Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Box Office, Budget, Cast, Review 2024

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a 2024 American supernatural comedy film directed by Gil Kenan. It serves as a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021).

Plot

Three years after the Summerville incident, Callie Spengler, her boyfriend Gary Grooberson, her children Trevor and Phoebe, and their friends Lucky Domingo and Podcast move to New York City to help Winston Zeddemore and Ray Stantz restart the Ghostbusters. After capturing a ghost in Hell’s Kitchen, Mayor Walter Peck, a long-time Ghostbusters opponent, threatens to shut them down.
To placate Peck, Callie removes Phoebe from the team. Upset, Phoebe plays chess in a park and meets Melody, a ghost of a teenage girl who died in a fire.

Meanwhile, Ray and Podcast are collecting cursed objects. Nadeem Razmaadi sells them a brass orb with Mesopotamian Arabic ritual markings inherited from his grandmother. Ray identifies it as an apotropaic trap, noting copper alloys’ use in supernatural rituals since the Bronze Age.

When Ray tests its PKE levels, the orb emits broad-spectrum psionic energy, sending a cold wave to the Ghostbusters’ headquarters and damaging the ecto-containment unit, which is nearly full.

Winston takes the orb to his paranormal research center, managed by Dr. Lars Pinfield. An experimental extraction device fails to draw any spiritual energy from it. The orb captive psychically sabotages an ecto-confinement, releasing a ghost that hides in Podcast’s equipment.

Review

According to Rotten Tomatoes, 42% of 291 critics gave positive reviews, resulting in an average rating of 5.2 out of 10.

Box Office

The film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire made $113.4 million in the U.S. and Canada and $88.4 million internationally, bringing its global total to $201.8 million.”