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This is the filmography of Canadian film director and producer Ivan Reitman.
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This is the filmography of Canadian film director and producer Ivan Reitman.
Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Orientation | Yes | Yes | Also writer, editor, cinematographer and composer |
Feature film
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Foxy Lady | Yes | Yes | Also editor and composer |
| 1973 | Cannibal Girls | Yes | Executive | Also story writer |
| 1979 | Meatballs | Yes | No | Golden Reel Award |
| 1981 | Stripes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Yes | Yes | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Yes | Yes | Also story writer |
| 1988 | Twins | Yes | Yes | |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Yes | Yes | |
| 1990 | Kindergarten Cop | Yes | Yes | |
| 1993 | Dave | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | Junior | Yes | Yes | |
| 1997 | Fathers' Day | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | Six Days, Seven Nights | Yes | Yes | |
| 2001 | Evolution | Yes | Yes | |
| 2006 | My Super Ex-Girlfriend | Yes | No | |
| 2011 | No Strings Attached | Yes | Yes | |
| 2014 | Draft Day | Yes | Yes |
Acting roles
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Zuul / Slimer | Voice role |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II | "Man Walking Outside Firehouse / Slimer" | |
| 2011 | No Strings Attached | "Secret High" director | Cameo |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Egon Spengler's ghost | Motion capture body double |
Executive producer only
Producer only
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Columbus of Sex | Also cinematographer |
| 1975 | Shivers | Also music supervisor |
| 1976 | Death Weekend | |
| 1977 | Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia | As "Julian Parnell" |
| 1978 | Animal House | |
| 1981 | Heavy Metal [8] | |
| 1992 | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | |
| 1996 | Space Jam | |
| 1997 | Private Parts | |
| 2009 | Post Grad | |
| Up in the Air | Nominated: Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Chloe | ||
| 2012 | Hitchcock | |
| 2016 | Ghostbusters | |
| 2017 | Baywatch | |
| Father Figures | ||
| 2020 | A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting | |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | [9] [10] |
| 2024 | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Posthumous credit; dedication [11] |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Executive producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Metropolitan Hospital [12] | No | Creator | Yes | Unsold pilot |
| 2004 | Cooking Lessons [13] | Yes | No | No | TV movie |
Executive producer only
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Delta House [14] | 13 episodes |
| 1994 | Beethoven | 13 episodes |
| 1996 | The Late Shift | TV movie |
| 1997 | Mummies Alive! | 42 episodes |
| 1999 | The First Gentleman | TV movie |
| 2001–02 | Alienators: Evolution Continues | 13 episodes |
| 2006 | That Guy | TV movie |
Producer
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | That Guy | TV movie |
| 2008 | Atom TV | 5 episodes (segments "Border Patrol") |
| Year | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "Ghostbusters" [15] | Ray Parker Jr. |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood | |
| 2015 | Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | |
| 2016 | Ghostheads | |
| 2019 | Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | |
| 2020 | Who You Gonna Call? | |
| 2022 | In Search of Tomorrow | Posthumous release; dedication |
| 2023 | Arnold | Posthumous release; episode: "Part 2: Actor" |
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles.
Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), Analyze This (1999) and Analyze That (2002). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). The final film that he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in was Year One (2009).
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.
Ghostbusters II is a 1989 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts. It is the sequel to the 1984 film Ghostbusters and the second film in the Ghostbusters franchise. Set five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been sued and put out of business after the destruction caused during their battle with the deity Gozer the Gozerian. When a new paranormal threat emerges, the Ghostbusters reunite to combat it and save the world.
Earnest Lee Hudson is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Crow (1994), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000), and The Ron Clark Story (2006).
Joseph Medjuck is a Canadian film producer in Hollywood.
Jason R. Reitman is a Canadian–American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Saturday Night (2024). He has received one Grammy Award, one Golden Globe and four Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Director. He is the son of director Ivan Reitman, and known for frequently collaborating with screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Gil Kenan.
