Jake Eberts

Jake Eberts

Jake Eberts (July 10, 1941 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such Academy Award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the direct-to video Hero of the Rails (1996) and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000). Eberts was born John David Eberts in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Elizabeth (MacDougall), an interior decorator, and Edmond Eberts, who worked for an aluminum manufacturer. Eberts grew up in Montreal and Arvida. He attended Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec and graduated from McGill University (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 1962) and Harvard Business School (MBA 1966). Eberts' working career began as a start-up engineer for L'Air Liquide in Spain, Italy, Germany and France. He then spent three years as a Wall Street investor. He moved to London, England in 1971, where he joined Oppenheimer & Co., rising to the position of managing director of the UK brokerage and investment company in 1976. With no apparent prior interest in film, about 1977 he turned to film financing, and joined David Puttnam in founding Goldcrest Films, an independent film production company, for which he served as president and CEO. His first venture was the animated movie Watership Down. While with the company in 1979, he made a disastrous personal investment of US$750,000 in Zulu Dawn, which took him almost a decade to recover from. He learned a great deal from this setback, as the output of the company was for the most part exceptional and financially rewarding, with such other films to its credit as The Howling, Chariots of Fire, Local Hero, Gandhi, The Killing Fields and The Dresser. Chariots of Fire and Gandhi won back-to-back Oscars in 1981 and 1982 respectively, and in the period from 1977 to 1983 the company's films received 30 Oscar nominations and won 15. He developed a reputation as an astute and shrewd financier. Rather than seek new talent, he chose to support established directors such as Sir Richard Attenborough, Roland Joffé, Jean-Jacques Annaud, John Boorman, many of whom have worked with him on several pictures. He resigned from the company in 1984, but returned a year later to attempt to rescue it financially. From its early success of just a few years earlier, when it was seen as a possible saviour of the British film industry, the company had been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by the failure of three high-budget films – Revolution, The Mission and Absolute Beginners, all in 1985-1986. Eberts continued on until 1987 when he resigned for the last time. The company would continue on under new ownership. Eberts detailed the disaster in his 1990 memoir, My Indecision Is Final: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Goldcrest Films (co-authored with Terry Ilott). ... Source: Article "Jake Eberts" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • ශීර්ෂය: Jake Eberts
  • ජනප්‍රියත්වය: 5.301
  • දන්නා: Production
  • උපන් දිනය: 1941-07-10
  • උපන් ස්ථානය: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • මුල් පිටුව:
  • ලෙස ද හැඳින්වේ: John David Eberts
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Jake Eberts චිත්‍රපට

  • 2000
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    Hommage à Alfred Lepetit

    Hommage à Alfred Lepetit

    1 2000 HD

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  • 2014
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    Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

    Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

    4.438 2014 HD

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  • 2003
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    Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic

    Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic

    8.3 2003 HD

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  • 1986
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    The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

    7.5 1986 HD

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  • 1992
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    A River Runs Through It

    A River Runs Through It

    7.029 1992 HD

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  • 1981
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    Escape from New York

    Escape from New York

    7.067 1981 HD

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  • 2004
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    Deux Frères

    Deux Frères

    7.117 2004 HD

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  • 1994
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    No Escape

    No Escape

    6.3 1994 HD

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  • 2003
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    Open Range

    Open Range

    7.219 2003 HD

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  • 1996
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    James and the Giant Peach

    James and the Giant Peach

    6.6 1996 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Legend of Bagger Vance

    The Legend of Bagger Vance

    6.58 2000 HD

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  • 2000
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    Chicken Run

    Chicken Run

    6.823 2000 HD

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  • 1981
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    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire

    6.792 1981 HD

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  • 1987
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    Hope and Glory

    Hope and Glory

    6.9 1987 HD

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  • 1993
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    Super Mario Bros.

    Super Mario Bros.

    4.426 1993 HD

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  • 1997
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    The Education of Little Tree

    The Education of Little Tree

    6.8 1997 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Plague Dogs

    The Plague Dogs

    7.881 1982 HD

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  • 1989
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    Last Exit to Brooklyn

    Last Exit to Brooklyn

    6.4 1989 HD

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  • 1991
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    Paul McCartney's Get Back

    Paul McCartney's Get Back

    9.8 1991 HD

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  • 1990
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    The Nutcracker Prince

    The Nutcracker Prince

    6.4 1990 HD

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  • 1978
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    Watership Down

    Watership Down

    7.181 1978 HD

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  • 2010
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    Oceans

    Oceans

    7.4 2010 HD

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  • 2010
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    L'Illusionniste

    L'Illusionniste

    7.2 2010 HD

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  • 2013
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    Mysteries of the Unseen World

    Mysteries of the Unseen World

    7.2 2013 HD

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  • 1991
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    Black Robe

    Black Robe

    6.6 1991 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Wind in the Willows

    The Wind in the Willows

    5.5 1996 HD

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  • 1999
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    Grey Owl

    Grey Owl

    5.589 1999 HD

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  • 1990
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    Dances with Wolves

    Dances with Wolves

    7.844 1990 HD

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  • 1989
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    Driving Miss Daisy

    Driving Miss Daisy

    7.236 1989 HD

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  • 2015
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    A Walk in the Woods

    A Walk in the Woods

    6.092 2015 HD

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  • 2015
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    A Walk in the Woods

    A Walk in the Woods

    6.092 2015 HD

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  • 2007
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    Whatever Lola wants

    Whatever Lola wants

    6.259 2007 HD

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  • 2013
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    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem

    6.7 2013 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Killing Fields

    The Killing Fields

    7.5 1984 HD

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  • 1988
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    Ich und Er

    Ich und Er

    3.3 1988 HD

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  • 2024
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    Super Mario Bros: The Lasagna Workprint

    Super Mario Bros: The Lasagna Workprint

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2015
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    The Little Prince

    The Little Prince

    7.613 2015 HD

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  • 1992
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    City of Joy

    City of Joy

    6.589 1992 HD

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  • 2003
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    Prisoner of Paradise

    Prisoner of Paradise

    6.3 2003 HD

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