Josh Klausner

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Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter who wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).

Biography

=Early life=

Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.{{cite web|url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?r=31137|title=Josh Klausner - MYmovies|first=Mo-Net s.r.l.|last=Milano-Firenze|website=www.mymovies.it}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiFbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA59|title=Princeton Alumni Weekly|volume=92| page=59|date=23 August 1991|publisher=princeton alumni weekly|via=Google Books}} After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.{{Cite web |last=Klausner |first=Josh |date=2017-10-06 |title=How an Independent Filmmaker Went From Being the Farrelly Brothers’ Assistant to Making the Movies That Studios Wouldn’t |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/josh-klausner-wanderland-hamptons-film-festival-1201884614/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}

=Career=

He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458441/|title=Josh Klausner|website=IMDb}} He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.Stuart Miller, [https://variety.com/2010/digital/news/josh-klausner-learned-about-laughs-on-the-set-1118028111/ Josh Klausner: Learned about laughs on the set], Variety, December 3, 2010

He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010). In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of High in the Clouds.{{Cite web |last=Koller |first=Cameron |date=2018-01-10 |title=Paul McCartney Taps New Writer for Animated Movie |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2018/01/paul-mccartney-taps-new-writer-for-animated-movie/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=www.animationmagazine.net}}

=Personal life=

He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.{{Cite news |last=Satow |first=Julie |date=2013-10-24 |title=Palaces-in-the-Making |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/realestate/palaces-in-the-making.html |access-date=2024-05-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for $42.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".{{Cite web |last=Budin |first=Jeremiah |date=2014-09-15 |title=West Village's Impenetrable Fortress Mansion Sells for $42.5M |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/15/10046950/west-villages-impenetrable-fortress-mansion-sells-for-42-5m |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Curbed NY |language=en}}