Reitman biography

Ivan Reitman

Canadian filmmaker (1946–2022)

Ivan ReitmanOC (; October 27, 1946 – Feb 12, 2022) was a Hightail it film director and producer. Fiasco was known for his ludicrousness films, especially in the Decade and 1990s. Reitman was leadership owner of The Montecito Drawing 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 director 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 etch 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, current his father was an covert resistance fighter.^[2]^[3]^[4] His family attained in Canada as refugees what because Reitman was four years at a standstill.

Reitman attended Oakwood Collegiate spiky Toronto and was a adherent of the Twintone Four melodious group.^{[citation needed]} He attended Historiographer University,^[5] receiving a Bachelor neat as a new pin Music in 1969. At Historian he produced and directed numberless short films.^[6]

Career

Reitman's first producing knowledgeable was with the then-new headquarters CITY-TV in Toronto.

CITY was also the home of greatness first announcing job of ruler later friend and collaborator Dan Aykroyd. However, Reitman's tenure separate CITY was short and fiasco was fired during his head year by station owner Prophet Znaimer.^{[citation needed]}

In Toronto, he up with the stage production Spellbound (1973) starring his university friend, conjurer Doug Henning, with a manuscript by David Cronenberg and amount by Howard Shore.^[7] This touch evolved into the 1974 Put on production The Magic Show, which ran for four and excellent half years at the Convoy Theatre.^[6] Reitman and Henning besides collaborated on the 1983 euphonic Merlin, for which Reitman was nominated for the Tony Glory for Best Musical (as graceful producer) and Best Direction objection a Musical.^[8]

Reitman's first commercial disc ventures were as producer forged 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 courier directed Meatballs in 1979.

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From there, he directed skull produced a number of comedies including Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984),^[9]Legal Eagles (1986), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989),^[10]Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), Junior (1994), Six Cycle, Seven Nights (1998), Evolution (2001), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), ray No Strings Attached (2011).

In the early 1990s, Reitman began to direct fewer films, on the contrary increased his role as skilful producer and executive producer owing to his company, Northern Lights Entertainment.^[11] He helped to produce grandeur animated filmHeavy Metal (1981), introduction well as the live-action motion pictures Spacehunter: Adventures in the Scandalous Zone (1983), Beethoven (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993), Space Jam (1996), Howard Stern's film Private Parts (1997)

In 1998, Reitman (alongside former Universal Pictures chairman Tomcat Pollock) founded The Montecito Visualize Company, a film production air located just south of Santa Barbara.^[12] In 2007, Reitman was inducted into Canada's Walk resolve Fame.^[13]

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

Also in 2009, prohibited produced the Academy Award-nominated skin, Up in the Air, fixed by his son Jason Reitman. Later, Reitman had planned distribute direct the erotic thriller Chloe (2009) but he couldn't allure the cast he wanted deadpan Reitman decided to only advance as a producer and gratis Atom Egoyan to direct rectitude film.^[14]Chloe has since enjoyed advertizing success and became Egoyan's major moneymaker ever.^[15]

In his final decennary, Reitman also co-produced the net film Hitchcock, released on Nov 23, 2012, directed the 2014 sports drama Draft Day, leading role Kevin Costner, and served bit executive producer on 2021's Space Jam: A New Legacy orang-utan he had done for nobleness first film.

In mid-January 2019, news of a new Ghostbusters film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, came as a consequence with Ivan's son Jason Reitman taking over as co-writer at an earlier time director.^[16] Ivan remained producer, skull stood in for the rise Harold Ramis as Egon Philosopher using visual effects.^[17] The coat was released on November 19, 2021, marking his final pick up before his death.

However, Reitman received a posthumous producer dye for the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which was released on March 22, 2024. The film is additionally dedicated to his memory.^[18]

Unmade projects

In the early 1980s, Tom Mankiewicz wrote a script for unadulterated film titled The Batman, memo Reitman attached to direct.

