Jaume Collet-Serra
Birthdate: Mar 23, 1974
Birthplace: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Jaume Collet-Serra is a reliable Hollywood-based director of genre material, from horror to thrillers. He quickly established his skills as director of the Village Roadshow/Warner Bros. production, House of Wax (2005), with Elisha Cuthbert and Paris Hilton, and produced by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. Collet-Serra’s next directorial project was the U.K.-Spain-Germany co-production, the soccer drama Goal II: Living the Dream (2007), a sequel to 2005’s hit film, Goal!, starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, and Rutger Hauer.
Rejoining producer Silver, as well as producer Leonardo DiCaprio, Collet-Serra directed the psychological horror movie, Orphan (2009), with Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, CCH Pounder, and Margo Martindale. Collet-Serra continued with producer Silver, and collaborated for the first time with star Liam Neeson, in the action-thriller Unknown (2011), with Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, and Frank Langella, earning $136 million globally.
By the time of his fourth film with Silver, Non-Stop (2014), Collet-Serra had virtually become a team between him, the producer, and star Neeson, who co-starred here with Julianne Moore. Once again, Collet-Serra directed Neeson in an action thriller distributed by Warner Bros., in this case, Run All Night (2015), with Joel Kinnaman, Common, Ed Harris, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Nick Nolte.
In a departure from his usual collaborators, Jaume Collet-Serra directed star Blake Lively in the oceanic thriller, The Shallows (2016), released by Columbia Pictures, and with Brett Cullen, earning over $119 million worldwide. Collet-Saura reunited with Liam Neeson for the subway thriller, The Commuter (2018), with Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, and Sam Neill; the movie’s global earnings remarkably matched those of The Shallows: an estimated $119 million.
In his first huge-budget spectacle for Disney, Jaume Collet-Serra directed Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramirez, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti in Jungle Cruise, whose estimated $200 million budget barely matched its $221 global gross. In his biggest project to date, Collet-Serra was director of one of the most highly anticipated movies in the DC Extended Universe, Black Adam (2022), starring Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi, and Pierce Brosnan, and released by Warner Bros. With Steven Spielberg’s Amblin shingle, Collect-Serra was set as director for the airline thriller, Carry On (2023), starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman.
Jaume Collet-Serra has also served as a producer and executive on several films, including the psychological thriller, Mindscape (2013), starring Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Noah Taylor, and Brian Cox; the Universal Pictures horror-thriller, Curve (2015); writer-director Miguel Angel Vivas’ horror film, Extinction (2015); and the English-language Swedish thriller, Horizon Line (2020).
Personal Details
Born and raised in the inland Catalonian town of Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Jaume Collet-Serra graduated from high school with the intention of studying filmmaking. He moved to Los Angeles and graduated from Columbia College in Hollywood. Collet-Serra is married to Diba Adami. His net worth is an estimated $1.9 million.
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- 2022 | Black AdamasYes
Black Adam
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
- 2021 | Jungle CruiseasYes
Jungle Cruise
Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.
- 2018 | The CommuterasYes
The Commuter
An insurance salesman/ex-cop is caught up in a life-threatening conspiracy during his daily commute home.
- 2016 | The ShallowsasProducer
The Shallows
A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
- 2015 | Run All NightasYes
Run All Night
Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.
- 2014 |
Some Facts About Jaume Collet-Serra
Collet-Serra on Collet-Serra: Jaume Collet-Serra has noted about himself that “I usually choose movies because I’m scared of them. I’m always wondering how not to repeat myself.”
AKA: Collet-Serra leaves his last name off of his credits on music videos, crediting himself only as “Jaume.”
