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Ghost Hunting-Egon Spengler x Reader

(Based on the movie:Ghostbusters from 1984)

"I'd say we were destined to get out of that dump."

"You gotta be kidding me, we had the perfect job in that university and you blew it,Peter." i angrily glare at him but he just rolls his eyes and keeps talking to our friends. I just blew up half of my life on this, i just got fired because of Peter with the Ray and Egon. Ever since I was a kid I did all my best study hard and get in one of the best universities but everything's been flushed down the toilet.

I teach or..was teaching here at school history,psychics and science. I was teaching with my buddy and long time crush Egon Spengler, we both met through out Peter who desperately tried to ask me out but declined every time.

"Now we gotta open up our own business."

We all walked to the bank and received a check when Peter kept on telling Ray to sell the house he lived in as a kid. I felt bad for him when he held the check in his hands and frowned down at it, "That was the house I lived in as a kid,my parents and my grandparents." "I'm sorry Ray." i tell him and rested my hand on his shoulder.

"Trust me Ray, it's best you've done in years." i glare at Peter who acts like he doesn't care about Ray.

"Egon tell him something."

"Like what?" he asks looking down at me.

I roll my eyes and we began walking down the streets of New York finding a place for us to open up a ghost hunting business. After our little incident at the library Peter's been telling us to help people with the supernatural, which is weird considering he's kinda of an asshole to some people. A lady began to show us an old fire department and Ray was running around and sliding down the pole.

"There's office space,sleeping quarters and showers. on the next floor and there's a full kitchen on the top left." the lady says, "It seem a bit pricey for a unique fixer upper opportunity, that's all." Peter replies.

Egon and I stay silent looking around the place, "Egon,what do you think?" i ask stopping next to him.

"I think this building should he condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members. The wiring is substandard. It's inadequate for our power needs. And the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone." i press my mouth against my lips so I won't laugh out loud. The lady just stares at us surprised

"Hey does this pole still work?! This place is amazing! We should move here,tonight!" Ray says completely forgetting he sold his house. "How much is the place?" I ask the lady, Peter kept looking around the second the lady told me the price and it was more than we could afford, this only means i'll have to put a bit of my money and leave my apartment.

"It's way too much." I look at Egon with agrees with me and shakes his head when Ray comes back and begs us to move in. Egon and I hesitated to sign the papers and regretted every second we went back to the fire department and saw the walls ripped, spiderwebs in every corner and everything dusty.

"Well what are you waiting for? clean up!" Peter said and brought in a four brooms brooms,mops and other cleaning items.

"Oh no, don't think you'll get away with cleaning this time." i annoyingly tell him and pushed a broom to his chest.

"Hey for your information i'm allergic to dust." he tried defending himself.

I cross my arms and glare back at him, "Egon and I are allergic and we aren't complaining. Ray stop sliding down that pole and help us."

Ray and Egon began to clean the windows and every little furniture that was left while Peter and I began to broom the place. We stayed until the next morning cleaning up, I woke up on the couch resting my head against Egon's chest and embarrassed I jumped up when I saw Peter grinning and taking a picture on my polaroid.

The entire day Peter wouldn't stop teasing me and Egon just stared at us weirdly every time i'd shout at his friend, sometimes I wonder how they both began friends cause Egon's the reasonable and calm one while Peter is hard to understand and is a bit obnoxious. Ray on the other hand is the four of the team, he brings us all together and makes sure we're all doing our best.

We found a secretary in no time, her name is Janine and clearly she took the job cause she had no option. Peter and I had another discussion due to him asking the guys their measurements and everything cause he planned on wearing matching uniforms, we all agreed to put half of our money in the job so it was my right to have one too and join on their ghost hunting adventures.

If it wasn't for Egon being on my side i'd be doomed in this group. I had my uniform in my hands and began to head over to the bathroom to try it on when I passed Janine who was talking to Egon, "I heard there's a new restaurant that opened up, it's italian, do you like italian?maybe we hang around and know each other some more."

I angrily stomped away and stayed hidden in the bathroom for a while before I heard the alarm going on meaning that there's a ghost hunting case, hurriedly I changed into my jumpsuit and put on my boots, wiped my tears away and ran out of the bathroom and grabbed onto the pole and reached down the first level.

"Looking nice (Y/N)." Peter said smiling.

"The outfit suits you." Ray happily said putting his cigarette out.

