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No Sequel Yet, But ‘Bad Teacher’ Trio Reunites On New Sony Pictures Comedy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Bad Teacher, Gene Stupnitsky, Ghostbusters, Jake Kasdan, Lee Eisenberg, Sony Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has re-teamed Bad Teacher writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg with director Jake Kasdan for a new untitled comedy. The logline: After a Supercuts manager advises his best friend to break off his engagement, he unexpectedly falls in love with the jilted fiancee, testing both his new romance and his friendship. Eisenberg and Stupnitsky will produce with Mosaic, which produced Bad Teacher. So far, they haven’t made progress on mounting a sequel to Bad Teacher, a film that cost around $20 million and grossed around $215 million worldwide. The writers also worked for Sony Pictures on Ghostbusters III. While there has been no shortage of rumors that actors are being cast and that production will begin on the third installment as soon as spring, I’m told that the studio isn’t going to make it without Bill Murray. And as recently as last month, he had not read the script, or if he did, he has not reached out to get the dealmaking started. Without him, I don’t think the film has a ghost of a chance.

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Sony Plans ‘Ghostbusters’ Screenings; Is This The ‘Lion King’ Effect?

By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 1:52pm PDTTags: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters, Sony Pictures, The Lion King 3D

Has the success of Disney’s The Lion King 3D at the box office this past weekend conjured the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man? Sony said today it will re-release its comedy classic Ghostbusters in a special limited engagement beginning Oct. 13 … Read More »

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Bill Murray, Phone Home! ‘Ghostbusters 3′ And FDR Await!

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 7:13pm PDTTags: Bill Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ghostbusters, Roger Michell
Mike Fleming

There’s nobody in Hollywood quite like Bill Murray. Even though Sony Pictures and the Ghostbusters creative team built a sequel around Murray, I’m told the actor still hasn’t contacted the studio to tell them if he’s even read the script script by The Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky that was delivered to him at the beginning of the year. The movie won’t happen if Bill doesn’t say yes, plain and simple. Now, Murray is being courted to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Roger Michell-directed Hyde Park on the Hudson, the film set up at Focus Features and Film Four with script by Richard Nelson. Like Ghostbusters, this is a film that becomes an immediate go picture if Murray says yes. I’m not sure it happens if he says no, or doesn’t say anything at all.

For days, I’ve heard that Focus has been approaching cast and basically telling them that Murray will do the picture. Focus has denied that to me several times. Perhaps Focus doesn’t want to jinx things because you never really know that you have Murray until he shows up to go to work, which is the reason Ghostbusters III has languished so long–you can’t prep a $150 million picture on a wing and a prayer. Read More »

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The Challenge Of Sequelizing Ghostbusters

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 11, 2011 @ 5:53pm PSTTags: Bill Murray, Bill Murray Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, Movies, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Mike Fleming

Every time one of the original Ghostbusters stars promotes a film, they answer the inevitable Ghostbusters III question that fuels a new round of breathless stories that turn out to be apparitions. Ivan Reitman, back as director thanks to his … Read More »

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