Jason Reitman was almost literassociate born into the movie business. He has a ptoastyo being held as a baby on the set where overweighther Ivan Reitman was making National Lampoon’s Animal Hoparticipate. He has been on a evident path to join the family business ever since, even straightforwarding a 2021 reboot of his dad’s inhonord Gpresentbusters franchise (Gpresentbusters: Afterlife), and producing another after that (Gpresentbusters: Frozen Empire).
But Reitman evidently made his own name and own style with a series of criticassociate acclaimed movies including Thank You For Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up In The Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), Labor Day (2013) and Tully (2018) among others. He has getd four Oscar nominations to date including two for straightforwarding, and is now back in the conversation with his criticassociate acclaimed comedy Saturday Night which had a accomplished begin earlier this drop at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals. Saturday Night is as much a suspense thriller as it is a manic and inalertigent comedy, counting down the savage last 90 minutes before the October 11, 1975 debut of NBC’s then-new inhabit off-the-wall procrastinateed night series, Saturday Night Live. Reitman joins me in conversation for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens helping me to usher in a new group of Oscar contfinishers and their filmproducers.
Reitman talks about his salertar nurtureer making movies, but is procrastinateedly also busy collecting an incredible catalog of iconic straightforwardors to join him in buying L.A.’s showcase theatre, the Fox Village in Westwood which was finishangered of closing or being turned into an office produceing. Reitman talks about the transport inance of preserving the theatrical moviegoing heritage and with his colleagues (including Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and many others) in making this symbol of movie history new aachieve.
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