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Like millions of fans, "Ghostbusters" is a big deal to Melissa McCarthy.
"The originals loom really large for me," the comedy star said at the recent CinemaCon in Las Vegas. "I love when unlikely people become the heroes."
Some fans of Ivan Reitman's 1984 action comedy, in which paranormal investigators save New York from ectoplasmic ghosts, were upset when director Paul Feig cast women in the lead roles of this reboot. Most people, though, recognized that those women — McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones — are incredibly funny.
This is Feig's second movie with Wiig and his fourth with McCarthy, but current "Saturday Night Live" players McKinnon and Jones might be the MVPs (if the trailers are any indicator).
For Jones, it all became real when they got their costumes. "I already felt bad-ass just being asked to be a Ghostbuster," she said. "Putting on the suit just solidified it."
"Ghostbusters" opens in theaters July 15. See the full list of movies set for this summer at http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/3817653-155/summer-movie-preview-blasts-from-the .