Ghostbusters

Synopsis

When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. It's Ghostbusters, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as a maniacal band of parapsychologists specializing in psychic phenomena -- and supernatural hilarity! Fired from university research jobs, Drs. Venkman (Murray), Stantz (Aykroyd) and Spengler (Ramis) set up shop as "Ghostbusters," ridding Manhattan of bizarre apparitions. But even the spirit exterminators are severely tested when beautiful Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and her nerdy neighbor (Rick Moranis) become possesed by demons living in their building. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face their supreme challenge at a roof-top demonic shrine. If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

Taken from the 1985–1996 VHS.

Cast

Character's name	Portrayed by
Egon Spengler	Harold Ramis
Raymond "Ray" Stantz	Dan Aykroyd
Peter Venkman	Bill Murray
Winston Zeddemore	Ernie Hudson
Dana Barrett	Sigourney Weaver

In Other Languages

Production timeline

Release timeline

Format	Country of origin	Date
Original theatrical	USA	June 8, 1984
VHS	USA	October 31, 1985
VHS	South Korea	December 1, 1988
VHS (re-release)	USA	December 7, 1992
DVD	USA	June 29, 1999
DVD	South Korea	January 2000
DVD (2-Pack)	USA	August 2, 2005
Blu-ray Disc	USA	June 16, 2009
Blu-ray Disc (re-release)	USA	September 16, 2014

Home video timeline

Main article: Home video timeline for the Ghostbusters series

Weblinks

http://sonypictures.com/homevideo/ghostbusters2-pack/index.html (2005-2008)

Gallery

Rankings

Rank of worldwide release
Rank of release in North America
Rank of release on VHS worldwide
Rank of release on VHS in North America
Rank of release on DVD worldwide
Rank of release on DVD in North America
Rank of release on Blu-ray Disc worldwide
Rank of release on Blu-ray Disc in North America

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Walt Disney/Buena Vista	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • 101 Dalmatians (1961) • Mary Poppins (1964) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • Toy Story (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) • A Bug's Life (1998) • Toy Story 2 (1999) • Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Finding Nemo (2003) • The Lion King 1½ (2004) • The Incredibles (2004) • Cars (2006) • Ratatouille (2007) • WALL-E (2008) • Up (2009) • The Princess and the Frog (2009) • Toy Story 3 (2010) • Tangled (2010) • Cars 2 (2011) • Brave (2012) • Wreck-It Ralph (2012) • Monsters University (2013) • Frozen (2013) • Big Hero 6 (2014) • Inside Out (2015) • The Good Dinosaur (2015) • Zootopia (2016) • Finding Dory (2016) • Moana (2016) • Cars 3 (2017) • Coco (2017) • Incredibles 2 (2018) • Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) • Toy Story 4 (2019) • Frozen II (2019)
Paramount/Lionsgate	Rango (2011) • Monster Trucks (2016/2017) • My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) • Sherlock Gnomes (2018) • Wonder Park (2019)
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Columbia/Sony Pictures	Ghostbusters (1984) • Ghostbusters II (1989) • Hook (1991) • Matilda (1996) • Open Season (2006) • Surf's Up (2007) • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) • The Smurfs (2011) • Arthur Christmas (2011) • The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) • Hotel Transylvania (2012) • The Smurfs 2 (2013) • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) • Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) • The Angry Birds Movie (2016) • Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) • The Emoji Movie (2017) • The Star (2017) • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) • The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
20th Century Fox	Star Wars (1977) • The Empire Strikes Back (1980) • Return of the Jedi (1983) • Home Alone (1990) • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) • Ice Age (2002) • Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) • Robots (2005) • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) • Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) • Horton Hears a Who! (2008) • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) • Rio (2011) • Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) • Epic (2013) • Rio 2 (2014) • The Peanuts Movie (2015) • Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) • Ferdinand (2017)
Warner Bros./New Line Cinema	The Wizard of Oz (1939) • The Goonies (1985) • The Mask (1994) • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) • Happy Feet (2006) • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) • Happy Feet Two (2011) • The Lego Movie (2014) • Storks (2016) • The Lego Batman Movie (2017) • The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) • Smallfoot (2018) • The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Anime/Other	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) • My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) • Castle in the Sky (1986) • My Neighbor Totoro (1988) • Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) • Only Yesterday (1991) • Porco Rosso (1992) • Pom Poko (1994) • Whisper of the Heart (1995) • My Neighbors, the Yamadas (1999) • Spirited Away (2001) • The Cat Returns (2002) • Howl's Moving Castle (2004) • Ponyo (2008)