Gil Kenan

Gil Kenan (born October 16, 1976) is a British-born American film director and screenwriter. Kenan made his feature directorial debut with the animated horror comedy film Monster House (2006) to critical and commercial success, in which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and then directed the adventure film City of Ember (2008), the horror film Poltergeist (2015), a remake of the 1982 film, and the Christmas fantasy film A Boy Called Christmas (2021). He also co-wrote the supernatural comedy film Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), the sequel to the first two films in the Ghostbusters series, and then directing and co-writing the upcoming sequel to Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).