

After the success of the first film and the animated series The Real Ghostbusters, Columbia Pictures pressed the producers to make a sequel. Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis, Hudson, Weaver, Potts, and Moranis reprised their roles from the first film, and were joined by Peter MacNicol and Wilhelm von Homburg, among others. Taking place five years after the first, the Ghostbusters have lost their credibility due to the amount of property damage they have caused, but identify a new threat to New York City after discovering a river of ectoplasmic slime that reacts to the great deal of negative emotions within the city. The second film, Ghostbusters II, was released on June 16, 1989. The TV Channel Bravo ranked Ghostbusters number 28 on their 100 Funniest Movies list in 2006. IGN voted Ghostbusters the greatest comedy ever in 2005.

The American Film Institute ranked it 28th in its list of the top 100 comedies of all time. It had been made on a US$30 million budget, but it grossed approximately US$240 million in the United States and over US$50 million abroad during its theatrical run, more than the domestic gross of the second Indiana Jones installment, making it the most successful film in America that year (after re-releases), and one of the most successful comedies of the 1980s. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson, it was released in the United States on June 8, 1984. After they are fired from Columbia University, they start their own business investigating and capturing ghosts. Ghostbusters, the first film in the series, is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three New York City scientists. 5.2 Additional crew and production details.5.1.4 Return to the original series (2018–ongoing).
