Jonathan Goldstein (screenwriter)

Jonathan Michael Goldstein (born September 2, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director and television writer/producer. He has written for numerous situation comedies, including The PJ's starring Eddie Murphy, The Geena Davis Show, Good Morning Miami, Four Kings, and The New Adventures of Old Christine. He is best known for co-writing Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man: Homecoming and directing Vacation with his writing partner John Francis Daley.

Personal life

Born in New York City, Goldstein attended the University of Michigan, then went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1995.^[1] He worked for two years as a corporate litigator at the New York office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.^[2] Goldstein lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Adena Halpern.^[3]

Career

Finding the legal profession less than fulfilling, he moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to pursue a career in comedy writing. Shortly thereafter, he began writing for network television comedies and eventually films.

In 2007, in collaboration with his writing partner, John Francis Daley, Goldstein sold his first film script, The $40,000 Man to New Line Cinema.^[4] Since that first sale, Goldstein and Daley have been engaged on a number of other feature projects, including Hours of Fun,^[5] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey,^[6] "Cal of the Wild" for Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks,^[7][8] and an adaptation of the documentary, Of All The Things for Warner Brothers, also with Steve Carell set to play the lead.^[9] New Line's Horrible Bosses was released on July 8, 2011 and has made over $200 million in worldwide box office.^[10] In 2009, the team were hired to rewrite the sequel to the animated film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.^[11]

Goldstein and Daley co-wrote and directed^[12] their script for Vacation, a follow-up to the 1983 comedy film National Lampoon's Vacation. Ed Helms played the adult Rusty Griswold.^[13] The film grossed $104 million in worldwide box office off a budget of $32 million. ^[14]

In July 2015, Goldstein and Daley confirmed that they will write the screenplay for the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming.^[15]

References

External links

• Jonathan M. Goldstein at the Internet Movie Database