Akiva Goldsman

Akiva Goldsman

1962-07-07 New York City, New York, USA 59 Credits

Biography

Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes The Client; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin; I, Robot; I Am Legend; Cinderella Man; and numerous rewrites (some credited, some uncredited). He wrote over a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series Fringe. In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, which...

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Practical Magic 2

2026

Screenplay, Characters

Writing

A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing f...

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

2023

Executive Producer

7.7
Producing

Get ready to send off Jean-Luc Picard and his crew in style! On Wednesday, April 19, experience the last two episodes of Star Trek: Picard in IMAX, fo...

Meet Cute

Meet Cute

2022

Producer

5.8
Producing

A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, he...

Firestarter

Firestarter

2022

Producer

5.5
Producing

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants...

Back to the Outback

Back to the Outback

2021

Executive Producer

7.7
Producing

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...

Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity

Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity

2021

as Self

6.5
Acting

A deep dive into the making of the Paranormal Activity films with first time ever interviews with cast and crew, never-before-seen footage from the mo...

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

2021

Producer

7.0
Producing

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

2021

Producer

7.1
Producing

Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

2019

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te...

The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower

2017

Screenplay, Producer

5.8
Writing Producing

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark...

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: The Last Knight

2017

Story

6.1
Writing

Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history ...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

2017

Producer

6.5
Producing

When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Ar...

Stephanie

Stephanie

2017

Director

6.2
Directing

After a mysterious global crisis, a young girl is left alone to hide from a malevolent power that stalks her home. Her parents eventually return and t...

Rings

Rings

2017

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days af...

The 5th Wave

The 5th Wave

2016

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and kno...

Insurgent

Insurgent

2015

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

Winter's Tale

Winter's Tale

2014

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.3
Directing Writing Producing

A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor

2013

Producer

7.4
Producing

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanista...

Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness

2013

as Starfleet Admiral

7.3
Acting

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fle...

Finding Joe

Finding Joe

2011

as Self

7.7
Acting

Finding Joe is an exploration of the studies of mythologist Joseph Campbell, and of their continuing influence on our culture. Through interviews with...

Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 2

2010

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and tu...

Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex

2010

Producer

5.0
Producing

Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...

Fair Game

Fair Game

2010

Producer

6.5
Producing

A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at ris...

The Losers

The Losers

2010

Producer

6.3
Producing

On a mission deep in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite commandos finds itself on the receiving end of a lethal betrayal. Now presumed dead, the men...

Star Trek

Star Trek

2009

as Vulcan Council Member

7.4
Acting

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan...

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons

2009

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

Hancock

Hancock

2008

as Executive

6.3
Acting

Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inf...

Hancock

Hancock

2008

Producer

6.3
Producing

Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inf...

I Am Legend

I Am Legend

2007

Producer, Screenplay

7.2
Producing Writing

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last...

I'm Reed Fish

I'm Reed Fish

2007

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

When an old high school crush returns to his small hometown, Reed Fish's once simple, calculated life begins to unravel. A drunken incident prompts Re...

The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

2006

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. ...

Poseidon

Poseidon

2006

Producer

5.9
Producing

A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their liv...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

2005

Producer

6.7
Producing

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignm...

Cinderella Man

Cinderella Man

2005

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

Constantine

Constantine

2005

Producer

7.1
Producing

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their in...

I, Robot

I, Robot

2004

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a ...

Mindhunters

Mindhunters

2004

Producer

6.5
Producing

Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very lo...

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch

2004

Producer

5.8
Producing

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcom...

Inside a Beautiful Mind

Inside a Beautiful Mind

2002

as Self

5.0
Acting

"Behind-the-scenes" documentary on the making of and public reaction to the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer film "A Beautiful Mind." Featuring rare interviews...

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

2001

Writer

7.9
Writing

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...

Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea

1999

Producer

6.0
Producing

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's ...

Practical Magic

Practical Magic

1998

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, d...

Lost in Space

Lost in Space

1998

Screenplay, Producer

5.4
Writing Producing

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin

1997

Writer

4.4
Writing

Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill

1996

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Batman Forever

Batman Forever

1995

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

In the looming shadows of Gotham City, two villainous souls devise twin schemes of revenge against the city's dark guardian. Two-Face, disfigured by c...

Silent Fall

Silent Fall

1994

Writer

5.2
Writing

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to...

The Client

The Client

1994

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...

I Am Legend 2

N/A

Producer

Producing

A sequel to the 2007 film. Plot TBA.

Stray

N/A

Producer

Producing
Constantine 2

Constantine 2

N/A

Screenplay, Producer

Writing Producing

The sequel to the 2005 supernatural thriller Constantine.

Seesaw Monster

Seesaw Monster

N/A

Producer

Producing

Rainbow Six

N/A

Producer

Producing

An adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel. Plot TBA.

Snapshot 1988

N/A

Producer

Producing

A teenager looks after an elderly lady who is losing her memories not to dementia, but to a memory thief called The Phoenician.

Major Matt Mason

N/A

Screenplay, Producer

Writing Producing

Plot unknown. Based on a Mattel action figure.

Caster

N/A

Producer

Producing

Aza Wu, who knows that real magic is dangerous and illegal, as casting killed her sister, Shire. As with all magic, everything comes at a price. For A...

Billion Dollar Spy

Billion Dollar Spy

N/A

Producer

Producing

Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-sec...

Basketful of Heads

N/A

Producer

Producing

June discovers that every bad guy she decapitates leaves a talking head behind. With every kill, June adds a new voice to her twisted Greek chorus — a...

Monster High

N/A

Producer

Producing

A live-action film based on the toy line revolving around a high school attended by the teenage children of famous monsters, including Draculaura (dau...