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| Ivan Reitman Born: 27 October 1946, Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now in Slovakia] Birth Name: Ivan Reitman Salary • n/a Companies • The Montecito Picture Company Representation • Creative Artists Agency Emmy Awards 1996 • Nominated, Emmy Outstanding Made for Television Movie for The Late Shift (1996) Shared With: Joe Medjuck (co-executive producer), Daniel Goldberg (co-executive producer), Don Carmody Another 4 wins & 1 nomination My Super Ex-Girlfriend - Director 2006 EuroTrip - Executive Producer 2004 Old School - Executive Producer 2003 Killing Me Softly - Executive Producer 2002 Frailty - Special Thanks 2001 Evolution - Producer, Director 2001 Gulp (short) - Special Thanks (as Our Parents) 2001 Road Trip - Executive Producer 2000 In God We Trust (short) - Very Special Thanks (as My Parents) 2000 Six Days Seven Nights - Producer, Director 1998 Mummies Alive! The Legend Begins (video) - Executive Producer 1998 Fathers' Day - Producer, Director 1997 Commandments - Executive Producer 1997 Private Parts - Producer 1997 Space Jam - Producer 1996 Junior - Producer, Director 1994 Beethoven's 2nd - Executive Producer, Presenter 1993 Dave - Producer, Director 1993 Beethoven - Executive Producer 1992 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot - Producer 1992 Kindergarten Cop - Producer, Director 1990 Ghostbusters II - Producer, Director 1989 Twins - Producer, Director 1988 Feds - Executive Producer 1988 Casual Sex? - Executive Producer 1988 Big Shots - Executive Producer 1987 Legal Eagles - Producer, Director, Writer (story) 1986 Ghost Busters - Producer, Director, Zuul/Slimer (voice) (uncredited) 1984 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone - Executive Producer 1983 Heavy Metal - Producer 1981 Stripes - Producer, Director 1981 Meatballs - Director 1979 Animal House - Producer 1978 Blackout - Executive Producer 1978 Tigress - Producer 1977 Rage - Executive Producer, Music Supervisor 1977 Death Weekend - Producer, Musical Director 1976 They Came from Within - Producer, Music Supervisor 1975 Cannibal Girls - Executive Producer, Director, Writer (story) 1973 Foxy Lady - Producer, Director, Editor 1971 My Secret Life - Producer, Cinematographer 1969 Orientation (short) - Producer, Director, Writer 1968 Born in Czechoslovakia, producer/director Ivan Reitman was raised in Canada by his concentration camp-survivor parents. After majoring in music at McMasters University, Reitman got his first taste of the line of work that was to bring him fame and fortune when he attended summer classes at the National Film Board. Here he directed his first short subjects, one of which received mainstream distribution. Encouraged by the Film Board to follow his own creative muse, Reitman was irresistibly attracted to "dangerous," cutting-edge material. His first feature-length directorial project, a 1970 adaptation of the notorious sub rosa Victorian sex novel My Secret Life, nearly landed him in jail. He went on to direct, produce, edit, and score the mildly exploitive Foxy Lady (1971), then directed and produced the horror semi-spoof Cannibal Girls (1973); the latter project represented his first cinematic contact with the famed Second City comedy troupe. In between handling the producing chores on several early David Cronenberg movie projects, Reitman produced Doug Henning's 1974 Broadway musical The Magic Show, then renewed his acquaintance with the Second City folk by producing The National Lampoon Show (1975). He helped elevate John Belushi to film stardom with his spectacularly successful 1978 production National Lampoon's Animal House, then did the same for Bill Murray in his 1979 directorial effort Meatballs, which ended up the biggest-grossing Canadian film of the year. After flirting with the Cinema of the Fantastic in his productions Heavy Metal (1981) and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Reitman deftly combined fantasy and comedy with his direction of the 1984 cash cow Ghostbusters (once more populated with Second City stalwarts, notably Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis). Though he has earned his comic stripes as a director, Reitman continues to produce and executive produce other director's projects, notably the runaway hit Beethoven (1991). While he seems to have an unerring Midas touch, not every Reitman project has turned to box-office gold: After helping to give Arnold Schwarzenegger a lighter, more amusing image in Kindergarten Cop (1990), he failed to do same with Sylvester Stallone in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1991); nor was the Schwarzenegger-Danny De Vito vehicle Junior (1994) able to match the success of the stars' earlier pairing in Reitman's Twins (1988). After a few ups and downs in the early '90s, Reitman was way back up with Dave (1993), an uncharacteristically low-key political satire. Thus far, Ivan Reitman's number one unrealized project is a live-action feature based on the cartoon character Inspector Gadget. In the summer of 2001, the man who brought fans Ghostbusters was back with another summer sci-fi comedy extravaganza, Evolution. |
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