Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobsonis an American film executive who, until July 2006, was president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. With Dawn Steel, Gail Berman and Sherry Lansing, she was one of the last of a handful of women to head a Hollywood film studio since the 1980s. She established her own production company called Color Force in 2007, and is the producer of The Hunger Games movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
book games decision
Being able to just stick to our instincts and honor the [Hunger Games] books and find a way to stay the course of trying to make the best possible decisions that you would make creatively on any movie, without having your head turned too much by all of the interest, has been a great challenge. It's the best challenge you could ask for, but that was a big challenge.
community welcome authorship
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
sleep forever break
As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.
ideas different passionate
When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.
exciting ifs cellphone
It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.
powerful boys impact
The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.
games hunger zeitgeist
[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.
block games want
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.
should-have games people
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.
producers filmmaker
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
book games play
I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.
cutting blessing games
Suzanna Collins was very supportive, but we very much wanted her blessing on casting. In production, she visited us once, but she really was not involved in the production process. She's seen the Hunger Games movie twice, in the post-production process, once as an early cut and then once when it was finished.
audience
Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.
thinking careers perspective
I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.