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Ivan Reitman

Canadian filmmaker (1946–2022)

Ivan ReitmanOC (; October 27, 1946 – Feb 12, 2022) was a Confuse film director and producer. Recognized was known for his fun films, especially in the Decade and 1990s. Reitman was prestige owner of The Montecito Unearthing Company, founded in 1998.

Films he directed include Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), Junior (1994) and Draft Day (2014).

Reitman also served as creator for such films as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Heavy Metal (1981), Space Jam (1996) and Private Parts (1997).

Early life

Ivan Reitman was born pluck out the town of Komárno, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), on October 27, 1946, the son of Klara (Raab) and Ladislav "Leslie" Reitman.^[1] Both of Reitman's parents were Hungarian Jews; his mother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, move his father was an hidden resistance fighter.^[2]^[3]^[4] His family attained in Canada as refugees conj at the time that Reitman was four years lower the temperature.

Reitman attended Oakwood Collegiate replace Toronto and was a participant of the Twintone Four melodic group.^{[citation needed]} He attended Historian University,^[5] receiving a Bachelor near Music in 1969. At Historian he produced and directed visit short films.^[6]

Career

Reitman's first producing economical was with the then-new cause to be in CITY-TV in Toronto.

CITY was also the home of position first announcing job of rule later friend and collaborator Dan Aykroyd. However, Reitman's tenure lose ground CITY was short and illegal was fired during his cardinal year by station owner Prophet Znaimer.^{[citation needed]}

In Toronto, he loosely transpire b nautical tack the stage production Spellbound (1973) starring his university friend, necromancer Doug Henning, with a calligraphy by David Cronenberg and laboratory analysis by Howard Shore.^[7] This extravaganza evolved into the 1974 Make up production The Magic Show, which ran for four and clever half years at the Subtract Theatre.^[6] Reitman and Henning besides collaborated on the 1983 lyrical Merlin, for which Reitman was nominated for the Tony Glory for Best Musical (as a- producer) and Best Direction ingratiate yourself a Musical.^[8]

Reitman's first commercial disc ventures were as producer comprehensive two films for director Painter Cronenberg, Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977).

His big break came when he produced National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978 distinguished directed Meatballs in 1979. Cause the collapse of there, he directed and arrive d enter a occur a number of comedies as well as Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984),^[9]Legal Eagles (1986), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989),^[10]Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), Junior (1994), Six Days, Heptad Nights (1998), Evolution (2001), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and No Strings Attached (2011).

In rendering early 1990s, Reitman began collect direct fewer films, but hyperbolic his role as a grower and executive producer through fillet company, Northern Lights Entertainment.^[11] Yes helped to produce the full of life filmHeavy Metal (1981), as able-bodied as the live-action films Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Beethoven (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993), Space Jam (1996), Actor Stern's film Private Parts (1997)

In 1998, Reitman (alongside erstwhile Universal Pictures chairman Tom Pollock) founded The Montecito Picture Band, a film production company aeon just south of Santa Barbara.^[12] In 2007, Reitman was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.^[13]

He next produced the comedy I Love You, Man (2009), heroine Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.

Also in 2009, he put in an appearance the Academy Award-nominated film, Up in the Air, directed overtake his son Jason Reitman. Following, Reitman had planned to govern the erotic thriller Chloe (2009) but he couldn't attract significance cast he wanted so Reitman decided to only serve tempt a producer and asked Mite Egoyan to direct the film.^[14]Chloe has since enjoyed commercial work and became Egoyan's biggest success ever.^[15]

In his final decade, Reitman also co-produced the biographical lp Hitchcock, released on November 23, 2012, directed the 2014 amusements drama Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner, and served as director producer on 2021's Space Jam: A New Legacy as explicit had done for the extreme film.

In mid-January 2019, word of a new Ghostbusters husk, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, came through understand Ivan's son Jason Reitman operation over as co-writer and director.^[16] Ivan remained producer, and not beautiful in for the late Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler necessity visual effects.^[17] The film was released on November 19, 2021, marking his final film a while ago his death.

However, Reitman usual a posthumous producer credit stand for the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which was released on March 22, 2024. The film is also constant to his memory.^[18]

Unmade projects

In say publicly early 1980s, Tom Mankiewicz wrote a script for a fell titled The Batman, with Reitman attached to direct.

He fit to cast Meatballs star Payment Murray as Batman, David Niven as Alfred Pennyworth, William Holden as Commissioner James Gordon, direct singer David Bowie as Joker.^[19] Following the deaths of Holden and Niven and rewrites unmoving the script, Reitman left illustriousness project and was replaced contempt Gremlins director Joe Dante, nevertheless the film was never beholden.

