Entertainment Weekly Mentions Ghostbusters 3

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Issue #869 • March 24, 2006

Page 14

Movies

Who you gonna call for Ghostbusters 3? Not the Reitmans. Ghostbusters 1 and 2 director Ivan Reitman ain't afraid of no comedy - he just wrapped July's Super Ex-Girlfriend with Uma Thurman - but has no plans to direct a third installment. Son Jason Reitman's Thank You For Not Smoking slimes the tobacco industry, but he says, "My indie satirical version of Ghostbusters would disappoint most people." - Hannah Tucker and Eric Kohn

[tampabuster1]

Is there any reason that we should believe that Ghostbusters III is even a possiblilty? Has anyone contacted the bosses about a new movie yet?

[TK-194]

Well, guys,

I was thinking... Back to the Future is a trilogy, Indiana Jones is a Trilogy (but will have the 4th movie soon), Star Wars was a trilogy but now is TWO trilogies.

Why can't we have a 3rd GB movie?

And the studios thinks in numbers, by the way. They make many 'tests' to see public's acceptance about a product, before they decide to invest in a new one.

For example, the movies' DVD box release. In my opinion, they released the green covered box to see if the product "Ghostbusters" sales well yet.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, I mean THIS box:


I don't know if you got this box in your country, but here, in Brazil, they released it last year (this is why all the informations are completely writen in Portuguese).

If you remember, they already released the movies on DVD, but why release it again, in a new box? And it lost many extras from the 1st DVD release (I own the 2 DVDs from each movie).

And what about the 2 animated series' episodes, added to the GB2's extras (on green box set)? Now, the release of the animated series on DVD... They are checking if they can make investiments on a 3rd GB movie to collect the profits later, on theaters!

And someone could ask me: "why are you thinking this way?" or "how can you be so sure about this?". Easy! Because the same happened to Star Wars!

If you remember, Lucas released the Classic Trilogy's Special Edition on theaters. He made them with the new special effects and scenes to check what fans say! With the positive "green light" from fans, on theaters, he decided to make the Prequels.

So, I guess we are watching the "test" step. And, if the public answer positively to this test, we could have the GB3 movie on production.

My opinion... Let's see what happens...

See'ya guys!

[Jett Wriggley]

A GB3 i think will not happen. Now i don't want to be a downer, for i've been wanting a three for as long as i can remember watching the first two (man, i was floor for a T3). But in all honestly, i think a GB3 would be a bad move at this point, surrounding the old ghostbusters in a virtual hell (which i have been told is a rumor) with newbies makes my skin crawl a little. Now if GBI was involved somehow, i think that would make for a more interesting movie. Coming from a film makares point of view, GB3 would have more focus on the employees themselves, but still have high slim-in action and new equipment, etc.

Anyway, that's my two cents.