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More -- much more -- 'Ghostbusters' on the way for Sony

Mar. 10, 2015 12:08 AM ETSony Group Corporation (SONY) StockSONYBy: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor
  • Sony (NYSE:SNE) isn't just up to creating its new all-female Ghostbusters movie -- they're going full Marvel, pursuing the idea of a new cinematic universe built around the paranormal protagonists.
  • Sony Pictures is creating a unit called Ghost Corps to administer the all-female film as well as another male-oriented one that might star producer Channing Tatum and be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), and whatever other ghostly ideas come out of the new braintrust, run by original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman and star Dan Aykroyd.
  • The female version will star Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy and should shoot this summer for a summer 2016 release.
  • The gamble to replicate Marvel's success is a big one, but the rewards in media and merchandising are plentiful if the team can replicate the original success: The first film drew $242M domestically, while its sequel added $112M (and another $103M in foreign markets).

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