"Thank you." i say to them both, i turn around and see Egon looking at me too "I agree..you do look nice." i can tell he's struggling with what to say,especially with that blush on his cheeks. "Thanks Egon..you look nice too." hurriedly we got on the Ecto-1 and rushed over to a very fancy hotel, we got in and I stared in awe at the place.

"Wow this place is huge."

"Try to not get distracted (Y/N)." Peter tells me. We begin to follow him when he begins asking people where the ghost is, a man hurried and told us that people saw a ghost upstairs so we reached the second floor and began looking for the ghost.

"Keep your eyes peeled for the nasty ghost"

"Let's split up and look for it."

We separated and I began walking down a hall when I noticed Egon behind me, i smile to myself and glanced back at him "Egon. Peter told us to search for the ghost separately." i stopped and fully turn to look at him.

He fakes a cough and refuses to look down at me, "I know. It's just our first time catching a ghost, so I want to make sure we do it properly." i try to not giggle at him coming up with a lie, I admit Egon's behavior has changed quite a bit over the couple of days with me, he'll sometimes avoid if I were alone and only hang out with me if Peter and Ray were together with me. I raise an eyebrow and stare at him behind his glasses I see him still looking away.

"Alright..let's find that ghost."

We began to walk side by side and frightened Egon almost hit a lady who was cleaning a room, "Look there he is!" i point straight ahead and see a weird looking green ghost hovering over trash can.

Slowly I began walking towards it, till it saw me and began flying to where I was. I got scared and coward out quickly running and falling down the ground, "I'm s-sorry!" i blush when i saw myself on top of Egon. I'm pretty sure my entire face was red and he could see it,quickly I crawled off him knowing he doesn't like people touching him. "(L/N), you there?"i hear Ray's voice through the walkie talkie.

"Have you seem the ghost?"

"I did..I was ready to catch him but got scared the last second."

"That's too bad...hey come quick..Peter said he saw him."

"Okay."

Egon and I ran over to where Ray told us to go and se saw Peter on the ground, "He slimed me." i look down at him disgusted at the slime "That's disgusting."

"That's great! Actual physical contact!" Ray excitedly tells him.

Peter got up and Egon began collecting some slime to his research "Hear that?" the boys stayed silent and quickly I got down and pressed my ear against the floor. "He's down in the ballroom!"

"Great!"

"Let's go!"

The four of us began to run down the stairs and locked the door behind us once we entered the ballroom, "Now let's make some room." the boys began the throw the well decorated tables onto the floor and stacking some up. "There he is!" i grabbed a glass vase and threw it on top the chandelier making it all to the ground "Make sure to not cross the streams." Egon warns us when the boys began to capture the ghost.

I held the door together since the man behind us was getting frustrated and began shouting on the other side for the keys. "(Y/N), get over here and help us!" Peter shouted.I ran and thew the trap on the floor and together we caught the green ghost the boys called Slimer. "We did it!!" we all high fived each other and Peter opened up the doors and the place was crowded.

"We came,we saw, we kicked it's ass!"

Ray held onto where the trap and the man in charge stared at us afraid, "You catch it?! Will there be more?!" he asks when Ray hold up the trap which is covering in smoke. "What you had there was what we refer to as a focused non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a class five full roaming vapor." i say to the man and took out my gloves.

"Yeah and a real nasty one too." Ray says next.

"And now let's talk seriously." I smirk and glance over to Egon and Peter. "Now for the entrapment, we're gonna have to ask you.." i glance behind me and see Egon holding out four fingers to me, "For four big ones, 4000 dollars."

"But we are having a special this week on proton charging and storage of the beast. That's only gonna come to 1000 dollars,fortunately." Peter says finishing what I said.

The man stares at has like he's gonna have a heart attacks any second, "Five thousand dollars? I had no idea it'd be so much. I won't pay it."

I shrug my shoulder and look back at Ray "Well,that's all right. My friend here can just put it back." Ray nods and begins to walk to the ballroom again before the man stops him. "No! All right!" the man agrees stopping Ray.

"Thank you. Hope we can help you again." I sarcastically tell the man and we all walk down to the car with smiles on our faces. We all cheered again on our way home and began to have a giant feast, "To us the Ghostbusters!" Peter says raising up a glass and began drinking away the bottle on wine we bought.

