Mick Jagger's energy, focus and appetite for great material are well-known throughout the world, thanks to his spectacular career as a performer.
Jagger chose to apply those strengths to a second medium in nineties when he formed Jagged Films with Victoria Pearman. With a shared commitment to quality, originality and a decisive point of view, the two producers have taken their company from feisty contender to serious player over the past two decades, with many eagerly anticipated projects in the works. Jagged Films has never been busier than right now.
While producing Get on Up, Jagger and Pearman have simultaneously developed and produced a James Brown documentary, Mr. Dynamite: James Brown and the Power of Soul. Directed by Alex Gibney, Oscar® winner for Taxi to the Dark Side, the film was featured at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival as a work in progress.
The stars have also aligned for Rock and Roll, another Jagged Films project, which is a pilot for HBO. The fictionalized inside look at the music business of the early 1970s is the brainchild of Jagger, Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese and Academy Award® nominee Terence Winter. Bobby Cannavale stars as an A&R man opposite Olivia Wilde and Ray Romano. Scorsese is directing the pilot in New York City this summer.
Later in 2014, Jagged Films started production on Last Train to Memphis, a dramatic feature film inspired by Peter Guralnick's biography of the young Elvis Presley. Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald will direct the film for Fox 2000 Pictures.
Jagged Films made its entrance into feature film production in 2001 with the World War II spy drama, Enigma, based on the historical novel by Robert Harris and starred Kate Winslet. The screen adaptation was written by Tom Stoppard, Oscar® winner for Shakespeare in Love, and directed Michael Apted. In 2008, Jagger and Pearman produced The Women, an update of the classic 1939 comedy/drama. Their production starred Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Jagged Films has also produced several documentaries of The Rolling Stones, most notably, Shine a Light, the 2008 concert film directed by Scorsese. Tip of the Tongue, disc one of the 2003 concert DVD Four Flicks, was filmed during the band's 2002-2003 Licks World Tour. Stones in Exile, director Stephen Kijak's look at the creation of the band's epic masterpiece "Exile on Main St," was a highlight of the Directors' Fortnight at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Oscar® nominee Brett Morgen, debuted on HBO in 2012 and played around the globe to critical acclaim. It was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2013.
Earlier television projects include ABC's The Knights of Prosperity, a comedic crime series Jagger and Pearman executive produced in 2007. They also produced Being Mick, a documentary about a year in the life of Jagger, for ABC.
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