Brett Ratner was born on March 28,1969 and is an American film director and producer.
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36 Facts About Brett Ratner
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Brett Ratner got his start directing with music videos in the 1990s, and directed his first motion picture, Money Talks, in 1997.
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Brett Ratner is the co-founder of RatPac Entertainment, a film production company.
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Brett Ratner led RatPac's partnership with Dune Entertainment in September 2013 for a co-producing deal with Warner Bros.
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In January 2017, Brett Ratner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Brett Ratner was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, the son of Marsha Presman and Ronald Brett Ratner.
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Brett Ratner'sgrandfather was d-CON mail order rat poison company founder and real estate developer Lee Ratner.
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Brett 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 who opened the famous Forge restaurant in Miami Beach, to be his father, "the one who raised" him.
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Brett Ratner did the debut videos for Prime Minister Pete Nice before working with Redman, LL Cool J, Heavy D and Wu-Tang Clan.
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Brett Ratner had his motion picture debut when he directed Money Talks in 1997.
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Brett 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 movie after Chris Tucker began dancing in the middle of a scene.
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Brett Ratner directed The Family Man, a drama starring Nicolas Cage, in 2000.
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In 2004, Brett Ratner directed After the Sunset, starring Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek.
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In 2006, Brett Ratner directed X-Men: The Last Stand, then directed Rush Hour 3, which was released in 2007.
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Brett Ratner directed a television commercial for Wynn Las Vegas featuring Steve Wynn on top of Encore Las Vegas in 2008.
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In early 2021, Brett Ratner announced that he will direct a long-gestated Milli Vanilli biopic, which would be his first project since 2014's Hercules, for Millennium Media.
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Brett Ratner was an executive producer of the television series Prison Break, which aired from 2005 to 2009.
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In 2011, Brett Ratner produced the TV documentary, American Masters: Woody Allen – A Documentary.
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Brett Ratner produced a remake of Snow White, Mirror Mirror, based on the screenplay The Brothers Grimm: Snow White by Melisa Wallack.
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Brett Ratner executive-produced the Rush Hour TV series based on the Rush Hour film series.
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In 2015, Brett Ratner produced Black Mass, a biopic about gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, played by Johnny Depp.
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Brett Ratner worked with CMC to form a fund aimed at investments in Chinese media companies.
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Brett Ratner made $40 million after the release of Gravity, which was RatPac's first investment.
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Brett Ratner was seen on 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 Brett Ratner's $3.
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In 2009, Brett Ratner created The Shooter Series which compiled his work, including interviews with Brett Ratner, and a short film about Mickey Rourke's transition into boxing.
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In 2011, Brett Ratner established Rat TV with 20th Century Fox Television.
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Brett Ratner worked with international beverage brand Diageo to produce The Hilhaven Lodge, a blended whiskey named for his Beverly Hills estate.
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Brett 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.
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Brett Ratner participated in the eighth annual Cannes Film Finance Forum.
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In March 2017, Brett 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.
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Brett Ratner has served on the boards of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, Chrysalis, Ghetto Film School, Best Buddies and the Los Angeles Police Foundation.
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However, Brett Ratner resigned on November 8,2011 after remarking that "rehearsal is for fags".
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Brett Ratner was replaced by Brian Grazer, and Murphy was replaced by previous Oscar host Billy Crystal.
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Brett Ratner was one of the people featured in the text leak between himself, Charlotte Kirk, Kevin Tsujihara, and James Packer.
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Brendan Fraser stated in a 2018 interview with GQ that Brett Ratner seemed to mislead him into posing for pictures with the intent of selling them as part of Brett Ratner's planned book, Hilhaven Lodge: The Photo Booth Pictures.
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