Ghostbusters Honors... The Mask (1994)

By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 18, 2023 at 3:00 PM , Categories: Filming Locations, The 2016 Parody Remake, References , Tags: gbhonors

The 1994 theatrical film The Mask starring Jim Carrey - and not a deformed Eric Stoltz - is a love letter to the animated classics of Tex Avery and Looney Tunes. It also has some interesting connections to Ghostbusters. Read on to find out more... more »

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Ghostbusters Transcript & Filming Locations List

By Paul Rudoff on Jul. 3, 2020 at 3:29 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Filming Locations

Thanks to MrMichaelT, we now have a written transcript of Ghostbusters, which was just was added as an "alternate" .rtf file on the Ghostbusters Scripts page. more »

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Shot On Site - Ghostbusters 2016 Ben's Deli Deleted Shot Location Visited

By Paul Rudoff on Mar. 10, 2020 at 3:00 PM , Categories: Filming Locations, The 2016 Parody Remake , Tags: shot-on-site

There are not many Ghostbusters filming locations that I have actually visited in person. Basically, I've only been to Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and the Statue of Liberty (the latter I haven't visited since the 1980s). I've certainly never been… more »

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Hasbro 2020 Toy Fair - Attendee Report & Ghostbusters Product Line Details

By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 25, 2020 at 9:15 PM , Categories: Personal, Ghostbusters 1, Real Ghostbusters, Reviews & Merch, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Filming Locations, The 2016 Parody Remake

On Saturday February 22, 2020, I attended the Hasbro 2020 Toy Fair in New York City, an offshoot of the larger New York Toy Fair going on elsewhere in the city at the same time. Thanks to the invitation-only event, I was able to be amongst the first to… more »

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Shot On Site - Someone Left Vinz Clortho Out In The Rain

By Paul Rudoff on Jan. 10, 2020 at 11:35 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Filming Locations , Tags: shot-on-site

It's very rare that Spook Central's Shot On Site series has covered a location that only appears in a deleted scene. Even a place like Truffles Cafe, where the Ectomobile rejected a parking ticket in a deleted scene, technically appeared in the film in… more »

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Revenge of Shot on Site Summer - Ghostbusters II Locations, Part 6

By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 25, 2019 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations , Tags: gb2locations

In honor of the respective 35th & 30th anniversaries of the original Ghostbusters movies, every Sunday - henceforth dubbed Shot on Site Sundays - at Noon (Eastern) for the next several weeks (schedule here), I will go through the original two movies… more »

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Revenge of Shot on Site Summer - Ghostbusters II Locations, Part 5

By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 18, 2019 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations , Tags: gb2locations

In honor of the respective 35th & 30th anniversaries of the original Ghostbusters movies, every Sunday - henceforth dubbed Shot on Site Sundays - at Noon (Eastern) for the next several weeks (schedule here), I will go through the original two movies… more »

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Revenge of Shot on Site Summer - Ghostbusters II Locations, Part 4

By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations , Tags: gb2locations

In honor of the respective 35th & 30th anniversaries of the original Ghostbusters movies, every Sunday - henceforth dubbed Shot on Site Sundays - at Noon (Eastern) for the next several weeks (schedule here), I will go through the original two movies… more »

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Revenge of Shot on Site Summer - Ghostbusters II Locations, Part 3

By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 4, 2019 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations , Tags: gb2locations

In honor of the respective 35th & 30th anniversaries of the original Ghostbusters movies, every Sunday - henceforth dubbed Shot on Site Sundays - at Noon (Eastern) for the next several weeks (schedule here), I will go through the original two movies… more »

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Shot On Site - Ghostbusters II Columbus Avenue

By Paul Rudoff on Jul. 29, 2019 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations , Tags: shot-on-site

Yesterday, in the second part of the Ghostbusters II movie rundown, we premiered the identification of the Ecto-1A LED signboard shot (from the "We're Back" montage). Thanks to Daniel Bamford, we learned that the set of stores seen in the background… more »

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