Gil Kenan is a British–American filmmaker. He is best known for directing Monster House (2006), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. He has also collaborated with director Jason Reitman in co-writing the Ghostbusters films Afterlife (2021) and Frozen Empire (2024), the latter he also directed, as well as Saturday Night (2024).
The Ghostbusters franchise consists of American supernatural comedies, based on an original concept created by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in 1984. The plot follows a group of eccentric New York City parapsychologists who investigate and eliminate ghosts, paranormal manifestations, demigods, and demons. The franchise expanded with licensed action figures, books, comics, video games, television series, theme park attractions, and other branded merchandise. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts are the only actors to have appeared in all four canon films in the Ghostbusters franchise.
Catherine Marcelle Reitman is a Canadian-American actress, producer, and writer. She is the creator, executive producer, writer, and star of the Netflix/CBC Television sitcom Workin' Moms (2017−2023).
The Montecito Picture Company, LLC is an American film production company founded in 1998 by film director Ivan Reitman and studio executive Tom Pollock. It is located on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, United States. Montecito is a city in California in Santa Barbara County.
Daniel Mitchell Goldberg was a Canadian film producer and screenwriter. He was a writer and producer on the films Meatballs and Stripes. He was also a producer of The Hangover film series and received an Emmy Awards nomination for the film The Late Shift.
Ghostbusters is a 2016 American supernatural comedy film directed by Paul Feig, who co-wrote it with Katie Dippold. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth, it is a reboot of the 1984 film of the same name and the third film in the Ghostbusters franchise. The story focuses on four eccentric women who start a ghost-catching business in New York City after a paranormal encounter.
Ghost Corps, Inc. is an American production company formed in March 2015 to oversee the Ghostbusters media franchise and as a stock exchange for the Ghostbusters brand. It is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures and as of January 2021 currently no longer functions as a stock exchange C-Corporation business but is currently still active as a PR office on the Sony Pictures lot maintaining management of its online pages and productions related to the Ghostbusters brand.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a 2021 American supernatural comedy film directed by Jason Reitman from a screenplay he wrote with Gil Kenan. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), the third mainline installment, and the fourth film overall in the Ghostbusters franchise. The film stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver reprising their characters from the earlier films. Set 32 years after the events of Ghostbusters II, it follows a single mother and her children who move to an Oklahoma farm they inherited from her estranged father Egon Spengler, a member of the original Ghostbusters.
Godmothered is a 2020 American fantasy comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire, written by Kari Granlund and Melissa Stack, and starring Jillian Bell and Isla Fisher. The Walt Disney Company first began developing the film in September 2019, with Maguire joining the production as director later that month. Principal photography began in January 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company and Secret Machine Entertainment, it was released on Disney+ on December 4, 2020. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
Ozzy Inguanzo is a Cuban-American screenwriter, producer, and published author. His feature screenplay Our Man in Miami made the 2023 Black List. In 2019, he received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay.
Ghostbusters: Original Soundtrack Album is the soundtrack album for the 1984 film of the same name, released by Arista Records on June 8, 1984. The soundtrack includes the Billboard Hot 100 number one hit "Ghostbusters", written and performed by Ray Parker Jr. The film score, Ghostbusters: Original Motion Picture Score, was composed by Elmer Bernstein. The film score remained unreleased until March 16, 2006, when it was released by Varèse Sarabande.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a 2024 American supernatural comedy horror film directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jason Reitman. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), the fourth mainline installment, and the fifth film overall in the Ghostbusters franchise. The film stars Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Celeste O'Connor, and Logan Kim reprising their roles from Afterlife, alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton reprising their characters from the earlier films. Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Emily Alyn Lind, and James Acaster also join the cast. Set three years after the events of Afterlife, the veteran Ghostbusters must join forces with their successors to save the world from a death-chilling god in New York City who seeks to build a spectral army.