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JIM BLOOM BIO
Jim Bloom began his film career at 19 when George Lucas hired him as a production assistant on American Graffiti (1973). He quickly advanced to assistant director, collaborating with renowned filmmakers on projects such as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974), two seasons of The Streets of San Francisco TV series (1973-1975) featuring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite (1975), John Korty's TV movie Farewell to Manzanar (1976), Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Hal Ashby's Bound for Glory (1976) and Coming Home (1978), Mathew Robbins' Corvette Summer (1978), and Phil Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
He reunited with Lucas as Associate Producer on The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and served as the first General Manager of ILM. He later co-produced Return of the Jedi (1983) and produced Warning Sign (1985) for 20th Century Fox and director Hal Barwood. Additionally, he executive produced Fires Within (1991) directed by Gillian Armstrong at MGM. Bloom has also developed films with Carroll Ballard, Walter Murch, Volker Schlöndorff, Warren Beatty, George Miller, and Guillermo del Toro.
Beyond producing, Bloom worked as a creative executive at Sony Pictures, overseeing development and production for two divisions: IMAX 3D films—including Across the Sea of Time (1995) and Wings of Courage (1995) directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud—and interactive movies. At Electronic Arts, he was brought on to extend EA's entertainment properties into EA-TV, an interactive television initiative. He later co-founded an interactive games company backed by Kleiner Perkins, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Subsequently, he led business development at Tippett Studio, a prominent visual effects company. Most recently, he produced the award-winning indie film Pushing Dead (2016).
Jim Bloom is a member of both the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.
