Brett Ratner

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Brett Ratner
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Ratner in 2012
Born (1969-03-28) March 28, 1969 (age 55)
Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Education New York University
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
Years active1987–present
Known for

Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) [1] is an American film director and producer. He directed the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man , Red Dragon , X-Men: The Last Stand , Tower Heist , and Hercules . He is a producer of several films, including the Horrible Bosses series, as well as executive producer on other projects, including the films The Revenant and War Dogs [2] [3] [4] and the television series Prison Break .

Contents

Ratner got his start directing with music videos in the 1990s, [5] and directed his first motion picture, Money Talks , in 1997. [6] Overall, the films Ratner has directed have earned over $2 billion at the global box office. [5] Ratner is the co-founder of RatPac Entertainment, a film production company. Ratner led RatPac's partnership with Dune Entertainment in September 2013 for a co-producing deal with Warner Bros. that included 75 films. [7] RatPac Entertainment has co-financed 81 theatrically released motion pictures exceeding $17 billion in worldwide box office receipts. RatPac's co-financed films have been nominated for 59 Academy Awards, 25 Golden Globes and 43 BAFTAs and have won 25 Academy Awards, 8 Golden Globes and 24 BAFTAs. In January 2017, Ratner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. [8] [9]

In 2017, numerous women in Hollywood came forward with allegations of misconduct against Ratner. [10] He received Israeli citizenship in 2023. [11]

Early life

Ratner was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, the son of Marsha Presman and Ronald Ratner. [12] [13] He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. [14] His grandfather was d-CON mail order rat poison company founder and real estate developer Lee Ratner. [15] [16] [17] [18] His mother was born in Cuba and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s with her parents, Fanita and Mario Presman, whose families themselves originally moved to Cuba from Eastern Europe. [19] [20] [18] Ratner's mother was sixteen when he was born. [14] Ratner has said that he "really didn't know" his biological father, and that he considers Alvin Malnik, a lawyer and businessman with alleged organized crime ties [21] [22] [23] who opened the restaurant The Forge in Miami Beach, to be his father, "the one who raised" him. [24] Malnik was a friend of Lee Ratner and not romantically involved with Marsha Presman. [18] Ratner's biological father became homeless in Miami Beach, a situation which inspired Brett Ratner to become a board member of the nationwide nonprofit organization Chrysalis, which helps the homeless find work. [25]

Ratner attended Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy [26] elementary school and attended Alexander Muss High School in Israel [18] and graduated in 1986 from Miami Beach Senior High School. While growing up in Miami Beach, Ratner was an extra on the set of Scarface and was able to watch Miami Vice film around town. [27] Shortly before Ratner's high school graduation, his mother and biological father married with the intention of legitimizing his status. [18] He is a 1990 graduate of New York University. [28] In 2010, he cited Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull as his inspiration to enter the world of film. [29]

Career

Directing

Ratner began directing music videos in the 1990s. [5] When he was a sophomore at New York University Tisch Schools of the Arts, he was manager and executive producer for B.M.O.C. (Big Man On Campus), one of the first white rap groups. [30] While a student at NYU, he released his first short film Whatever Happened to Mason Reese?. [31] The rap group Public Enemy attended the film's premiere and asked Ratner to make the group's music videos. [5] Ratner did the debut videos for Prime Minister Pete Nice before working with Redman, LL Cool J, Heavy D and Wu-Tang Clan. [32] He has directed music videos for artists such as Mariah Carey [33] Madonna, Miley Cyrus, [34] Jay-Z [5] and was scheduled to direct a video for Michael Jackson before its production was cancelled. [35] He directed Carey's "We Belong Together", "I Still Believe", "Obsessed" and "Heartbreaker" and others. [36] [37]

Ratner had his motion picture debut when he directed Money Talks in 1997. The film, an action-comedy about a con-man accused of organizing a prison break, was Ratner's first collaboration with comedian Chris Tucker. The film's budget was $25 million. [38]

