Ghostbusters Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
9th February 2017
Fact: Ghostbusters actress Kate McKinnon is helping to resurrect animated kids show The Magic School Bus by starring in the planned Netflix revamp. The comedienne will voice teacher Fiona Frizzle in The Magic School Bus Rides Again, with her character serving as the sister to the original Ms. Valerie Frizzle, featured in the educational series in the 1990s, reports People.com. The cartoon classic was based on the books of the same name by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen.
15th July 2015
Tweet: "On GB set shooting my scene with funny beautiful Kristen Wiig Lady GB's are adorable, hilarious and bada** exhilarating! #Ghostbusters" Original GHOSTBUSTERS star Dan Aykroyd has revealed he has a small role in the upcoming female version of the movie, starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa MCCarthy, Kate MCKinnon, and Leslie Jones.
20th October 2014
Quote: "I have to say, since I've heard that rumour I think every lady in town who fancies herself a jokester wants in." Actress Lena Dunham insists all her peers want roles in the new Ghostbusters movie after director Paul Feig announced the film would feature a mostly all-female cast.
16th October 2014
Fact: Actor Bill Murray made an hilarious exit from The Late Show With David Letterman on Wednesday (15Oct14), when he left in the middle of his segment to train for the TCS New York City Marathon, which takes place on 2 November (14). The Ghostbusters star ran around a New York City block in a tuxedo and eventually returned to the studio in a pedicab.
21st July 2014
Quote: "Looks like we'll be in pre-production in the spring, from what I'm hearing. It should be good." Actor Dan Aykroyd is looking forward to kickstarting work on the long-awaited Ghostbusters 3.
6th June 2014
Fact: Restored and remastered versions of Ghostbusters and Forrest Gump are to be re-released in North American movie theatres later this year (14) to mark the 30th and 20th anniversaries of the films. Ghostbusters was released this weekend (06-08Jun) in 1984.
24th March 2014
Fact: The classic Ghostbusters theme is to be re-released on 10-inch glow-in-the-dark vinyl on Record Store Day in the U.S. One thousand copies of Ray Parker, Jr.'s hit will be released for the 19 April (14) event to mark the film's 30th anniversary. The release comes just weeks after Parker, Jr. unveiled his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
7th March 2014
Quote: "I'm just a small kid from Detroit and to actually be here today, amongst all these stars, is just really, really too unreal... At two in the morning, if you see some vagrant-looking guy standing out here, please do not arrest me. I will be here quite often." Ghostbusters singer Ray Parker, Jr. on his new Hollywood Walk of Fame honour. He unveiled the 2,518th star on the Walk of Fame on Thursday (06Mar14).
25th February 2014
Fact: The building that served as the Ghostbusters' headquarters has become a shrine to late writer/director and actor Harold Ramis following his death on Monday (24Feb14). Fans of the funnyman has started leaving candles, flowers and notes dedicated to Ramis at the Hook & Ladder 8 in New York.
16th April 2012
Quote: "It's a possibility." Funnyman Bill Murray hasn't completely written off a return to the Ghostbusters franchise in a proposed third movie.
29th April 2011
Fact: Porn king Ron Jeremy has recreated the opening scene in movie classic Ghostbusters for a new X-rated parody. Jeremy plays a librarian filing books, who comes across spectral activity in a dusty basement, in Hustler's upcoming Dvd release This Ain't Ghostbusters Xxx.
2nd December 2010
Fact: Ghostbusters has become the latest classic movie to be turned into a porn film by bosses at Hustler Video. THIS AIN'T GHOSTBUSTERS XXX will hit stores and the internet this Christmas (10).
19th October 2010
Quote: "Yes, I got a call from Ivan Reitman... I just said, 'That would be fun and please make sure my little son Oscar grows up to be a Ghostbuster'. And he said, 'Absolutely'. Then I think he directed this other film and is busy editing it, so it kind of got put on hold. But I would be surprised if we didn't do it." Sigourney Weaver confirms she's back on board the planned Ghostbusters sequel and hopes her character's onscreen son joins her in the new picture.
10th August 2010
Quote: "It seems like he meets people and decides he doesn't like them, and I do not want to be one of the people he doesn't like, so I'd feel more comfortable never meeting him." Michael Cera has no intention of ever meeting his Ghostbusters idol Bill Murray.
21st May 2010
Fact: Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd is celebrating a milestone in his alcohol venture - U.S. sales of his Crystal Head Vodka, a drink he launched in 2008 with artist John Alexander, have reached one million.
30th November 2009
Quote: "I really don't see the point in reprising my role. I don't think you can go back. But why not have a new generation of Ghostbusters? They are going to make a Ghostbusters movie with young Ghostbusters and I wanted to make sure that Oscar, Dana's son, will be one of them. It's a great movie. I'm very proud of it and hope that it does really well - which I'm sure it will." Sigourney Weaver won't be returning as Dana Barrett in the new GHOSTBUSTERS movie, but she did have a say in the plotline.
1st June 2009
Quote: "We’ve all got hip replacements, shoulder stitches, Harold’s (Ramis) eyesight is failing, I can’t drive anymore." Dan Aykroyd on why he and his Ghostbusters co-stars are keen to pass the film franchise onto a new generation of spectre chasers.
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