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Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and music-video director. He is best known as the director of The Family Man, After the Sunset, Red Dragon, the Rush Hour series, and X-Men: The Last Stand. He is also a producer on the Fox drama, Prison Break. He will be directing Beverly Hills Cop IV which is due for a Summer 2009 release.
t Ratner was born in Miami Beach, Florida to Marcia Presman, the daughter of Eastern European Jews who lived in Cuba before moving to Florida in the 1960s.
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Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and music-video director. He is best known as the director of The Family Man, After the Sunset, Red Dragon, the Rush Hour series, and X-Men: The Last Stand. He is also a producer on the Fox drama, Prison Break. He will be directing Beverly Hills Cop IV which is due for a Summer 2009 release.
Early life
Brett Ratner was born in Miami Beach, Florida to Marcia Presman, the daughter of Eastern European Jews who lived in Cuba before moving to Florida in the 1960s. His father was Ronny Ratner, the son of a wealthy Miami businessman. Ratner's parents married when he was in his senior year of high school, and his father died in 2006.
Ratner attended high school in Israel and is a 1990 graduate of the New York University.
Rush Hour 3 has a scene where a girl takes off a wig and Chris Tucker accuses her of being a man. Ratner said to the Advocate magazine that this scene was based on an event from his own life. Ratner said, "That's from my personal experience. My first blow job was from a man, but I didn't know it was a man. That's where that comes from. It's based on personal experience. It happens to a lot of people." Ratner continued, "The reaction is “Oh, shit!” if you're not gay, which is funny, I think."
Film career
Ratner directed several music videos before reaching commercial success with the action-comedy Rush Hour (1998), starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, both of whom reunited with Ratner for two sequels, Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 3 (2007). Ratner was under consideration to direct X-Men (2000) and Superman Returns (2006), although both were eventually directed by Bryan Singer. After Singer left the X-Men franchise to direct Superman Returns, Ratner became director of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). X3 was the poorest reviewed chapter in the franchise, clocking in at 51% among top critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Brett Ratner's movies in general were panned by film critics. As of 2008, movies helmed by Ratner average a paltry 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
On April 25, 2007, Fox Broadcasting announced that he, Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall, and Jon Avnet would be the judges for the network's filmmaking-competition reality TV series, On the Lot, which premiered to low ratings in May 2007. In May 2008, it was announced that Ratner would be directing the upcoming long in-development Beverly Hills Cop IV.
Screen appearances
Ratner was seen on MTV series Punk'd when Hugh Jackman, who portrays Wolverine in the X-Men films, was the subject of a practical joke that made it appear Ratner's $3.6 million home in Beverly Hills was destroyed by a BBQ grill explosion. Ashton Kutcher later arrived to his home and hugged him after Jackman was punk'd.
He also appeared as himself in Entourage.
He also appears as himself in the movie Black and White.
Other work
Ratner funds a scholarship to the New York Film Academy, where he has been as a featured guest speaker.
Reported salaries
According to IMDB
- The Family Man (2000) - $5,000,000
- Rush Hour 2 (2001) - $5,000,000
- Red Dragon (2002) - $6,000,000
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) - $5,000,000
- Rush Hour 3 (2007) - $9,000,000
Works
Film and television
| Year | Title | Type | Notes |
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| 1990 | Whatever Happened to Mason Reese | Short film | Director, producer and writer | | 1997 | Money Talks | Feature film | Director | | 1998 | Rush Hour | Feature film | Director | | 2000 | The Family Man | Feature film | Director | | 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | Feature film | Director | | 2002 | Red Dragon | Feature film | Director | | 2004 | After the Sunset | Feature film | Director | | 2005 | Prison Break (Pilot episode) | TV Series | Director | | 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Feature film | Director | | 2006 | Becker Hargrove, Inc. | Short film | Producer | | 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Feature film | Director | | 2008 | Street Fighter | Feature film | Director | | 2009 | Beverly Hills Cop IV | Feature film | Director | | 2009 | Harbinger | Feature film | Director | | 2009 | Playboy | Feature film | Director | | 2009 | Rush Hour 4 | Feature film | Director | | 2009 | God of War | Feature film | Director (unofficial) | | 2010 | Conan | Feature film | Director | |
Music videos
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