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Ivan Reitman OC (October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian-American film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He was best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998. Notable films he directed include Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), and Junior (1994). Reitman also served as producer for such films as Animal House (1978), Beethoven (1992), Space Jam (1996), and Private Parts (1997). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ivan Reitman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ivan Reitman
Director
for Director in Ghostbusters: A Nightmare in New York (1986)
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It's October in New York, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) are still individually recovering from the 1984 incident where Gozer came into their dimension, nearly destroying the city and the world. However, one night changed into something much darker. Reports of some of the local teenagers dying in their sleep start popping up around the city. Ray starts to dig into some research on the ongoing situation, finding similar incidents in Springwood, Ohio and all were connected by one name that stood out, the child murdering dream stalker. Freddy Krueger, later that night Peter Venkman also began to suffer nightmares before The Springwood Slasher began to target Ray, Egon, Winston and everyone around them as now the Ghostbusters have a foe that is more sinister than anything that they have faced. Egon dug into deeper research and found one of the many survivors that Krueger had targeted, Nancy Thompson. (Heather Langenkamp) who just happened to be living in the city away from Springwood, Nancy called for some help back home as well, three individuals who have been holed up in Westin Hills that have encountered Krueger before. Now with the Ghostbusters and the survivor of Krueger's reign of terror in place with the help of some of Elm Street's last children. Can they stop the maniacal dream demon once and for all, or will New York have another Elm Street that Freddy will dwell?..
