Brett Ratner

At 55 years old, Brett Ratner has this physical status:

Career

In the 1990s, Ratner began directing music videos. When he was a sophomore at New York University Tisch Schools of the Arts, he was both the director and executive producer for B.M.O.C. Big Man On Campus, one of the first white rap groups. When he was a student at NYU, he made his first short film titled What Happened to Mason Reese? Public Enemy, a hip-hop group, attended the premiere and begged Ratner to make the group's music videos. Ratner made his debut videos for Prime Minister Pete Nice before joining Redman, LL Cool J, Heavy D, and Wu-Tang Clan. He has also produced music videos for musicians such as Mariah Carey Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z, and Jay-Z, and he was supposed to produce a video for Michael Jackson before its production was cancelled. Among others, Carey's "We Belong Together," "I Still Believe," "Obsessed," and "Heartbreaker" were among others.

Ratner made his motion picture debut in 1997 when he directed Money Talks. Ratner's first film, an action-comedy about a con-man accused of orchestrating a prison escape, was the film, which was also a first collaboration with comedian Chris Tucker. The film's budget was $25 million.

In 1998, he directed Rush Hour, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's comediest film that was released in September 1998 and became the studio's highest grossing comedy and the highest grossing comedy at the time. Ratner inspires the production by listening on the set, and a Michael Jackson song he admired when filming Rush Hour took place in the film after Chris Tucker began dancing in the middle of a scene.

In 2000, Ratner directed The Family Man, a drama starring Nicolas Cage.

Ratner directed Rush Hour 2 in 2001. Hannibal Lecter produced the prequel to Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, in 2002.

After the Sunset, starring Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek, was produced by Ratner in 2004. With an FBI agent on the chase, a master thief pulls off one last big score.

Ratner produced X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, followed by Rush Hour 3, which was released in 2007.

On top of Encore Las Vegas in 2008, Ratner produced a television commercial starring Steve Wynn.

Ratner also produced the ensemble comedy caper Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, in the same year. The film was based on Eddie Murphy's concept 'Trump Heist' and was about disgruntled workers of Donald Trump's attempt to rob Trump Tower, but references to Trump were later deleted from the film.

Ratner announced in early 2021 that he would produce a long-gestated Milli Vanilli biopic, his first project since 2014's Hercules, and that he would produce Millennium Media. Millennium Media said in February 2021 that it would not be going forward with Ratner's scheme.

Ratner, the executive producer of the television series Prison Break, which aired from 2005 to 2009.

Ratner made the TV documentary American Masters – A Documentary, which was released in 2011. He also produced Horrible Bosses, a comedy about workers plotting to murder their bosses. Horrible Bosses opened in the domestic box office with $28.1 million in its first weekend.

Based on Melisa Wallack's screenplay The Brothers Grimm: Snow White by Ratner, Ratner created a remake of Snow White, Mirror Mirror (2012).

He made Horrible Bosses 2, the sequel to his 2011 film in 2014. Ratner produced the Rush Hour television series based on the Rush Hour film series.

Ratner produced Black Mass, a biopic about gangster James "Whitey" Bulger starring Johnny Depp. Ratner, a year ago, appeared on The Revenant as the executive producer, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

He was an executive producer on War Dogs, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.

Ratner and Australian media mogul James Packer formed RatPac Entertainment in December 2012. With a major studio, the company would produce independent films and co-produce big-budget films. Len Blavatnik's First Access Entertainment acquired Packer's interest in the business later. The corporation makes 25 films each year. The corporation co-financed over 50 films that received 51 Oscar nominations and a total of over $10 billion in box office by 2017.

RatPac and Dune Entertainment formed a film production company in September 2013 that became a multi-year, 75-film co-production team with Warner Bros. The company has also collaborated with New Regency, a Chinese company CMC Capital Partners, and Shanghai Media Group. Ratner collaborated with CMC to develop a fund aimed at Chinese media companies.

Ratner made $40 million after the introduction of Gravity, which was RatPac's first investment.

Ratner's RatPac Entertainment and Class 5 Films acquired the rights to the non-fiction article "American Hippopotamus," written by Jon Mooallem, about the meat shortage in the United States in 1910 to import hippopotamuses. Ratner produced the film in collaboration with Edward Norton and William Migliore.

Access Entertainment, a Access Industries affiliate, acquired James Packer's ownership interest in RatPac on April 18, 2017. Warner Bros. reported that they were ending links with the firm following Brett Ratner's sexual harassment charges with Rampage as the company's last film to be co-financed by the firm and Warner Bros. RatPac-Dune's minority interest in a library of 76 Warner Bros. films was up for auction in November 2018, with investors in the fund supporting the library to cash out. In January 2019, Vine Alternative Investments made a strong bid for the library, but Warner Bros. decided to match the bid for the library and effectively bought RatPac-Dune's interest. The bill was estimated at nearly $300 million.

Ratner appeared on MTV's Punk'd as Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine in the X-Men films, was the object of a practical joke that made it appear Ratner's $3.6 million home in Beverly Hills was destroyed by a BBQ grill fire. Ashton Kutcher arrived at his house and hugged him.

On the Lot, Fox announced that he, Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall, and Jon Avnet would be the judges.

In an episode of the television series Entourage, he appeared as himself in an episode of the television show Entourage, which was shot at his Beverly Hills home.

Ratner produced The Shooter Series in 2009, which collected his own work, including interviews with Ratner and a short film about Mickey Rourke's demise from boxing.

Ratner founded Rat Press, a publishing firm, in 2009. The company reissued a Playboy interview with Marlon Brando and Robert Evans, as well as an account of NFL player Jim Brown, and finally published a book of Scott Caan's photographs.

Ratner introduced Rat TV in 2011 with 20th Century Fox Television. Chris Conti, a former NBC development executive, was named president of the venture.

At the Key West Film Festival in 2015, Ratner received the Brett Ratner Florida Student Filmmaker Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship was given to The Cook, The Knife, and The Rabbit's Finger, which was directed by Agustina Bonventura and Nicolas Casanas.

Ratner created The Hilhaven Lodge, a blended whiskey named for his Beverly Hills estate by Diageo. The bottle is designed to look like bay windows and is modeled after the estate and features a wood cork. The drink is a blend of 26-year-old rye, 15-year-old Tennessee whiskey, and six-year-old bourbon.

Ratner gave a keynote address as part of the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017, where he referred to television as the future of film. Ratner appeared in the eighth annual Cannes Film Finance Forum.

At the Sun Valley Film Festival in March 2017, Ratner spoke out against film critic aggregation firm Rotten Tomatoes, calling it a distutive force in the film business. He expressed admiration for traditional film critics, and said that the site minimizes film criticism to a certain degree.

Ratner has served on the board of Tolerance, Chrysalis, Ghetto Film School, Best Buddies, and the Los Angeles Police Foundation. He served on the dean's council of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has also served on the board of directors of Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television. In 2013, he donated $1 million to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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