Reitman, who was greatest identified for guiding the unique Ghostbusters film, died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday night time at his house in Montecito, California.
His household led tributes in a joint assertion shared with the Related Press, which stated: ‘Our household is grieving the surprising lack of a husband, father, and grandfather who taught us to at all times search the magic in life.
‘We take consolation that his work as a filmmaker introduced laughter and happiness to numerous others all over the world. Whereas we mourn privately, we hope those that knew him by means of his movies will keep in mind him at all times.’
It was signed off by his three youngsters Jason, Catherine, and Caroline.
Reitman landed his breakout undertaking with raucous comedy Nationwide Lampoon’s Animal Home, which he produced. He went on to direct Invoice Murray in Meatballs after which once more in 1981’s Stripes.
Nonetheless, their most iconic work collectively was on 1984’s supernatural comedy Ghostbusters, which propelled stars like Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver to higher fame.
Ghostbusters would gross a staggering $300million (£222m) worldwide and even acquired two Oscars nominations. Ghostbusters has spawned sequels, spin-offs, tv reveals and the latest film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was launched final yr and directed by his son Jason Reitman.
Main tributes for the late Reitman, Paul Feig – who directed the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters – tweeted: ‘I had the respect of working so intently with Ivan and it was at all times such a studying expertise. He directed a few of my favourite comedies of all time. All of us in comedy owe him so very a lot.’
Comic and actor Kumail Nanjiani weighed in: ‘A legend. The variety of nice motion pictures he made is absurd.’
Reitman, who was born in 1946 in Kormarmo, Czechoslovakia, was additionally identified for his work on Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Junior, Dave and Six Days, Seven Nights.
He additionally produced movies akin to Beethoven, EuroTrip and Previous College, and his son Jason’s Oscar-nominated Up In The Air.
Final September, it was introduced that a sequel to Twins, titled Triplets, was within the works with Reitman returning to direct the unique solid, together with Arnold Schwarznegger and Danny DeVito.
When requested concerning the success of his arguably most highly-regarded work on Ghostbusters, Reitman as soon as advised AP: ‘I at all times had a kind of honest method to the comedy.
‘I took it severely despite the fact that, it was a horror film and a comedy, I felt you needed to kind of cope with it in a type of reasonable and sincere method.’
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