---
name: "Jason Friedberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jason-friedberg"
fi1m_id: "jason-friedberg"
imdb_id: "nm0294997"
tmdb_id: 35694
wikidata_id: "Q936338"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "13 October 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T03:08:22.698912+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jason Friedberg

## Identity

Jason Friedberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jason-friedberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jason-friedberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0294997
- **TMDB ID:** 35694
- **Wikidata ID:** Q936338
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Friedberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294997/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35694

Writer. Born 13 October 1971 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 13 October 1971, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- **Active:** 2000–2003
- **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Friedberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294997/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35694

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Scary Movie*](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jason Friedberg is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born on 13 October 1971 in Newark, New Jersey, and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he met Aaron Seltzer. The pair began their careers writing screenplays, including for *Spy Hard* (1996) and *Scary Movie* (2000).

Friedberg and Seltzer later wrote and directed a series of parody films, beginning with *Date Movie* (2006). Their other credits as a team include *Epic Movie* (2007), *Meet the Spartans* (2008), *Disaster Movie* (2008) and *Vampires Suck* (2010). Friedberg is the son of director Rick Friedberg.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Scary Movie 3* (2003), Fi1m 52, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-3.md)
- *Scary Movie* (2000), Fi1m 63, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Scary Movie* (2026), Characters
- *Superfast!* (2015), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Best Night Ever* (2013), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *The Starving Games* (2013), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Scary Movie 5* (2013), Characters
- *Vampires Suck* (2010), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Disaster Movie* (2008), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Meet the Spartans* (2008), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Epic Movie* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Scary Movie 4* (2006), Characters
- *Date Movie* (2006), Producer, Writer
- *Scary Movie 3* (2003), Characters — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-3.md)
- *Scary Movie 2* (2001), Characters
- *Scary Movie* (2000), Screenplay — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md)
- *Spy Hard* (1996), Screenplay, Story

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