Gary W. Goldstein
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Goldstein in 2008
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| Born | New York, US |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, US |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Producer Executive Producer |
| Years active | 1981 - present |
| Website | www |
Gary W. Goldstein is an American author, speaker, consultant and Hollywood film producer, best known for producing Pretty Woman, Under Siege, and The Mothman Prophecies and generating over a billion dollars in worldwide revenue.
He is the author of Conquering Hollywood: The Screenwriter’s Blueprint For Career Success, a successfully funded Kickstarter project, that serves as a road map for transforming talent as a writer into a successful career as a Hollywood screenwriter.
Goldstein was born in Wantagh, New York and grew up in San Francisco, where he attended Lowell High School, a public magnet school. He went on to receive his undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley, followed by a J.D. at Golden Gate University School of Law.
As an A&R rep for Columbia Records while still an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley, Gary was their youngest music exec at the time. Also, while an undergrad, Goldstein produced all the music concerts and cabarets for the Berkeley campus, featuring artists such as Joni Mitchell, The Steve Miller Band, Chuck Berry, Phil Ochs and others. In 1981, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood as a literary manager and film producer.
In 1983, after his initial film venture lost $80,000 on its opening weekend, Goldstein met 23-year-old Jonathan, or J.F., Lawton, who was earning a living as a software beta tester and programmer. Goldstein hired Lawton to set-up his Apple MacIntosh computer, which had to be programmed from scratch. For three weeks, Lawton visited Goldstein's Hollywood office and programmed his computer, while Goldstein shared with Lawton the ins and outs of his work as a literary manager. The two slowly became friends and one day, Lawton revealed he was a writer, had dropped out of film school and had already written a half-dozen screenplays, that were all unread. Goldstein requested to read some of Lawton's work, and by the third script, Goldstein recognized Lawton's talent.
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