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.
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Biography from TMDB.
- June 20, 1981 (45)
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Producer and writer
- 11 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
Where can I watch Max Borenstein's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Max Borenstein's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows
Hypnotic(2023)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
Worth(2020)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Godzilla vs. Kong(2021)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
The Terror(2018)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Ascension(2018)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Kong: Skull Island(2017)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Minority Report(2015)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all shows
In Her Place (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Godzilla(2014)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all filmsSwordswallowers and Thin Men (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Untitled Young Lee Shaw Prequel Series (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)