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As of now, there have been two official Ghostbusters movies released. There have been talks of a third movie for more than 10 years. At this point any more movies (with the original actors) seem fairly unlikely, but with the state Hollywood is in, it would not be unreasonable for them to revive the franchise with a remake or different style of sequel in the future.


Ghostbusters

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their university grants run out, the former three go into business as the Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced to eat his words when New York is besieged by an army of unfriendly spirits, conjured up by a long-dead Babylonian demon and "channelled" through beautiful cellist Sigourney Weaver and her nerd-ish neighbor Rick Moranis. The climax is a glorious send-up of every Godzilla movie ever made-- and we daresay it cost more than a year's worth of Japanese monster flicks combined. Who'd ever dream that the chubby, cheery Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would turn out to be the most malevolent threat ever faced by New York City?

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Ghostbusters II

Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal "warfare", and as a result they were forced to seek other lines of work. Ray (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) spend their time performing at childrens' birthday parties, and Egon (Harold Ramis) is busy conducting experiments investigating the effect of human emotions on the environment, leaving ghost-busting behind. Venkman (Bill Murray) and Dana (Sigourney Weaver) have split up. Venkman now hosts a local cable show called "The World of the Psychic." Dana married someone else and had a little baby named Oscar, but is now divorced and works as an art restorer in a museum -- and this is where the plot kicks in. While Dana is restoring a portrait of a 16th-century tyrant by the name of Vigo the Carpathian, the portrait becomes hexed. The evil Vigo wants to return to life by taking over the body of Dana's little child. Vigo has enlisted Dana's boss, Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol), to compel Dana to cooperate. Soon dirty sludge and slime flow through the streets of Manhattan, and the Ghostbusters have to reunite to save the city from a funky paranormal evil.

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Ghostbusters III

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In 2010, two writers of comedy series The Office were reportedly working on a script, but apparently it did not meet up to everyone's high expectations.

In June of 2012, Bill Murray said to David Letterman that another sequel to Ghostbusters would have a lot to live up to and that although a script had been made, they would "try again" to approach the quality of the first film, citing that even the 1989 sequel had not been as much fun as the original.

July 2012, Aykroyd announced that the project would be starting over with new writers.

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