"We all did an amazing job,especially you Egon." i timidly tell him and see Ray nudging him. "Thanks..you also did a good job." he replies pushing up his glasses. I said my goodnight to them and began heading to my small room since there was one empty room and the guys had their room to share. "(Y/N)." i stop when I heard Egon's voice behind me.

"I was wondering if you'd like to spend tomorrow evening with me-"

"Of course, it'll be my pleasure." I look up to him and wrapped my arms around Egon "Goodnight,Egon." slowly he wrapped his arms around my waist and rested his head against my shoulder. We pulled away and before I went in my room I gave him a quick kiss on his lips before shutting the door behind me, "I'm so glad to become a Ghostbuster."

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'Ghostbusters' Will Get an Extended Cut on Blu-ray — Will That Include the Chris Hemsworth Dance Sequence?

‘Ghostbusters’ (Photo: Sony)

After enduring endless online slings and arrows ahead of its July debut, Paul Feig’s rebooted Ghostbusters earned a disappointing $125 million haul at the box office. Given the costs associated with producing and marketing it, that may not be enough to nab it a sequel — but fans craving more supernatural comedy action can look forward to the upcoming Blu-ray of the film, which is set to include a ton of additional content.

The upcoming home-video release of Ghostbusters will debut an extended cut boasting 15 minutes of all-new footage that was excised from the theatrical feature. Given the somewhat poor track record, quality-wise, of such expanded comedy releases, it remains to be seen if this new version will improve upon the original. We’re holding out hope though, that at least one of these new sequences is the big Chris Hemsworth dance number —in which he leads police officers and soldiers in a Bee Gees-scored boogie through Times Square — that reportedly cost a seven-figure sum to produce and then was relegated to the end-credits outtake reel after it tested poorly with early audiences.

Otherwise, the Blu-ray will be jam-packed with three hours of additional content:

Ghostbusters Extended Edition & Theatrical Version

2 gag reels

4 deleted scenes

11 alternate scenes and more than 60 minutes of additional extended and alternate scenes with Ultraviolet download

6 alternate take reels

5 Featurettes: “Chris Hemsworth is ‘Kevin’”; “The Ghosts of Ghostbusters”; “Meet the Team”; “Visual Effects: 30 Years Later”; “Slime Time”

Filmmaker commentaries

Photo gallery

Ghostbusters will debut on Digital HD on Sept. 27, and then on 4K/Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray, and DVD – replete with the above special features – on Oct. 11.

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'Ghostbusters': How the Classes of 1984 and 2016 Looked in Real-Life H.S. Yearbook Photos

Long before they put on the garbagemen-inspired uniforms, when all the future Ghostbusters were graduating from high school, their yearbook photos reveal the young spitting images of their respective on-screen characters. The 1984 and 2016 Ghostbusters stars had a wide range of high school senior years, from the 1960s through the early 2000s, although each decade now seems just as dated as the others (who ever thought these hairstyles were cool?). 

Bill Murray (1968/1984)

Bill Murray presents a nice, small smile for his senior year photograph at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Ill. Not 20 years later, Murray would adopt a cheekier grin when delivering some of the classic Ghostbusters one-liners as Dr. Peter Venkman. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Everett Collection)

Dan Aykroyd (1969/1984)

Dan Aykroyd ditched the glasses after St. Patrick's High School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and went on to write the campy, now classic idea of four adult men fighting ghosts, including his own Dr. Raymond Stantz. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/REX)

Sigourney Weaver (1967/1984)

Sigourney Weaver may have the least embarrassing senior year portrait out of the Ghostbusters cast at Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn. She would trade in her ’60s middle part for some iconic ’80s curls as Dana Barrett, or Zuul. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Everett Collection)

Ernie Hudson (1964/1984)

Ernie (Earnest Lee) Hudson also skipped the awkward phase his senior year at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Mich., and later completed the Ghostbusters team as Winston Zeddmore. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Everett Collection)

Harold Ramis (1962/1984)

Harold Ramis hardly changed from his senior year at Senn High School in Chicago to Dr. Egon Spengler, and seemed to use his nerdy spectacles as an inspiration for his Ghostbusters eyewear. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Everett Collection)

Annie Potts (1970/1984)

Annie Potts changed from her doe-eyed senior year at Franklin Simpson High School in Franklin, Ky., to the snarky, bored receptionist Janine Melnitz 14 years later. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Everett Collection)

