A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
麦克斯·鲍任斯坦
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Borenstein wrote, edited, and directed the 2003 film Swordswallowers and Thin Men while a senior at Yale University. The film starred Peter Cellini, Zoe Kazan, Fran Kranz and Graham Norris, and featured Army Wives star Sally Pressman and Midnight's Children lead Satya Bhabha. The film won Best Feature and Best Screenplay at the New York Independent Film Festival and was named Best First Feature 2003 by Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas. Borenstein's 2008 screenplay What Is Life Worth?, based on Kenneth Feinberg's memoir of the same name, was honored with inclusion on the The Black List, an annual list compiled by Hollywood executives of their favorite unproduced screenplays. His 2009 screenplay Jimi, commissioned by Legendary Pictures and based on the life of guitarist Jimi Hendrix, was also included on The Black List. Borenstein wrote additional projects for Legendary, including Godzilla. For future projects, Borenstein will write the sequel for Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island for Legendary, Paladin for Walt Disney Pictures, and Mona for New Regency. In April 2016, Borenstein was announced as an executive producer for HBO's Vinyl's second season.
Director:
2003 Swordswallowers and Thin Men
Producer:
2003 Swordswallowers and Thin Men
2015 In Her Place
2021 Worth
Screenplay:
2003 Swordswallowers and Thin Men
2014 Godzilla
2015 In Her Place
2017 Kong: Skull Island
2021 Godzilla vs. Kong
2021 Worth
2023 Hypnotic
Story:
2003 Swordswallowers and Thin Men
2014 Godzilla
2015 In Her Place
2017 Kong: Skull Island
2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2021 Godzilla vs. Kong
2021 Worth
2023 Hypnotic
Writer:
2003 Swordswallowers and Thin Men
2014 Godzilla
2015 In Her Place
2017 Kong: Skull Island
2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2021 Godzilla vs. Kong
2021 Worth
2023 Hypnotic
Creator:
2015 Minority Report
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Executive Producer:
2015 Minority Report
2018 The Terror
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2023 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Story:
2015 Minority Report
2018 The Terror
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2023 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Teleplay:
2015 Minority Report
2018 The Terror
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2023 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Writer:
2015 Minority Report
2018 The Terror
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2023 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
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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.