Jaume Collet-Serra

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).