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The Highest Grossing Movies of 2016

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Luke Owen charts the highest grossing movies of 2016… The box office battle of 2016 is now in the books, and Disney are the ones wearing the king’s crown. Their domestic totals are very impressive, and their worldwide takings are even better. As with the opening weekends, The House of Mouse holds six of the […]

Paul Feig would be “surprised” if Ghostbusters gets a sequel

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With the film now out on Blu-ray and DVD, Paul Feig has been talking about his Ghostbusters remake and his thoughts on the project overall. It had a lot of detractors upon its announcement and the mediocre release and box office figures did little to help its cause, but despite the post-credits tease of a sequel […]

Paul Feig doesn’t think a Ghostbusters sequel is being discussed by Sony

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It had been reported back in August that Sony weren’t looking to push forward with a sequel to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot, instead putting focus on a new animated movie and the cartoon series Ghostbusters: Ecto Force, which will debut in 2018. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Feig has admitted that he’s not heard anything […]

Should Sony risk a Ghostbusters sequel?

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Luke Owen looks at the franchise potential of Ghostbusters… The second week numbers are in, and it’s what most people expected (at least it’s what I predicted on last week’s podcast). After a fairly decent (but not all that great) $46 million opening weekend, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot dropped 54% to earn $21 million in its […]

Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott to cover Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters theme for Paul Feig’s remake

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The official Fall Out Boy Twitter page has posted an image revealing that the band will be collaborating with Missy Elliott for a cover of Ray Parker Jr.’s classic ‘Ghostusters’ theme for Paul Feig’s upcoming remake. The Ghostbusters soundtrack will also feature songs by G-Eazy ft. Jeremih, 5 Seconds of Summer, Pentatonix, WALK THE MOON […]

Melissa McCarthy calls the Ghostbusters trailer “confusing”; confirms the movie is not a sequel

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It was revealed recently that the Ghostbusters reboot trailer is the most hated trailer in the history of YouTube (we didn’t like it much either), and one of its stars has spoken very openly about it. When it was released in April, audiences seemed confused as to whether the movie was a sequel or a […]

14 rumours about the troubled Ghostbusters reboot production

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Luke Owen sifts through the rumours… We’re only a few days away from Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters arriving in cinemas, and there has certainly been a lot said about it already. From its first trailer confusing the message, to people rejecting the idea of a female Slimer, Ghostbusters is going to have to try […]

Is Paul Feig ‘creative enough’ to direct Ghostbusters?

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Simon Columb weighs in on Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot… Fellow Flickering Myth-er and Ghostbusters fan, Luke Owen, followed the release of the new trailer [watch it here] with an article titled “Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is everything wrong with reboots…”. His interest in the topic is deep and the first few paragraphs of his informative article […]

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is everything wrong with reboots

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Luke Owen on the Ghostbusters reboot… Here’s a fairly unpopular opinion: I quite like reboots and remakes. Just as theatre directors have put their own stamp on the works of William Shakespeare, reboots and remakes allow directors to put their own spin on existing material and come at it from a new perspective. Two of […]

Official synopsis for Ghostbusters reboot

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It may not be popular with The Internet or fans of the franchise, but Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot will be with us next year (with the trailer arriving before the end of the year), and now we have the first official synopsis. It backs up a lot of rumours surrounding the movie, mostly that Kristin […]