* " Elementary My Dear Winston ", the third episode for the 1989 season of The Real Ghostbusters, features Holmes, Watson and Moriarty by way of " belief made manifest ": so many people believed in them that they became real.

The DVD version of the movie was released on June 29, 1999 ; at a time when an estimated four million U. S. households had DVD players, Ghostbusters became one of Reel. com's fastest selling products.

In 2005, Welker became the new voice of Garfield, succeeding the original actor Lorenzo Music, who died in 2001 ( Welker and Music had previously worked together in The Real Ghostbusters and the original Garfield and Friends ).

However, " title-only " billing became an established form for summer blockbusters in 1989, with Ghostbusters II, Lethal Weapon 2, and The Abyss following the practice.

After The Real Ghostbusters, LaMarche became a regular mainstay of the voiceover industry appearing in such shows as Talespin, Tiny Toon Adventures, GI Joe, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series, Taz-Mania, Where's Waldo, The Little Mermaid, Batman: The Animated Series, and Bonkers before landing perhaps his most recognized role in 1993 as The Brain on Animaniacs ( and later its spin-off show Pinky and the Brain ).

The film earned approximately $ 234, 760, 478 domestically and became the highest grossing film of the year 1984, beating Ghostbusters and by the time, the highest grossing R rated comedy film.

Around this time, Hart became known as " The Wimp ", a nickname given to him by Lawler and chanted by fans, and was the subject of the song " Wimpbusters ," which was sung by Lawler to the tune of " Ghostbusters " by Ray Parker, Jr .; a music video was also made featuring Lawler, announcer Lance Russell, and wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Jimmy Valiant, Dutch Mantel, Tommy Rich, and Rufus R. Jones, along with footage of Lawler beating Hart and his " First Family ".

He became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three.

Although popularised by the Star Wars series ( see below ) and used sporadically in films such as The Godfather and Ghostbusters, this " title-only " billing became an established form for summer blockbusters in 1989, with Ghostbusters II, Lethal Weapon 2, and The Abyss following the practice.

He is the love interest of Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters ' secretary, in the first film and both animated series ( Ghostbusters II excluded their romance due to Ramis ' dislike of the subplot, thus having Melnitz date Louis Tully instead ); Spengler sometimes appears to be unaware of Melnitz's romantic interest in him, but at times he displays having similar feelings for her, such as when he gave her a geranium as a gift when she expressed an interest in plants ( which backfired horribly when it was revealed that the geranium was possessed by a ghost and nearly destroyed her apartment, along with much of Brooklyn ; though Egon managed to thwart the ghost, Melnitz angrily told Spengler he would have to pay for the damages to her home ) and when he rushed to her rescue in " Janine, You've Changed "; he also embraces her in " Ghost Busted " after she was kidnapped and held for ransom by a gangster, and became jealous when she was briefly involved with a slimy businessman named Paul Smart.

The game, based on WEG's earlier Ghostbusters RPG, established much of the groundwork of what later became the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and their sourcebooks are still frequently cited by Star Wars fans as reference material.

" Weaver followed the success of Alien appearing opposite Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously released to critical acclaim and as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.

After the success of the first film and the animated series, The Real Ghostbusters, Columbia Pictures pressured the producers to make a sequel.

For the remainder of the 1980s the company published only a small handful of titles that appealed to superhero fans, but had considerable success on the UK newsstands with licensed titles such as The Real Ghostbusters, ThunderCats, Transformers and many others.

In 1986, after the success of the Columbia film, the show was revived in cartoon format with Kong and Spencer's sons, Jake and Eddie Jr., inheriting their fathers ' business and Tracy the Gorilla in Ghostbusters.

* A band called The Busboys had success with two songs " The Boys Are Back In Town " and " Cleanin ' Up The Town " featured in the movie Ghostbusters.

The nightclub engagement is a success, but a patron at the nightclub ( an unknown Ernie Hudson, a few years before his Ghostbusters role ) notices that Yussel's hands are not black and incites a riot.

Aykroyd originally wrote the role of Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) with Belushi in mind, but rewrote the part for Bill Murray after Belushi died.

In February 2007, Aykroyd revealed that he would be providing voice-acting for a Ghostbusters III CGI project, though these rumours were clarified later on, that the CGI project was a next-gen video game that was currently in production.

