If there’s something weird, and it don’t look good…
Well, you may want to get whatever that is checked out, especially if it’s an invisible man sleeping in your bed. But what’s still looking great is Ghostbusters, 40 years after the comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as parapsychologists who go into business for themselves first hit theaters.
“It’s got lots of laughs, lots of special effects, family picture,” Aykroyd humbly described the Ivan Reitman-directed film on The Tonight Show ahead of its June 1984, release. “And we’re very, very excited. It’s gonna be a good one.”
Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma: Ghostbusters was the top-grossing movie of the year in the U.S. and took in almost $300 million worldwide.
“Well, I knew it was going to be a huge movie,” Murray quipped on TODAY in 2014. “At that point we were still watching Yankee Doodle Dandy on TV, so I thought we had a shot.”