Years active 1999-present Name Jonathan Goldstein | Role Screenwriter Spouse Adena Halpern (m. 2007) | |
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Full Name Jonathan Michael Goldstein Born September 2, 1968 (age 55) ( 1968-09-02 ) New York City, New York, U.S. Occupation Screenwriter, television writer/producer, film director Parents Judith Berg, Richard Goldstein Education University of Michigan, Harvard Law School Shows The New Adventures of Old Christine Movies Vacation, Horrible Bosses, The Incredible Burt Won, Cloudy with a Chance o, Horrible Bosses 2 Similar People John Francis Daley, Ed Helms, Beverly D'Angelo, Christina Applegate, Chevy Chase | ||
Jonathan Michael Goldstein (born September 2, 1968) is an American screenwriter, television writer/producer, and film director. 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 known for co-writing Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming, and for co-writing and directing Vacation with his creative partner John Francis Daley.
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Personal life
Born in New York City, Goldstein attended the University of Michigan, then went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1995. He worked for two years as a corporate litigator at the New York office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Goldstein lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Adena Halpern.
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. Since that first sale, Goldstein and Daley have been engaged on a number of other feature projects, including Hours of Fun, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey, "Cal of the Wild" for Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, and an adaptation of the documentary, Of All The Things for Warner Brothers, also with Steve Carell set to play the lead. New Line's Horrible Bosses was released on July 8, 2011 and has made over $200 million in worldwide box office. In 2009, the team were hired to rewrite the sequel to the animated film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Goldstein and Daley co-wrote and directed their script for Vacation, a follow-up to the 1983 comedy film National Lampoon's Vacation. Ed Helms played the adult Rusty Griswold. The film grossed $104 million in worldwide box office off a budget of $32 million.
Goldstein and Daley wrote the screenplay for the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming.