"No, Ghostbusters II, definitely canon," Reitman said. "There are references to Ghostbusters II in Afterlife. We meet Ray working at Ray's Occult. The toaster from Ghostbusters II is in the kitchen in the farmhouse.
In the movie, it's revealed that Coon's character was alive in the late '80s, which has folks wondering where her character was during Ghostbusters II, which was made in 1989. Recently, Uproxx had a chat with director Jason Reitman who confirmed the retcon.
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” the latest big-screen installment in the comedy sci-fi property, collected $44 million in its domestic box office debut, a solid start in unpredictable pandemic times.
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Was Ghostbusters 2 a flop?
Instead, the film earned $215.4 million during its theatrical run compared with the original's $282.2 million, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year. Columbia Pictures deemed it a financial and critical failure, effectively dissuading Murray from participating in a third Ghostbusters film.
Plans for a third Ghostbusters film began during filming of the second one, but Harold Ramis was unsure about it because of the main cast's ages and how difficult it was to get them all together. In addition to that, Bill Murray wasn't interested in coming back for another film.
The film grossed $229.1 million worldwide against a $144 million production budget, making it a box-office bomb with losses of over $70 million following theaters taking their revenue cut. Sony abandoned plans for a sequel, opting instead to continue the original film canon with Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021).
On November 8, 2023, Sony released the first teaser trailer, which officially revealed the title as Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, as well as revealing the synopsis for the film.
Who is the little girl in Ghostbusters: Afterlife?
Mckenna Grace is an American actress and singer from Grapevine, Texas who is known for playing Phoebe Spengler from Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jasmine from Crash & Bernstein, Faith Newman from The Young and the Restless and Mary Adler from Gifted.
Cameo. Brian Doyle-Murray: The psychiatrist at the mental hospital is played by Bill Murray's brother. Bobby Brown: The doorman at Gracie Mansion when the Ghostbusters meet with the Mayor.
In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Phoebe is the main character. She is a precocious 12 year old girl. From the first moment you meet Phoebe, you can tell that she is intrinsically driven to explore and experiment.
Ghostbusters 4: What's the Release Date? Sony Pictures will release GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE in movie theatres on March 29, 2024. That means the new movie comes out just a couple months before the 40th anniversary of the original movie's release. (GHOSTBUSTERS came out on June 8, 1984.)
Titanic from Ivan Reitman's supernatural comedy sequel Ghostbusters II. The Titanic and its ghostly passengers appeared at the New York docks after the evil slime under the streets of the city began to cause widespread chaos.
Why did Bill Murray not want to do Ghostbusters 3?
While Murray didn't go into much detail about what had changed since the initial pitch session, he did describe the end product as "a whole different movie" with only "a few great scenes in it." A third entry centered around the OG team of professional spirit exterminators never materialized, "because the second one ...
However, with the arrival of Communism in China, secularism was enforced and any depiction of ghosts or spirits was expressly forbidden. It's been that way for many, many years and even with the adoption of Western culture and policies in China, banning films with ghosts still happens.
In 1989, Trump appeared in the music video for Bobby Brown's single "On Our Own", which was featured in the movie Ghostbusters II. In 1991, Trump originally made an appearance in the music video for Precious Metal's cover of Janet Robin's song, "Mr. Big Stuff".
Lawsuit. Shortly after the film's release, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, alleging that Parker had copied the melody (primarily the bassline) from Lewis's 1983 song "I Want a New Drug".
The 2016 all-female reboot of Ghostbusters managed to become one of the most controversial films of that year, with some online fans waging a sexism-fueled war against the Melissa McCarthy comedy. That film was also widely reported to be a flop, as promotion costs stopped it from breaking even.
There were reports that it got so bad during filming that Ramis slammed Murray up against a wall at one point. “They were like two brothers who weren't getting along,” Rubin told The New Yorker.
Speaking about the legacy of the movie in a 2008 interview, Murray reflected: “When we did the sequel, it was rather unsatisfying for me because the first one to me was the goods. It was the real thing. The sequel, it was a few years later [and] there was an idea pitched.
Egon gets some time to shine when we see him at his lab, Ray gets some of the more absurd lines, and Winston finally gets to show his personality. The bigger set pieces are also funnier, giving the movies' ensemble more time to play off each other. The courtroom scene alone nearly makes the entire film.