Kate McKinnon (2002/2016)

Kate McKinnon (Kathryn Berthold) departed from her senior year look at North Shore High School in Glen Head, N.Y., to take on the wacky and weird Jillian Holtzmann in the 2016 reboot. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Columbia)

Kristen Wiig (1991/2016)

Kristen Wiig epitomized the ’90s in her senior year at Brighton High School in Rochester, N.Y., with her pearls and excessive hair volume. Luckily, she ditched the frizz for bangs as Erin Gilbert in Ghostbusters. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Columbia)

Leslie Jones (1984/2016)

Leslie (Annette) Jones also did a 180 from her junior year at Lynwood High School in Lynwood, Calif., giving Patty Tolan an updated look. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Columbia)

Melissa McCarthy (1988/2016)

While Kristen Wiig had the ’90s look, Melissa McCarthy sported a very ’80s haircut during her senior year at St. Francis Academy Joliet in Ill. Dumping the short hair for a bun and glasses, Abby Yates makes for a modern ghostbuster. (Photo: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library/Columbia)

Chris Hemsworth (2004/2016)

Chris Hemsworth may not have a yearbook photo, but this image of him playing a student in the Australian soap Home and Away circa 2004 is basically the same thing. Growing taller and bigger, Hemsworth plays the cute but dim-witted Kevin in Ghostbusters. (Photo: Australia Network/Columbia)

Slimer (1984/2016)

Our last member of the squad may be more of a nuisance than a team member, but he is nonetheless firmly associated with the Ghostbusters. Graduating from ’80s CGI to more glistening, truly “slimey” 21st century graphics, Slimer has aged beautifully along with the rest of the team. (Photo: Everett/Columbia)

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'Ghostbusters' Trailer

Release date: July 15, 2016

Director: Paul Feig

Starring: Melissa McCarthy Kristen Wiig Kate McKinnon Leslie Jones Chris Hemsworth Andy Garcia

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New 'Ghostbusters' Team Reveals Their Strangest Jobs Ever on 'Ellen' — Like Scientology Telemarketer

The new Ghostbusters team — Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones — have gotten a two-month press junket jump start by appearing on Ellen. In an episode that airs today, the four stars of the upcoming “bustin’ makes me feel good” reboot spoke with host Ellen DeGeneres about some of their odder previous jobs, as well as co-star Chris Hemsworth’s hotness, and played an intense couple of rounds of Head’s Up. McKinnon — who regularly imitates DeGeneres and Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live — also did back-to-back impressions of both women, while standing in between them. (Clinton is a guest on the program today as well.)

Here are some of the things that were revealed during their appearance. (Note: none of these things reveals anything significant about Ghostbusters.)

1. Leslie Jones previously worked as a telemarketer for Scientology.

"They kinda still don’t know I’m not a Scientologist,” Jones says when DeGeneres asks about the pre-show-business gig. “Thanks for blowing my cover, Ellen.”

“I lived in Glendale, I needed to pay the rent, and it was a very easy interview,” she adds. “I just acted crazy.”

2. Kate McKinnon once had a job as a little league softball umpire.

“In retrospect, should have brushed up on the rules of softball before litigating them,” she says. “But I didn’t.”

3. The Ghostbusters confirm that Chris Hemsworth is smart, nice and a good improviser.

They confirm this while pictures of a shirtless Hemsworth appear on a screen behind them, prompting Jones to turn around and look at one point, then simply exclaim: “Damn!”

4. Ellen DeGeneres does not know the term for a conga line.

During the Head’s Up portion of the appearance, Wiig and McCarthy played the “guess the dance moves” version of the game, where a guesser (DeGeneres) has to shout out the names of the dances that the other two players (Wiig and McCarthy) are performing. At one point, Wiig and McCarthy clearly demonstrate what a conga line looks like, but somehow DeGeneres can’t guess what they are doing. 

“I don’t know what that is,” she says. “I don’t know the name of it.”

As a result of this moment, I have now lost all confidence in Dory’s ability to find her family. 

5. Like Amy Poehler before her, McKinnon has no problem impersonating Hillary Clinton while in her presence.

Same goes for DeGeneres. Another thing we learned: This part of the segment wasn’t pre-scripted at all.

