Full Name Mike Jackson Residence Los Angeles | Years active 2006–present Name Mike Jackson | |
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Occupation Film producer, talent manager Notable work Triple Dog (2010)
The Human Contract (2008)
Feel (2006)
The Lather Effect (2006) | ||
Mike Jackson (born March 12) is an American film producer. Jackson worked on such projects as Underground (2016 TV series), La La Land (2016), HBO Documentary Southern Rites (2015), and Southside With You (2016).
Born in Philadelphia and partner at Get Lifted Film Co., a multi-media production company. Jackson began his career at Grey Advertising in New York as the production coordinator responsible for publicity and opening nights of several Broadway shows, including Chicago: The Musical, Jekyll and Hyde, Steel Pier, Candide, Barrymore, The Young Man From Atlanta, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Always Patsy Cline.
Jackson eventually founded Cojax Entertainment Group, an entertainment and management company. CEG produced major events throughout Philly and New York and represented several rising musical acts, including the Grammy award-winning recording artist John Legend. After CEG, he returned to physical production at Banyan Productions (“Trading Spaces”) as a producer for The Learning Channel’s “A Dating Story.” Jackson relocated to LA and launched Tycoon Entertainment, a production and finance company. While at Tycoon Jackson produced “The Lather Effect”, which starred Peter Facinelli and Connie Britton, “Feel” starring Billy Baldwin and the Jada Pinkett Smith directorial debut “The Human Contract”, based of her original script, starring Idris Elba. Will Smith served as Executive Producer of the film.
Jackson then produced the film “Triple Dog” with Sation3 principals RD Robb and Thomas Carter after which he joined Station 3 as a partner and remained there until 2011.
Soon after his departure from Station 3 Jackson launched Get Lifted Film Co. with his partners John Legend and Ty Siklorius. While he's been at Get Lifted they've sold several projects in television to networks including Showtime, NBC, HBO, USA, MTV, OWN and FOX. In addition to these sales, GLFC was previously in an overall deal for Television with Comcast/Universal owned studio Universal Cable Productions (UCP), Legendary Television and currently there in a first look with Sony Pictures Television. Jackson has served as an executive producer on WGN America’s critically acclaimed original drama series, Underground and docu-series Sing It On on the Pop Network. He's also an executive producer on Lionsgate’s Oscar Winning film LaLa Land, written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone; IM Global’s Southside With You, starring Tika Sumpter; Neal Brennan's one-man Netflix show 3 Mics; Turn Me Loose, the one man play about the life of iconic comedian Dick Gregory, starring Joe Morton; and he won a 2017 Tony Award for the Broadway production of August Wilson's Jitney. Additionally Jackson executive produced two highly successful and widely praised documentaries, Southern Rites, which premiered on HBO in May 2015, and Can You Dig This, which premiered at the 2015 LA Film Festival and won the LA Muse Jury Award.