

When Abby republished their book, Erin convinces her to cease its publication after helping Abby and Jillian at an alleged haunted house. Higgins Institute of Science, with engineering physicist Jillian Holtzmann, Erin, now a professor at Columbia University, disowned the work to gain academic tenure. While Abby continued at an inadequate research college, the Kenneth P.
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Columbia Pictures abandoned plans for a sequel, opting instead to continue the original series with Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021).Ībby Yates and Erin Gilbert are physicists and estranged friends in New York City who co-authored Ghosts from Our Past, a book detailing their investigations of the paranormal since high school. The film grossed $229 million worldwide against its $144 million budget, but because of its combined production, marketing and other costs, it became a box office bomb, with losses of over $70 million. Produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and 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 IMAX, 4DX, 3D, Real D 3D and IMAX 3D. The announcement of the female-led cast in 2015 drew a polarized response from the public and an internet backlash, leading to the film's IMDb page and associated YouTube videos receiving low ratings before the film's release.

Many of the original film's cast members make cameo appearances in new roles, and Ramis is commemorated in the film's closing credits. Because of original cast member Bill Murray's refusal to commit to the project, and the death of fellow cast member Harold Ramis in 2014, Sony decided to reboot the series instead. The story focuses on four eccentric women (and their incompetent assistant) who are interested in parapsychology and start a ghost-catching business in New York City.Ī third Ghostbusters film had been in various stages of development following the release of Ghostbusters II in 1989. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Justin Kirk, and Neil Casey, it is a remake of the 1984 film of the same name and the third film in the Ghostbusters franchise. Ghostbusters (later marketed as Ghostbusters: Answer the Call ) is a 2016 American supernatural comedy film directed by Paul Feig and written by Feig and Katie Dippold.
