Jennifer Lopez & Brett Goldstein Are Having An “Office Romance” At Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: After delivering Netflix two must-see movies, The Mother and Atlas, Jennifer Lopez is readying her next feature with the streamer again, this time with 2x Primetime Emmy Ted Lasso winner Brett Goldstein in the irreverent romantic comedy, Office Romance.

Goldstein is co-writing the romcom with Joe Kelly, which we hear from sources has several great character actor roles.

Both Lopez and Goldstein recently had pics at TIFF. Lopez had the Amazon MGM Studios sports drama, Unstoppable about championship winning wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg. The movie reaped 74% fresh reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Goldstein world premiered the MRC feature drama, All of You, at the Great White North festival, which he co-wrote and starred in with Imogen Poots. That pic stands at 85% fresh reviews on RT.

Producers on Office Romance are Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett for Ryder Picture Company; Goldstein, Kelly; as well as Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Films. EP is Courtney Baxter for Nuyorican Films.

Nuyorican Productions has a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix spanning feature films, TV series and unscripted content, with an emphasis on projects that support diverse female actors, writers and filmmakers.

Recently, we told you that Lopez and Nuyorican are making a series out of the Emily Henry bestseller Happy Place which Bridgerton Emmy nominee Leila Cohan is co-writing and showrunning for Netflix.

Lopez’s top two movies on Netflix, The Mother and Atlas, respectively clocked 136.4M global views and 73M global views. The Mother is the streamer’s 10 most-watched movies of all time and Netflix’s most-watched movie of 2023. Atlas also hit the top 10 in 93 countries during the past two weeks.

Kelly is a 2x Primetime Emmy winner in Outstanding Comedy Series for Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso. He was also a scribe on How I Met Your Mother and SNL.

Lopez is repped by CAA, The Medina Co, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman. Goldstein is repped by WME, B-Side Management, Mosaic, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.

Netflix did not return request for comment.