In 1998, he directed Rush Hour, an action-comedy starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, which was released in September 1998 and went on to become the studio's highest-grossing film and the highest grossing comedy at the time. [39] [40] Ratner uses music on the set to inspire the production, and when filming Rush Hour, a Michael Jackson song he played for inspiration ended up in the film after Chris Tucker began dancing in the middle of a scene. [41]

Ratner directed The Family Man , a drama starring Nicolas Cage, in 2000. [42]

In 2001, Ratner directed Rush Hour 2 . [43] [44] In 2002, he directed Red Dragon , the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, about Hannibal Lecter. [45] [46]

In 2004, Ratner directed After the Sunset , starring Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek. The action comedy film revolves around a master thief pulling off one last big score, with an FBI agent in hot pursuit. [47] [ better source needed ]

In 2006, Ratner directed X-Men: The Last Stand , [48] then directed Rush Hour 3 , which was released in 2007. [49] [50]

Ratner directed a television commercial for Wynn Las Vegas featuring Steve Wynn on top of Encore Las Vegas in 2008. [51]

In the same year, Ratner directed the ensemble comedy caper Tower Heist , starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. The film was originally based on an idea from Eddie Murphy titled 'Trump Heist' and was about disgruntled employees of Donald Trump planning to rob Trump Tower, though references to Trump were removed from the film. [52] [53]

In early 2021, Ratner announced that he will direct a long-gestated Milli Vanilli biopic, which would be his first project since Paramount's 2014 film Hercules for Millennium Media. In February 2021, Millennium Media stated it would not be moving forward with Ratner's project. [54]

Producing

Ratner was an executive producer of the television series Prison Break , which aired from 2005 to 2009, [55] and directed its pilot episode. [56]

In 2011, Ratner produced the TV documentary, American Masters: Woody Allen – A Documentary. [57] That same year, he produced Horrible Bosses , a comedy about employees plotting to kill their bosses. [58] [59] Horrible Bosses opened at the domestic box office with $28.1 million in its first weekend. [60]

Ratner produced a remake of Snow White, Mirror Mirror (2012), based on the screenplay The Brothers Grimm: Snow White by Melisa Wallack. [61]

In 2014, he produced Horrible Bosses 2 , the sequel to his 2011 film. [62] Ratner executive-produced the Rush Hour TV series based on the Rush Hour film series. [63] [64] [65]

In 2015, Ratner produced Black Mass, a biopic about gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, played by Johnny Depp. [66] The same year, Ratner was executive producer of The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. [67]

He was an executive producer on the 2016 film War Dogs, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller. [68]

RatPac Entertainment

In December 2012, Ratner and Australian media mogul James Packer formed a joint venture, RatPac Entertainment. The firm will produce independent films and co-produce big-budget films with a major studio. [69] Packer's stake in the company was later bought out by Len Blavatnik's First Access Entertainment. The company makes 25 films annually. [70] By 2017, the company co-financed over 50 films which had 51 Oscar nominations and earned a total of over $10 billion in box office. [71]

RatPac and Dune Entertainment formed a film investment vehicle, which in September 2013, entered a multi-year, 75-film co-producing partnership with Warner Bros. [72] The company has partnered with New Regency, advertising firm WPP, CMC Capital Partners, and Shanghai Media Group. [73] Ratner worked with CMC to form a fund aimed at investments in Chinese media companies. [74]

Ratner made $40 million after the release of Gravity, which was RatPac's first investment. [75] [76] [77]

In June 2014, Ratner's RatPac Entertainment and Class 5 Films acquired the film rights to the non-fiction article "American Hippopotamus", by Jon Mooallem, about the meat shortage in the U.S. in 1910 to import hippopotamuses. The film was produced by Ratner in collaboration with Edward Norton and William Migliore. [78]

On April 18, 2017, Access Entertainment, a subsidiary of Access Industries, acquired James Packer's ownership stake in RatPac. [79] The next year, Warner Bros. announced that they were cutting ties with the company after Brett Ratner's sexual harassment allegations with Rampage as the final film to be co-financed by the company with Warner Bros., and the final film produced by RatPac overall. [80] In November 2018, RatPac-Dune's minority ownership stake in a library of 76 Warner Bros. films was put up for sale, with investors in the fund backing the library to cash out. [81] Vine Alternative Investments made a high bid for the library, but in January 2019, Warner Bros. exercised their rights to match the bid for the library and essentially acquired RatPac-Dune's stakes. The cost was estimated at nearly $300 million. [82]