Other notable roles include Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters and its sequel Ghostbusters II, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, Working Girl, Death and the Maiden, The Ice Storm, Galaxy Quest, Snow Cake, Prayers for Bobby and Grace Augustine in Avatar.

Ivan Reitman has confirmed that Weaver will reprise her role as Dana Barrett in the rumored third Ghostbusters movie due for release in 2012.

The Poltergust 3000 is a high-powered vacuum cleaner designed for capturing ghosts ( à la Ghostbusters ) and to gather treasure.

Temple of Doom was nominated for Best Fantasy Film but lost to Ghostbusters.

According to Huey Lewis and the News, this was especially damaging to them since " Ghostbusters " was so popular, rising to number one on the charts for three weeks.

Huey Lewis has stated that his experiences with the producers of Ghostbusters may have been indirectly responsible for getting his band involved with the movie Back to the Future.

Candy was one of the many celebrities who appeared chanting " Ghostbusters " in Ray Parker, Jr .' s hit " single " for the movie.

Unlike many American studios, Filmation never relied upon animation studios outside the United States for the bulk of its production ; Ghostbusters and Bravestarr both state in the end credits that they were " made entirely in the U. S. A .".

It opened on 236 screens and faced stiff competition against the likes of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( also featuring Banzai co-star Christopher Lloyd ), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Ghostbusters.

( Other references to Ghostbusters also occur within Mozilla products: for instance, the JavaScript debugger component is called Venkman, after one of the main characters in the film.

Ray Parker, Jr. is frequently referred to as a one-hit wonder for his chart-topping theme from the movie Ghostbusters, even though he had several other top-ten hits on the pop charts ( such as " The Other Woman "), in addition to his hits as the frontman for the disco group Raydio.

From here on, the company expanded and has since gone on to produce special effects for nearly three hundred films, including the entire Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, the Harry Potter series, the Jurassic Park series, the Back to the Future trilogy, many of the Star Trek films, Ghostbusters II, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Terminator sequels, the Transformers films, the Men in Black series, most of the Mission: Impossible films, E. T.

She is known for her roles in 1980s popular films such as Ghostbusters ( 1984 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), Jumpin ' Jack Flash ( 1986 ), Who's Harry Crumb?

Potts is probably best known for playing the role of Janine Melnitz in the Ghostbusters film series and as Mary Jo Shiveley on the CBS television sitcom Designing Women ( 1986 – 1993 ), but has had a wide variety of prominent roles in both television and film.

This caused a difficulty for special effects technicians working on the movie Ghostbusters II, who had to back off on the amount of forced perspective used when replicating the statue for the movie so that their model ( which was photographed head-on ) would not look top-heavy.

** Ray Parker, Jr. for " Ghostbusters ( Instrumental )"

By March 1988, the impressive result Muren and fellow designer David Allen ( Young Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters II ) achieved what would represent a breakthrough for computer-generated imagery ( CGI ).

Thereafter, the Ghostbusters ' office is visited by Walter Peck ( William Atherton ), a lawyer representing the EPA, who arrests the team for operating an unlicensed nuclear device in their basement and orders their ghost containment grid deactivated, unleashing hundreds of captured ghosts onto the city.

In 2009, Aykroyd along with Harold Ramis, wrote and appeared in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which also featured Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Brian Doyle-Murray.

Aykroyd announced in February 2012 that Bill Murray was not going to appear in Ghostbusters III and said that at this point the film had been indefinitely suspended.

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

" Two months later, Aykroyd downplayed Murray's comments, saying Stupnitsky and Eisenberg " wrote Bill the comic role of a lifetime, and the new Ghostbusters and the old are all well represented in it "; they wrote a " strong first draft " that Aykroyd and Ramis would work on.

At the beginning of Ghostbusters, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis come running out of the library building.

Dan Aykroyd conceived of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for his initial script for Ghostbusters the movie.

Raymond " Ray " Stantz, Ph. D., is a fictional scientist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the films Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Casper ( played by Dan Aykroyd ) and in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters ( voiced by Frank Welker ).

Dan Aykroyd made an appearance with Bill Murray as Ghostbusters for a critically ill child whose dream was to meet them.

Dan Aykroyd, as well as all the other main characters, appeared in 2009's Ghostbusters video game.

" Ghostbusters " was a title track of the box office hit movie Ghostbusters, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd.