{"id":40344,"date":"2015-01-30T00:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40344"},"modified":"2015-01-30T00:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:14:42","slug":"ghostbusters-cast-set-with-mccarthy-wiig-mckinnon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/30\/ghostbusters-cast-set-with-mccarthy-wiig-mckinnon-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; cast set with McCarthy, Wiig, McKinnon, Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40394\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_177808886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40394\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_177808886.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa McCarthy (Joe Seer \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa McCarthy (Joe Seer \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221; reboot has set its all-female leads with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and a pair of &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; performers.<\/p>\n<p>Director Paul Feig announced his stars by posting their pictures on Twitter on Tuesday. Joining McCarthy and Wiig are Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Feig tweeted that Sony Pictures will release the film in July 2016. Production is expected to begin later this year. The new &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221; updates the original 1984 film and the 1989 sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Wiig and McCarthy both starred in &#8220;Bridesmaids,&#8221; which Feig directed. He has since worked with McCarthy on all of his films, including their upcoming action comedy &#8220;Spy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon joined &#8220;SNL&#8221; in 2012. Jones first came to the show as a writer and transitioned into a featured player last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221; reboot has set its all-female leads with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and a pair &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}