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Peter Aykroyd, the Emmy-nominated former Saturday Night Live cast member and writer, has died. The NBC sketch show paid tribute to SNL alum following Simu Liu’s eventful hosting debut. Saturday Night Live revealed the actor-writer’s death with a card that displayed a picture of the previous featured player the years…

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson resurrected the original Ghostbusters last night for appearances on two NBC late-night programs, promoting the upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife on both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth  Meyers. Highlight of the appearances: Aykroyd doing…

The spirits of Ghostbusters Past are strong in Sony Pictures’ new trailer for director Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the upcoming sequel to the hit 1984 comedy. You can catch a glimpse of original stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in a sort of video callback, Annie Potts reprises her role of…

R.J. Cutler has had his hand in a number of fascinating documentaries such as War Room, The World According to Dick Cheney and his current Apple series Dear…, among many others. For me the most eye-opening of his works was the 2015 docu Listen to Me Marlon, which was composed entirely from lost audio tapes of Marlon…

When Ghostbusters 3 arrives in theaters next summer, Sigourney Weaver will be along for the ride. The actress confirmed she’ll join co-stars Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in the sequel, as she reprises her role as cellist Dana Barrett. "It's going to be crazy working with the guys again!" Weaver told Parade magazine in…

UPDATE: The great Dan Aykroyd read Deadline’s recent tribute to Aretha Franklin’s performance in Blues Brothers, and had a different recollection of events surrounding him not starring in Animal House than did John Landis, who directed both films and recalled that Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels kept Aykroyd from…

After knocking the ectoplasm out of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot on UK TV over the weekend, Dan Aykroyd has softened his stance. The original paranormal investigator/eliminator has taken to social media to clarify his statements, now saying Feig “a good movie and had a superb cast.” Aykroyd also noted in his Facebo…

UPDATE: Sony Pictures has refuted Dan Aykroyd’s version of events, saying that the reshoots he referred to actually cost between $3 million and $4 million, and not the $30 million to $40 million Aykroyd described on Britain’s Channel 4 earlier today. That does sound like a lot of money for reshoots. Paul Feig, who…

Dan Aykroyd, one of the speakers honoring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds during the public memorial for the famed mother-daughter pair, was describing his friend Carrie but could just as easily been speaking of Debbie with these two words: beloved showboat. The former Saturday Night Live funnyman recalled a…

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's widow Judy Belushi have teamed with Bento Box Entertainment (Bob’s Burgers) for The Blues Brothers, a primetime animated comedy series, which will be shopped to television platforms beginning this month. Co-created and executive produced by original Blues Brother Aykroyd, Judy Belushi…

“Don’t cross the streams” can mean something entirely different than it in 1984, right? Sony Pictures is dialing up the wayback machine for a 30th anniversary (!!) reissue of Ghostbusters, the ectoplasmic effects-a-ganza that drew bigger crowds than even Indiana Jones that summer. While we wait for Ghostbusters 3, a…

Emile Hirsch signed to star in a film about the short but eventful life of John Belushi. The film’s scripted and directed by Steve Conrad, based on the Judith Belushi Pisano and Tanner Colby book Belushi. Hirsch is not an obvious choice to play the stout comic actor who soared to fame in the original Saturday Night Liv…