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Early life

Tolmach first became interested in film after hearing stories from his grandfather, producer and film executive Sam Jaffe.² He is of Jewish descent.

Career

After moving to Los Angeles, he landed a job with Frank Marshall to make a documentary about Lance Armstrong that was directed by Alex Gibney.³ In 2008, he was named co-president of production at Sony Pictures Entertainment with Doug Belgrad (whom he had been working with since 2003) where he managed the Spider-Man franchise.⁴⁵⁶ In 2010, he left Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce the next installment of Spider-Man.⁷⁸ Belgrad was named as sole president of the studio and Hanna Minghella was named president of production.⁹¹⁰

Personal life

Tolmach is married to director Paige Goldberg.¹¹ They have one child.

Filmography

Producer

• Money for Nothing (1993)
• Coldblooded (1995)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
• The Armstrong Lie (2013)
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
• Freaks of Nature (2015)
• Rough Night (2017)
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
• Venom (2018)
• Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
• Morbius (2022)
• Fate of a Sport (2022)
• Dark Harvest (2023)
• Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
• Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Executive producer

• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
• What Haunts Us (2018)
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
• Future Man (2017-2020)
• Wildflower (2020)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
• Dark Matter (TV series) (2024-present)
• Stepdude (forthcoming)
• The Rosie Project (forthcoming)

Special thanks

• Sausage Party (2016)

External links

• Matt Tolmach at IMDb

References

1. Deadline: "Matt Tolmach Discusses Exit As Sony Pics Prez And Segue To Producing 'Spider-Man'" by Mike Fleming Jr Archived 2022-02-06 at the Wayback Machine October 29, 2010 https://deadline.com/2010/10/matt-tolmach-discusses-his-sony-pictures-prexy-exit-to-produce-spider-man-80070/ ↩

2. Deadline: "Matt Tolmach Discusses Exit As Sony Pics Prez And Segue To Producing 'Spider-Man'" by Mike Fleming Jr Archived 2022-02-06 at the Wayback Machine October 29, 2010 https://deadline.com/2010/10/matt-tolmach-discusses-his-sony-pictures-prexy-exit-to-produce-spider-man-80070/ ↩

3. Deadline: "Matt Tolmach Discusses Exit As Sony Pics Prez And Segue To Producing 'Spider-Man'" by Mike Fleming Jr Archived 2022-02-06 at the Wayback Machine October 29, 2010 https://deadline.com/2010/10/matt-tolmach-discusses-his-sony-pictures-prexy-exit-to-produce-spider-man-80070/ ↩

4. Deadline: "Matt Tolmach Discusses Exit As Sony Pics Prez And Segue To Producing 'Spider-Man'" by Mike Fleming Jr Archived 2022-02-06 at the Wayback Machine October 29, 2010 https://deadline.com/2010/10/matt-tolmach-discusses-his-sony-pictures-prexy-exit-to-produce-spider-man-80070/ ↩

5. Borys Kit Matt Tolmach Steps Down From Columbia Pictures to Produce Spider-Man Archived 2015-03-26 at the Wayback Machine hollywoodreporter.com, Retrieved on November 27, 2013 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/matt-tolmach-steps-down-columbia-33676 ↩

6. "Longtime Columbia Pictures Chiefs Matt Tolmach And Doug Belgrad Transition Into New Roles". Moviecitynews.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031105204/http://moviecitynews.com/2010/10/longtime-columbia-pictures-chiefs-matt-tolmach-and-doug-belgrad-transition-into-new-roles/ ↩

7. Borys Kit Matt Tolmach Steps Down From Columbia Pictures to Produce Spider-Man Archived 2015-03-26 at the Wayback Machine hollywoodreporter.com, Retrieved on November 27, 2013 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/matt-tolmach-steps-down-columbia-33676 ↩

8. "Longtime Columbia Pictures Chiefs Matt Tolmach And Doug Belgrad Transition Into New Roles". Moviecitynews.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031105204/http://moviecitynews.com/2010/10/longtime-columbia-pictures-chiefs-matt-tolmach-and-doug-belgrad-transition-into-new-roles/ ↩

9. Borys Kit Matt Tolmach Steps Down From Columbia Pictures to Produce Spider-Man Archived 2015-03-26 at the Wayback Machine hollywoodreporter.com, Retrieved on November 27, 2013 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/matt-tolmach-steps-down-columbia-33676 ↩

10. "Longtime Columbia Pictures Chiefs Matt Tolmach And Doug Belgrad Transition Into New Roles". Moviecitynews.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031105204/http://moviecitynews.com/2010/10/longtime-columbia-pictures-chiefs-matt-tolmach-and-doug-belgrad-transition-into-new-roles/ ↩

11. Deadline: "‘What Haunts Us’ Documentary Director On Sexual Predators: “We Can Stop This From Happening”" by Anita Busch Archived 2021-01-18 at the Wayback Machine October 23, 2017 https://deadline.com/2017/10/what-haunts-us-sexual-predator-documentary-filmmaker-says-we-can-stop-this-from-happening-1202193031/ ↩