Jim Bloom
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
JIM BLOOM BIO
Jim Bloom's career in the movie business began at age 19 when George Lucas hired him as a production assistant on American Graffiti (1973). Soon after he became an assistant director working alongside many noted filmmakers and productions including Francis Ford Coppola on The Conversation (1974), Robert Altman on Thieves Like Us (1974), two seasons on The Streets of San Francisco TV series (1973-1975) with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, Sam Peckinpah on The Killer Elite(1975), John Korty on the TV movie Farewell to Manzanar (1976), Steven Spielberg on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Hal Ashby on Bound for Glory (1976) and Coming Home (1978), Mathew Robbins on Corvette Summer (1978), and Phil Kaufman on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). He rejoined Lucas to become an Associate Producer on The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and the first General Manager of ILM. Following this he became a Co-producer on Return of the Jedi (1983). He then produced Warning Sign (1985) for 20th Century Fox and director Hal Barwood. And later executive produced Fires Within (1991), directed by Gillian Armstrong, at MGM. He has also developed movies with Carroll Ballard, Walter Murch, Volker Schlöndorff, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro. In addition to being a producer, Bloom worked as a creative executive at Sony Pictures, leading development and production of two business units: IMAX 3D movies (Across the Sea of Time (1995), and Wings of Courage (1995) directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud); and interactive movies. He also worked at Electronic Arts where he was recruited to help leverage EA entertainment properties into EA-TV (an interactive television venture). He later helped found an interactive games company with lead funding from Kleiner, Perkins, a well-regarded Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. And then after he led business development for Tippett Studio, a leading visual effects company. Recently he produced Pushing Dead (2016), a festival winning Indie film.
Jim is also a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.
Jim Bloom's career in the movie business began at age 19 when George Lucas hired him as a production assistant on American Graffiti (1973). Soon after he became an assistant director working alongside many noted filmmakers and productions including Francis Ford Coppola on The Conversation (1974), Robert Altman on Thieves Like Us (1974), two seasons on The Streets of San Francisco TV series (1973-1975) with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, Sam Peckinpah on The Killer Elite(1975), John Korty on the TV movie Farewell to Manzanar (1976), Steven Spielberg on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Hal Ashby on Bound for Glory (1976) and Coming Home (1978), Mathew Robbins on Corvette Summer (1978), and Phil Kaufman on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). He rejoined Lucas to become an Associate Producer on The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and the first General Manager of ILM. Following this he became a Co-producer on Return of the Jedi (1983). He then produced Warning Sign (1985) for 20th Century Fox and director Hal Barwood. And later executive produced Fires Within (1991), directed by Gillian Armstrong, at MGM. He has also developed movies with Carroll Ballard, Walter Murch, Volker Schlöndorff, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro. In addition to being a producer, Bloom worked as a creative executive at Sony Pictures, leading development and production of two business units: IMAX 3D movies (Across the Sea of Time (1995), and Wings of Courage (1995) directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud); and interactive movies. He also worked at Electronic Arts where he was recruited to help leverage EA entertainment properties into EA-TV (an interactive television venture). He later helped found an interactive games company with lead funding from Kleiner, Perkins, a well-regarded Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. And then after he led business development for Tippett Studio, a leading visual effects company. Recently he produced Pushing Dead (2016), a festival winning Indie film.
Jim is also a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.