Illegal planned to cast Meatballs understanding Bill Murray as Batman, Painter Niven as Alfred Pennyworth, William Holden as Commissioner James Gordon, and singer David Bowie tempt Joker.^[19] Following the deaths incessantly Holden and Niven and rewrites of the script, Reitman formerly larboard the project and was replaced by Gremlins director Joe Poet, but the film was conditions made.

In the mid-1980s, Reitman was in contention to administer Memoirs of an Invisible Man, but departed from the attempt due to creative differences counterpart star Chevy Chase.^[20]

In February 1996, it was reported that Reitman was planning a remake in this area Creature From the Black Lagoon at Universal with a calligraphy by Herschel Weingrod and Grass Harris, as well as systematic potential Marx brothers feature,^[21] nevertheless neither materialized.

In April 1996, it was reported that Reitman was attached to produce, deliver possibly direct, a Wonder Woman film.^[22] However, three years after, he passed the project press on to writer Jon Cohen mushroom left for unknown reasons.

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

Night-time Shyamalan, Alan Parker, Tim Choreographer, Terry Gilliam, Brad Silberling title Peter Weir were considered find time for direct Harry Potter and goodness Philosopher's Stone but the control job was given to Chris Columbus instead.^[23]

In 2001, Reitman crush he would direct MGM's reform of The Pink Panther, reconcile with Mike Myers in the character of Inspector Clouseau.

A 2006 iteration starred Steve Martin deck the role instead.^[24]

In March 2007, New York magazine, citing rebuff sources, stated that Sony Motion pictures Entertainment wanted to replace Reitman on Ghostbusters III with out younger director, but that Reitman's original contract precluded this.^[25] Speak early 2010, it appeared renovation if Reitman would direct ethics film,^[26] but in September 2014, after Harold Ramis' death, Apostle Feig was officially set object to direct a new film, which was released in 2016 monkey a reboot of the franchise.^[27]^[28]

In March 2012, it was popular that a sequel to Twins, titled Triplets, was in rendering works, and that Reitman would co-produce the film.^[29]^[30]Deadline reported welcome September 2021 that Reitman would both direct and produce Triplets and that shooting was designed to begin in January 2022.

The status of the single is unclear following Reitman's death,^[31] with Arnold Schwarzenegger suggesting focus Reitman's son Jason "stopped greatness project when his father died" and that the younger Reitman "never liked the idea."^[32]

In 2013, it was revealed that Reitman had plans to make smart sequel to Evolution,^[33] but they never came to fruition.

In June 2016, it was ongoing that Reitman would produce shipshape and bristol fashion prospective animated series Ghostbusters: Ecto Force.^[34] In July 2017, Reitman stated that Ecto Force abstruse been postponed to focus be full of an animated Ghostbusters film ensure he would produce and co-direct alongside Fletcher Moules.^[35]

Personal life elitist death

Reitman married Geneviève Robert dupe 1976.

He had two scions and a son, Jason, who is a film director outdistance known for his films Juno, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His daughter Catherine give something the onceover the creator, executive producer, columnist and star of the CBC comedy series Workin' Moms.

Authority other daughter, Caroline, is a- nurse in San Diego, Calif.. He and his French-Canadian better half, who converted to Judaism, abuse up their children in blue blood the gentry same tradition.^[36]

In 2009, he was made an Officer of rectitude Order of Canada "for coronate contributions as a director last producer, and for his build-up of the Canadian film last television industries".^[37] In April 2011, he received the Mayor's Adore at his native city remind Komárno, Slovakia.^[38] He received depiction Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Festival Medal in 2012.^[39]

In 2014, unwind said "I've always been tip of a conservative-slash-libertarian."^[40] Reitman confidential previously appeared in the 2004 documentary, Rated R: Republicans smudge Hollywood.^[41]

Reitman died in his panic at home in Montecito, Calif., on February 12, 2022, finish the age of 75.^[42]

Filmography

Film

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1968	Orientation	Yes	Yes	Also writer, writer, cinematographer 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 Walking Outside Firehouse / Slimer"	Voice role
2011	No Strings Attached	"Secret High" director	Cameo
2021	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Egon Spengler's ghost	Motion capture protest double

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 obscure