


The film principally features a new cast, starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon as the all-female Ghostbuster team, along with Chris Hemsworth as their male receptionist. A group of eccentric researchers make discoveries within paranormal incidents with their intentions being to detect and capture ghosts, and protect New York City from those spirits. The 2016 film, Ghostbusters, is a relaunch of the franchise which takes place in an alternate universe, featuring a new cast of characters, but follows a similar narrative as the original film. On June 28, 2022, Sony announced that the film will be released on December 20, 2023. Jason Reitman said this film would continue to follow the Spengler family, and was codenamed "Firehouse". The project will serve as a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. In April 2022 at CinemaCon, a fourth film was announced to be in early development. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research felt that Afterlife performed well enough at the box office for Sony to pursue additional films. In December 2021, Dan Aykroyd expressed interest in having the surviving three actors of the original Ghostbusters team, reprise their roles in up to three additional sequels. Additonally, Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, Potts and Weaver appear in supporting roles, reprising their characters from the first two films. The cast includes Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd, and were joined by Logan Kim and Celeste O'Connor, among others. The film was directed by Jason Reitman, son of original director Ivan Reitman, with a script co-written by himself and Gil Kenan, while Ivan Reitman served as a producer. After a single mother and her children move to an Oklahoma farm they inherited from her estranged father, Egon Spengler, who went on a mission to prevent an apocalypse. Taking place thirty-two years after the second, the Ghostbusters have disbanded and their legacy is mostly forgotten. The third film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, was released on November 19, 2021. The sequel earned US$215 million off a US$37 million budget, but received lukewarm reviews compared to the first film. Eventually, they agreed and created a script. Aykroyd, Ramis, and Reitman were uncomfortable with this at first, as the original film was intended to be conclusive and they wished to work on other projects.

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After the success of the first film and the animated series The Real Ghostbusters, Columbia Pictures pressed the producers to make a sequel. Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis, Hudson, Weaver, Potts, and Moranis reprised their roles from the first film, and were joined by Peter MacNicol and Wilhelm von Homburg, among others. Taking place five years after the first, the Ghostbusters have lost their credibility due to the amount of property damage they have caused, but identify a new threat to New York City after discovering a river of ectoplasmic slime that reacts to the great deal of negative emotions within the city. The second film, Ghostbusters II, was released on June 16, 1989.
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The TV Channel Bravo ranked Ghostbusters number 28 on their 100 Funniest Movies list in 2006. IGN voted Ghostbusters the greatest comedy ever in 2005. The American Film Institute ranked it 28th in its list of the top 100 comedies of all time. It had been made on a US$30 million budget, but it grossed approximately US$240 million in the United States and over US$50 million abroad during its theatrical run, more than the domestic gross of the second Indiana Jones installment, making it the most successful film in America that year (after re-releases), and one of the most successful comedies of the 1980s. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson, it was released in the United States on June 8, 1984. After they are fired from Columbia University, they start their own business investigating and capturing ghosts. Ghostbusters, the first film in the series, is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three New York City scientists. 5.2 Additional crew and production details.5.1.4 Return to the original timeline (2018–ongoing).5.1.3 Alternate dimensions and spin-off developments (2014–2018).
