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McCarthy was recently featured in the Ghostbusters remake, and recently confirmed she'll be appearing in Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival.

Paul Feig has promised us our first look at his Ghostbusters remake will be with us by the end of the year, and he has shared a new image with fansite Proton Charging, which you can view below:

But rather than merely update the old formula with new effects, along the lines of last year's Ghostbusters remake, the film instead becomes a cute romance, as Babyjohn accidentally turns a pretty vampire girl almost human.

Spy, The Heat, Bridesmaids, and the Ghostbusters remake (which wasn't perfect, but was still pretty damn funny) all were elevated by her ability to play someone who's wild and outlandish while managing to feel slightly rooted in reality.

She particularly excels when working with Paul Feig, as films like Spy and the Ghostbusters remake deftly show, but when she takes direction from husband and screenplay collaborator Ben Falcone, McCarthy's talents are wasted on formless star vehicles that don't serve any purpose beyond further exposing McCarthy's popular presence.

Not exact matches

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

Like a serious, horror version of the «Ghostbusters» remake (especially with their uniforms and gear, though they venture onward, head - scratchingly, without gas masks), «Annihilation» boasts a tough, intelligent, accomplished, capable team of women, each seemingly as comfortable with a microscope as with a machine gun.

The «Ghostbusters» remake was too timid in that regard.

In light of the recent remake of Ghostbusters with an all - female cast, Garland has gone ahead and re-envisioned Stalker in the same vein, and made it about as accessible as a Lovecraftian Jurassic Park could ever be.

In anticipation of the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters which opens in theaters on July 15, 2016, Columbia Pictures / Sony Home Entertainment is re-releasing to home video Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) in the 4K Ultra HD and Blu - ray formats.

Not even the original cast and director could replicate the magic of the original film just a few years later when the disappointing Ghostbusters 2 had been released, so what chance could an entire remake of the series with different actors playing different characters have?

Nasty Women will continue the recent trend of gender - swap remakes, which includes the all - female Ghostbusters and Ocean's Eight, the Ocean's Eleven remake starring Hathaway, Olivia Munn, Dakota Fanning, Sarah Paulson, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Sandra Bullock and Mindy Kailing, which is due out later this year.

It most certainly is helping that the movie isn't a simple remake of a well - liked name that includes a feminine primary forged (a los angeles 2016's Ghostbusters), however a derivative and semi-continuation of the Ocean's film trilogy from the 2000s.

From left, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon star in Paul Feig's «Ghostbusters» remake.

With the new «Ghostbusters» remake in theaters, we've rounded up 10 more classic comedy films that could make great 21st - century reboots!

So while no one is likely hankering for another Jungle Book, Pete's Dragon, or Jumanji — though they are going to get them anyway — there is one remake we can get genuinely excited about this year: Ghostbusters.

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With Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts all returning to Ghostbusters lore in Paul Feig's upcoming remake, many had hoped that Rick Moranis would follow suit.

The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January, features Portman as one of two or three women in the entire film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to form Ghostbusters — how crafty.

Somehow the «Ghostbusters» remake was a box office bomb and has a lower IMDB rating.

It's political correctness gone mad: not content with remaking Ghostbusters for women (the horror), we've now got The Pink Panther remade for black people.

Was remaking «Ghostbusters» a good idea?

And while there have been setbacks (the highly touted all - women remake of Ghostbusters made headlines this week after being declared the most - disliked trailer in YouTube history) it seems clear that this fresh force in mainstream comedy will continue to grow on audiences and critics alike.

After all the online outrage, hand - wringing and cultural thinkpieces, the new Ghostbusters turns out to be business as usual — a bloated remake of a revered comedy that doesn't reinvent its source material or add fresh perspective.

Writer Katie Dippold has built a career blending female empowerment with slapstick, as in the «Ghostbusters» remake and «The Heat.»

The guys discuss everything from their most anticipated releases, to Donald Trump's opposition to the all - women remake of Ghostbusters, to Woody Allen's movie - naming strategy, to a certain fish - finding flick that kids and adults won't want to miss.

Columbia Pictures is calling on the Ghostbusters again, in this remake of the 1984 movie.

Even lighter fare like Paul Feig's Ghostbusters spent time dutifully paying homage to its predecessor and, in its post-credits scene, setting up a sequel seemingly intended to further remake that predecessor.

This movie is a remake of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters.

Director Paul Feig recently announced the new female cast who have signed on for the remake of the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.

LOS ANGELES >> The director of «Bridesmaids,» `' Spy» and the upcoming «Ghostbusters» remake says he would add an equity clause to his future film contracts that requires gender - balanced casting of minor roles.

Last year saw the release of an all - female Ghostbusters reboot starring Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, while remakes of Splash, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Rocketeer are all currently in production.

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With all the hype and controversy surrounding the idea of remaking «Ghostbusters» with female stars, the idea of judging the new movie on its own merits, instead of comparing it to the 32 - year - old original — arguably one of the 10 funniest and most original films ever made — is laughable.

Wiig was most recently seen in last year's «Ghostbusters» remake and also lent her voice to «Sausage Party» and the upcoming «Despicable Me 3.»

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Closely resembling the Men in Black movies, Ghost, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Heaven Can Wait and its remake Down to Earth, as well as many other movies, R.I.P.D. comes across as almost totally lifeless, as if it were on autopilot, or generated by a computer that had been fed certain data and asked to spit out a movie.

Outside from the fact that I'm still naturally repulsed towards remaking movies instead of proposing new ideas on the big screen, any sliver of will I might ever had of watching the 2016 Ghostbusters movie has vanished the second that mr. Feig vented his frustrations for the initial poor trailer reception.