Plot Summary:
Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. When ghosts invade Manhattan, Gilbert reunites with Yates, teaming up with a nuclear engineer, Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), and a subway worker, Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), to save the world from a mysterious evil and powerful demon known as Rowan (Neil Casey) who can exercise control over human forms.
Cast:
Melissa McCarthy as Abby Yates
Kristen Wiig as Erin Gilbert
Kate McKinnon as Jillian Holtzmann
Leslie Jones as Patty Tolan
Chris Hemsworth as Kevin Beckman
Andy García as the Mayor of New York City
Charles Dance
Michael Kenneth Williams as Hawkins
Cecily Strong
Neil Casey as Rowan
Elizabeth Perkins as a scientist
Michael McDonald
Matt Walsh as Rourke
Nate Corddry as Leif
Pat Kiernan as a news anchor
Cameos:
Bill Murray
Dan Aykroyd as a cab driver
Sigourney Weaver
Ernie Hudson
Annie Potts as a hotel clerk
Ozzy Osbourne as himself
Production:
Before the remake, various scripts and ideas for a third movie in the Ghostbusters series had long been planned. These ideas included one in which Bill Murray's character was transformed into a ghost, and another in which the Ghostbusters went to hell. Bill Murray's reticence to commit to the project resulted in the decision to reboot the franchise instead. The project was officially announced in 2014 with Paul Feig announced as the director. Feig has stated that he was partly inspired by the TV series The Walking Dead. Feig tweeted a picture announcing the main cast of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones in January 2015, although it initially was unclear if the cast had been officially decided at that point. Emma Stone was approached but declined partly because "a franchise (was) a big commitment." Cecily Strong at one point was also considered for a leading role.
Filming:
Principal photography on the film began on June 17, 2015, in Boston. On June 29, 2015, Feig tweeted the costumes of the four Ghostbusters. Filming also took place in Chinatown, Boston, for a few days in early July 2015. On August 1, 2015, during filming, the lead cast of the film visited the patients at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston. On August 17, 2015, Hemsworth was spotted filming some scenes on the Ghostbusters bike. After finishing filming at the old Naval Air Station in South Weymouth, it began in Tribeca in New York City on September 12. On September 15, filming was taking place in Waltham. Filming also took place outside of Columbia University in New York. Filming wrapped on September 19, 2015, in New York City.
Release:
Ghostbusters will be released in the United States on July 15, 2016.
Trailer:
The first official trailer was released on March 3, 2016. It was viewed 24 million times in 24 hours from Facebook and YouTube views and over 60 million times across all social media platforms in its first week. Jay Jayson of comicbook.com, reported that reaction to the trailer was "mixed, but leaning toward the negative", owing to the jokes, which Jayson opined were only mildly funny. Commenting on the YouTube trailer's viewer response ratio of "12,000 thumbs up and 13,800 thumbs down" on the morning of release, David Griner of Ad Week regarded it as "one of the most polarizing in recent memory". By May 2016, the trailer was the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube, with 221,400 likes and 649,900 dislikes, with ScreenCrush suggesting that this was part of a concerted campaign to "downvote it into oblivion". Several fan-made recuts and re-edits of the trailer were released.
The trailer was accused of racial bias by fans on Twitter, and critics, including Janessa E. Robinson of The Guardian, Nico Lang of Salon and Akilah Hughes of Fusion, who complained that the three white Ghostbusters were scientists and academics while the black Ghostbuster was a streetwise, seemingly inept transit worker. Hughes described the black character as a "minstrel show". Robinson also criticized the film for apparently ignoring "Latina, Asian and Indigenous women". Actress Leslie Jones responded to criticism on Twitter by saying that her character is "a hardworking woman" that represents "the people", and asked "Why can't a regular person be a ghostbuster?"
Promotion:
The original cast including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts joined the new cast on the June 8, 2016, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live which was entirely dedicated to the new movie. Ray Parker Jr. made an appearance at the end of the show to perform the Ghostbusters theme song.
Box Office:
A month before its release, Ghostbusters was tracking to open around $45–50 million in its opening weekend in United States and Canada. Some tracking services compared this to opening figures of Men in Black III ($69.3 million) and The Amazing Spider-Man ($62 million), along with Spy ($29 million) and Bridesmaids ($26.2 million).
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