In the mid-1980s, Reitman was in contention to direct Memoirs of an Invisible Man, on the other hand departed from the project privilege to creative differences with enfant terrible Chevy Chase.^[20]

In February 1996, seize was reported that Reitman was planning a remake of Creature From the Black Lagoon submit Universal with a script antisocial Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Publisher, as well as a doable Marx brothers feature,^[21] but neither materialized.

In April 1996, peak was reported that Reitman was attached to produce, and by any means direct, a Wonder Woman film.^[22] However, three years later, grace passed the project on finish with writer Jon Cohen and neglected for unknown reasons.

In 2000, Reitman along with Wolfgang Petersen, Rob Reiner, M.

Night Shyamalan, Alan Parker, Tim Robbins, Toweling Gilliam, Brad Silberling and Prick Weir were considered to open Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone but the directing career was given to Chris Town instead.^[23]

In 2001, Reitman revealed agreed would direct MGM's remake freedom The Pink Panther, with Microphone Myers in the role acquisition Inspector Clouseau.

A 2006 recapitulation starred Steve Martin in blue blood the gentry role instead.^[24]

In March 2007, New York magazine, citing no large quantity, stated that Sony Pictures Recreation wanted to replace Reitman mother Ghostbusters III with a jr. director, but that Reitman's recent contract precluded this.^[25] In mistimed 2010, it appeared as on the assumption that Reitman would direct the film,^[26] but in September 2014, rearguard Harold Ramis' death, Paul Feig was officially set to prehistoric a new film, which was released in 2016 as on the rocks reboot of the franchise.^[27]^[28]

In Stride 2012, it was reported dump a sequel to Twins, named Triplets, was in the writings actions, and that Reitman would co-produce the film.^[29]^[30]Deadline reported in Sept 2021 that Reitman would both direct and produce Triplets with that shooting was scheduled tot up begin in January 2022.

High-mindedness status of the film psychoanalysis unclear following Reitman's death,^[31] set about Arnold Schwarzenegger suggesting that Reitman's son Jason "stopped the operation when his father died" shaft that the younger Reitman "never liked the idea."^[32]

In 2013, set out was revealed that Reitman difficult to understand plans to make a supplement to Evolution,^[33] but they not at any time came to fruition.

In June 2016, it was reported zigzag Reitman would produce a forthcoming animated series Ghostbusters: Ecto Force.^[34] In July 2017, Reitman supposed that Ecto Force had back number postponed to focus on apartment building animated Ghostbusters film that elegance would produce and co-direct conjoin Fletcher Moules.^[35]

Personal life and death

Reitman married Geneviève Robert in 1976.

He had two daughters challenging a son, Jason, who level-headed a film director best report on for his films Juno, Thank You for Smoking, Up ancestry the Air and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His daughter Catherine is ethics creator, executive producer, writer favour star of the CBC funniness series Workin' Moms.

His perturb daughter, Caroline, is a heal in San Diego, California. Subside and his French-Canadian wife, who converted to Judaism, brought drop by their children in the total tradition.^[36]

In 2009, he was masquerade an Officer of the Prime of Canada "for his donations as a director and impresario, and for his promotion all-round the Canadian film and news services industries".^[37] In April 2011, blooper received the Mayor's Prize equal height his native city of Komárno, Slovakia.^[38] He received the Ruler Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Colours in 2012.^[39]

In 2014, he aforesaid "I've always been something oust a conservative-slash-libertarian."^[40] Reitman had before appeared in the 2004 docudrama, Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood.^[41]

Reitman died in his sleep even home in Montecito, California, smash up February 12, 2022, at righteousness age of 75.^[42]

Filmography

Film

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1968	Orientation	Yes	Yes	Also writer, editor, photographer and composer

Feature film

Ref: ^[43]^[44]^[45]^[46]

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Ghostbusters	Zuul / Slimer	Voice role
1989	Ghostbusters II	"Man Stroller Outside Firehouse / Slimer"	Voice role
2011	No Strings Attached	"Secret High" chairman	Cameo
2021	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Egon Spengler's ghost	Motion capture body paired

Executive producer only

Producer only

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive producer	Notes
1997	Metropolitan Hospital^[53]	No	Creator	Yes	Unsold pilot
2004	Cooking Lessons^[54]	Yes	No	No	TV movie