Jason R Reitman is a Canadian-American actor and filmmaker, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
33 Facts About Jason Reitman
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Jason Reitman has received one Grammy Award, one Golden Globe, and four Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Director.
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Jason Reitman is the son of director Ivan Reitman, and known for frequently collaborating with screenwriter Diablo Cody.
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Jason Reitman was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Genevieve Robert, an actress sometimes billed as Genevieve Deloir, and Slovak-Jewish film director Ivan Jason Reitman.
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Jason Reitman's father was born in Czechoslovakia, to Jewish parents who were Holocaust survivors.
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Jason Reitman's mother is from a Christian background and of French-Canadian descent; she converted to Judaism.
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Jason Reitman grew up on set, and has photos of himself as a baby on the set of Animal House in 1978; Bill Murray described Jason Reitman as "a pain in the ass" while filming Ghostbusters, with Dan Aykroyd joking that "he was directing back then".
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Jason Reitman spent time in the editing rooms of his father's movies, learning the process.
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Jason Reitman graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1995; Jason Reitman was a high jumper in high school, coached by Occidental College Hall-of-Famer Phil Sweeney.
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Jason Reitman started out making short films during his time at USC.
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Jason Reitman developed the Christopher Buckley novel into a screenplay and, eventually, a film.
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Jason Reitman mentioned that he had plans to work with Buckley again on an original project.
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Jason Reitman did win other awards for his work on Juno, including Best Director at the 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards.
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Jason Reitman was in the middle of writing a screenplay when he came on board to direct Juno and, at one point, he expressed intent to finish writing and to direct this screenplay.
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In March 2006, Jason Reitman formed the production company "Hard C Productions" with producing partner Daniel Dubiecki.
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Jason Reitman had an overall deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures, the company that distributed Reitman's first two films.
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Jason Reitman described his production company's goal as being to produce "small subversive comedy that is independent but accessible".
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Jason Reitman met Wilson on the set of his father's film My Super Ex-Girlfriend, in which Wilson had a supporting role.
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In 2009, Jason Reitman left Hard C to form Right of Way Films.
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Jason Reitman later came upon the novel while browsing in the Los Angeles bookstore Book Soup.
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Jason Reitman then developed his own screenplay, incorporating some of the elements from the Griffins' script that had originated with Turner.
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Jason Reitman initially attempted to claim sole credit for writing the film, and later admitted to being confused when the Writers Guild of America ruled that he should share credit with Turner.
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Jason Reitman was an executive producer of the erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 26,2010.
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Jason Reitman helped persuade Amanda Seyfried to star in the film.
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On January 15,2019, Jason Reitman announced he would be working on Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a continuation of the original Ghostbusters films directed by his father.
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Jason Reitman will produce and co-write a sequel to Afterlife, set for release in 2024.
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Jason Reitman financed his first short film, "Operation", with money he made by selling ads in desk calendars.
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Jason Reitman produced and directed the 2007 holiday season commercials for Wal-Mart with advertising agency Bernstein-Rein.
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Jason Reitman has directed ads for Burger King, Nintendo, BMW, and Buick.
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Jason Reitman directed a three-part pretaped sketch for the NBC show Saturday Night Live called "Death by Chocolate," about a walking candy bar, played by episode host Ashton Kutcher, who murders people; stabbing a homeless man, shooting a doctor, cutting off a life support machine on a coma victim, and slicing Andy Samberg with a chainsaw.
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Since 2011, Jason Reitman directs the Live Read series, a monthly live staged reading of film scripts as part of the Film Independent at LACMA.
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In 2020, Jason Reitman directed The Princess Bride, a television adaption of novel of the same name for Quibi featuring an ensemble cast to raise money for World Central Kitchen.
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When Jason Reitman was 16 and still in high school he moved in with a woman 10 years his senior.