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Jason Reitman seems to have a recipe for cinematic success. The young director already has an impressive resume, including the critically acclaimed Juno, which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, along with a nomination for Best Director.

"Up in the Air" by Canadian director Jason Reitman is the National Board of Review's pick for best film of the year.

Jason Reitman embraces contradiction, whether it's in his movies or in his life.

If not for some sage fatherly advice, Ivan Reitman might today be selling submarine sandwiches in Toronto, while his son Jason could be sawing bones in a Beverly Hills hospital.

Ivan Reitman, the famed 64-year-old director and producer, often falls into the category of "Really? He's Canadian?" Hollywood is, of course, chock-full of high-profile northerners often mistaken for American by virtue of the magnitude of their fame, including Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Saturday Night Live creator and film producer Lorne Michaels.

The Pop Five is a series of Pop Candy readers' top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Ryan P. in Bloomington, Ind.: Whenever I find myself in need of some inspiration, I can always count on the magnificent Bill Murray .

Jason Reitman is three for three. In both his debut satire "Thank You For Smoking," and his sophomore smash "Juno," the director and son of Ivan Reitman has proven himself to be a formidable filmmaker in a cinematic world where being original can be one of the hardest things to achieve.

Note to Antoine Walker, the former NBA star who owes three Las Vegas casinos $822,500: When your card has a picture on it and the dealer's has a six, you are not required to ask for another card.

With featured roles in Brian de Palmaa TMs Carrie , John Carpentera TMs Halloween , Allan Arkush's Rock N Roll High School , and Rob Zombiea TMs The Devil's Rejects , P.J. SOLES has appeared in some of the most iconic cult/horror films of all time.

Dressed in vintage "Ghostbusters" and "Animal House" shirts and clutching the classic movie covers, more than 200 Harold Ramis fans packed the Highland Park Library last week for an inside look into the North Shore resident's iconic film career.

Although he received less personal publicity than his box-office powerhouse contemporaries George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Reitman had a comparable impact on filmmaking trends of the late 1970s and 80s.

Elmer Bernstein is one of the most respected names in Hollywood film music making.

Ivan Reitman is joining a team of comedy veterans who will nurture budding filmmakers through the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab.

Artist: Reitman, Jason Most aspiring filmmakers hope to become famous. Jason Reitman just wanted to be anonymous.

Yesterday, while diehard TIFF -goers were well into their second screenings, Torontoist was getting a preview of the future of the festival: the Bell Lightbox .

Food fights. Heart attack-prone horses. Epic toga parties. Although not the typical images one conjures of Wash.

Two ideal Hollywood bios: Actor Warren Oates and director Hal Ashby September 3, 2009 at 3:08 pm by William McKeen James Stewart once said that the reason we love the movies is that "they give us little, tiny pieces of time that we never forget." Too true, Mr.

Filmmaker and Washington University alumnus Harold Ramis will kick off a fall lecture series at the St.

Bill Kauffman has written a nice tribute to Warren Oates, the Kentucky-born actor and self-proclaimed "constitutional anarchist." Kauffman doesn't have anything to say about Oates' least anarchist performance -- a comic turn as the drill sergeant in Stripes -- but he nails the series of restless roles Oates played in the '60s and '70s. "Warren ...

Promising a stupid good time and delivering it, this big-budget comedy from producer-director Ivan Reitman has action that could take Indiana Jones for a ride.