Jerry Bruckheimer
☼ Born on21 janeiro 1943, in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography:
Jerry Bruckheimer is a film and television producer born on September 21, 1943 in Detroit. He graduated from high school in 1961 before it was moving to Arizona. He started his career in 1968 to produce television commercials and advertising for the firm BBD&O in New York.
He left the commercial industry, and branched out into film production and served as associate producer for Dick Richards on the films Sangue, Suor e Pólvora (1972) and Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975). He started out his production company Jerry Bruckheimer & Associates and then served as producer on the following two films O Último dos Duros (1975) and A Legião Estrangeira (1977) before the duo broke up.
He then became an independent producer, serving his job on his films American Gigolo (1980), A Pele de um Mala
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ndro (1980), O Ladrão Profissional (1981), A Felina (1982) and Jovens Médicos Apaixonados (1982) throughout the early 1980s, for one of their major studios.
In 1979, Don Simpson met Bruckheimer while working on "American Gigolo" for Paramount. In 1982, Simpson left Paramount Pictures to start out its own independent company with a deal at Paramount, and weeks later, Simpson's production services were merged with Bruckheimer's. During his lifetime, he produced films in the 80s and 90s for Paramount like Flashdance (1983), Ladrão de Corações (1984), O Caça Polícias (1984) and its sequel O Caça Polícias II (1987), Top Gun - Ases Indomáveis (1986) and Dias de Tempestade (1990), most of them met with success.
After the minor failure of "Days of Thunder", Simpson and Bruckheimer severed its ties with Paramount, and signed a deal with The Walt Disney Studios. In the mid 90s, both Simpson and Bruckheimer produced Isto (Não) É Um Rapto (1994), Os Bad Boys (1995), Maré Vermelha (1995), Mentes perigosas (1995) and O Rochedo (1996). In 1995, Simpson and Bruckheimer terminated its relationship, and the next year Simpson died.
Bruckheimer expanded its activity on television with a deal at Touchstone Television. He produced two shows Dangerous Minds (1996) for ABC and S.O.F.: Força Especial (1997) for Rysher Entertainment and TV affiliates and two telepics Max Q (1998) and Swing Vote (1999), both for ABC.
The next few Bruckheimer productions after Simpson died in the late 90s and the early 2000s were Con Air: Fortaleza Voadora (1997), Armageddon (1998), Perigo Público (1998), 60 Segundos (2000) and Coyote Bar (2000). In 1998, he established Technical Black Films to produce the film Duelo de Titãs (2000). In 1999, his Bruckheimer production company signed a deal with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's Scott Free Productions to produce films over a two year period.
In 2000, Bruckheimer hit big with CSI: Crime Sob Investigação (2000). The success of the show led to spinoffs CSI: Miami (2002), CSI: Nova Iorque (2004) and CSI: Cyber (2015). He followed the franchise up with the reality show The Amazing Race (2001), of which it is also an success made Bruckheimer a major producer for the CBS network. In 2001, he signed a deal with Warner Bros. Television to produce TV shows. He followed up his TV career with Sem Rasto (2002) and Casos Arquivados (2003).
In 2001, he produced two war films Pearl Harbor (2001) and Cercados (2001). The former received negative critical reaction, and the latter gained them critical acclaim. He followed up in 2002 with Más Companhias (2002). Throughout the 2000s, Bruckheimer was an active entertainment producer, working on the films Kangaroo Jack (2003), O Preço da Coragem (2003), Rei Artur (2004), Caminho Para a Glória (2006), Déjà Vu (2006), Louca por Compras (2009) and Força-G (2009) for Disney Studios, and the TV shows Profiles from the Front Line (2003), Skin (2003), E-Ring (2005), Just Legal (2005), Close to Home (2005), Justice (2006), Eleventh Hour (2008), Dark Blue (2009) and The Forgotten (2009).
He is the creative force for franchise films. In 2003, he made a sequel to his "Bad Boys", Bad Boys 2 (2003) and Bad Boys Para Sempre (2020), and he launched the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, starting with Piratas das Caraíbas - A Maldição do Pérola Negra (2003), and spawning sequels like Piratas das Caraíbas - O Cofre do Homem Morto (2006), Piratas das Caraíbas - Nos Confins do Mundo (2007), Piratas das Caraíbas - Por Estranhas Marés (2011) and Piratas das Caraíbas: Homens Mortos Não Contam Histórias (2017) and the "National Treasure" franchise, comprising of two films O Tesouro (2004) and O Tesouro 2: O Livro dos Segredos (2007).
In 2007, he had to partner with MTV to create a game studio, and joined the ZeniMax board of directors. In 2009, he launched Jerry Bruckheimer Games, and by 2011 rumored to be worked on three titles, before it was shut down in 2013.
By the 2010s, he was in declining force, and his films Príncipe da Pérsia: As Areias do Tempo (2010), O Aprendiz de Feiticeiro (2010), O Mascarilha (2013), 12 Indomáveis (2018) and Projeto Gemini (2019) are turned out to be box office disappointments, and his TV shows Miami Medical (2010), Perseguição (2010), The Whole Truth (2010), Reféns (2013), Training Day (2017) and Council of Dads (2020) turned out to be failures after one season.
In 2013, he signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce follow-up films to "Top Gun" and "Beverly Hills Cop" and their deal with Disney ended. Three years later, he terminated its deal with Warner Bros. Television and a year later signed with CBS Television Studios. His minor box office success rolled in with Livrai-nos do Mal (2014). His only big TV hits came in from the decade were Lucifer (2016) and L.A.'s Finest (2019).
Bruckheimer was named as one of the investors of a proposed sports arena in Las Vegas, and had been rumored to be the leading choice by the National Hockey League (NHL) to own an expansion hockey team that would play in the arena. Bruckheimer was also named as one of the investors of a proposed Seattle-based NHL expansion team whose application was submitted in early 2018. The NHL Board of Governors voted to approve the team, named the Seattle Kraken, on December 4, 2018, which will start play in the 2021-22 season. Jerry Bruckheimer was part of an investment group that also included Tim Leiweke (Oak View Group) and David Bonderman (minority owner NBA's Boston Celtics).
He is currently on post-production on the sequel to his 1986 film "Top Gun", Top Gun: Maverick (2022) for Paramount Pictures.
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