#Nina Jacobson
Listen: Women & Hollywood Podcast #21: ‘Hunger Games’ Producer Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobson is best known as a producer of the four “Hunger Games” films, the three “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies and FX’s “American Crime Story.” Women and Hollywood spoke with...
Cate Blanchett in Talks to Play Eccentric Architect in ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’
After playing an evil stepmother, a bisexual housewife and a fierce TV producer this year, Cate Blanchett is looking to continue her streak of taking up some of the best female roles Hollywood has...
Watch: New ‘Mockingjay — Part 2’ Teaser Released
New details from the land of Panem have been coming in waves this week, as the stars and creators of “The Hunger Games” franchise revealed teasers and thoughts in a Comic Con panel. A new...
Quote of the Day: Producer Nina Jacobson on How to Fix Broken Hollywood
High-profile producer Nina Jacobson (The Hunger Games franchise, Ryan Murphy’s upcoming American Crime Story) wrote a guest column for Variety’s Broken Hollywood feature, which focuses on...
New Podcast: Nina Jacobson — Producer of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
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Nina Jacobson Signs First-Look Agreement with Fox 2000
Nina Jacobson’s Color Force has just signed a three-year first-look deal with Fox 2000. Recent Fox 2000 successes include The Fault in Our Stars. Jacobson previously worked with the division in...
Hunger Games Producer Nina Jacobson to Adapt Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
Nina Jacobson, producer of The Hunger Games and Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series, has picked up another hit book — Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Praised for its “Dickensian” scope,...
Hunger Games Producer Nina Jacobson on Creating a Female-Centric Blockbuster
This weekend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire became the highest-grossing November release ever with a box-office take of $161 million — $30 million over its production budget. Though star...
Latest Forbes Piece: A Female Revolution at the Box Office
When you spend your time writing about women and Hollywood there are many, many days when things seem bleak and downright depressing. But not this week. This week I am filled with hope, and that...
Where’d You Go Bernadette Gets Writers and Producers
One of the best books I read over the holidays and last year is Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette? It is an original, funny, touching, moving story of a 50 year old woman,...
Another Missed Opportunity — Francis Lawrence Hired to Direct Catching Fire
There are not many times where people have enough juice to make change in a lumbering system that is so resistant to it. But the gig of directing Catching Fire, the second film in The Hunger Games...
Interview with Nina Jacobson: Producer of the Hunger Games
Nina Jacobson is poised to have a really great weekend. She’s about to open The Hunger Games which if tracking and advance sales hold will be one of the best opening weekends ever. She answered...
Producer Watch: Nina Jacobson at the Premiere of The Hunger Games
Nina Jacobson has been around Hollywood for a while. She’s one of a handful of women to run a studio having run Buena Vista Studios at Disney until 2006. She’s about to come on everyone’s...
How Big Will The Hunger Games Open?
The news is that this week when The Hunger Games came onto the pre release tracking (which is what the studios use to gauge awareness and desire to see a film) it was huge — so huge that...
Interview With Lone Scherfig — Director of One Day
One Day directed by Lone Scherfig tells the story of Emma and Dex played by Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. Two people who become friends and who stick it out even though there are times when they...
Three Vie for Next Female Franchise
Variety reported yesterday that three Oscar nominated young actresses Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Jennifer Lawrence are all in the race to play the lead in The Hunger Games based on the...