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The quick sale of the movie rights to the Vigo incident, which became Ghostbusters II, raised quick cash to help restart the company, though the contract-due to reputed "legal sloppiness" on Tully's part and the increased clout of the movie's acting and writing team-led to an end result that left some unsatisfied. to action (they briefly used a modified version of their famous "no-ghost" logo, and Tully was first hired to handle the company finance at that time). The near-resurrection of Carpathian despot and wizard Vigo Von Hamburg Deutschendorf on New Year's 1989 sparked a crisis that led to the removal of the judicial order and the return of Ghostbusters Inc. Malachi Stantz opened an occult bookstore, Spengler returned to academic work (ironically enough, back at Columbia as the dean who had fired them had since retired), and Venkman started a low-budget talk show called World of the Psychic
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But in June 1986, just as ABC was preparing to debut the Ghostbusters cartoon on their fall schedule, the Ghostbusters were shut down by order of D. The Ghostbusters parlayed the financial gain of the movie into the founding of the franchising body Ghostbusters International, and signed merchandising deals with ABC, DiC Animation, Kenner Toys, and others. The film, Ghostbusters debuted on June 8, 1984, and became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time thanks, in part, to Bill Murray's energetic portrayal as Venkman ("He looks nothing like me." Venkman insists to this day Aykroyd and Murray's friend Harold Ramis helped Aykroyd with the script and portrayed Spengler while Aykroyd took the Stantz role). Zeddemore and Client Administrator Janine Melnitz (now 39) were hired shortly after that.Īfter their first major case, in which a Sumerian demigod assumed the form of Stay Puft Marshmallow's cartoon mascot, the Ghostbusters were signed to a movie deal spearheaded by noted comedian and paranormal enthusiast Dan Aykroyd. It began when Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler were fired from Columbia University Venkman convinced Stantz to take out three mortgages on his parents' house to finance the opening of the business. has had a storied but somewhat troubled history. "I'm trying to find our old accountant, that guy who was in the Keymaster Cologne adds back in the 80's- Louis Tully? He isn't returning our calls right now, but if he's reading this-hey, I'll pay you and everything this time."įirst formed in 1983, Ghostbusters Inc.
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The most sweeping announcement of the release was the full reactivation of the franchising body known as Ghostbusters International, with Venkman as CEO and the other original Ghostbusters serving as executive advisory board.
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This makes a virtual explosion of Ghostbusters in the New York area, quite a reversal of the situation a scant six months ago, when Spengler was living alone in the ex-firehouse known around the world as "Ghostbusters Central" In addition to the newly-reactivated original team and the expanded "Extreme" team, the Thanksgiving incident saw the formation of Ghostbusters: Nightsquad, who's membership includes Spengler's niece Jennifer (18) He describes both as gifted occult scholars. According to Venkman, Belmont had been corresponding with Spengler for some time. In addition, Ghostbusters has hired two additional agents: Vincent Belmont (23) and Gabriel Angelo Martin (22), both graduates of the infamous Miskatonic University in Massachussetts. They've saved this city a few times and it'd be rude to just throw them out on their butts-even if we wanted too." "Not as good as me, of course, but when you got a monster trying to turn everyone into stone, the more particle throwers you have the better. "Hey, those kids are good." Venkman told reporters. Roland Jackson (20), Kylie Griffin, Eduardo Rivera, and Garrett Miller (all 19) will be retained by the New York office, and will continue to handle the bulk of the field work. The release states that the four original Ghostbusters will mostly serve in an advisory capacity, and then goes on to answer questions concerning the team of teenagers Spengler assembled earlier this year, sometimes referred to as the "Extreme Ghostbusters". Speculation had run rampant after the threesome had returned to New York on November 21, and the Thanksgiving battle with a monster that Venkman described as "The Bermuda Triangle gone bad." confirmed what many had suspected since the surprise appearance of original Ghostbusters Peter Venkman (43), Ray Stantz (38), and Winston Zeddemore (44): the official return of the threesome to the organization that Venkman, Stantz, and Egon Spengler (40) had formed almost fifteen years ago. Original Paranormal Investigators Officially Return "Extreme" Team to Stay On The original Ghostbusters after a bust outside a bowling alley on November 21Īn official press release today from Ghostbusters Inc.