{"id":1295248,"date":"2022-02-13T23:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1295248"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:37:45","slug":"ivan-reitman-animal-house-producer-and-ghostbusters-director-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivan-reitman-animal-house-producer-and-ghostbusters-director-dies-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Reitman, \u2018Animal House\u2019 Producer and \u2018Ghostbusters\u2019 Director, Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fivan-reitman-animal-house-producer-and-ghostbusters-director-dies-at-75%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1295248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from \u201cAnimal House\u201d to \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d has died. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father, and grandfather who taught us to always seek the magic in life,\u201d children Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman and Caroline Reitman said in a joint statement. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known for big, bawdy comedies that caught the spirit of their time, Reitman\u2019s big break came with the raucous, college fraternity sendup \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Animal House,\u201d which he produced. He directed Bill Murray in his first starring role in \u201cMeatballs\u201d and then again in \u201cStripes,\u201d but his most significant success came with 1984\u2019s \u201cGhostbusters.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19870074\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21320169040149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19870074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21320169040149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Producer Ivan Reitman attends the premiere of \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife\u201d at AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in New York. (Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not only did the irreverent supernatural comedy starring Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis gross nearly $300 million worldwide, it earned two Oscar nominations, spawned a veritable franchise, including spinoffs, television shows and a new movie, \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife,\u201d that opened this last year. His son, filmmaker Jason Reitman directed.<\/p>\n<p>Among other notable films he directed are \u201cTwins,\u201d \u201cKindergarten Cop,\u201d \u201cDave,\u201d \u201cJunior\u201d and 1998\u2019s \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights.\u201d He also produced \u201cBeethoven,\u201d \u201cOld School\u201d and \u201cEuroTrip,\u201d and many others, including several for his son.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19870098\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/il_794xN.3678060595_67kx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19870098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/il_794xN.3678060595_67kx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"1193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Universal<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He was born in Komarmo, Czechoslovakia, in 1946 where his father owned the country\u2019s biggest vinegar factory. When the communists began imprisoning capitalists after the war, the Reitmans decided to escape, when Ivan Reitman was only 4. They traveled in the nailed-down hold of a barge headed for Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember flashes of scenes,\u201d Reitman told the AP in 1979. \u201cLater they told me about how they gave me a couple of sleeping pills so I wouldn\u2019t make any noise. I was so knocked out that I slept with my eyes open. My parents were afraid I was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Reitmans joined a relative in Toronto, where Ivan displayed his show biz inclinations: starting a puppet theater, entertaining at summer camps, playing coffee houses with a folk music group. He studied music and drama at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and began making movie shorts.<\/p>\n<p>With friends and $12,000, Reitman made a nine-day movie, \u201cCannibal Girls,\u201d which American International agreed to release. He produced on a $500 budget a weekly TV revue, \u201cGreed,\u201d with Dan Aykroyd, and became associated with the Lampoon group in its off-Broadway revue that featured John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Murray. That soon led to \u201cAnimal House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>By the time 1990\u2019s \u201cKindergarten Cop\u201d came around, Reitman had established himself as the most successful comedy director in history. Though not even being the father of three children could have prepared him for the arduous task of directing 30 children between the ages of 4 and 7 in the Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Reitman slowed down as a director after \u201cSix Days, Seven Nights\u201d \u2014 only four films would follow \u201cEvolution,\u201d \u201cMy Super Ex-Girlfriend,\u201d \u201cNo Strings Attached\u201d and \u201cDraft Day,\u201d from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But he continued producing and, with \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife,\u201d even found himself on the press circuit with his son, providing emotional moments for both with the passing of the baton.<\/p>\n<p>When asked late last year why the 1984 film continued to fascinate, Reitman told the AP that it was hard to define.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always had a sort of sincere approach to the comedy,\u201d he said. \u201cI took it seriously even though, it was a horror movie and a comedy, I felt you had to sort of deal with it in a kind of realistic and honest way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from \u201cAnimal House\u201d to \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d has died. 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