Taglines: Who you gonna call.
Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return, rebooted with a cast of hilarious new characters. Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. This summer, they’re here to save the world!
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.
Ghostbusters (also known as Ghostbusters: Answer the Call and marketed as such on home release) is a 2016 supernatural comedy film directed by Paul Feig and written by Feig and Katie Dippold. The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Neil Casey, Andy García, Cecily Strong, and Chris Hemsworth. It is the third feature film in the Ghostbusters franchise, and serves as a reboot of the series. The story focuses on four women who begin a ghost-catching business in New York City.
Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on July 9, 2016, and was released in the United States on July 15, 2016, in 2D, 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D, and received mixed to average reviews from critics. The film grossed $229 million worldwide against a production budget of $144 million and became the highest-grossing live-action comedy domestically of 2016; however, due to the high production and marketing budget, it is considered a box office bomb.
Ghostbusters 2016
Oirected by: Paul Feig
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Chris Hemsworth, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Karan Soni, Sigourney Weaver, Elizabeth Perkins, Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Cecily Strong
Screenplay by: Dan Aykroyd, Katie Dippold
Production Design by: Jefferson Sage
Cinematography by: Robert D. Yeoman
Film Editing by: Melissa Bretherton, Brent White
Costume Design by: Jeffrey Kurland
Set Decoration by: Anya Lebow
Music by: Theodore Shapiro
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for supernatural action and some crude humor.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: July 15, 2016
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