In the continuing story of Egon Spengler’s kin –his daughter Callie (Carrie Coon) and two grandkids, Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trever (Finn Wolfhard)– the hottest New York City on record is experiencing a “death chill” after an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force. It’s up to the Spenglers have to team up with the original Ghostbusters Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stanz (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) to thaw the Big Apple out.

Along for the ride is Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani with Paul Rudd’s Gary Grooberson returning.

Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, and original Ghostbusters thespian Annie Potts also star.

Gil Kenan, the EP and co-scribe of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, takes over the directing reigns here from that pic’s helmer Jason Reitman.

Reitman co-wrote the script with Kenan. Reitman also produces wiht Jason Blumenfield.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire comes out on March 29, 2024; the lucrative Easter box office weekend.

After the franchise did not please fans with the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, Sony took the series created by the late Harold Ramis and Aykroyd back to its heart with Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The studio showed off the movie to exhibition at the first CinemaCon which returned during Covid in August 2021, and wowed them. Afterlife played the November box office that year grossing $129.3M domestic and over $204M worldwide.

The Ghostbusters franchise, which came to life in the summer of 1984, has grossed $945.2M through four movies.

Credit: Anthony D'Alessandro, 8th November 2023, Deadline