# GB1 Preview Cut at Alamo Drafthouse 7/30/2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** General Ghostbusters Discussion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412 "2023-07-22T23:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/187196_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/1 "2023-07-22T23:02:16Z")
Sunday, July 30th, two screenings have been announced, 6:00 pm and 6:30 pm, tickets are $18. [https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/07/22/alamo-drafthouse-to-screen-preview-cut-of-original-ghostbusters/](https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/07/22/alamo-drafthouse-to-screen-preview-cut-of-original-ghostbusters/) > [@](#): > > Join us at the Ivan Reitman Theater for the first-ever public screening of GHOSTBUSTERS: The Preview Cut, hosted by director Ivan Reitman’s son, Jason. > > Discovered on a cassette tape during research for GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, the “Preview Cut” of GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) is drawn from an early workprint of the film. It features alternate takes, incomplete (or missing) effects and score, and approximately nine minutes of scenes that didn’t make it to the final cut. The cut was never streamed online and only briefly made available as part of a boxed set release. ---
**Author:** ![deadderek](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/deadderek/32/98787_2.png) [@deadderek](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/deadderek)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/2 "2023-07-23T07:31:00Z")
I wish there had more of a heads up on this screening. I would gladly fly out to NYC for this. ---
**Author:** ![d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/d_osborn/32/179392_2.png) [@d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/d_osborn)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/3 "2023-07-23T13:01:10Z")
So cool! The Batman Forever Schumacher edit screened a few weeks ago. I’m loving this trend! My fingers are still crossed for a GB2 preview cut to surface. ---
**Author:** ![ccv66](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/ccv66/32/123692_2.png) [@ccv66](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/ccv66)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/4 "2023-07-23T18:40:09Z")
I can already see they’re going to make me rebuy Ghostbusters. Hopefully it’s going to be the last time… Until 8k ---
**Author:** ![deadderek](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/deadderek/32/98787_2.png) [@deadderek](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/deadderek)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/5 "2023-07-24T15:14:23Z")
> [@ccv66 post\_id=4984758 time=1690137609 user\_id=46724](#): > > I can already see they’re going to make me rebuy Ghostbusters. Hopefully it’s going to be the last time… Until 8k Hey uh…message me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/187196_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/6 "2023-07-24T23:25:03Z")
> [@d\_osborn post\_id=4984757 time=1690117270 user\_id=21](#): > > My fingers are still crossed for a GB2 preview cut to surface. You mean you don’t secretly have it? 😛 Yeah, it’s gotta be in a vault or someone’s attic… ---
**Author:** ![d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/d_osborn/32/179392_2.png) [@d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/d_osborn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/7 "2023-07-25T14:11:26Z")
Hopefully someone will ask Jason at the screening. :love: It’s so cool we have the GB1 preview cut, though. The prior physical release gave us the GB2 commercial, so I’m hoping they blow my mind again on the next box set. ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/187196_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/8 "2023-07-25T22:59:14Z")
Alamo added two more times on July 30. 5:30 pm and 7:15 pm. [https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/07/25/alamo-drafthouse-adds-additional-screenings-of-ghostbusters-the-preview-cut/](https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/07/25/alamo-drafthouse-adds-additional-screenings-of-ghostbusters-the-preview-cut/) ---
**Author:** ![mardin\_chatzuk](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mardin\_chatzuk](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mardin_chatzuk)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/9 "2023-07-28T14:13:45Z")
Hey all—I was fortunate enough to get a ticket to the 6:30 PM showing at this event, but unfortunately it turns out I can’t make it. If anyone who could attend would like that ticket, please PM me. ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/187196_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/10 "2023-08-02T23:53:44Z")
1 showing in London on August 20th at 5:00 PM GMT, tickets will go on sale to PCC members tomorrow, August 2nd, at 1 PM GMT through Prince Charles Cinema. If any tickets remain, they’ll be available to the general public on August 4th at 1 PM GMT. [https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/08/01/first-ever-uk-public-screening-of-ghostbusters-the-preview-cut-announced-for-this-month/](https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/08/01/first-ever-uk-public-screening-of-ghostbusters-the-preview-cut-announced-for-this-month/) ---
**Author:** ![guyx](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/guyx/32/125533_2.png) [@guyx](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/guyx)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/11 "2023-08-03T14:14:06Z")
I consider myself a pretty big GB fan. But I can’t help but think, If u are going to do this for any movie do it with GB2 or [Afterlife](https://www.gbfans.com/shop/ghostbusters-afterlife). Right? That’s something fans have never seen. That’s something I’d toss my grandma down the stairs to get tickets for\*. But this? I’m not so sure if it’s “Grandma Toss Worthy”. It’s VHS quality with little to no FX with some alternate takes & [deleted scenes](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/ghostbusters/deleted-scenes) that were cut for a good reason. That have already been released as a special feature. I get ppl wanting to see this as a curiosity. But the quality is from a VHS tape over 40 years old that most of the deleted scenes released since 1999 have been sourced from. it’d be so much cooler & GTW\*\* must see if this was something no 1 in the public had ever seen. But this is the same cut that was on the limited edition Steel book or 3 film “[Ghost Trap](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/ghost-trap)” box set, right? Kevin Smith held a screening of the so called “Schumacher Cut” of Batman Forever pretty recently. I wonder if these GB preview cut screenings are a response to that. I remember hearing Smith & Reitman are friends (or friendly). & I can’t help but think this could’ve been something tremendously special if it were from the 2 sequels. Maybe they’ll do those next? That’d be SUPER cool. \*Rest in Peace Grandma. I loved u too much, I wouldn’t have actually tossed u down the stairs. \*\*GTW=Grandma Toss Worthy. A unit of measurement I just invented used to indicate the anticipation of any given thing. If one is willing to toss their grandma down a flight of stairs to attain a thing, that thing is “GTW”. ---
**Author:** ![d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/d_osborn/32/179392_2.png) [@d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/d_osborn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/12 "2023-08-03T15:05:49Z")
> [@GuyX post\_id=4985000 time=1691072046 user\_id=44443](#): > > I get ppl wanting to see this as a curiosity. But the quality is from a VHS tape over 40 years old That’s exactly what the Smith /Schumacher Cut screening was, and exactly what a GB2 workprint screening would be. It’s so much more than [deleted scenes](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/ghostbusters/deleted-scenes). Seeing a mid-process workprint is wild! I think it’s awesome that screenings are not only happening, but selling out. I would love to see them show it at the location of the first test screening of this print-- Screening Room 12 at WB Burbank. ---
**Author:** ![MassiveDMG](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@MassiveDMG](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/MassiveDMG)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/13 "2023-08-03T18:03:51Z")
So is this the Preview Cut that was on the Ultimate Edition, or a completely different version? ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/187259_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/14 "2023-08-03T18:33:26Z")
> [@MassiveDMG post\_id=4985003 time=1691085831 user\_id=55083](#): > > So is this the Preview Cut that was on the Ultimate Edition, or a completely different version? Yep, the version that was on the recent BluRay release. ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/187196_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/gb1-preview-cut-at-alamo-drafthouse-7-30-2023/6412/15 "2023-08-04T00:27:55Z")
2nd screening added for the London one, same day, at 8:15 PM GMT. [https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/08/03/ghostbusters-the-preview-cuts-uk-premiere-to-include-second-screening/](https://ghostbustersnews.com/2023/08/03/ghostbusters-the-preview-cuts-uk-premiere-to-include-second-screening/)