Ivan Reitman, a director and producer who made some of the most beloved movie comedies of the Seventies and Eighties and introduced viewers to the slimy work of “supernatural elimination” in Ghostbusters, has died aged 75.
Reitman was one of the most successful comic filmmakers of his time, known for channelling an irreverent, anti-establishment sensibility in movies that harnessed the talent of Saturday Night Live stars such as John Belushi, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. His movies rarely drew critical acclaim, but they made more than $2bn at the box office and inspired filmmakers such as Todd Phillips, whose comedies Road Trip (2000) and Old School (2003) were among the more than 70 movies and TV shows that Reitman produced.
