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 million 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.
Collet-Serra, under
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin shingle, directed the airport thriller, Carry-On (2024), starring Taron Egerton,
Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson, and Danielle Deadwyler, and streamed on Netflix, gaining the third-highest tracked views to date.
Jaume Collet-Serra was director/executive producer of the psychological horror movie,
The Woman in the Yard (2025), starring
Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Russell Hornsby, with lead producer as Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions, and released wide by Universal Pictures.
Collet-Serra then directed the reboot of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone-starring thriller,
Cliffhanger (date to be announced), starring Lily James, Pierce Brosnan, Nell Tiger Free, and Franz Rogowski, and produced by lead producer Neal H. Moritz via his production company, Original Film. Jaume Collet-Serra was the director of the crime thriller sequel to his 2015
Run All Night, titled
Run All Night 2 (date to be announced), once again starring Liam Neeson and co-starring
Joel Kinnaman, and released by Warner Bros.
