1. Brett Ratner was born on March 28,1969 and is an American film director and producer.
46 Facts About Brett Ratner
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Brett Ratner directed the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tower Heist, and Hercules.
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Brett Ratner is a producer of several films, including the Horrible Bosses series, as well as executive producer on projects, including the films The Revenant and War Dogs and the television series Prison Break.
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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's grandfather was d-CON mail order rat poison company founder and real estate developer Lee Ratner.
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Brett Ratner's mother was born in Cuba and immigrated to the US in the 1960s with her parents, Fanita and Mario Presman, whose families themselves originally moved to Cuba from Eastern Europe.
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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 restaurant The Forge in Miami Beach, to be his father, "the one who raised" him.
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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.
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Brett Ratner is a 1990 graduate of New York University.
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The rap group Public Enemy attended the film's premiere and asked Brett Ratner to make the group's music videos.
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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 has directed music videos for artists such as Mariah Carey Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z and was scheduled to direct a video for Michael Jackson before its production was cancelled.
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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 film 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 Paramount's 2014 film 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, and directed its pilot episode.
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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 was an executive producer on the 2016 film War Dogs, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.
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Brett Ratner has partnered with New Regency, advertising firm WPP, CMC Capital Partners, and Shanghai Media Group.
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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 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 Brett Ratner's $3.6 million home in Beverly Hills was destroyed by a BBQ grill explosion.
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Brett Ratner appeared as himself in an episode of the television series Entourage, which was shot at his Beverly Hills home.
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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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Brett Ratner reissued a Playboy interview with Marlon Brando and Robert Evans as well as an account of NFL player Jim Brown, and released a book of Scott Caan's photographs.
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In 2011, Brett Ratner established Rat TV with 20th Century Fox Television.
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Brett Ratner brought former NBC development executive Chris Conti on as president of the venture.
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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 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 expressed respect for traditional film critics and said the site reduces film criticism to a number.
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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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Brett Ratner served on the dean's council of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and serves on the board of directors of Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television.
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Brett Ratner donated $1 million to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in 2013.