A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Jake Aust is the Chief Innovation Officer at AGBO, where he spearheads the company's cutting-edge innovation department. In this role, Jake leverages his extensive experience and vision to expand AGBO’s storytelling capacity by integrating advanced physical and virtual production technologies. Among his many projects at AGBO, Jake is an executive producer for the upcoming Netflix film, The Electric State. He has also executive produced The Grey Man and Extraction 2, two of Netflix's most successful films, and produced notable titles such as Mosul, Cherry, and the TV series Deadly Class for Syfy. Before joining AGBO, Jake was a producer on the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe Award-winning series The Office and the Emmy Award-winning series Community. He began his career in the film industry as a producer on the Russo Brothers’ first independent film, Pieces. Jake holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Case Western Reserve University. His appointment as Chief Innovation Officer marks a pivotal moment for AGBO as the company continues its growth across virtual and linear media landscapes. Under his leadership, the Innovation department is set to develop proprietary creative tools that enhance production innovation and cost efficiency, supporting AGBO's mission to create original, immersive content.
Co-Producer:
2007 No. 6
2014 A Merry Friggin' Christmas
Executive Producer:
2007 No. 6
2014 A Merry Friggin' Christmas
2022 The Gray Man
2023 Extraction 2
2025 The Electric State
Producer:
1997 Pieces
2007 No. 6
2014 A Merry Friggin' Christmas
2021 Cherry
2022 The Gray Man
2023 Extraction 2
2025 The Electric State
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.