Screen appearances

Ratner appeared on the MTV series Punk'd when Hugh Jackman, who portrays Wolverine in the X-Men films, was the subject of a practical joke that made it appear Ratner's $3.6 million home in Beverly Hills was destroyed by a BBQ grill explosion. Ashton Kutcher later arrived at his home and hugged him. [83]

In April 2007, Fox announced that he, Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall and Jon Avnet would be the judges for the network's filmmaking-competition/reality TV series, On the Lot . [84]

He appeared as himself in an episode of the television series Entourage , which was shot at his Beverly Hills home, [85]

In 2009, Ratner created The Shooter Series which compiled his work, including interviews with Ratner, and a short film about Mickey Rourke's transition into boxing. [86]

Other projects

In 2009, Ratner established Rat Press, a publishing company. The company reissued a Playboy interview with Marlon Brando and Robert Evans as well as an account of NFL player Jim Brown, [87] and released a book of Scott Caan's photographs. [88]

In 2011, Ratner established Rat TV with 20th Century Fox Television. He brought former NBC development executive Chris Conti on as president of the venture. [89]

On August 4, 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Ratner would produce the 84th Academy Awards with Don Mischer. [90] [91] However, Ratner resigned on November 8, 2011, [92] after remarking that "rehearsal is for fags". [93] [94] Ratner later apologized for his remarks. [95] Eddie Murphy, who was scheduled to host the ceremony, also resigned in deference to a new production team. [96] Ratner was replaced by Brian Grazer, [97] and Murphy was replaced by previous Oscar host Billy Crystal. [98]

Ratner announced the Brett Ratner Florida Student Filmmaker Scholarship at the Key West Film Festival in 2015. The $5,000 scholarship was awarded to The Cook, The Knife and The Rabbit's Finger, which was directed by Agustina Bonventura and Nicolas Casanas. [99]

Ratner worked with international beverage brand Diageo to produce The Hilhaven Lodge, a blended whiskey named for his Beverly Hills estate. [100] The bottle is modeled after the estate and features a wood cork, and the bottle is shaped to resemble bay windows. [101] The drink is a mixture of 26-year-old rye, 15-year-old Tennessee whiskey, and six-year bourbon. [102]

Ratner delivered a keynote address as part of the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017 where he referred to television as the future of production. [103] Ratner participated in the eighth annual Cannes Film Finance Forum. [104]

In March 2017, Ratner spoke out against film critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes at the Sun Valley Film Festival, calling it a destructive force in the film industry. He expressed respect for traditional film critics and said the site reduces film criticism to a number. [105]

Ratner has served on the boards of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, [106] Chrysalis, Ghetto Film School, [107] Best Buddies [108] and the Los Angeles Police Foundation. [109] He served on the dean's council of NYU Tisch School of the Arts [110] and serves on the board of directors of Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television. [111] He donated $1 million to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in 2013. [107]

Sexual assault allegations

In October 2017, during the Me Too movement, a former talent agency employee accused Ratner of rape. [112] On November 1, 2017, six women, including Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, accused Ratner of sexual assault and harassment, as well as following an actress into a bathroom without invitation and masturbating as another entered his trailer to deliver food. [113] [114] The same month, Ellen Page accused Ratner of sexual harassment and outing the then-18-year-old Page as gay (before Page came out as a trans man) in front of many onlookers including Anna Paquin, who later confirmed the story. [115] A former fashion model came forward regarding an incident involving Russell Simmons and Ratner back in 1991, when Simmons coerced her to perform oral sex while Ratner was present. [116]

On November 1, 2017, the same day as the allegations of six women, Warner Bros. announced it had severed ties with Ratner. Afterwards, Ratner announced that he was "[stepping] away from all Warner Bros.-related activities" and Warner Bros. was reviewing the issue. [117] [118] [119] [120] In April 2018, Warner Bros. announced that they would not renew their $450-million co-producing deal with RatPac. [121]

