James D. Stern

Endgame Entertainment
Type	Independent Company
Industry	Motion Pictures
Founded	March 11, 2002
Founder	James D. Stern
Headquarters	Beverly Hills, California, United States
Products	Films
Owner	James D. Stern

James D. Stern
James D. Stern
Born	July 18, 1957 age 66; United States
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation(s)	Producer, director

James D. Stern is an American film and Broadway producer. He won a 2003 Tony Award for Hairspray, has been nominated for other awards, and was a Drama Desk Award Winner for Stomp.

Life and career[edit]

Early life[edit]

Before starting Endgame, Stern co-directed and produced the IMAX film Michael Jordan to the Max and HBO’s It’s the Rage. On stage he produced the twelve-time Tony Award-winning Mel Brooks show The Producers and the eight time Tony Award-winning Hairspray. He produced Stomp, The Diary of Anne Frank starring Natalie Portman, Legally Blonde, the Tony Award-nominated Twilight 1992, and the Olivier Award-winning play The Weir. He produced Alan Menken's Leap of Faith during the fall of 2010.

Stern founded and ran the financial investment company and hedge fund Stern Joint Venture, L.P. (SJV). He produced with his company Endgame Entertainment and FilmDistrict the thriller Self/less.^[1]

Stern directed the 2018 documentary American Chaos.^[2]^[3]

Stern has a B.A. in directing from the University of Michigan and a M.B.A. in marketing and finance from Columbia University.

Endgame Entertainment[edit]

In March 11, 2002, Stern founded Endgame Entertainment as an independent production company to produce, develop and finance films and other forms of entertainment properties. Under his leadership, Endgame Entertainment has financed or cofinanced more than 25 films. Endgame recently wrapped production on Seeking Justice, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce. Recent releases include An Education (Sony Pictures Classics), which garnered three Academy Award nominations, and Every Little Step (Sony Pictures Classics), which Stern co-produced and co-directed. The documentary grossed more than $1.7 million and was short listed for an Academy Award.

Previous Endgame releases include Summit's The Brothers Bloom, Sony Pictures Classics' Easy Virtue and the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, featuring an Oscar-nominated performance by Cate Blanchett. Earlier releases include Hotel Rwanda and Lord of War for Lionsgate, Proof for Miramax, Universal's White Noise, Hollywood Pictures’ Stay Alive, and New Line's Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Stern also co-directed and produced the documentaries The Year of the Yao (New Line) and ...So Goes the Nation (IFC).

Filmography[edit]

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film[edit]

Year	Film	Credit
1995	Jeffrey	Associate producer
1997	35 Miles from Normal
1999	Let the Devil Wear Black	Co-executive producer
1999	It’s the Rage
2004	Stage Beauty	Executive producer
	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle	Executive producer
	Five Children and It	Executive producer
2005	Rag Tale	Executive producer
	Proof	Executive producer
	River Queen	Executive producer
	Beowulf & Grendel	Executive producer
	Lord of War	Executive producer
	The Best Man	Executive producer
2006	The Alibi
	Stay Alive
	Comeback Season	Executive producer
2007	Solstice
2007	I'm Not There
2008	Easy Virtue
2008	The Brothers Bloom
2009	An Education	Executive producer
2011	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011	Seeking Justice
2012	The Raven	Executive producer
2012	Looper
2013	A Haunted House	Executive producer
	Jobs	Executive producer
	Side Effects	Executive producer
	Homefront	Executive producer
2015	Self/less
2015	Freeheld
2016	Snowden	Executive producer
2016	Army of One
2017	The Discovery
2018	Come Sunday
2018	The Old Man & the Gun
2019	Murder Mystery
2021	Bliss
2023	Murder Mystery 2

As director

Year	Film
1999	It’s the Rage

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Film	Role
2007	Hairspray	Stage producer: Broadway

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
2005	The Producers	Acknowledgment: Producer of the Broadway play
2016	Gold	Thanks

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2006	Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks	Executive producer
2013	Dancing on the Edge	Executive producer
2013	Sport in America: Our Defining Stories	Executive producer	Documentary
2016−20	Last Chance U	Executive producer	Documentary
2021	Last Chance U: Basketball	Executive producer	Documentary

As director

Year	Title	Notes
2013	Sport in America: Our Defining Stories	Documentary

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Legally Blonde: The Musical	Produced for the stage by	Television film

Thanks

Year	Title	Role
2001	Great Performances	Acknowledgment: Produced for the Broadway Stage in association with

References[edit]

^ Endgame Entertainment and FilmDistrict are Selfless
^ Jaworowski, Ken (13 September 2018). "Review: 'American Chaos' Looks at the Election. You Know the End". The New York Times.
^ Alan Zilberman (2018-09-12) [2018-09-11]. "Here's an early candidate for the worst movie about the 2016 election". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.^{[please check these dates]}
^ https://www.linkedin.com/company/endgame-entertainment

External links[edit]

[1] Endgame Entertainment and FilmDistrict are Selfless

[2] Jaworowski, Ken (13 September 2018). "Review: 'American Chaos' Looks at the Election. You Know the End". The New York Times.

[3] Alan Zilberman (2018-09-12) [2018-09-11]. "Here's an early candidate for the worst movie about the 2016 election". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.^{[please check these dates]}

[4] ttps://www.linkedin.com/company/endgame-entertainment

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