Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night from Jason Reitman debuted at $265k, a great $53k per theater that’s the second-best limited opening of the year, and the best since June when Kinds Of Kindness also opened in 5 theaters (to a $75k PTA). It’s been a long a slightly dower wait for something to pop.

It's not that any movie could be expected to capture the complexity of early Saturday Night Live. But in capturing that first night, Reitman reduces Gilda Radner to a smile, Jane Curtin to a smirk, Laraine Newman (Emily Fairn) to a running gag about quick changes, and Rosie Shuster to a sidekick.

Whether it is busting ghosts or assembling some of the best comedians/actors to play television’s collective of some of the greatest comedians/actors, Jason Reitman has been in charge of both. Canadian-American filmmaker Reitman most recently created a new generation of Ghostbusters films with Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire—acting as direct sequels to the original two films his father,

Film Review, a movie directed by Jason Reitman, written by Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman and starring Gabriel LaBelle

Saturday Night director Jason Reitman discusses his time as a guest writer on SNL and his Ashton Kutcher-starring sketch that made it to air.