Glen here...

...with some info re: the upcoming DVD release of Ghostbusters.

A while back, I was privileged to present some information from a dude over at a web site named protoncharging.com. Said info was all about the forthcoming home video release of the two Ghostbusters movies on DVD.

Now, proton charging has issued a new report with some specific details about what we can expect to see accompany the first film once it hits DVD. Here's what the site had to say (it should be noted they were quite accurate before, so there's no reason to doubt them this time around):

proton charging says:

— The unofficial street-date for the new Ghostbusters DVD and VHS is June 29th of this year.

— The DVD will also be DVD-ROM capable, with links to www.ghostbusters.com (no word on what gb.com will contain). Fans with DVD-ROM drives should also be able to do screen captures right on their PC.

— The DVD-ROM will contain an interactive filmography of the cast and crew, creating a kind of Ghostbusters six degrees of separation. All Columbia movies contained in the filmography will have fact sheets.

— The DVD will contain two original featurettes, over 25 minutes combined. One is a retrospective with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ivan Reitman. The other is a retrospective with over a dozen of the special effects crew, including Richard Edlund, with anecdotes about the effects, edited together with footage from the movie.

— The DVD will contain 3 "art galleries" with a few hundred storyboards, production photos, and conceptual art (including the work of Bernie Wrightson). Even cooler is that there will be a contest to win some of the concept art (the DVD and VHS releases will have a flyer about this).

— The art galleries will have examples of original GB logo concepts, never before seen.

— The DVD will have running commentary from Aykroyd, Ramis, and Reitman. There are a variety of options available to access the commentary. Viewers can watch the video of the three watching the movie (imagine sitting behind them sitting on a couch, watching the movie. That's what you see), or listen to their commentary as an extra audio track while watching the movie proper.

— The DVD-ROM will contain the original shooting script (the one fans might be familiar with from Don Shay's "Making Ghostbusters" book). Fans can read certain scenes and then jump to the actual scene in the movie to compare how the movie differs from the original script.

— Production notes, some from Shay's "Making Ghostbusters", can also be run as subtitles in sync with the full length of the film.

— The DVD will contain close to a dozen deleted scenes, some not even available on the Criterion Collection Laser Disc. The four scenes I was able to find out about were the scene of Bill Murray and Aykroyd as New York bums, the honeymooners at the Sedgewick Hotel, a destroyed Mr. Stay-Puft's falling hat (photos of these scenes have been seen in Shay's book), and a scene from the end of the movie that I'll leave as a surprise.

— The DVD will use the "angles" feature, a feature infrequently used in DVDs, to allow viewers to toggle back and forth between the work print of the movie (sans effects) and the final print.

— The DVD will use a split screen to allow viewers to compare motion footage of original storyboards to the final print.

— The DVD's menu is computer rendered in 3D, with animated transitions to sub-menus (also CG).

— The DVD will feature trailers from GB, GB2, Groundhog Day, and Stripes.

— the original "making of" featurette (???)

— Ghostbusters 2 will also be issued on DVD (June 29), but it will not be receiving the same delux treatment. There were rumors both titles would be issued as a two-pack, this does not appear top be the case.

Glen again...

My god that GB1 DVD sounds cool, cool, cool...

Special thanks to proton charging for sending in this information. Well done...