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29-04-2009 14:31 | 10380 views | Dave Foster | My Other Content

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Worldwide Blu-ray Disc release of Ghostbusters on the week of 15th June 2009. Released alongside the new videogame from Atari, Ivan Reitman’s sci-fi comedy stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts, and Rick Moranis.

Blu-ray release trailer: Quicktime / Windows Media.

The UK release arrives on 15th June 2009 and is coded for all regions (A, B and C). Features include:

1080P 2.40:1 Widescreen
English and Italian 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
English, English HOH, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles
Slimer Mode: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-Up Trivia Track (BD Exclusive)
Cinechat
Ecto-1: Resurrecting the Classic Car
Ghostbusters Garage: Ecto-1 Gallery
Making of Ghostbusters – The Video Game
Ghostbusters: The Video Game – Preview
Commentary w/ Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis & Joe Medjuck
Deleted Scenes
1984 Making-Of Featurette
Cast and Crew Featurette
SFX Team Documentary
SFX Before & After (Multi Angles)
Storyboard, Split-Screen Compare

The USA release arrives on 16th June 2009 and is also coded for all regions (A, B and C). The features are worded a little differently but look roughly the same…

Disc Specs

1080P 2.40: Widescreen
English, French and Portuguese 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles (Main Feature): English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch
Subtitles (Extra Features): French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch

All-New Exclusive Special Features

Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
Slimer Mode: Picture-in-Picture Graphical Viewing Experience with an examination of the spook-hunters’ firehouse headquarters, an in-depth exploration of the creatures in the Ghostbusters mythology, behind-the-scenes discussions of making the movie, new cast, crew and special effects artists interviews and much more!
Featurette: Ecto-1: Resurrecting the Classic Car
Ghostbusters Garage: Ecto-1 Gallery
Collectible 32 Page Scrapbook

Additional Special Features

Filmmakers’ Commentary with Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis and Joe Medjuck
Featurette: 1984 – The Making of Ghostbusters – Interviews with the cast and crew
Featurette: Interviews with Cast and Crew
Featurette: SFX Team - Includes Before and After Multi-Angle Explorations
Scene Cemetery – 10 Deleted Scenes
Storyboard Comparisons
Closed Captioned

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#1 Posted: 07-01-2009 22:59
filmfan316uk Member Posts: 404	Back in 2000 the reasons I wanted a DVD player were to play WWF DVDs and Ghostbusters. I got a DVD player for my birthday in November 2000 and Ghostbusters was my first disc. I will be pre-ordering this. The video game actually looks good which is strange as 99% of licenced video games are rubbish. Whlist I doubt it will be great on the scale of Goldeneye 007 on the N64 I do think it has a chance of being the second best video game based on a film ever. The R2 DVD was missing a couple of features from its R1 counterpart. These were a trivia track and an featurette which at the time of the discs release (1999) had brand new interviews. I suspect that featurette will be what the featurette called Interviews with Cast and Crew is. No trailer sadly but still I won't be getting rid of my DVD and its on there.

#2 Posted: 08-01-2009 05:21
paulb_99 Member Posts: 50	Again i see Dutch subtitles on a US disc. Firefly had it and so did RocknRolla. Have we become a worldpower to be reckoned with yet again?! ;-) Paul

#3 Posted: 08-01-2009 09:01
RisingSun Member Posts: 448	Brilliant Stuff! A day and date purchase for many I am sure! Strangely, I even looking forward to the video game - you may treat it as a sort of interactive Ghostbusters III.

#4 Posted: 08-01-2009 10:30
DeadKenny Member Posts: 215	Forget the new game. If they don't include the ZX Spectrum classic on the Blu-Ray, I'm not buying it! ;) (seriously though, should be possible given BD-J's basis on Java ME, and there's already a Spectrum emulator for Java ME).

#5 Posted: 12-01-2009 13:40
mentasm Member Posts: 142	Brilliant Stuff! A day and date purchase for many I am sure! Not unless we can travel back in time to 1984 and invent Blu-ray, then convince Columbia Tri-Star to releases said Blu-ray on the same day as the theatrical release of the film ;)

#6 Posted: 21-04-2009 09:06
Pineapples101 Member Posts: 25	Beautiful! This may be my reason to upgrade to BD. However as a completist Im a little annoyed that once again we don't seem to be getting the deleted scene that features on the Criterion laserdisc release back in the day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4kFpREbJMs

#7 Posted: 21-04-2009 19:18
jroadley Member Posts: 135	Unless Indy gets released on bd - this is my disc of 2009

#8 Posted: 22-04-2009 10:27
Rossyross Member Posts: 185	Aw, poor Ernie Hudson doesn't get his name on the cover.

#9 Posted: 02-05-2009 09:58
Wilson Bros Member Posts: 183	Unless Indy gets released on bd - this is my disc of 2009 They're coming out near the end of the year. The Wilson Bros

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