Ghostbusters IV: Frozen Empire

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New "Alien," "Ghostbusters" Films Wrap - Dark Horizons
We're five months away from its supposed release date and filming on Ghostbusters IV is now complete. Ernie Hudson says he believes Sony intends to stick with the December release, something that makes more sense now that the frozen over logo has been revealed, but Spring 2024 remains a possibility. All of the original cast bar Sigourney Weaver returns.

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New "Alien," "Ghostbusters" Films Wrap - Dark Horizons
We're five months away from its supposed release date and filming on Ghostbusters IV is now complete. Ernie Hudson says he believes Sony intends to stick with the December release, something that makes more sense now that the frozen over logo has been revealed, but Spring 2024 remains a possibility. All of the original cast bar Sigourney Weaver returns.

Excellent. Now I'm interested in seeing the next entry even more.
I'd love to see them just sitting around the firehouse cracking jokes or talking about the old days.

Talking about the firehouse, I watched the Mask on Netflix for the first time ever last week. As soon as Jim walks in to the garage to pick up his Honda, it was instantly obvious that was the Ghostbusters firehouse. Even the lockers were still there!

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Yep, they make no attempt at all to mask what it is

The filming on this feels really fast but I had a check and Afterlife took a little over 3 months as well. Given the codename I'm wondering if most of the film takes place in the Firehouse as a way of keeping costs down, it could work as well giving the film something of a horror movie low cost approach.

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Sony Pushes Movie Release Dates Due to SAG-AFTRA, WGA Strikes – Deadline
Ghostbusters IV requires some post-work still so as been delayedand will now release on 29 March 2024
This means that the fourth entry now opens in the franchises 40th Anniversary year

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Wow, that Marvel movie looks ace-wait

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Well, you can't watch it. Not until you watch the seven Disney+ series such as the one about Patton's previous capes analysing light spectrums or the one which is a ten hour prequel about the Ecto-1's prior life as a medical ambulance!

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Shattered Memories.

[Baseley09]

Can't stand that snivelling nerd Oswalt, but whatever I'll be there for more Ghostbusters.

[dataDave]

I won't. That looks wank.

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You know there's a new GB trailer in town when the online discourse goes the same way again. Simultaneous complaints going around that Afterlife was too much like GB1 and that this is nothing like GB1 whilst at the same time looking too much like Afterlife. Which is... not possible.

I think the fundamental issue with Ghostbusters is one of acceptance.

On the first level - Acceptance that more films are going to get made one way or another

On the second level - It's true that you can't make something now that recaptures the tone and execution of the original film. It's a different time, different filmmaking, different sensibilities, different humour and very different market conditions. Most comedies are successes because they're relatively cheap to produce, GB carries a heavier burden on that front and even the... horror is a stretch, but the parallels to that genre also come from one where low budgets rule the roost. Afterlife was a nice balancing act between acknowledging what came before and evolving the franchise to what modern audiences want without smashing up the furniture like Answer the Call did. With the fan pleasing handover complete this seems like it's moving on to new ghosts and enemies like people wanted. As long as this isn't the Forbidden Kingdom to the prior films Jurassic World, it'll still likely be better than 50% of the GB films that already exist.

[dataDave]

Afterwipe was nothing like GB1. It was wank.

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It followed the same basic structure and beats, which was half of the criticism it recieved at the time. GB is caught in a tug of war with four camps:

Those who liked Afterlife
Those who disliked Afterlife
Those who dislike Afterlife because it's not Ghostbusters 1 recaptured
Those who dislike Afterlife because it's not Ghostbusters 2016's sequel

Either first two camp is fine, how normal opinion should fall. The latter two are weird and usually lead to comments about how there shouldn't have been a sequel full stop as though GB should be revered enough to never have one sully the original yet also not be revered because it's not Star Wars or some other cultural peak (when it clearly is to some extent).

The main thing they need to avoid with GB4 is being tempted to much to try and make it appeal to wider audiences by Marvel-ising it. Not entirely sure yet if that can be ruled out yet based on the trailer.

[Colin]

Watched Afterlife again tonight having seen the new trailer. My thoughts on it haven’t changed, still find it really enjoyable, phoebe especially is a delight, and the ending still makes me cry for obvious reasons. I don’t care if I’m a fish on the sentimentality hook the studio were throwing out, it’s an outlet for how much Harold Ramis meant to me in my youth. I fully understand the negativity toward it, but for me? I’m in.