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James Jacks
Highest Rated: 93% Dazed and Confused (1993)
Lowest Rated: 13% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Birthday: Dec 29, 1947
Birthplace: United States
James Jacks left a career as a Wall Street stock analyst to try his hand at screenwriting. When that did not pan out, he turned to a career first as a successful studio executive at Universal and later as an independent producer with Alphaville Productions, formed with Sean Daniel. The producing pair delivered such box office hits as the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle "Hard Target" (1993) and the John Travolta fantasy "Michael" (1996), as well as critically-acclaimed indie fare like Richard Linklater's 1970s high school period piece "Dazed and Confused" (1993). Although the international blockbuster "The Mummy" (1999) was Jacks' biggest financial success, he continued producing films up until his 2014 death.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 15% | The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption | Executive Producer | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior | Producer | - | 2008 |
| 13% | 30% | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Producer | $102.2M | 2008 |
| 76% | 48% | Intolerable Cruelty | Executive Producer | $35.1M | 2003 |
| 29% | 46% | The Hunted | Producer | $34.2M | 2003 |
| 59% | 52% | Dark Blue | Producer | $9.1M | 2002 |
| 41% | 37% | The Scorpion King | Producer | $90.3M | 2002 |
| 45% | 64% | Rat Race | Executive Producer | $56.6M | 2001 |
| 46% | 63% | The Mummy Returns | Producer | $202.0M | 2001 |
| 20% | 40% | Down to Earth | Producer | $64.2M | 2001 |
| 58% | 55% | The Gift | Producer | $12.0M | 2000 |
| 61% | 75% | The Mummy | Producer | - | 1999 |
| 90% | 81% | A Simple Plan | Executive Producer | $16.3M | 1998 |
| 24% | 51% | The Jackal | Producer | $54.9M | 1997 |
| 36% | 45% | Michael | Producer | $95.3M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Don't Look Back | Executive Producer | - | 1996 |
| 58% | 82% | Mallrats | Producer | $1.8M | 1995 |
| 60% | 49% | Hard Target | Producer | $31.5M | 1993 |
| 73% | 94% | Tombstone | Producer | $55.9M | 1993 |
| 93% | 90% | Dazed and Confused | Producer | $8.0M | 1993 |
| 91% | 85% | Raising Arizona | Executive Producer | $21.1M | 1987 |