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'Ghostbusters' Star Leslie Jones Talks Twitter Harassment on 'The Late Show'

After suffering a barrage of hateful, racist messages on Twitter thanks to her participation in Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot, star Leslie Jones seemingly quit the social-media site over the weekend, only to return to it yesterday. Last night, she explained to Seth Meyers that she never meant for people to take her departure as permanent. (Watch the clip above.)

Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Saturday Night Live comedian clarified what exactly went down three days ago, when the below tweet led fans to believe she was forever exiting Twitter thanks to the intolerant slander of myriad online bigots.

I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today...wrong

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg)

July 19, 2016

Jones said: “I did not leave Twitter. I didn’t leave. I just signed out, because I wanted to deal with what was going on. And then I went to bed, and I woke up the next morning, and I was like ‘They said I left Twitter! Wait! I didn’t leave!’”

As she told Meyers, what was really scary wasn’t that people didn’t like the new Ghostbusters — which tallied a middling $46 million at the box-office last weekend — or even her performance in it as Ghostbuster Pattie Tolan, but rather the sheer ugliness of the comments she received.

“What scared me was the injustice of a gang of people jumping against you for such a sick cause. I mean, it was like, everybody has an opinion, and it all comes at you at one time. And they really believe in what they believe in, and it’s so mean. Like, it’s so gross and mean, and unnecessary.””

By calling attention to these attacks, Jones helped motivate Twitter to ban numerous users, including Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, whose savage review of the film was blamed for spearheading the anti-Jones charge. It was a necessary step, Jones said, because she loves Twitter, and had to let it be known (including to CEO Jack Dorsey) that it was being abused. “It’s like, that’s my favorite restaurant. I love the food there. Three people just got shot in front of me. Y’all need to get some security!”

Jones has since resumed Tweeting, including sending a big thank you to all of those who supported her, some of whose video messages of support were featured during her Late Show appearance.

Thanks for the love and support I received! made me feel real special See you later on @sethmeyers #LoveForLeslieJ pic.twitter.com/1SOU5QnhMQ

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg)

July 21, 2016

For her part, Jones summed up the incident aptly: “Hate speech and freedom of speech — two different things.”

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'Ghostbusters' No. 2 With $46M, Slimed By 'Secret Life of Pets'

By Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter

Spooked by The Secret Life of Pets, Sony's all-female Ghostbusters opened in the No. 2 spot at the North American box office with $46 million from 3,962 theaters, a lukewarm start considering the movie's sizeable budget.

Pets easily stayed No. 1 in its second weekend as it barked past the $200 million mark domestically, earning $50.6 million from 4,381 locations for a total of $203.2 million through Sunday. Overseas, the Illumination and Universal release has earned $50.8 million so far — it has only opened in nine markets — for an early global total of $254 million.

Another animated tentpole, Finding Dory, also continued to make headlines, becoming the top-grossing animated title of all time in North America with $445.5 million through Sunday (Shrek 2 was the previous champ with $244.2 million), not accounting for inflation. For the weekend, Dory placed No. 4 with $11 million, while overseas it earned another $36.5 million from 45 countries for a worldwide haul of $721.8 million for Pixar and Disney.

Related: The Making of a Comedy Classic: Director Ivan Reitman Spills the Secrets Behind the Original 'Ghostbusters'

Directed by Paul Feig, Ghostbusters hopes to relaunch the storied franchise, but the movie's early box-office performance doesn't make that a guarantee, although Sony executives are already promising further installments.

The film, with a net production budget of $144 million (tax rebates and incentives brought it down from $154 million), will need strong legs in the U.S. and be a big player overseas to land in the black for Sony and partner Village Roadshow Pictures.

For the better part of two years, Feig and Sony have come under constant attack from vocal opponents of the decision to make the leads all female. In classic 1984 movie, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Harold Ramis famously starred as the Ghostbusters. This time out, the ghoul chasers are played by McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Not surprisingly, Ghostbusters skewed heavily female (57 percent) for an all-audience tentpole, while 63 percent of ticket buyers were over the age of 25. Overall, moviegoers gave the film a B+ CinemaScore, although younger consumers liked it more, with those under the age of 18 giving it an A-.

Ghostbusters marks the biggest domestic opening ever for Feig and McCarthy, his frequent collaborator, but it's also their first franchise tentpole. Their previous best was The Heat, which debuted to $39.1 million.

