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Mar 2024
35m 9s

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), with...

Simon Brew
About this episode
In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, director and co-writer Gil Kenan joins to talk about his latest movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. He tells Simon about being one of four people to direct a Ghostbusters movie, and the one moment where it hit him how monumental that was. Plus, how filming got underway one year before release, the practicalit ... Show More
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