weeks. "

Disney

In 1998 Nina Jacobson joined Disney, where she was responsible for script development and film production supervision for Walt Disney Pictures , Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures . The studio productions she oversees include The Sixth Sense , Remember the Titans , Pearl Harbor , The Princess Diaries , The Chronicles of Narnia and Pirates of the Caribbean . She received the Crystal Award in 2003 for her commitment to helping women in film and the entertainment industry . In 2005 Forbes Magazine listed her among the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in recognition of her achievements .

After working closely with the director M. Night Shyamalan for several years at Disney (in addition to the film The Sixth Sense, in particular in the productions Unbreakable , Signs and The Village ), a controversy arose in 2006 during the preproduction for the Project Lady in the Water . Jacobson rejected the manuscript , and Shyamalan switched to Warner Bros. who eventually produced the film.

Dismissal from Disney

Nina Jacobson and her partner have three children. Immediately after the birth of their third child (July 17, 2006) she was dismissed by telephone from Richard Koch, the studio boss of The Walt Disney Company, apparently as part of a studio restructuring. She was replaced by the previous Marketing Director, Oren Aviv. Soon after her release, Jacobson said, "There are two kinds of people in this job: the ones who think they'll have it forever and the ones who know they won't." She said of herself that she was doing her job at Disney treated it as a “privilege” and not as a “right” (“as a privilege, not an entitlement”). Her last projects as executive producer included Daddy Without a Plan , a family comedy that opened in American cinemas in September 2007 and in German cinemas in March 2008.

Color Force

After Nina Jacobson had agreed a three-year contract with the DreamWorks film studio in December 2006 , her newly founded company Color Force began producing films at the beginning of 2007. Her first realized project was Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 2010 , followed by One Day in 2011 .

Jacobson then produced the film adaptation of the bestseller by Suzanne Collins , The Hunger Games - Deadly Games , which celebrated its German premiere on March 16, 2012 in Berlin under the title The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games . Nina Jacobson also worked on the script as a co-writer. In August 2013 it was announced that she would be producing Kevin Kwan's debut album , Crazy Rich , with her business partner Brad Simpson .

She was also involved in the production of The Hunger Games - Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2 (2015).

Personal

In 1995, Nina Jacobson founded a foundation with director and film producer Bruce Cohen to benefit gays and lesbians in the entertainment industry.

Web links

• Nina Jacobson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Video interview (3 minutes)
• Hugh Hart: The Tween Queen . In: Brown Alumni Magazine . March / April, 2012 ( brownalumnimagazine.com ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nina Jacobson. Retrieved September 14, 2013 from starnostar.com.
2. ↑ Disney bio (PDF file; 47 kB)
3. ↑ Brad A. Greenberg: Hollywood's visit to the Holy Land proves curtain raiser. In: Jewish Journal. December 13, 2007.
4. ↑ Baby Moguls: From Pablum to Porsche NYT (March 21, 1993) ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Matt Goldberg: The Meeting I Never Miss. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. February 1997. 
6. ↑ wif.org ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In: Forbes.
8. ^ Book Tells of Breakup with Disney. In: Los Angeles Times . June 23, 2006.
9. ↑ Deadline Hollywood : Nina ... And Then There Will Be None (July 19, 2006)
10. ↑ Orlando Sentinel from the LA Times , (July 19, 2006) "Disney Fires Film Production President"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ IMDB
12. ↑ Fox Will Make a 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' Sequel. In: Los Angeles Times. April 2, 2010.
13. ↑ James Plath: Anne Hathaway Starts Filming One Day, Based on the New York Times Bestseller. (No longer available online.) In: DVD Town. July 17, 2010, archived from the original on July 19, 2010 ; Retrieved July 20, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ^ Rocco Staino: Hunger Games to Become a Film. School Library Journal, April 6, 2009, accessed October 25, 2009 . 
15. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr.: 'Hunger Games' Producer Nina Jacobson Acquires Kevin Kwan's 'Crazy Rich Asians'. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
16. ↑ Bruce Cohen profile ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.