---
name: "Joe Medjuck"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-medjuck"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "17 February 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-09-20T09:44:46.972777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joe Medjuck

Producer. Born 17 February 1943 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 17 February 1943, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- **Active:** 1984–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Daniel Goldberg](https://film.one/person/daniel-goldberg.md), [Scot Armstrong](https://film.one/person/scot-armstrong.md), [Todd Phillips](https://film.one/person/todd-phillips.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as producer, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 70 (2), 2000s 66 (3), 2010s 64 (1), 2020s 55 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 65 to 63 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 6, Fantasy 4, Adventure 2, Action 1, Drama 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,319m across 7 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medjuck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691527, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575817/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57601

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Road Trip*](https://film.one/film/road-trip.md) (64)

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## Biography

Joe Medjuck is a Canadian film producer. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he earned a BA in Honours English from McGill University and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, where he taught for twelve years and founded the Cinema Studies Program at Innis College. He also worked as a journalist for film publications and broadcasters before moving to Los Angeles in 1980 to collaborate with Ivan Reitman.

Medjuck has frequently worked with Reitman and was a co-founder of The Montecito Picture Company in 1998. His producing credits include *Ghostbusters* (1984), *Twins* (1988), *Space Jam* (1996), *Road Trip* (2000), *Old School* (2003), *Disturbia* (2007), *Up in the Air* (2009), *No Strings Attached* (2011) and *Ghostbusters: Afterlife* (2021). He is one of the founders of The Criterion Collection and has taught film studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Ghostbusters: Afterlife* (2021), Fi1m 55, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-afterlife.md)
- *Ghostbusters* (2016), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-2016.md)
- *Up in the Air* (2009), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/up-in-the-air.md)
- *Old School* (2003), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/old-school.md)
- *Road Trip* (2000), Fi1m 64, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/road-trip.md)
- *Ghostbusters II* (1989), Fi1m 60, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-ii.md)
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Fi1m 80, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ghostbusters: Afterlife* (2021), Executive Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-afterlife.md)
- *Baywatch* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Ghostbusters* (2016), Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-2016.md)
- *Draft Day* (2014), Producer
- *Hitchcock* (2012), Producer
- *No Strings Attached* (2011), Producer
- *Chloe* (2010), Producer
- *Up in the Air* (2009), Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/up-in-the-air.md)
- *Post Grad* (2009), Producer
- *Disturbia* (2007), Producer
- *Trailer Park Boys: The Movie* (2006), Executive Producer
- *EuroTrip* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Old School* (2003), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/old-school.md)
- *Killing Me Softly* (2002), Producer
- *Evolution* (2001), Producer
- *Road Trip* (2000), Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/road-trip.md)
- *Six Days Seven Nights* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Fathers' Day* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Private Parts* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Space Jam* (1996), Producer
- *The Late Shift* (1996), Co-Executive Producer
- *Junior* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), Producer
- *Dave* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Beethoven* (1992), Producer
- *Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot* (1992), Producer
- *Kindergarten Cop* (1990), Executive Producer
- *Ghostbusters II* (1989), Executive Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-ii.md)
- *Twins* (1988), as Photographer · Executive Producer
- *Big Shots* (1987), Producer
- *Legal Eagles* (1986), Executive Producer
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), as Man at Library (uncredited) · Associate Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)
- *Stripes* (1981), Associate Producer

## Gallery

- ![Joe Medjuck](https://film.one/media/person/351534/gallery-682dd7389f6a.jpg) Joe Medjuck — Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Joe_Medjuck.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joe Medjuck (Producer, UP, Dan Goldberg at a Canadian Film Centre & Variety-hosted reception for the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab. To learn more abou (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/351534/gallery-802d2675cd76.jpg) Joe Medjuck (Producer, UP, Dan Goldberg at a Canadian Film Centre & Variety-hosted reception for the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab. To learn more abou (2012) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/CFC_In_LA_2012_18_%286816268270%29.jpg/1280px-CFC_In_LA_2012_18_%286816268270%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Patrick Cassavetti, Joe Medjuck. Photo: Jesse Grant. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/351534/gallery-016b4602b0fd.jpg) Patrick Cassavetti, Joe Medjuck. Photo: Jesse Grant. (2018) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/CFC_in_L.A._2018_%2840065305995%29.jpg/1280px-CFC_in_L.A._2018_%2840065305995%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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