Related: Rick Moranis Reveals Why He Turned Down 'Ghostbusters' Reboot: "It Makes No Sense to Me"

The reboot, also featuring Chris Hemsworth and boasting a number of cameos by stars of the original series, including Murray, is once again set in Manhattan, where a ghost invasion forces a couple of paranormal enthusiasts, a nuclear engineer and subway worker to band together to stop the threat. Ivan Reitman, who directed the 1984 movie, produced the update with former Sony studio chief Amy Pascal.

Heading into the weekend, Sony, trying to manage expectations, predicted a domestic debut of $38 million-$40 million. But others thought the film could cross $50 million, thanks to generally strong reviews (73 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and an aggressive marketing campaign. NRG, the industry's leading tracking service, even had it debuting to $54 million.

The weekend's only other new nationwide release was The Infiltrator, starring Bryan Cranston as a federal agent who infiltrates Pablo Escobar's drug cartel, although it had a relatively small footprint, or 1,601 theaters.

From Broad Green Pictures and directed by Brad Furman, the adult drama earned a better-than-expected $6.7 million over the course of its five-day debut (it opened Wednesday) after nabbing an A- CinemaScore. John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt, Yul Vazquez and Amy Ryan also star in the movie, which placed No. 8.

Related 'Ghostbusters': Film Review

There were a flurry of new offerings at the specialty box office, including Woody Allen's Cafe Society, which nabbed the top location average of the year for any film. The period romantic comedy, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, earned $361,000 from five theaters in New York and Los Angeles for a screen average of $71,000.

For Stewart, Cafe Society will no doubt lessen the sting of Equals, which bombed in its limited theatrical opening after debuting on DirecTV in late May. Starring Stewart opposite Nicholas Hoult, Drake Doremus' sci-fi love story earned $8,000-$9,000 from three theaters in New York and Canada. A24 partnered with DirecTV in acquiring rights to Equals.

Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party scored the top location average of the year for a political documentary in opening to $77,500 from three cinemas in Texas for an average $25,833.

Related: 'Suicide Squad' Debuts Character Videos for Joker, Harley Quinn and More

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14 Kids Movies From the '80s That Left You Horrified

For a decade that brought us Care Bears and Cabbage-Patch Kids, the 1980s wasn't always a child-friendly haven. Little did unsuspecting children (and their parents) realize, but many of the films considered kid classics had horror movies hidden inside their G- and PG-rated wrappings. From nightmare-inducing monsters to sudden and shocking tragedies, these are the '80s movies that had sobbing kids sleeping with their Lite-Brites on:

The Last Unicorn — Burning Red Bull

Burning red bull. Not just a dangerous-sounding cocktail but also the bane of unicorns. ('The Last Unicorn,' Rankin/Bass Productions)

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Return to Oz — Headless Hallway

Dorothy meets the disembodied heads. And you thought flying monkeys were scary. ('Return to Oz,' Oz Productions Ltd.)

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — Ditch

E.T. lies dying in a ditch. We're still traumitized. ('E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,' Universal Pictures)

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The Neverending Story — Wolf

Hello, creepy wolf. My what terrifying teeth you have. ('The Neverending Story,' Bavaria Studios)

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure — Large Marge

"On this very night, 10 years ago..." ('Pee-wee's Big Adventure,' Warner Bros.)

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The Dark Crystal — Aughra Eye

Aughra and her removable eye help puts the dark in 'Dark Cyrstal.' ('The Dark Crystal,' Jim Henson Productions)

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Labyrinth — Jareth (David Bowie) Entrance

Jareth (David Bowie)'s window entrance: child's freak-out, mom's fantasy? ('Labyrinth,' Jim Henson Company)

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The Secret of NIMH — Great Owl

The Great Owl awakes — and reminds everyone this ain't a Disney flick. ('The Secret of NIMH,' MGM)

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Time Bandits — Evil

Evil vaporizes a prisoner as parents wish they could go back in time, choose different matinee. ('Time Bandits,' Handmade Films)

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Legend — Devil (Tim Curry)

Tim Curry is virtually unrecognizable, yet utterly nightmarish, as the big bad in 'Legend.' ('Legend,' Legend Production Company)

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The Fox and the Hound — Fight

When a Disney buddy movie takes a bad turn. ('The Fox and the Hound,' Walt Disney Pictures)

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Gremlins — Blender

That Gremlin smoothie nobody asked for. ('Gremlins,' Warner Bros.)

