Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024 film) Full Movie Download, MP4, Mkv, 4K HD & Cast

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a 2024 American supernatural comedy film directed by Gil Kenan, who co-wrote it with Jason Reitman. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and the fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise. The film stars Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Celeste O’Connor, and Logan Kim reprising their roles from Afterlife, alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton reprising their characters from the earlier films, while Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt also join the cast. In the film, years after averting a dimensional crossrip in Summerville, Oklahoma, the veteran Ghostbusters must join forces with their new recruits to save the world in New York City from a powerful death-chilling adversary.

Following the success of Afterlife, Sony Pictures announced the sequel in April 2022, with Reitman returning as director. Kenan later took over as director from Reitman that December, while the rest of the cast reprised their roles. New cast members including Oswalt, Nanjiani, James Acaster, and Emily Alyn Lind were announced in March 2023, with principal photography commencing that month and wrapping it in June. It is the first film in the Ghostbusters franchise to be released following the death of Ivan Reitman, who posthumously receives credit as a producer, while the film will be dedicated to his memory and celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ghostbusters (1984).

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is scheduled to have its world premiere in New York City on March 14, 2024, and will be released in the United States on March 22, 2024, by Columbia Pictures under Sony Pictures Releasing.

Premise

In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family decide to leave Summerville, Oklahoma and go back to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – and help the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level! But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.

— Sony Pictures

Cast

• Finn Wolfhard as Trevor Spengler
• Mckenna Grace as Phoebe Spengler
• Paul Rudd as Gary Grooberson
• Carrie Coon as Callie Spengler
• Kumail Nanjiani as Nadeem Razmaadi
• Patton Oswalt as Dr. Hubert Wartzki
• Celeste O’Connor as Lucky Domingo
• Logan Kim as Podcast
• Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman
• Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond “Ray” Stantz
• Ernie Hudson as Dr. Winston Zeddemore
• Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
• William Atherton as Walter Peck
• James Acaster as Lars Pinfield

Additionally, Emily Alyn Lind has been cast in an undisclosed role.

Production

Development

Following the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife in November 2021, Dan Aykroyd expressed interest in having the surviving cast of the original Ghostbusters team reprise their roles in up to three sequels.

In April 2022, it was announced that a sequel to Afterlife was in early development at Sony Pictures.

In June 2022, the film was confirmed by director Jason Reitman under the working title Firehouse. That same month it was announced that the sequel would take place in New York City. On October 5, 2022, Mckenna Grace announced that she would reprise her role. The following month, Ernie Hudson revealed he read a script for the film.

In December 2022, it was announced that Gil Kenan would take over as director from Reitman, who still remains as a writer and producer. It was also announced that Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Carrie Coon would return. In March 2023, it was announced that Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, James Acaster and Emily Alyn Lind had been cast in the film.

According to Nanjiani, the filmmakers drew inspiration from the animated series The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991) for the film, noting they “wanted to make a long episode of the animated series”.

Filming

Principal photography began on March 20, 2023, in London, under the working title Firehouse, with Eric Steelberg serving as the cinematographer. On April 25, 2023, Hudson indicated that Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Annie Potts would reprise their roles from previous Ghostbusters movies in the film; Aykroyd confirmed he would return for the sequel in June 2023.

Filming was spotted in New York City where Casey Neistat was caught filming a stunt scene in a video posted on June 7, 2023 while documenting the effects of the 2023 Canadian wildfires in New York City. Filming wrapped on June 23.

Music

On January 18, 2024, Dario Marianelli was confirmed to compose the film’s score, marking his second collaboration with Gil Kenan after doing so for A Boy Called Christmas (2021). He recorded his score on the Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage in the newly named John Williams Music Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City. Peter Bernstein returned as score consultant, after doing so for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Release date

Theatrical

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire will have its world premiere in New York City on March 14, 2024 and is scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures Releasing on March 22, 2024. It was previously scheduled to be released on December 20, 2023, but was delayed to March 29, 2024 (taking over the original release date of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse) in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, before being moved up a week to March 22 in January 2024.

Marketing

On November 8, 2023, Sony released the first teaser trailer, which officially revealed the title as Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, as well as revealing the synopsis for the film.

Home media

In April 2021, Sony signed deals with Netflix and Disney for the rights to their 2022 to 2026 film slate, following the films’ theatrical and home media windows. Netflix signed for exclusive “pay 1 window” streaming rights, which is typically an 18-month window and included Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and its past films. Disney signed for “pay 2 window” rights for the films, which would be streamed on Disney+ and Hulu as well as broadcast on Disney’s linear television networks.