Filmography

Film

Director

YearTitleDistribution
1997 Money Talks New Line Cinema
1998 Rush Hour
2000 The Family Man Universal Pictures
2001 Rush Hour 2 New Line Cinema
2002 Red Dragon Universal Pictures
2004 After the Sunset New Line Cinema
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand 20th Century Fox
2007 Rush Hour 3 New Line Cinema
2011 Tower Heist Universal Pictures
2014 Hercules Paramount Pictures

Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Soundtrack Producer

  • Rush Hour (1998)

Short film

Director

YearTitleNotes
1990Whatever Happened to Mason Reese Also screenwriter and producer
2001Lady Luck
2008 New York, I Love You Segment "5"
2013 Movie 43 Segment "Happy Birthday"

Executive producer

Producer

YearTitleNotes
2006Becker Hargrove, Inc.
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleDocumentary short
2015 The 100 Years Show
Fun Size Horror: Volume Two
The Audition

Documentary film

Producer

Executive producer

  • Catfish (2010)
  • By Sidney Lumet (2015)

Television

TV movies

YearTitleDirectorExecutive
producer		Notes
1999PartnersYesYes
2005Untitled David Diamond/David Weissman ProjectYesYes
2007Helmut by JuneYesDocumentary film
2008Blue BloodYesYes
2009Cop HouseYesYes
Prison Break: The Final Break Yes
2011RogueYesYes
Nick Cannon: Mr. Show BizYesDocumentary film
2015 Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Yes

TV series

YearTitleDirectorExecutive
producer		Notes
1999 Making the Video YesDocumentary series
2005–2009 Prison Break YesYesDirected the Pilot episode
2007 Entourage Role: himself;
Episode "The Prince's Bride"
Women's Murder Club Yes
2011 CHAOS Yes
2014 30 for 30 YesYesEpisode "Mysteries of the Rimet Trophy"
2015 Breakthrough YesDocumentary series
Rush Hour Yes
2017 American Masters Yes

Music video

YearTitleArtist
1987"Christmas in Hollis" Run-D.M.C.
1988"Louder Than a Bomb" Public Enemy
1993"Rat Bastard" Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich
"Kick the Bobo"
"Stay Real" Erick Sermon
"Tonight's da Night" Redman
"Pink Cookies In a Plastic Bag Getting Crushed By Buildings" LL Cool J
1994"Nuttin' but Love" Heavy D & the Boyz
"I'll Take Her" Ill Al Skratch featuring Brian McKnight
"I Like the Way You Work" Blackstreet
1995"Freek'n You" Jodeci
"Love U 4 Life"
"Every Little Thing I Do" Soul for Real
"Brown Sugar" D'Angelo
"Who Do U Love" Deborah Cox
"Sex Wit You"Heavy D & the Boyz
"Cruisin'"D'Angelo
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Mary J. Blige
1996"Lady" (DJ Premier Remix)D'Angelo featuring AZ
"Don't Wanna Lose You" Lionel Richie
1997"I'll Be" Foxy Brown
"No Doubt" 702
"Invisible Man" 98 Degrees
"Triumph" Wu-Tang Clan
1998"How Deep Is Your Love" Dru Hill
1999"I Still Believe" Mariah Carey
"Beautiful Stranger" Madonna
"Heartbreaker"Mariah Carey
"Thank God I Found You"
2000"This Could Be Heaven" Seal
2001"Diddy" P. Diddy
2002"Unbreakable" Michael Jackson
2005"It's Like That"Mariah Carey
"We Belong Together"
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Jessica Simpson
2006"Make Them Suffer" Cannibal Corpse
"A Public Affair"Jessica Simpson
"Samantha" Courtney Love
2008"7 Things" Miley Cyrus
"Touch My Body"Mariah Carey
"Just Like Me" Jamie Foxx
"When You Leave (Numa Numa)" (Basshunter Remix) Alina
2009"Obsessed"Mariah Carey
"H.A.T.E.U."
2011"Mrs. Right" Mindless Behavior
2015"Infinity"Mariah Carey

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