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A Christmas Story — Santa Boot

Ho, ho, ho, down you go. ('A Christmas Story,' Warner Bros.)

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Ghostbusters — Dana Demon (Sigourney Weaver)

The final battle between possessed Dana (Sigourney Weaver) and the Ghostbusters... or the rave from hell? ('Ghostbusters,' Columbia Pictures)

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Fall Out Boy’s New 'Ghostbusters' Theme Song Is Not Afraid of the Dark

Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters gives everything a full redo — including, it turns out, the classic, catchy, campy theme song by Ray Parker Jr. The theme song as revamped by Fall Out Boy with Missy Elliott, released this morning (hear it above), abandons the bright pop past in favor of a darker guitar-heavy dose of alternative/mid-2000s emo angst. Be prepared to hear this song in various Hot Topics for the next couple of weeks/months/years.

Related: Watch Two Generations of ‘Ghostbusters’ Get Down on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

The sound of the theme song comes as a bit of a surprise given the tone of the trailers. Has Ghostbusters’ target audience become 14-year-olds with red streaks in their hair? Is the song subliminally trying to get me to see Suicide Squad? 

Part of the genius of the original theme was its inherent campiness and accessibility. The song was vividly self-aware, and cued its audience that a movie filled with dicey effects, a goofy plot, and Bill Murray would not take itself too seriously. Instead of the cheeky line “I ain’t afraid of no ghost,” here we get “I’m not afraid” wailed repeatedly with the more familiar “Ghostbusters!” shouted along in the background. On first listen, it doesn’t seem to mesh with the comedy and silliness inherent in the movie.

Related: ‘Ghostbusters’: Meet the New Crew in Character Profile Videos

Missy Elliott also features on the track, with her verse adding some verve at roughly the 1:40 mark; maybe she should have taken the lead on the remake? Give it a listen above and decide for yourself. The Ghostbusters soundtrack album and the new Ghostbusters movie both are scheduled to arrive on July 15.

‘Ghostbusters’ flashback: Watch the trailer for the 1984 original:

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‘Ghostbusters II’ Predicted the End of the World on Feb. 14, 2016 — Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sure, it’s not quite Back to the Future Day, but Feb. 14, 2016, has its own special resonance in the movie-fan universe. That’s one of the dates given as a potential end of the world in 1989′s Ghostbusters II, back when 2016 sounded suitably far-off in the future. 

Of course, before you cancel your Valentine’s Day plans, we should probably consider the source: The date comes during an early scene in the sequel when we see all the Ghostbusters gone-to-seed. They were put out of the busting-business when they wrecked New York City at the end of the first movie. (Watch the scene above.) Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) is hosting a lo-fi, low-rent TV show called World of the Psychic, and he welcomes two apocalypse-predicting guests. The first is Milton (Kevin Dunn), who wrote a book about the end of the world arriving on New Year’s Eve (”That’s cutting it a little bit close, isn’t it?” asks Venkman). And the other is a woman named Elaine (Chloe Webb) who says her source — an alien on a sojourn at a Holiday Inn in Paramus, NJ — told her the date would be Feb. 14, 2016. “Valentine’s Day. Bummer,” says Venkman, speaking for all of us.

Still, we wouldn’t worry too much if we were you. As Venkman notes, you can’t really trust aliens. 

Related: 15 Facts You Didn't Know About the Original 'Ghostbusters' 

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'Ghostbusters' Director Paul Feig Commits to Taking Geek Community 'Back From the Bullies'

The ‘Ghostbusters’ cast  (Hopper Stone/Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures via AP)

If you’ve been keeping track of your Ghostbusters reboot news, you already know that the movie, which doesn’t come out until July, has been slimed online with quite a bit of negative commentary. 

The recent teaser for the film has become the most disliked trailer in YouTube history, with some lodging complaints, on YouTube and other platforms, about the comedy’s tone and the fact that women, not men, are the ones holding the proton packs.

Related: Paul Feig on Why Bill Murray Joined His 'Ghostbusters' — And the 'Nerve-racking' Moment He Stepped on Set

In a piece published last week by the New York Daily News, Paul Feig, director of Ghostbusters, was quoted as saying, “Geek culture is home to some of the biggest a------s I've ever met in my life." It was a statement Feig made a year ago in response to a book author’s general questions about the reboot controversy, not a comment about the brouhaha regarding the trailer. The Daily News clarified the context of Feig’s comments with a correction, which prompted Feig to share more of his thoughts via Twitter.

