For Immediate Release

GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS II To Be Released On DVD

LOS ANGELES--April 14, 1999--Columbia Tri-Star Home Video has announced the much anticipated June 29, 1999 DVD release of the blockbuster comedy "Ghostbusters," which stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. This ground-breaking DVD release features the most extensive and sophisticated interactive options ever offered on DVD releases to date from CTHV.

This exciting DVD package represents a benchmark in value-added options offered to consumers and marks CTHV's ongoing commitment to maximizing this format's entertainment potential.

SPECIAL FEATURES

"Live" feature-length Video Commentary: We have filmed Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman (director) and Joe Medjuck (producer) in silhouette, watching the entire film, and commenting on it. The viewer can choose to watch the commentary with or without their silhouettes pointing and gesturing as they watch the film.

Feature-length Production Notes: We have taken the text of "The Making Of Ghostbusters" by Don Shay and put it into a subtitle stream, so that the viewer may choose to watch the film with antidotes, trivia and bits of interviews that pertain to particular points int he film.

Three Complete Featurettes:

1. 1984 featurette of "the Making Of Ghostbusters" with interviews of the cast and crew
2. 199 Star Featurette: New interviews with Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman and dan Aykroyd talking about the origins of GHOSTBUSTERS, how it changed their lives and careers, and how their kids like it.
3. Meet the SFX Team: 1999 Interview with more than a dozen of the original visual effects team. Includes original production photos and conceptual art.

Storyboard to Film Comparison: This has split-screen comparison of three scenes in the film next to animated original storyboards

Before and After SFX utilizing MULTIPLE ANGLES feature of DVD. With the Angles feature of DVD, the viewer can toggle back and forth with the rought cut to the final cut of the film to see three scenes before and after the final visual effects were added. This kind of creative utilization of the Angles feature is something that many DVD consumers are looking for.)

Three Still Photo Galleries:

1. More than 50 original pencil and chalk conceptual drawings of ghosts and monsters. (three of these have been selected to be given away in CTHV contest.)
2. Many original storyboards
3. Hundreds of production photos taken of the SFX team sculpting monsters, creating and destroying sets, and generating animation

Ten Deleted Scenes

DVD-ROM: Includes the following

1. Filmographies of cast and crew...these will be hyperlinked to detail pages of most of the CTHV DVD titles through filmographies with degrees of separation.
2. Original Final Shooting Script: This will also be hyperlinked to the film so that the viewer may jump from the script to that point in the film in order to compare it to the final partially-improvised film .
3. Web Link: There will be various links from the DVD-ROM to the Sony Site, the CTHV site and the www.ghostbusters.com site.

Three-Dimensional Animated Menus: The main menu is a 3-D view of the Manhattan skyline,with the Stay Puft marshmallow Man wandering through the buildings

Four Original Trailers: (These will be accessible through the DVD menus, and can also be -played from the detail pages of these titles in the DVD-ROM catalogue of CTHV DVDs)

1. Ghostbusters
2. Ghostbusters II
3. Groundhog Day
4. Stripes

SYNOPSIS

Bill Murray ("Groundhog Day"), dan Aykroyd (Academy Award nominee, "Driving Miss daisy"), Harold Ramis ("Parenthood") and Ernie Hudson star as a maniacal band of parapsychologists who try to save Manhattan from ghosts on the rampage. Also stars Sigourney Weaver ("Alien") and Rick Moranis ("Honey, I Shrunk The Kids").

• Rated PG
• Feature: 105 Minutes
• Color
• Closed Captioned
• Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Format: Widescreen 2.35:1 (Enhanced For 16x9 TVs)
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English
• Price: NS L/ MAP $24.95
• DVD#01439

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