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Finn Wolfhard was grateful to spend time with 'Ghostbusters' legends on the set of the latest movie. The 21-year-old actor reprises his role as Trevor Spengler in 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' and embraced the opportunity to work closely with original stars including Dan Aykroyd and Annie Potts. Asked if he got to spend more time with the original cast members this time around, Finn told The Hollywood Reporter: "Yeah, tons more. We spent so many days together on set, and we hung out a few times outside of set as well. Dan, Annie and everyone are such open books, and you can ask them anything a...
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'Ghostbusters' star Dan Aykroyd was haunted by “three S-shaped spirits” which made him flee his family’s farmhouse in terror. The 71-year-old actor’s family held seances at the property in Ontario for generations as his great-grandfather was a renowned spiritualist, his telephone engineer grandfather investigated the possibility of contacting the dead via radio technology and his father Samuel Aykroyd published books on the history of the supernatural. Dan was inspired to create the 1984 comedy – which is getting another sequel 'Frozen Empire' this year – from his visits to the house, but one ...
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Jason Reitman wants to make a 'Ghostbusters' movie set in another country. The 46-year-old writer is at the helm of the franchise following 2021's successful sequel 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' and the impending March release of follow-up film 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' - which he has written with with Gil Kenan directing. Jason is already looking to the future and he would love the spook stopping squad to tackle the supernatural outside of America. In an interview with Empire magazine, Jason said: "Now we're back in the Firehouse, there are infinite ghost stories that could be told. And not j...
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Dan Aykroyd is convinced he will be included in a ‘Ghostbusters’ sequel after he dies. The 71-year-old actor shot to movie stardom after playing scientist Ray Stantz in 1984’s ‘Ghostbusters’, and is currently filming a follow-up to its spin-off movie ‘Afterlife’ in the UK. He told the Daily Mail about how he believes future filmmakers will use technology to resurrect his character in more sequels once he’s passed away: “I’m sure that when I pass beyond the veil they’ll come up with a story to incorporate me. “And as long as my family gets a healthy fee and it’s a good story, I’m fine with that...
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Dan Aykroyd is convinced he suffers from Asperger’s even though it’s not been medically diagnosed. The 71-year-old ‘Ghostbusters’ actor gets obsessed with subjects including poltergeists, blues music and booze, which he thinks is a sign he has the condition – although its more common symptoms include not understanding emotions and having less facial expressions than other people. Dan told the Daily Mail: “I know a lot of talented people on the spectrum. I’m not medically diagnosed but I know I have a touch of (Asperger’s.) “It helps with the focus, and there’s something in the mind that pops c...
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Dan Aykroyd says he’s “lucky” he doesn’t “abuse” alcohol. ‘The Blues Brothers’ actor, 71, is a co-founder of the Crystal Head vodka brand, which comes in skull-shaped bottles, but warned boozing should be done in moderation. Dan – who lost his best friend and ‘The Blues Brothers’ co-star John Belushi to a drugs overdose in 1982 aged 33 after years of drink and drugs abuse – told the Daily Mail: “I’m lucky, I can consume alcohol moderately and I don’t abuse it – the simile I use is, just because you have a Ducati motorcycle that goes 250mph it doesn’t mean you take it on the highway and do that...
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Dan Aykroyd argues with his brother’s ghost. The afterlife-obsessed ‘Ghostbusters’ actor, 71, was devastated when his younger sibling Peter Aykroyd died aged 65 in 2021 two weeks before his 66th birthday from sepsis caused by an untreated abdominal hernia, and Dan says he tells off his spirit for not allowing him to take him to hospital for treatment that would probably have saved his life. He told the Daily Mail: “I say (to Peter’s ghost), ‘Will you just get into the ambulance?’ He had an impacted bowel, but he was very anti-medicine and refused help and it ended up killing him.” Dan added th...
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Dan Aykroyd has promised a "heartfelt" new 'Ghostbusters' movie. The 70-year-old actor is set to reprise his role as Dr. Raymond Stantz in the untitled follow-up to the 2021 film 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' and is convinced that the project will be a hit with fans of the franchise when it is released in December. Speaking to the Metro newspaper, Dan - who created the supernatural franchise with the late Harold Ramis - said: "We're three-quarters through filming which means it's got to be edited and mixed and the CGI has to be put into it. "I'm excited about this one. It's got a beautiful, heartf...
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Ernie Hudson believes he was "deliberately pushed aside" in 'Ghostbusters'. The 77-year-old actor played ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore in the 1984 supernatural comedy, but he has claimed his role was made to be smaller than it was intended to be, and he's accused Coulmbia Pictures of not being "inclusive" by not having him appear alongside fellow ghostbusters Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd in the theatrical poster. Speaking on SiriusXM's 'The Howard Stern Wrap Up Show', he said: “The studio wasn’t [inclusive], and the studio continued not to be. “So it made it very, very difficult b...
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The 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' sequel is set to be released on December 20, 2023. Following the success of the latest film in the iconic supernatural comedy series, Jason Reitman is helming a follow-up that will be released close to Christmas next year. Reitman recently teased that the code name for the film is 'Firehouse' and that it will return to base in New York. The filmmaker said: “At the end of 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife', the Ecto-1 is driving into Manhattan, returning to its home. “And before anyone ever heard the title 'Afterlife', we called it 'Rust City'. Which would not have made sen...
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