Paul Feig in April (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

“I very much regret saying in my answer that I had actually ‘met’ any ‘a------s’ from the geek community. I have never met anyone from the geek world face-to-face who wasn’t a warm, kind person.  The ‘a------s’ of which I speak are the ones who live online, who write those hateful tweets and posts and comments.”

Feig says he has no problem with people disliking the trailer or being offended by the prospect of a Ghostbusters reboot, but he does object to “bullies” who write hateful, misogynistic things simply because they don’t care for a movie.

Related: New 'Ghostbusters' Trailer Offers More Chris Hemsworth

“The geek world has been a haven for so many of us and we should all refuse to let these bullies hijack the conversations and debates we all love to engage in, nor should we let them represent our community and culture to the rest of the world,” he adds. “The bullies are not the norm and I would dare say they are not even true geeks. They are the micro minority. God bless the true geeks of the world and here’s to taking our community back from the bullies.”

Of course, Feig’s open letter was immediately met with some negative responses on Twitter, as well as some warm ones, too. The comments section on an Entertainment Weekly story about the filmmaker’s anti-bullying stance is filled with readers calling Feig a “cry baby” and accusing him of ruining comedy by bringing gender politics into it. A sample: “No offense but there is no way Wiig, McCarthy, hillary clinton comic are going to match comedy against Aykroyd, Moranis, Murray and Ramis.... Up yours Feig, I will not watch Ghostbusters now.”

The effort to take back the community from the bullies continues, apparently.

Watch our ‘Ghostbusters’ trailer breakdown:

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14 Kids Movies From the '80s That Left You Horrified

For a decade that brought us Care Bears and Cabbage-Patch Kids, the 1980s wasn't always a child-friendly haven. Little did unsuspecting children (and their parents) realize, but many of the films considered kid classics had horror movies hidden inside their G- and PG-rated wrappings. From nightmare-inducing monsters to sudden and shocking tragedies, these are the '80s movies that had sobbing kids sleeping with their Lite-Brites on:

The Last Unicorn — Burning Red Bull

Burning red bull. Not just a dangerous-sounding cocktail but also the bane of unicorns. ('The Last Unicorn,' Rankin/Bass Productions)

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Return to Oz — Headless Hallway

Dorothy meets the disembodied heads. And you thought flying monkeys were scary. ('Return to Oz,' Oz Productions Ltd.)

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — Ditch

E.T. lies dying in a ditch. We're still traumitized. ('E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,' Universal Pictures)

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The Neverending Story — Wolf

Hello, creepy wolf. My what terrifying teeth you have. ('The Neverending Story,' Bavaria Studios)

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure — Large Marge

"On this very night, 10 years ago..." ('Pee-wee's Big Adventure,' Warner Bros.)

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The Dark Crystal — Aughra Eye

Aughra and her removable eye help puts the dark in 'Dark Cyrstal.' ('The Dark Crystal,' Jim Henson Productions)

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Labyrinth — Jareth (David Bowie) Entrance

Jareth (David Bowie)'s window entrance: child's freak-out, mom's fantasy? ('Labyrinth,' Jim Henson Company)

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The Secret of NIMH — Great Owl

The Great Owl awakes — and reminds everyone this ain't a Disney flick. ('The Secret of NIMH,' MGM)

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Time Bandits — Evil

Evil vaporizes a prisoner as parents wish they could go back in time, choose different matinee. ('Time Bandits,' Handmade Films)

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Legend — Devil (Tim Curry)

Tim Curry is virtually unrecognizable, yet utterly nightmarish, as the big bad in 'Legend.' ('Legend,' Legend Production Company)

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The Fox and the Hound — Fight

When a Disney buddy movie takes a bad turn. ('The Fox and the Hound,' Walt Disney Pictures)

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Gremlins — Blender

That Gremlin smoothie nobody asked for. ('Gremlins,' Warner Bros.)

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A Christmas Story — Santa Boot

Ho, ho, ho, down you go. ('A Christmas Story,' Warner Bros.)

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Ghostbusters — Dana Demon (Sigourney Weaver)

The final battle between possessed Dana (Sigourney Weaver) and the Ghostbusters... or the rave from hell? ('Ghostbusters,' Columbia Pictures)

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