Ivan Reitman, director of a series of Bill Murray comedies that helped to define a generation - Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters - has passed away. He was 75.
Reitman also was the producer of a sophisticated drawing room comedy called National Lampoon's Animal House, as well as of movies that ranged from Up In The Air to Space Jam to the recent Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was directed by his son, Jason Reitman. And his other directing credits included hits like Dave, Twins, Junior, and Draft Day.
