Half-Assed Internet Research
Research covers the title rights, effects company, Stay Puft suits, library puppet, deleted ghost encounter, rooftop power, and Murray's last-minute commitment.
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- Frank Price is said to have sold Columbia the Ghostbusters title for $500,000 plus one percent of profits.
- The special-effects supervisor used part of the effects budget to establish Boss Film Studios.
- Eighteen toxic foam marshmallow-man suits cost nearly $600,000 and required a separate air supply; shaving cream stood in for marshmallow debris.
- The original library-ghost puppet was considered too frightening and reused in Fright Night.
- A more extensive sexual encounter between Ray and a female ghost was deleted.
- The rooftop set reportedly needed 50,000 amps, forcing Columbia to shut down its other stages.
- A Vanity Fair account says Murray arrived late with a stadium horn, reviewed the rewritten script with Ramis and Reitman, offered no changes, and agreed to proceed.