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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ – The Original Cast Explains What It Was Like to Put the Iconic Suits Back On [Video]
Jason Reitman‘s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is finally getting ready to haunt theaters on November 19, 2021, and the main cast from the original two movies is back for this one.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts are all coming back for this sequel to the original classic, reprising their iconic and beloved roles.
On “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Murray, Aykroyd and Hudson reunited last night, relaying what it was like to put the Proton Packs back on over 30 years later.
Murray jokes, “It hurt. There was a lot of pain. For some reason these directors like to say, ‘Alright, now you guys are all down on the ground,’ with this thing on our back. And now you’ve gotta roll over, like a dead bug, and try to get up while wearing a vacuum cleaner. But it was… you had shockwaves of memory from it, and you went, ‘oh god, this is horrible.'”
The beloved actor continues, “It was very long days, and it was a very heavy thing. It’s not as heavy as the original was, but we’re weaker. So it’s about the same.”
Ernie Hudson, on the other hand, had a much more emotional experience on set.
Hudson explains, “I never thought we would [be back]. Until I got there and I realized it’s actually happening. But I will say, when I got in the suit, and Bill and Dan and Sigourney…
“It was almost spiritual, man. I was almost in tears. It was great.”
During the chat, Murray also offered up a humorous take on the film’s tone, which has been played up in the marketing to be far more emotional than it is, well, funny.
“Everyone that has seen it has said that they cry at the movie, so it should be an extremely successful comedy,” Murray jokes.
You can watch the full interview from “The Tonight Show” below.
In this year’s Ghostbusters film, written by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan…
“When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.”
Afterlife‘s cast includes Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace and Paul Rudd.
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‘Abigail’ on Track for a Better Opening Weekend Than Universal’s Previous Two Vampire Attempts
In the wake of Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man back in 2020, Universal has been struggling to achieve further box office success with their Universal Monsters brand. Even in the early days of the pandemic, Invisible Man scared up $144 million at the worldwide box office, while last year’s Universal Monsters: Dracula movies The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield didn’t even approach that number when you COMBINE their individual box office hauls.
The horror-comedy Renfield came along first in April 2023, ending its run with just $26 million. The period piece Last Voyage of the Demeter ended its own run with a mere $21 million.
But Universal is trying again with their ballerina vampire movie Abigail this weekend, the latest bloodbath directed by the filmmakers known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream).
Unlike Demeter and Renfield, the early reviews for Abigail are incredibly strong, with our own Meagan Navarro calling the film “savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore,” ultimately “offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.” Read her full review here.
That early buzz – coupled with some excellent trailers – should drive Abigail to moderate box office success, the film already scaring up $1 million in Thursday previews last night. Variety notes that Abigail is currently on track to enjoy a $12 million – $15 million opening weekend, which would smash Renfield ($8 million) and Demeter’s ($6 million) opening weekends.
Working to Abigail‘s advantage is the film’s reported $28 million production budget, making it a more affordable box office bet for Universal than the two aforementioned movies.
Stay tuned for more box office reporting in the coming days.
In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”
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