This comedy on ghost hunters released in 1984 had won a huge success. Also producer, it was 75 years old.
Le Monde with AP
Ivan Reitman, the director and producer at the origin of popular comedies, including sos ghosts, died, announced Associated Press Sunday, February 13th. He was 75 years old. He died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, California, the United States, his family reported to the American news agency.
“Our family cries the unexpected loss of a husband, a father and a grandfather who taught us to always seek magic in life,” said his children, Jason, Catherine and Caroline Reitman, in a common statement. “We are comforted by the fact that his filmmaker has brought laughter and happiness to countless people around the world. While we cry privately, we hope that those who knew it through his movies. will always remember him. “
Author of Comedies Paillardes, Reitman has really made known with the American College film, on university fraternities, which he has produced. But its greatest success was SOS ghosts, in 1984.
Supernatural and irreverent comedy
This irreverent comedy on ghost hunters featured Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis. She reported nearly $ 300 million around the world and was named twice at Oscars. A success that gave birth to a real franchise, including spin-off, television broadcasts and a new film, SOS ghosts: the inheritance, released in 2021, made by its own son, the filmmaker Jason Reitman.
Among the other achievements of Ivan Reitman, we can cite twins, a kindergarten cop, one day president, Junior and six days seven nights. He also produced Beethoven, return to the Fac and Sex trip, as well as many other films, many for his son, filmmaker Jason Reitman.
Ivan Reitman was born in Komarmo, Czechoslovakia, in 1946, where his father owned the largest vinegarity of the country. When the communists started to imprison the capitalists after the war, the Reitman decided to escape, while Ivan Reitman was only 4 years old. They traveled in the nailed hold of a houseboat towards Vienna.
The Reitman then join a parent in Toronto, where Ivan very quickly shows his sense of show: he creates a puppet theater, anime summer camps, plays in cafes with a group of folk music. He studies music and drama at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and starts making short films.