Life and career Nina Jacobson

1 life , career

1.1 career
1.2 disney exec
1.3 release disney
1.4 color force
1.5 other
1.6 personal life

life , career
early career

jacobson born in los angeles, jewish family. in 1987, graduated brown university. began film career documentary researcher. joined disney in 1987 story analyst dismissed in management change. in 1988, joined silver pictures director of film development. later head of development @ macdonald/parkes productions before joined universal pictures senior vice president of production. there, took part in development , production of such projects twelve monkeys , dazed , confused.

later, jacobson became senior film executive @ dreamworks skg responsible developing lies beneath. takes credit idea behind dreamworks first animated feature antz. speaking of mode of working while listening pitches new films, said, start obligatory chat weather, traffic, sports or politics. concludes chitchat (usually me) , writer or schpiel. dog , pony. desired outcome me love story , want buy it. big part of job pass. leap once every 6 8 weeks.

disney exec

in 1998, moved disney responsible developing scripts , overseeing film production walt disney pictures, touchstone pictures , hollywood pictures. among projects studio executive sixth sense, remember titans, pearl harbor, princess diaries, chronicles of narnia, , pirates of caribbean franchise. efforts @ helping expand role of women in entertainment industry, women in film awarded crystal award in 2003. in 2005, forbes magazine named jacobson 1 of world s 100 powerful women in acknowledgement of success.

closely associated film director m. night shyamalan @ disney (besides sixth sense, worked him on unbreakable, signs , village), , shyamalan clashed during pre-production of 2006 film, lady in water. shyamalan left studio after jacobson , others became, in shyamalan s eyes, overly critical of script, produced warner bros. shyamalan quoted in book difficult period had witnessed decay of creative vision right before [his] own wide-open eyes. didn t want iconoclastic directors. wanted directors made money. in own defense, jacobson said, in order have hollywood relationship more closely approximate real relationship, have have genuine , forth of , bad. different people have different ideas respect. us, being honest greatest show of respect filmmaker.

release disney

immediately after birth of third child on july 17, 2006, while still in delivery room, jacobson fired on telephone richard cook, studio chief walt disney company. apparently part of studio restructuring, replaced oren aviv, marketing chief of studio. after fired, jacobson remarked, there 2 kinds of people in job: ones think ll have forever , ones know won t. said had treated own job @ disney privilege, not entitlement. among last projects production executive game plan, family comedy released in late september 2007. film opened number 1 in first week @ box office , held top spot through second week of release.

color force

by start of 2007, @ work, time @ own newly established production company, color force. color force signed three-year first-look production deal dreamworks in december 2006. first feature project released in theaters diary of wimpy kid (2010). produced 2011 feature 1 day.

jacobson produced of films based on bestselling hunger games trilogy suzanne collins, , co-wrote screenplays series. first of 4 films based on trilogy released on march 23, 2012.

in 2015, color force mounted first television series, american crime story: people vs. o.j. simpson, based on jeffrey toobin s 1997 book, run of life.

other

in june 2016, human rights campaign released video in tribute victims of 2016 orlando gay nightclub shooting; in video, jacobson , others told stories of people killed there.

personal life

jacobson in long-term relationship jen bleakley, whom has 3 children. in 1995, , american beauty producer bruce cohen have formed out there, collection of gay , lesbian entertainment industry activists.