Jake Eberts
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Jake Eberts, OC (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 award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000).
Life and career
Eberts was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Elizabeth (MacDougall), an interior decorator, and Edmond Eberts, who worked for an aluminum company. Eberts grew up in Montreal and Arvida. He attended Bishop's College School in Lennox, Quebec, and graduated from McGill University (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 1962) and Harvard Business School (MBA 1966). Eberts' 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. In 1971, he moved to London, England, where he joined Oppenheimer & Co., ultimately leading to the position of managing director of the UK brokerage and investment firm in 1976.
With no apparent prior interest in film, about 1977, he switched to film production and joined David Puttnam in founding Goldcrest Films, an independent film production firm for which he served as president and CEO. Watership Down, his first venture, was animated.
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 lot from this failure as the company's output was for the most part innovative and financially rewarding, with such films as The Howling, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, The Killing Fields, and The Dresser that appeared on the company's credit as The Howling, Chariots of Fire, The Howling, Chariots of Fire, Local Hero, Gandhi, The Killing Fields, and The Dresser to its credit. Chariots of Fire and Gandhi received back-to-back Oscars in 1981 and 1982, respectively, and during the 1980s to 1983, the company's films received 30 Oscar nominations and gained 15. He earned a reputation as an intelligent and shrewd financier. Rather than looking for new talent, he opted to help established directors like Sir Richard Attenborough, Roland Joffé, Jean-Jacques Annaud, John Boorman, all of whom have collaborated with him on various photographs.
In 1984, he resigned from the company but returned a year later to try to save it financially. The company was brought to the brink of bankruptcy by the failure of three high-budget films, Revolution, The Mission, and Absolute Beginners, which all occurred in 1985-1986.
Eberts lived on until 1987, the last time he resigned. The firm will continue operating under new ownership. In his 1990 memoir My Indecision Is Final: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Goldcrest Films (co-authored with Terry Ilott).
In 1985, he founded Allied Filmmakers, alongside Jean Gontier, and became Pathé's affiliate. He made his debut with this firm in 1986, based on Umberto Eco's best-selling book. He has since produced or edited John Boorman's Hope and Glory, his second pair of back-to-back Oscar winners, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It, and Henry Selick's version of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. During this time, Eberts was also responsible for the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which went on to some notable success in home videocassette and DVD rentals.
In 1991, Eberts immigrated to Paris.
Dances with Wolves was the first photograph of Eberts to feature a Native American theme. Bruce Beresford's Black Robe (1991), The Education of Little Tree (1997), and Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl (1999). The first three images were all shot in Canada.
He also served as a co-executive producer (with Jeffrey Katzenberg) of Chicken Run. The Nutcracker Prince (1990), The Princess and the Cobbler, James and the Giant Peach, Doogal, and Renaissance were among the animated films made by Eberts.
Eberts became chairman of National Geographic Feature Films (NGFF) and executive produced such films as Jean-Jacques Annaud's live action animal film Two Brothers. In addition, he ventured into documentaries, including Prisoner of Paradise, which was nominated for Best Picture in the feature documentary category at the 2003 Academy Awards and America's Heart and Soul (2004). NGFF's founder, La Marche de l'empereur, had a huge success in 2005 in releasing the Sleeper film March of the Penguins (original French word) and he was back in Canada recently with Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson on a nature epic.
Jerusalem, Imax 3D film set to debut in 2013, chronicles a day in the life of three teenagers, a Jew, a Christian, and a Christian in the Holy City. He had been designing The Last Empress, a $60 million Sino-American venture about the ruthless Empress Dowager Cixi, who effectively ruled the Qing dynasty in the late 19th century.