Jacob Pechenik was born in 1980, in San Antonio, Texas USA, and is a film producer, particularly known as an executive producer of the films “Devils Pass” (2013), “Cold Comes the Night” (2014), “She’s Funny That Way” (2015) and “Solace” (2016) among many others. Jacob rose to fame as a boyfriend, later husband of the actress Zooey Deschanel. Pechenik has been active in the entertainment industry since 2011.
How much is the net worth of Jacob Pechenik? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $3 million, as of the data presented in early 2017. Film production is the major source of Pechenik’s net worth.
Jacob Pechenik Net Worth $3 Million
Concerning his professional career, Jacob debuted as an executive producer working on the independent comedy drama film “Terri” (2011) directed by Azazel Jacobs, and has been employed consistently ever since. In 2013, Pechenik was the executive producer of the biographical drama film “Jobs” by Joshua Michael Stern , the horror film “We Are What We Are” by Jim Mickle, the drama film “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete” by George Tillman Jr., the science fiction horror film “Devil’s Pass” by Renny Harlin and the romantic drama film “Before Midnight” by Richard Linklater. In 2014, the comedy drama “The Skeleton Twins” premiered in the Sundance Film Festival, where the stars Bill Hadar and Mark Heyman were praised for their performances, and Craig Johnson for his direction. The film was produced by Stephanie Langhoff, Jennifer Lee and Jacob Pechenik. Jacob’s net worth was certainly boosted.
The following film produced by Pechenik – “The Immigrant” (2014) – was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and additionally the same year Pechenik produced the directorial debut of William H. Macy, “Rudderless” (2014). Another film “Life of Crime” (2014) was screened in the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Traverse City Film Festival, and other films produced by Jacob Pechenik in 2014, were the drama film “Hateship Loveship” by Liza Johnson, the crime thriller film “Cold Comes the Night” directed by Tze Chun, the drama films “Black or White” directed and written by Mike Binder as well as “Song One” written and directed by Kate Barker Froyland. Jacod was never out of work!
In 2015, Jacob produced Peter Bogdanovich’s comedy film “She’s Funny That Way”. Alongside producers Steve Bing and Bill Block, Pechenik worked producing another comedy film “Rock the Kasbah” (2015) directed by Barry Levinson, and then the mystery film “Amnesiac” (2015) by Michael Polish. Recently, Pechenik produced “Solace” (2016) the thriller film by Afonso Poyart. To conclude, all the above mentioned production works have added sums to the total size of Jacob Pechenik net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of the producer, Jacob Pechenik met his future wife the actress Zooey Deschanel in the summer of 2014, and the couple made their first public appearance at the Emmy Awards the same year. The following year they married, and they have two children, daughter Elsie Otter (born July 2015) and son Charlie Wolf (born May 2017).
