Joe Medjuck

Joe Medjuck worked alongside Michael C. Gross as a producer on many of the Ghostbusters projects and Beethoven projects. Currently, Joe is still very active in film industry making films including producing "Draft Day" in 2014.

Ghostbusters Related[]

Ghostbusters - Associate Producer
The Real Ghostbusters - Executive Producer to all 140 episodes
- - Commentator on The Real Ghostbusters Dvd Box Set
Slimer! - Executive Producer to all 33 episodes
Ghostbusters II - Executive Producer
Extreme Ghostbusters - Executive Producer to all 40 episodes
Ghostbusters (2016 Movie) - Executive Producer

Other work[]

Heavy Metal - Production Coordinator (1981)
Stripes - Associate Producer (1981)
Twins - Executive Producer (1988)
Beethoven - Producer (1992)
Beethoven's 2nd - Producer (1993)
Evolution - Producer (2001)
Hitchcock - Producer (2012)

Trivia[]

Joe Medjuck has two cameos in Ghostbusters
- At around the one minute mark, he walks across the reading room of the New York City Public Library.^[1]
- During the first montage, when the Omni magazine cover appears, Joe Medjuck makes his second cameo. He is behind Egon Spengler.
During filming in New York, Joe Medjuck and some of the crew had rooms at the Mayflower Hotel at 15 Central Park West. One day, during filming of the Ecto-1 driving to 550 Central Park West, people were wondering what was going on amid all the crippling traffic. Medjuck told them Francis Ford Coppola was filming "The Cotton Club."^[2]
Joe Medjuck and Michael Gross were very involved in The Real Ghostbusters and took the show quite seriously. They read every script and tried to make sure that nothing was going to embarrass anyone. They were so involved that they almost got the show canceled because they wouldn't do certain things that ABC wanted done. It drove the other producers crazy because Medjuck and Gross wanted some stuff on the air that they didn't want unless they liked it.^[3]
The tie worn by Peter Venkman for his dinner date with Dana in Ghostbusters II was kept by Joe Medjuck.^[4]
On the Regular Cover of Ghostbusters 101 #1, the map credit references Joe Medjuck.
On page 6 of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2, in panel 4, in the lower right seated is Joe Medjuck like his cameo but dressed like his later cameo in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.
On cover B of Ghostbusters Year One Issue #4, next to the calculator is a photo is Egon's "I got it!" scene with Joe Medjuck in the montage in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.
The character Deputy Medjuck in Ghostbusters: Afterlife is named after Joe Medjuck.

References[]

↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:56-00:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "And this handsome young man is me 15 years ago crossing the screen. "
↑ Joe Medjuck (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 01:19:48-01:19:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "We were all living at the Mayflower Hotel, a bunch of us. I was living at the Mayflower Hotel. It was just down the street. And people would come out and say, "What are they doing here? They're wrecking the city. Who are these people?" And I'd say, "it's Francis Coppola. He's making The Cotton Club.""
↑ Beyond the Marquee Joe Medjuck Interview 9/15/14 Joe Medjuck says: I was very involved and we took it quite seriously. We read every script and tried to make sure that nothing was going to embarrass anyone. We were so involved that we almost got the show cancelled because we wouldn't do certain things that ABC wanted done. It was driving the other producers crazy because they wanted some stuff on the air that we didn't want unless we liked it."
↑ Joe Medjuck (2019). Ghostbusters II- Commentary (2019) (Blu-ray ts. 58:21-58:25). Sony Home Entertainment. Joe Medjuck says: "See that tie Bill's wearing? I still have that tie. I love that tie."

Gallery[]

RGB Boxset Bonus Disc: Extended Interview[]

[1] Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:56-00:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "And this handsome young man is me 15 years ago crossing the screen. "

[2] Joe Medjuck (1999). Ghostbusters- Commentary (1999) (DVD ts. 01:19:48-01:19:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. Joe Medjuck says: "We were all living at the Mayflower Hotel, a bunch of us. I was living at the Mayflower Hotel. It was just down the street. And people would come out and say, "What are they doing here? They're wrecking the city. Who are these people?" And I'd say, "it's Francis Coppola. He's making The Cotton Club.""

[3] Beyond the Marquee Joe Medjuck Interview 9/15/14 Joe Medjuck says: I was very involved and we took it quite seriously. We read every script and tried to make sure that nothing was going to embarrass anyone. We were so involved that we almost got the show cancelled because we wouldn't do certain things that ABC wanted done. It was driving the other producers crazy because they wanted some stuff on the air that we didn't want unless we liked it."

[4] Joe Medjuck (2019). Ghostbusters II- Commentary (2019) (Blu-ray ts. 58:21-58:25). Sony Home Entertainment. Joe Medjuck says: "See that tie Bill's wearing? I still have that tie. I love that tie."

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