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2009 Remaster of Ghostbusters

️Mon Dec 04 2017

2009 Remaster of Ghostbusters is the first Blu-Ray quality transfer and remaster of Ghostbusters (the first film). It was released on June 16th, 2009 in North America and July 19th, 2009 for the rest of the world. It overall was used from 2009 through 2011 as the version to be used for Blu-Ray releases. While it was overall retired in 2013, one Walmart exclusive used it in 2017.

Features[]

Ghostbusters Blu-Ray Disc Special Features[]

Blu-Ray Exclusives

Slimer Mode: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-up Trivia Track
Featurette: Ecto-1: Resurrecting the Classic Car
Ghostbusters Garage: Ecto-1 Photo Gallery
Making-of Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Additional Special Features[]

Most of these features were also on the 2005 DVD.

Filmmakers’ Commentary with Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis and Joe Medjuck
Featurette: 1984 – The Making of Ghostbusters – Interviews with the cast and crew
Featurette: Interviews with Cast and Crew
Featurette: SFX Team - Includes Before and After Multi-Angle Explorations
Scene Cemetery – 10 Deleted Scenes
Storyboard Comparisons
Closed Captioned
Audio
- For Film: English, French, Portuguese Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Spanish 5.1
- For Special Features: English (Stereo)
Subtitles
- For Film: English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch
- For Special Features: French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch

List of Releases[]

All version released are by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

2009 release "25th Anniversary" sticker
- Blu-Ray
2011 release "Blu-Ray + DVD Combo Pack" (Plain vanilla release)
- Blu-Ray
- 2005 DVD
2011 release "Blu-Ray Essentials/Best Of Blu-Ray" "Best Picture/Best Sound" with "Remastered for Blu-Ray High-Def/6X The Resolution of DVD" sticker
- Blu-Ray
  - Note that Sleeve says 2011, but box says 2009.
2011 release "Combo Pack" (Blu-Ray+DVD+$5 Offer Vudu) (Walmart Exclusive)
- Blu-Ray
- 2005 DVD
- Promo $5 Offer for vudu
2011 release "Blu-Ray + DVD Combo Pack" (Target Exclusive with Meg Deangelis Promo "Make Me Laugh" Youtube Sensation series)
- Blu-Ray
- 2005 DVD
- Exclusive content related Coupon
2017 release "ugly sweater" slipcase (Walmart Exclusive) ^[1]
- Blu-Ray
  - Note that both the sleeve's back and box say 2009. Bar code sticker is placed over printed bar code on back. This item was released way after the 2013 version.

Foreign Markets[]

List order by Country name (in English) and then by release date.

Germany
- Blu-Ray (Plain vanilla release)
  - Blu-Ray
    - Back of case was reorganized.
UK
- November 5, 2012 release Blu Ray + Ultra Violet "Steelbook"
  - Blu-Ray
  - Ultra Violet Streaming code
    - Designed with a flipped no-ghost logo on black background front with a reddish motif Stay Puft back, inside reverse of steelbook has changed monochrome Ghostbusters team screencap from the blue to a red.
Hong Kong
- Blu-Ray (Plain Vanilla Release)
  - Audio selection has changed to English (TrueHD 5.1) and Thai
  - Subtitle selection has changed to Chinese (Both Simplified and Traditional), English, Indonesian, Korean and Thai, some special features have Traditional Chinese and Korean subtitles.
  - Back of case was reorganized and barcode removed
  - PS3 extras and BD-LIVE content still present
  - Front cover is same as the US release

External Links[]

Spook Central has images of the Blu-Ray's features additional features on the article "Ghostbusters" (Blu-Ray) in the "GB1 HOME VIDEO section".
As part of a format series, Spook Central included pictures on the GB1 Home Video Image Comparison page. Later, it was expanded on Facebook to include over 50 images as a shared project with Ghostbusters Wiki.