Ivan Reitman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q380272: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Ghostbusters (1984); Dave (1993); No Strings Attached (2011); Draft Day (2014); Father's Day; Twins. Count them as producer (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Michael Ovitz: 1 line

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they directed: Michael Ovitz ⇒ Ghostbusters (the host's read). Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they directed: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they directed: Ghostbusters ⇒ Jason Reitman (the host's read). Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Old School (2003): 1 line

  1. lineage (filmmaker lineage) · them, directly: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son.
    “it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tonal model) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they directed: Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Todd Phillips: 1 line

  1. lineage (mentor-style lineage) · them, directly: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Todd Phillips (the host's read). Phillips' skill of picking people at the right time is something Bill says he learned from Reitman.
    “clearly he learned that from Ivan Reitman, who was amazing at that in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (7) everyone in directing

Producing (2) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Judd Apatow → Ivan Reitman. Bill asks whether Apatow is, for Craig's generation, what Ivan Reitman and Lorne Michaels were for him.
    “people like Ivan Reitman, just really revering them as I was like in college”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:14 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (filmmaker lineage): Old School → Ivan Reitman. Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son.
    “it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (mentor-style lineage): Todd Phillips → Ivan Reitman. Phillips' skill of picking people at the right time is something Bill says he learned from Reitman.
    “clearly he learned that from Ivan Reitman, who was amazing at that in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (director): Ivan Reitman → Draft Day. The show's Ivan Reitman series covers Draft Day.
    “This is a podcast about the films of Ivan Reitman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:28:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.