Ghostbusters (2016)

Ghostbusters is a 2016 American supernatural horror comedy film that is a standalone female led reboot of the 1984 film of the same name by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Written and directed by Paul Feig who co-wrote with Katie Dippold. It is a third film entries of the Ghostbusters film series, it stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Charles Dance, Michael K. Williams, and Chris Hemsworth. The story focuses on four eccentric women (and their incompetent assistant) who are interested in parapsychology and start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It was released on July 15, 2016 by Columbia Pictures in United States. Despite receiving positive reviews from critics, it grossed $229 million against its $144 million budget for the filming, distribution, marketing, and visual effects cost, that is considered a box office flop, having a poor opening in the box office in order to not beaten $300 million break-even and initially cost over $1.2 billion and loss over $75 million projectors. 
==Plot==
Physics researchers Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert are co-authors of a book which posits the existence of paranormal phenomena such as ghosts. When the book proves unpopular, Gilbert distances herself and eventually becomes a physics professor at Columbia University, while Yates continues to study the paranormal at a technical college with eccentric engineer Dr. Jillian Holtzmann. 
Years later, Gilbert learns Yates republished the book, threatening her bid for tenure at Columbia. Gilbert reunites with Yates and, in exchange for getting the book out of publication, agrees to assist Yates and Holtzmann on a paranormal investigation.
The group witness and document a malevolent ghost, renewing Gilbert's belief in the paranormal. However, a video of their investigation is posted online, and Gilbert is denied tenure. She accepts an offer to join Yates and Holtzmann's project, but when a new institute director learns its nature, he fires them. 
To continue their research, they open an office above a Chinese restaurant and call themselves the "Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination." They start building equipment to study and capture ghosts. Dim-witted but handsome Kevin Beckman is tapped as a receptionist.
Meanwhile, MTA worker Patty Tolan witnesses a ghost in a subway line and contacts the Department. The group investigate, documenting the ghost and successfully testing Holtzmann's proton containment laser, but their proof is again dismissed.
Despite the setbacks, the group continues to develop their ghost containment technology and advertise their services as what pundits are calling "Ghostbusters". Tolan joins the team, providing a historic knowledge of New York City and a redesigned hearse dubbed "Ecto-1". 
Unbeknownst to them, the ghosts are being summoned by devices built by Rowan North, an occultist and mad scientist attempting to bring about the Apocalypse. Rowan plants another device at a live music venue. The Ghostbusters are called in, and capture the ghost in front of hundreds of people.
When supernatural debunker Dr. Martin Heiss demands proof of the Ghostbusters' claims, Gilbert (who resents being labeled as insane or a liar) releases the ghost from containment, and it throws Heiss out a window before escaping. The Ghostbusters are brought to see Mayor Bradley. It turns out that the city and the Department of Homeland Security are well aware of New York's ghost problem. 
While privately supporting the team's work, the mayor's office and DHS publicly denounce them as fraudsters. The Ghostbusters realize Rowan is planting his devices along ley lines which intersect at the Mercado Hotel in Times Square, a site with a history of paranormal activity, and discover Rowan building a portal to the ghost dimension in the hotel basement.
Rowan electrocutes himself rather than be captured, and Holtzmann deactivates the portal. Gilbert discovers a copy of her and Yates's book among Rowan's possessions. It turns out that he planned all along to become a ghost and turn the spirits he releases into an army under his command. Rowan returns as a powerful ghost, first possessing Yates and then Kevin. 
After possessing the latter, he opens the portal and releases hundreds of ghosts. The police and DHS attempt to stop Rowan and are quickly subdued, but the Ghostbusters fight through the army of ghosts to reach the portal.
Rowan takes the form of the Ghostbusters' logo, grows to enormous height and starts destroying the city. The team devise a plan to use Ecto-1's nuclear reactor to cause a total protonic reversal, close the portal and return the ghosts to their own dimension. The plan succeeds, but Rowan drags Yates into the portal with him.
Gilbert leaps into the portal and rescues Yates & they both return to Manhattan with prematurely white hair. Afterwards, the mayor's office agrees to secretly fund the Ghostbusters' research while publicly continuing to denounce them as frauds. 
With new funding, the Ghostbusters are able to move to a better facility; an old fire house. Despite the mayoral smear campaign, New York lights up with thanks and tributes to the Ghostbusters.
In a post-credits scene, Tolan listens to a recording of a ghost encounter and asks the others if they have heard of Zuul.
==Cast==
* Kristen Wiig as Erin Gilbert 
* Melissa McCarthy as Abby Yates 
* Kate McKinnon as Jillian Holtzmann 
* Leslie Jones as Patty Tolan 
* Chris Hemsworth as Kevin
* Neil Casey as Rowan
* Andy García as the Mayor of New York City
* Cecily Strong as Jennifer Lynch
* Michael K. Williams as Hawkins
* Matt Walsh as Rourke
* Charles Dance as Dr Harold Filmore
*Ed Begley, Jr. as Ed Mulgrave Jr.
Cameos
* Dan Aykroyd as the Taxi Driver
* Ernie Hudson as Patty's uncle
* Bill Murray as Dr Martin Heiss
* Ozzy Osbourne as himself
* Annie Potts as Vanessa
* Sigourney Weaver as Holtzmann's mentor
*Pat Kiernan as himself
*Karan Soni as Benny the deliverman
*Ivan Reitman as passerby
==Gallery==
==Videos==
GHOSTBUSTERS - Official Trailer (HD)
===Images===
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