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Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
Years active	1990 - present

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.

Early life

Brett Ratner was born in Miami Beach to Marcia Ratner, a Cuban-born socialite. Ratner's maternal grandparents were Eastern Europe Jews who ended up in Cuba as they couldn't get into the United States, before finally moving to Miami.

Ratner is a 1990 graduate of the New York University.

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.

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

• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) - $5,000,000
• Red Dragon (2002) - $6,000,000
• Rush Hour 2 (2001) - $5,000,000
• The Family Man (2000) - $5,000,000
• Rush Hour 3 (2007) - $9,000,000

Works

Film and television

Music videos

Footnotes

1. Martindale, Stone, "Director Brett Ratner's party for abuelita turns out stars", People, December 10, 2006. Retrieved on April 22, 2007.
2. Beach boy nurtures his roots - Entertainment News, Billion-Dollar Director: Brett Ratner, Media -Variety
3. NYU's Tisch School of the Arts to Celebrate Broadway and the Performing Arts at Benefit Gala. (October 24, 2006) NYU. Accessed 2008-11-11.
4. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_3_the_last_stand/?critic=creamcrop
5. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner/
6. Brett Ratner directing Beverly Hills Cop IV with Eddie Murphy
7. Hall of Shame, Punk'd.
8. Financial aid. New York Film Academy. Accessed 2008-11-11.
9. Axel Foley smells a Rat!
10. Ratner eyes Valiant's 'Harbinger'

References

• Official site
• Brett Ratner at IMDb
• Brett Ratner Producer Profile for The 1 Second Film
• New York Film Academy School of Film and Acting

• American film directors
• American music video directors
• New York University alumni
• People from Miami, Florida
• Cuban-Americans
• Jewish American film directors
• 1969 births
• Living people
• Miami Beach Senior High School alumni