Aaron Seltzer
- January 5, 2024
- Director
Quick Facts
Aaron Seltzer Biography
| Name | Aaron Seltzer |
| Birthday | Jan 12 |
| Birth Year | 1974 |
| Place Of Birth | Canada |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Aaron Seltzer is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on January 12, 1974 in Canada, Canada. Writer and director of parody films like Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Meet the Spartans with co-writer and director Jason Friedberg.
His first big hit as a screenwriter was 2000’s Scary Movie starring Marlon Wayans.
Friedberg and Seltzer then spent some years as screenwriters for hire, with Seltzer estimating the duo sold “upward of 40 scripts”. The only finished project was an uncredited rewrite to the Jean-Claude Van Damme film Maximum Risk (1996), while an unproduced Liberace biopic (unrelated to Behind The Candelabra) introduced them to future collaborator and producer Peter Safran. In 1998, Safran managed to sell to Dimension Pictures a horror film spoof spec script of Friedberg and Seltzer’s named Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans, with Buddy Johnson and Phil Beauman, developed a similar project and, thanks to a WGA decision, all six writers were credited on what became Scary Movie, despite Friedberg and Seltzer not actually working on the final script. The film was a sleeper hit in 2000, and brought much attention to Friedberg and Seltzer.
While writing screenplays at night, both spent the day attending jobs to pay their tuition, selling homemade T-shirts, starting their own food delivery service, and opening shoe shops in Los Angeles. When Rick Friedberg made the comic instruction video Bad Golf Made Easier with Leslie Nielsen, he showed his son’s script for a spy film spoof to him. Nielsen approved, and this led into 1996’s Spy Hard.
His uncle’s legal firm did work for a Fox executive.
Aaron Seltzer Net Worth
| Net Worth | $20 Million |
| Source Of Income | Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Aaron Seltzer is one of the richest Director from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Aaron Seltzer 's net worth $20 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He rose to prominence in 2000 after penning the script for the hit spoof comedy Scary Movie.
His films have proven financially successful in spite of extremely negative reviews, with Date Movie grossing over $84 million.
Jason Friedberg (born October 13, 1971) and Aaron Seltzer (born January 12, 1974) are an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter team known for making parody movies that have received extremely unfavorable reviews, but have generally done well at the box office. They have written/directed films such as Spy Hard, Date Movie, Disaster Movie and Vampires Suck.
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Interviews with the duo are rare, but in an exclusive 2014 interview with the publication Grantland, their background was discussed: Seltzer is part of a Canadian shoe salesmen family from Mississauga, Ontario, and Friedberg, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, was raised in Paterson, New Jersey and is the son of director Rick Friedberg. Seltzer and Friedberg met at the University of California, Santa Barbara and bonded over their love of film, especially comedy. Both are Jewish. They did not attend film school, with Seltzer majoring in art history and Friedberg in history, but decided to try a career in the film industry after attending a class about Martin Scorsese in their last semester.
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Aaron Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Aaron Seltzer celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.
Critic Josh Levin of Slate Stated That: “Isn’t it massive consumer fraud to charge $10.50 for a barely hour-long movie? Perhaps, but it would’ve been unforgivable to make Meet the Spartans any longer than an hour. This was the worst movie I’ve ever seen, so bad that I hesitate to label it a “movie” and thus reflect shame upon the entire medium of film. Friedberg and Seltzer do not practice the same craft as P.T. Anderson, David Cronenberg, Michael Bay, Kevin Costner, The Zucker brothers, the Wayans Brothers, Uwe Boll, any dad who takes shaky home movies on a camping trip, or a bear who turns on a video camera by accident while trying to eat it. They are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization’s decline under the weight of too many pop culture references”. Josh Rosenblatt of The Austin Chronicle said that “There’s no nice way to say this, so I’ll just say it: Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge. They’re a plague on our cinematic landscape, a national shame, a danger to our culture, a typhoon- sized natural disaster disguised as a filmmaking team, a Hollywood monster wreaking havoc on the minds of America’s youth and setting civilization back thousands of years.” Austin critic and animator Korey Coleman, of Spill.com and Double Toasted, has claimed that he is “bothered” by the duo’s films, as he believes they are dumbing down the film industry and popular culture in general, And Saying: “Yes, we all know that a lot of movies put aside the more artistic aspects of film making to solely make a profit; we’re not naive. But, the films that these two directors make are so blatant at being nothing more than a juvenile finger pointing at an image or mention of a popular trend that, to me, they seem exploitive of a young culture raised to have an ever- decreasing attention span, thanks to the internet and channel surfing and, this may sound a little crazy, but, I think it shows a slight de-evolution in what people will accept as entertainment”.