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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: Reign of The Ripper (1988)
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A year later after Zanorin (David Bowie) was sent back to the underworld and Francine Krueger (Lezlie Deane) was taken to the local asylum after once again, the city was saved by the Ghostbusters. However around May, there have been reports of people going missing at night. Only to turn up brutally murdered and had an inverted pentagram carved in their chest, indicating that a psychotic demon worshipping killer is on the loose, following by a dark presence once again looming over New York. Peter (Bill Murray), Ray (Dan Aykroyd) Egon (Harold Ramis), Winston (Ernie Hudson) along with the new gens such as Andie (Molly Ringwald) Carley (Christine Elise) and Kylie (Winona Ryder) start to investigate the happenings as reports of people dealing with demonic entities taking over people's homes keep popping up. However, things escalate once they started to get letters from someone that's stalking them. The letters get more disturbing as things go on, until they found out that the letters were from serial killer. John Durant (Michael Biehn), who gets possessed by the most notorious killer in history. Jack The Ripper, who found their way through the underworld while Durant was in the midst of his killing spree but another entity has been studying the Ghostbusters for a while, but now it was time to make it's first move as it gave the famous Ripper more power than ever before. Now it's time for the gang to stop Jack once and for all. Will they catch him in time?