Jonathan Michael Goldstein (born September 2, 1968) is an American filmmaker, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Game Night, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Horrible Bosses. He has formed a filmmaking duo with John Francis Daley, whom he met on The Geena Davis Show.
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Personal life
Born in New York City, Goldstein moved to Beachwood, Ohio, in 1980, where he graduated from Beachwood High School in 1986. He attended the University of Michigan and then 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, who he married in 2007.
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, including The PJs starring Eddie Murphy, The Geena Davis Show, Good Morning Miami, Four Kings, and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
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 Bros. Pictures, also with Steve Carell set to play the lead.
