Bill Murray and Paul Rudd in "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire."
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is here to haunt viewers on digital streaming.
Set three years after the events of the hit 2021 hit Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire finds the Spengler family and Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd) relocating from Oklahoma to New York City to take up the mantle of the original Ghostbusters team.
The living members of the team — Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) and Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) — however, are available to help the new crew out and they’re going to need it. That’s because Garraka — an evil spirit with the power to freeze — is freed from a mysterious orb and his existence could bring about a new ice age.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was released Tuesday by Sony Pictures Entertainment on digital video and is now is available to rent or purchase on premium video on demand on such platforms as Prime Video, VUDU and AppleTV+. The film costs $19.99 to rent for a 48-hour period once you start watching it and $24.99 to purchase.
In addition to Grooberson and Callie (Carrie Coon), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe Spengler (Mckenna Grace), several familiar faces from the original and new Ghostbusters movies appear in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Celeste O’Connor and Logan Kim reprise their roles as Lucky and Podcast from Ghostbusters: Afterlife, while Annie Potts and William Atherton from the original Ghostbusters films are back as Janine Melnitz and Walter Peck.
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Introduces Four New Key Characters
Joining the Ghostbusters acting ensemble for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire are actors Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, James Acaster and Emily Alyn Lind.
Nanjiani stars Nadeem Razmadd, a junk dealer who peddled off the orb containing Garraka, only to realize that he must play a larger role in the plot to stop the malevolent force.
In addition, Oswalt stars Dr. Hubert Wartzki, who plays a research librarian friend of Ray Stanz who needs to help unravel the mystery of the orb; while Acaster plays Dr. Lars Pinfield, a key research scientist who works for Winston Zeddemore.
Lynn stars in the pivotal role of Melody, a teen ghost who died tragically in a fire and befriends Phoebe. The introduction of Melody somewhat marks a first for a Ghostbusters movie in that Ghostbusters are supposed to bust ghosts and not becomes friends with them. However, Egon Spengler’s ghost at the end of Ghostbusters: Afterlife could technically be considered the first friendly spirit the team encounters.
Directed by Gil Kenan and produced by Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire earned $1.8 million in its seventh week of release over the weekend to finish at No. 10 at the domestic box office.
To date, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire earned $109.9 million domestically and $85.2 million at the international for a worldwide domestic tally of $195.1 million against a $100 million production budget.
While Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire wasn’t a favorite of Rotten Tomatoes critics — who gave it a 43% “rotten” rating based on 281 reviews — viewers countered with an 85% positive Audience Score based on 2,500-plus rating by verified users.
Note: This article was updated to confirm the PVOD rental price.
