If theres something strange in your neighborhood its probably because Columbia Pictures is calling on Ghostbusters again Its been years since it was still Columbia Pictures highest-grossing film but the studios getting ready to revive it for a fresh franchiseAdding some insurance that the blockbuster begets box-office glory Columbia hired The Offices coexecutive producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to pen the new script The hope is that original cast members Harold Ramis Bill Murray Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson would return for the redux While a cast reunion isnt yet official some of the key players have lately been in close proximity to each other Eisenberg and Stupnitsky just wrote Year One which Ramis will directIs a new ghost-fighting franchise a good idea or a ghoulish concept Anna Dimond
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Few have had more influence on the current crop of "guy comedies" than Harold Ramis. The 60-year-old writer/director, whose began his career editing the jokes page at Playboy, is responsible for some of the wildest flicks of the past three decades. Animal House, Caddyshack and Groundhog Day still have dudes quoting lines and debating funniest scenes, but it's the new release of a special slime-covered DVD set of the Ramis-scripted Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II that has the yuk-master giving us the lowdown on his comedy classics, his next project and why
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