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Tom Jacobson



TOM JACOBSON’s career in the motion picture and television business has been marked by success as both a major studio chief and as a hands-on producer of hit movies. He currently headlines The Jacobson Company, an independent film and television production company that has multiple projects in different stages of development and production.

Jacobson’s debut as a producer came on the acclaimed comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. With influential filmmaker John Hughes, Jacobson also produced such movies as National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Uncle Buck, and The Great Outdoors.

As an executive, Jacobson spent seven years at 20th Century Fox, rising to the post of President of Worldwide Production. He was instrumental in the success of such worldwide blockbusters as Home Alone, Home Alone 2, both Die Hard: Die Harder and Die Hard With A Vengeance, both Hot Shots movies, Speed, Broken Arrow, True Lies, and Independence Day.

Jacobson also served as Co-President of Paramount Pictures from 2003 - 2005, where he was involved in all aspects of the development and production of Paramount’s motion picture slate. As an executive, Jacobson has developed and supervised over fifty movies.

Before joining Paramount, Jacobson’s production company was based at Walt Disney Studios where he produced Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ladykillers, starring Tom Hanks, Barry Sonnenfeld's comedy Big Trouble, Brian DePalma’s Mission To Mars, and Disney’s Mighty Joe Young.

Over the years Jacobson has worked closely with such top Hollywood actors, directors and writers as James Cameron, David Fincher, Roland Emmerich, the Coen Brothers, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Sandra Bullock, and many others.