Once again it’s Ghostbusters Day around the world, celebrating the 39th anniversary of the release of Ghostbusters in theaters on June 8, 1984 - Ghostbusters Day has been established as the multimedia marketing touchstone for announcements, reveals, and to just celebrate our love for Ghostbusters (like we don’t do that everyday, but still). Last year, a full Ecto Fest presentation was made, but this year all of the creatives are understandably busy filming the new movie on two continents.
This year, the day kicked off with a filmed greeting by the cast of the Untitled Ghostbusters Afterlife Sequel (Ghostbusters 4, for brevity’s sake). Currently the video is only on the Ghostbusters social media accounts, but we’ll embed as soon as it’s on their YouTube channel.
Dark Horse Comics teased their upcoming bridge between Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the new sequel with some character sketches by Blue Delliquanti of the extended Spengler family. More information on the book will be available soon.
Illfonic teased an expansion to Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed the Ecto Edition with a quick teaser trailer. The trailer promises a Nintendo Switch release later this year and a creepy clawed apparition taking a chunk out of the Ecto’s hood - could that be Samhain? Also today, the game soundtrack by Mark Rutherford was released to multiple music platforms.
On her official TikTok account, McKenna Grace shared a choreographed video to the song “Ceilings” showing off the ground floor and exterior of the Hook and Ladder No. 8 firehouse (GBHQ), built entirely on a soundstage. Quick glimpses show you the lockers for the OGBs still in place, the car parked in the main bay and more!
At about 3pm, Gil Kenan went to bat on his Twitter and Instagram accounts giving us our first (frosty?) look at the teaser poster for the new film!
Magnoli Clothers, reproducers of costumes extraordinaire revealed they are working on Venkman’s “Hunting” shirt and should have it ready for purchase by the end of the month!
More to come as it develops!