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- The song was a number 1 hit. Two months after the release of the film, "Ghostbusters" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Aug. 11, 1984. It stayed at the top of the chart for three weeks.
- Lindsey Buckingham almost wrote the theme. Rumour has it that the Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist was approached to write the theme, but he passed on it.
- Parker Jr. was 'sort of retired' when he was approached to write this song. Before Ghostbusters, Parker Jr. made a name for himself with a number of hits including "The Other Woman" and "I Still Can't Get Over Loving You" but he had, according to his interview with HLN (below), "sort of retired because my parents had gotten sick."
- Clive Davis didn't want Parker Jr. to write the theme song. Davis, the founder of Arista Records, was not crazy about the idea of having his artist write the theme song for a film about ghosts.
Jun 4, 2014 · Price slated Ghostbusters for a major summer 1984 release—giving Reitman and the Ghostbusters team just one year to write, shoot, and edit the first big-budget, big-effects film any of them had ...
- Lesley M. M. Blume
- A Legal Dispute Put The “Real” in The Real Ghostbusters.
- The Show Turned Down Ernie Hudson.
- Network Executives Were Concerned Janine’s Glasses Might Scare children.
- The Show Almost Canned Ray Stantz.
- It Was Retitled Slimer! and The Real Ghostbusters.
- There Was A spin-off.
When Ghostbusters debuted in 1984, some moviegoers may have thought it sounded a little familiar. In the 1970s, the animation company Filmation produced a live-action series called Ghost Busters about a squad of paranormal investigators and their gorilla sidekick. (It lasted for one season in 1975.) When Filmation president Lou Scheimer confrontedC...
It may sound like an urban legend, but it’s unfortunately true. Hudson, who played everyman Ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore in both feature films, was willingto reprise his role for the animated series and was asked to audition for the show’s director as a formality. In 2012, Hudson told The A.V. Club that when he showed up for the reading, the direc...
According to writer J. Michael Straczynski, the creative team behind The Real Ghostbusters was largely left to pursue their own iteration of the story in the first season with only minimal network interference from ABC. But by season 2, executives started to worry over some seemingly trivial details, motivated in part by their working relationship ...
In addition to expressing concern over Janine, ABC had other suggestions for changes in the series. Q5 recommended the show write out the character of Ray Stantz, played by Dan Aykroyd in the film, because he didn’t appear to serve any benefit to the program in their metrics. The showrunners laughed off the suggestion.
Owing to the popularity of sidekick Slimer, the green ghoul who roams the fire station that doubles as Ghostbusters headquarters, the show was renamed Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters in 1988. A Ralston cerealof the same name followed in 1990.
The Real Ghostbusters stopped production in 1991, two years after Ghostbusters II left theaters. With a third movie seemingly grounded, Columbia decided to try and keep the franchise’s fortunes flowing with Extreme Ghostbusters, a 40-episode series that was a direct continuation of the first animated series. In Extreme Ghostbusters, Egon leadsa new...
Jul 28, 2021 · 9. Columbia Pictures paid production company Filmation a licence fee to use the name Ghostbusters after it emerged Formation had made a short-lived show in 1975 called The Ghost Busters. 10. Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Goldblum were all considered for the role of Dr. Egon Spengler.
- Marc Chacksfield
Dec 1, 2021 · Ghostbusters II did not receive the critical or fan acclaim as the original but was ultimately widely successful. The film received a VHS release in November 1989, where it became a boon to the ...
Ghostbusters (also known as "Ghost Busters", the original title[1][2]) is a 1984 supernatural comedy film. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984. It was produced and directed by Ivan Reitman and stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson. It is the start of the Ghostbusters Franchise related media and fits ...
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Mar 18, 2022 · 6. “Ghostbusters” isn’t an Original Title. “Ghostbusters” is such an iconic title — so much so, that many fans still haven’t noticed that, following the opening scene in the New York ...
