According to Celebrity Net Worth, Murray earned around earned approximately $125 million from the first two Ghostbusters movies plus a $15 million payment for his appearance in Ghostbusters Afterlife - more than double the fee he received for Scrooged.
He has been paid a whopping $10 million. Apart from them, Bill Murray and other actors will also appear in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, but their salaries have not yet been revealed. The film will be released in the US on March 22.
Original Ghostbuster, Ernie Hudson, Only Earned $370 Out Of His First $10,000 Hollywood Paycheck. 40 years after the original, Hudson is back in 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Bill Murray was easy to get into contact with through Ivan Reitman and Gil Kenan, both who have directed him in past projects. Murray read the script, enjoyed it, and agreed to join the cast.
Bill Murray | How the main ghostbuster lives and where he spends his millions
How much did Bill Murray make from Ghostbusters?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Murray earned around earned approximately $125 million from the first two Ghostbusters movies plus a $15 million payment for his appearance in Ghostbusters Afterlife - more than double the fee he received for Scrooged.
During a 2015 interview he confessed that the idea of doing a short cameo in a Ghostbusters project didn't “appeal” to him. “I hope it's terrific. But it just makes no sense to me,” Moranis said of the 2016 Ghostbusters. “Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago?”
The role was offered to Michael Keaton, Chevy Chase, and Steve Guttenberg but they all turned it down, with Chase later sharing that the script he read wasn't the one used in the film, and was dark and scary. Other actors considered for the role were Tom Hanks and Robin Williams.
Whether or not this is true is up for debate, but after Groundhog Day premiered, the two friends didn't speak to one another for more than two decades. “At times, Bill was just irrationally mean and unavailable; he was constantly late to set,” said Ramis, who passed away in 2014, in an interview with the New Yorker.
"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 actor and SNL alum said during a 2008 interview with Gizmodo. "The sequel, it was a few years later [and] there was an idea pitched.
The Ecto-1 prop car used in the original Ghostbusters is owned by Sony Pictures. However, many similar Cadillac ambulances and hearses from that time have been converted into replicas with varying degrees of perfection.
Unsurprisingly, the original 1984 film helmed by Ivan Reitman has remained the franchise's highest-grossing installment, amassing $296 million globally through its initial theatrical run and subsequent re-releases spanning four decades.
In the intervening years, they've rocketed. For a genuine movie car, with a certified history, Hagerty now estimates the value to be in excess of $500,000 (£371,821).
It grossed $204 million worldwide against a production budget of $75 million. A sequel titled Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was released on March 22, 2024.
Dan Aykroyd, who co-wrote and co-starred in “Ghostbusters” with Ramis, was at North Shore Congregation Israel with wife Donna Dixon, as were Chevy Chase, star of Ramis' “Caddyshack” and “National Lampoon's Vacation,” with his wife, Jayni; “SCTV” co-stars Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas; Second City co-owner/CEO Andrew ...
The film was called Ghostbusters. Aykroyd met with director Ivan Reitman at Art's Deli in Studio City, in Los Angeles, and originally pitched the film as a two-hander for himself and Belushi. After that meeting they recruited Ramis, who came on as co-writer as well, and their co-star Bill Murray.
He later explained, "I'm a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage to raise my kids and to do the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it."
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the eldest daughter of the late Harold Ramis — Violet Ramis Stiel — talked about how Reitman brought Egon Spengler back for one last Ghostbusters adventure. Depicted as an eccentric recluse, Spengler is killed off by Gozer at the beginning of the story.
Ghostbusters has been such a huge part of our popular-culture for the last 30 years that it's easy to overlook what it represented at the time. In June 1984, when the film opened in theaters, Bill Murray was only 33 years old. Dan Aykroyd was just 31 and director Ivan Reitman was 37.
His wife (Ann Belsky) died of cancer in 1991, leaving behind two children. Shortly thereafter (1994 was the last year in which he had multiple movie roles), Moranis took a break from acting to focus on parenting his kids and just never came back to it in any meaningful way.
The filmmaker explained that Candy was merely “looking for a handle” on the character, but after a “very uncomfortable conversation” where they both stated their respective cases, “it was clear that he was not going to do it”. Before the day had even ended, though, a replacement had been secured.
Director Gil Kenan explained that there simply wasn't room or a narrative purpose to include Louis Tully and Dana Barrett this time around. Kenan hinted at potential sequels to continue the Ghostbusters saga, focusing on the character of Phoebe Spengler in future films.
