10 Most Insane Things Happening In Movies & TV Right Now (Jan 18th)
Who you gunna call? THE SPACE FORCE!
Good news everyone, the world is still crazy and we're still here.
In a week that has seen the announcement that Africa's Toto will play forever on a loop in the Namibian desert (book your holidays now), and the news that a man who sold his kidney to finance an iPad and an iPhone has now become bedridden, we also got a busy week of weirdness from Hollywood and TV land.
There was the usual great stuff, like the release of the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer and news of more Mission: Impossible movies, but there was also a world of strangeness to balance it out. So hold tight for news of romantic stalkers, President Trump's policies becoming Netflix shows and a British comedy legend offering to murder someone to cheer them up...
10. Ghostbusters 3 IS Happening After All
A couple of months after this very column noticed that Dan Aykroyd had revealed there was a new Ghostbusters being worked on (take THAT cynical YouTube doubters) and that he and Bill Murray would most likely be involved because the script was "very good," it's only gone and been actually bloody confirmed.
Having been hidden from the public - aside for Aykroyd's accidental leak to Dan Rather that doesn't seem to have picked up much notice anyway - and given the fake working title Rust City, the third Ghostbusters film in the original timeline has now been revealed. And unbelievably, the same day it was confirmed, new director Jason Reitman revealed a teaser trailer.
Apparently, it's been in early production for months now, with the story completed and casting for four teenagers to be the next generation underway. Four teenagers you say...?
Reitman, whose father made the original (and will produce the new one), spoke enthusiastically about the project and paid respect to the originals and to the disastrous reboot from 2016, which is somewhat different to what he said in 2005 while publicising Thank You For Smoking, when he said "there'd be no busting!"