BRETT RATNER

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. (via Wikipedia)

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Have You Seen These New Brett Ratner Movies?

via iwatchstuff.com ( 11 Days ago )
There are so many good ones coming out. Well done, Photoshopper. It's clear that more detail and craft are put into each of these than any of Brett Ratner's actual films (except possibly Money Talks). (Thanks for tipstering, Matt.)

Brett Ratner Offers Heated Response To 'X-Men: The Last Stand' Detractors

via mtv.com ( 38 Days ago )
Comic book fans that have a bone to pick with "X-Men: The Last Stand" director Brett Ratner might be in for a bit of a shock—the filmmaker has a bone to pick with them, too. According to Digital Spy, Ratner took a last stand of his own against the various "comic book geeks" that have spoken out against his past work on the "X-Men" franchise. The director has an issue with the idea [...]

Director Bryan Singer May Return to X-Men Films

via wired.com ( 41 Days ago )
The man who put X-Men on the movie map wants to make a few more mutant films. Bryan Singer directed X-Men and X2: X-Men United before passing the baton to Brett Ratner for X-Men: The Last Stand in order to make the less-than-super Superman Returns. Now Singer is talking to 20th Century Fox about returning to the X-Men franchise, he said during a panel at South Korea’s Pusan [...]

Bryan Singer Returning to X-Men Universe?

via cinematical.com ( 42 Days ago )
While X-Men: The Last Stand definitely has its fans, the primary consensus was that folks would've preferred X-Men and X2 director Bryan Singer behind the camera to complete the trilogy he started, which began with a very impressive origins film and continued with what some claim to be one of the greatest comic book films ever made. Unfortunately at the time, Singer gave up [...]

Polanski arrest big break for Brett Ratner

via nypost.com ( 54 Days ago )
THE timing of Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland on Sunday on a 31-year-old rape conviction couldn't have been better for Brett Ratner. Hours before Polanski was busted in Zurich, Ratner taped an interview for BlogTalkRadio's "Movie Geeks Unit...

Diablo Cody Might Write Ratner's Long Awaited Playboy Movie

via firstshowing.net ( 56 Days ago )
It's been a few years since a biopic about Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner was announced with Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Red Dragon) attached to direct. Last year there was even a rumor that Robert Downey Jr. was in very serious negotiations to take on the role of the father of the Playboy bunny. However, other than quick fleeting mentions of speculation it doesn't seem like [...]

DVD: Review:The Shooter Series Volume One: Director Brett Ratner

via avclub.com ( 68 Days ago )
What is it that makes a Brett Ratner film a Brett Ratner film? Unlike with other directors who've earned dicey critical reputations—Michael Bay, say, or Uwe Boll—the worst that can be said of Ratner is that he makes crassly populist movies, and that in interviews, he can be a bit of a blowhard. But while his work lacks subtlety, it’s hardly devoid of artistry. Ratner’s movies [...]

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FRI FREE FOR ALL: LIFETIME RATNER AWARD

via uproxx.com ( 72 Days ago )
You know those embarrassingly hyperbolic and self-important montages they do at the Oscars before they present an award? The ones designed to convince you that the recipient is the most important thing to happen to the universe since the big bang? Ever wondered how those could possibly get any worse? Answer: make the recipient BRETT RATNER and devote FIVE AND HALF MINUTES [...]

Ratner Enters Arcana

via ign.com ( 88 Days ago )
Kevin Tancharoen, the director behind MGM's upcoming Fame remake, will next helm a sci-fi action film called Arcana. X-Men 3's Brett Ratner will produce the picture for Universal.

Kevin Tancharoen Going from Musicals to Sci-Fi With Arcana

via firstshowing.net ( 88 Days ago )
A very interesting change of pace today for Kevin Tancharoen, the choreographer-turned-director who reboot and remade the dance movie Fame (out later this year), as he's now attached to direct a sci-fi action movie at Universal. Variety reports that Tancharoen will direct a project called Arcana that Brett Ratner will produce. The script was written by John Ridley, who wrote George [...]