Atari has released 8 new screenshots, in addition to the 6 previously released, and here they are for your enjoyment (or, in a few cases, scorn.) – The images focus on showing some new enemies, though from the distance of the gameplay camera, it’s hard to make out some of them, but there is a crazy monster that looks to be made up of a junkyard of medical equipment. Given the possessed subway train in previous screens, it looks like animating the inanimate will be a common theme in the game.
The other shots also show off particular proton pack weapon effects, but again without much context. Stay tuned for more!
First look at light-up Slimer packaging, RGB Minimate peeks coming soon.
Art Asylum has posted two pics – front and back – of their soon-to-be-released light-up Slimer. Basically a thinner shell version of the Slimer piggy-bank they released in 2009 with a battery powered light inside, the light-up Slimer would look cool on my desk.
As well, Art Asylum is saying we can expect to see some of the upcoming RGB line of Minimates at February’s New York Toy Fair, at the latest. So, stay tuned for more on those.
Cereal Geek #6 and #7 keep the RGB goodtimes goin’! Exclusive sneak-peeks!
Cereal Geek magazine, thanks to the big response they got from retailers via Diamond’s Preview catalog, is up to their seventh issue, and the two newest, issues six and seven, continue to feature a lot of love for The Real Ghostbusters. Articles include a look at the US and UK comic series, including Egon in a list of Saturday Morning’s brainiest characters, the previously seen, but it’s nice to see it in print pitch that Editor-in-Chief James Eatock and partner Dan Schoening sent to IDW, and for all the ‘shippers out there, a look at the Egon/Janine loooooove connection. Oh, and an interview with RGB scribe, Richard Mueller! And a whole lot of splash pages, including one by RGB comic cover artist, Ken Stacey. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg according to Eatock.
Really, if you haven’t been buying this magazine, you’re missing out.
You can order the issue through your local comic shop (make sure to admonish them for not bringing it in copies for the store!) or you can buy online through the Cereal Geek website!
Reitman comments on GB3 don’t change much of anything.
Not that that’s a surprise to anyone – I mean, it was all guesswork all along, though some mainstream sites took everything a little too serious. Speaking to Eric Eisenberg at CinemaBlend, Ivan Reitman told him that pretty much everything about Ghostbusters 3 online is wrong. Bit of a wasted effort on our part then, eh?
What was most surprising was that Reitman said the reason nobody has the facts is that the first draft of the script was only completed a month ago – this goes a long way to explaining why Bill Murray kept saying that without a script, the movie was a myth, as according to Reitman, there wasn’t a script for Murray to read. Only, we’d been hearing the first draft was done months back.
Eisenberg’s sit-down with Reitman was part of a press junket, and it seems like Ivan was using the opportunity not only to talk about his new movie No Strings Attached, but when asked about GB3 (as it inevitably is), to comment on the Internet speculation. Jenna Busch at Coming Soon got to talk to Reitman on the same junket and she specifically quotes him, instead of Eisenberg’s vague paraphrasing.
ComingSoon.net: So, you know we have to ask you what’s going on with “Ghostbusters 3,” right?
Ivan Reitman: [laughs] We have a really good script, but Bill (Murray) has to read it. He hasn’t read it. There has been all kinds of chatter online about him reading it and not liking it. He has not read a thing. He’s never read anything. And I just sent it to him. So we’ll see. God knows how long that will take. But we’ll see.CS: There have been a ton of stories online. Lots of back and forth…
Reitman: There is almost nothing that is accurate online about that film. Will you write that for me?CS: I will!
Reitman: There is nothing… I mean, all these stories… there has been a ton of stuff about casting, about who’s in… none of it is true.CS: The whole Sigourney Weaver thing about her son taking over and Bill Murray coming back as a ghost…
Reitman: Oh, no, yeah… I mean, Sigourney Weaver has a role in this movie. All the original characters have parts. As well as a whole bunch of new characters… it’s got a really good story, this one. Maybe the best of the whole series. I hope we get to do it.
Basically, he says that most everything we were leery about already, aren’t true – which doesn’t mean a lot, when we hadn’t put a lot of faith in them to begin with (which is sad, as some of it came from Dan Aykroyd, and thus confirms his status as Godfather and lead cheerleader to Ghostbusters, but one of the worst sources of info.)
We knew Murray as ghost was an old old idea and likely axed (as it was originally intended as a way to involve Murray in a third movie by having him essentially cameo in a spectacular fashion, whereas now the full-court press is on to get him back in the saddle.) He NEVER disputes Oscar as a new gen Ghostbuster. And he says all the casting rumours are wrong, something that most of the actors involved shot down themselves already.
So… hey, it’s 2011, it’s our first non-news news item!
Steady as she goes, eh?
Big thanks to everyone (there are too many to list) who sent me the links, I appreciate it, as I’ve been off the grid a lot over the holidays, recharging the batteries.
Charm City Cakes makes GB wedding cake!
Charm City Cakes – whom you might have seen Ace of Cakes on the Food Network – was recently hired to make a wedding cake for two Ghostbusters fanatics, DonnaMarie and Ricky.
CCC outlined the cake, with some great photos, on their website’s blog. Check out the full story here – the proton streams light up! And congrats to the happy couple! Big thanks to Tay for sending in the link.
