Ghostbusters (2016)- WTF Happened To This Movie?

By Chris Bumbray

Posted 5 years ago

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at TROUBLED movie productions! Box-office smashes and flops, fan-favorites or creative failures, these movies endured numerous problems behind-the-scenes.

After two huge Ghostbusters movies in the 1980s, fans greatly anticipated a third adventure of their favorite spirit-collecting heroes. Finally in 2016, instead of the return of Venkman, Stantz, Spengler and Zeddemore, audiences got a complete reboot of Ghostbusters with an all-female team. How did fans react? Cross the streams and find out “WTF Happened to GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)!”

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