Cmon Rick Moranis!

At this point why not add in a William Atherton cameo as well?

Ron Jeremy or gtfo

I'm hoping for Larry King myself.

Well Moranis is happily retired and Atherton is reportedly sick and tired of people yelling "Hey, dickless!" every time he walks down the street, so they may be harder to sign up than Murray was.

Atherton participated in the video game though. So he's certainly not above accepting money to do Ghostbusters stuff.

Sigourney Weaver is in.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/26/entert...rss_topstories


I gotta tell you man, it fucking BREAKS MY HEART that Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts are all gonna be in a new Ghostbusters movie but will not be playing their original characters. It seems like such a fucking waste. They should have just wrote a "Force Awakens" script that has the original cast handing it off to a new generation of Ghostbusters. One final hurrah ya know. After all the years and YEARS of speculation, its such a huge bummer that we won't even get to see them play the damn characters that everybody loves. Squandered opportunity. Something like this shouldn't upset me so much, but it does. I guess now I'm the 12 year old girl

everything about this project is a kick in the fucking face to the fans.

If if he hates it, it's probably his 15 minutes of fame, and if he gets a chance to collect royalties for it, I doubt he'd say no.

Which group it's following will determine my interest.

Maybe that explains why I saw him at the commissary Tuesday.

According to Moranis, he is not retired and turned down the offer to appear in the new Ghostbusters. Moranis:"I hope it's terrific. But it just makes no sense to me. Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago?"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fea...-why-he-829779

Good for him. He shouldn't feel pressured to appear in it if he just doesn't want to.

I do hope he gets more roles, whether on TV or film. He seems like an all-around good guy.

I think it's more about him being picky than not being offered roles. I respect that if he only wants to do projects he feels are worthy of doing but I do wish he'd make a comeback at some point.

Why franchises are important to a studio...

Read moar: http://www.licensing.biz/news/read/s...-smurfy/042989

They're trying to do what the Marvel figures have been doing for a while now?

So do they really expect that boys are going to want to play with female Ghostbusters action figures? Or that girls will want to play with them? Could happen, I suppose...it'll be interesting to see the reaction at that level.

Eco-1? The new car must be made by Tesla.

With Target doing away with gender-specific toy aisles this is the perfect project to sell action figures to girls without fashion/glamour related gimmicks. Coincidentally enough the first action figure that comes to mind when I think of that kind of nonsense is the RGB Fright Features Janine figure that sported a pink jumpsuit, a purple ghost with rooted hair and a comb-tipped weapon.

Granted, removing the words "boys" and "girls" won't automatically eradicate years of gender-focused toy marketing but it'll be an interesting experiment. It's cool to think my 6-year-old niece could have female Ghostbusters toys that are actually meant to be exciting and heroic.

That said, the cynic in me knows Mattel will probably have Ghostbusters in the Barbie line too which is a big hazard as far as I'm concerned. I hope someone at Mattel knows to give them the Mad Men treatment rather than giving them proton pack/hair dryer hybrids.

They can hook all the backwards sexist haters into buying the figures too. The whole build-a-figure thing is the ultimate toy scam. I've seen people on toy forums accuse Mattel of ineptitude for releasing Dark Knight Rises figures with a 6-piece build-a-Batsignal when the figures themselves weren't shipped in equal quantities. It's a brilliant move because you're paying for a big hunk of plastic whether you're completing the BAF or not, so they couldn't care less if you throw the useless piece away, though they certainly love it when it drives you collect other figures you don't want. Mix a cool ghost's pieces between classic Ghostbusters and new Ghostbusters and people will buy it, and a sale is a sale whether the buyer goes online and complains about it or not.

The toys will be trading on the popularity of the 1984 Ghostbusters. The movie will re-awaken interest in the whole Ghostbusters brand, not just the new movie.

Also, I hate shit like this:

Did they really do away with gender specific toy aisles though? I've been thru Target lately, and the only difference is the elimination of pink and blue peg board, in favor of wood tones in every aisle. The aisles are still very much separated along traditional gender lines, and there's still some very pink aisles, just from the toy boxes contained within them.

Nothing has changed at my Target.

Yeah, boy toys and girl toys are still very much separated at Target, they now just look like every other aisle and don't say "Boys" or "Girls"

They've even separated out the girl LEGO from the rest.