[cyclotron]

So I don't know if this has been posted here yet but Empire Magazine is publishing its list of the top 500 films of all time. The top 100 films will each receive its own cover and of course Ghostbusters is one of them. Here is the link:

http://www.empireonline.com/500/cover.asp

Cover is pretty standard I know, but still neat.

[Busterchris]

the logo is backwards but cool none the less

[Mjollnir]

Its only backwards for people living in North, Latin and South America. The logo being like that is regular for Europe, Australia, Asia and the UK.

[cyclotron]

Well Empire is a British magazine and the GB logo was always the other way 'round over there

[Mjollnir]

Interesting. Maybe Ben would know about that. I'm sure what I said earlier is what he said in a similar thread on here or on GBN.

[RavenEffect]

Its only backwards for people living in North, Latin and South America. The logo being like that is regular for Europe, Australia, Asia and the UK.

I always wondered why the heck they did that. It kind of drives me crazy because I hate seeing the symbol backwards since I am used to it the way we have it here in the states. The really weird thing is, it's in the entire movie the way we see it in the states. Did they actually go through and change that in the movies in other countries like the UK, or did UK Ghostbusters fans just have to scratch their noggins and wonder why the Hell the logo was one way on the posters, t-shirts, and everything, but another way in the movie?

[Tralan]

I'm tempted to get the entire set of covers... a lot of my favorite movies made hte cover... Big Lebowski, Jurassic Park, Aliens. And, of course, Ghostbusters.

[Dan AKA]

"Creating an Icon"

Micheal Gross - the former art director of the "National Lampoon" - explains the origin of the logo:

Gross: The second most famous thing I've ever done - after the 'We'll Kill This Dog' cover - is the 'No Ghosts' logo used for GHOSTBUSTERS. Now I did not create the concept - Danny Aykroyd did - so I take care to say I designed it. In fact it was described in the script.

Q: This was the ghost behind the European 'No' sign?

Gross: Yes. I turned the signal the other way, because we didn't use that sign in America yet so it didn't look wrong. The initial concept has the word 'Ghostbusters' in the crossbar, but it tilted the way it actually is used - tilted down - it didn't read right, so I reversed it. Then we took the word out. In Europe, the logo's the other way around... it was vertically flopped, because they didn't think we should mess with their symbol.
-COMIC BOOK ARTIST, April 2003

From the Ghostbusters Movie Scrap Book that came with the DVD 2-pack.