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Ivan Reitman was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
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entertainment · Canadian filmmaker (1946–2022) · film producer · film director · screenwriter · theatre director · director · also Ivan Reitman, Reitman
Born 27 October 1946 · Died 12 February 2022 · Q380272
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We take comfort that his work as a filmmaker brought laughter and happiness to countless others around the world. While we mourn privately, we hope those who knew him through his films will remember him always.
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“The movie is more proof that it isn’t what you do, it’s how you do it: Ivan Reitman’s direction and Gary Ross’ screenplay use intelligence and warmhearted sentiment to make Dave into wonderful lighthearted entertainment.”
“We take comfort that his work as a filmmaker brought laughter and happiness to countless others around the world. While we mourn privately, we hope those who knew him through his films will remember him always.”
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The Guardian: Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters director and Animal House producer, dies at 75
Died 2022-02-12.
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The Guardian: Who ya gonna call? Ivan and Jason Reitman on resurrecting Ghostbusters together
The Guardian: Ivan Reitman quits Ghostbusters 3 following Harold Ramis's death
Said "I've always been something of a conservative-slash-libertarian
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It was revealed that Reitman had plans to make a sequel to Evolution, but they never came to fruition
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Directed the 2014 sports drama Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner, and served as executive producer on 2021's Space Jam: A New Legacy as he had done for the first film
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Awarded Time Machine Award (2009).
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Produced the Academy Award-nominated film, Up in the Air, directed by his son Jason Reitman
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Was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as a director and producer, and for his promotion of the Canadian film and television industries"
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Reitman was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame
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Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2001).
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Reitman revealed he would direct MGM's remake of The Pink Panther, with Mike Myers in the role of Inspector Clouseau
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Reitman along with Wolfgang Petersen, Rob Reiner, M
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Reitman (alongside former Universal Pictures chairman Tom Pollock) founded The Montecito Picture Company as a reinvention of his former film company Northern Lights Entertainment, using the same team, a film production c
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“I always had a sort of sincere approach to the comedy,”
“I was lucky enough to do it sitting next to my dad.”
“Later they told me about how they gave me a couple of sleeping pills so I wouldn’t make any noise. I was so knocked out that I slept with my eyes open. My parents were afraid I was dead.”
And directed Meatballs in 1979, mainly to fulfill contractual obligations with the former Canadian studio Cinépix that he left in 1976
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Left the Canadian studio Cinépix for good to start producing American films through his newly-formed Ivan Reitman Productions
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The son of Klara (Raab) and Ladislav "Leslie" Reitman
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Born 1946-10-27.
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