Viral video: Ghostbusters 2016, Star Wars and Game of Thrones

Ghostbusters hits the screens this summer and the classic tale of spooky events in New York gets a reboot, 30 years on, with a new cast. Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy play two authors who write a book suggesting ghosts are real, which is mocked. When ghosts invade Manhattan, the pair team up with a nuclear engineer and a subway worker to try to save the world from a mysterious demon known as Rowan (played by Neil Casey) who can exercise control over human form. It looks like a hoot, if the trailer is anything to go by.

True film fans will go to any lengths to collect memorabilia and follow the back stories of their favourite characters. Star Wars fan Shawn Bu always felt that the character of Darth Maul never got enough screen time so he created a fan film to showcase the best lightsabre fights and tell the story of Maul’s apprenticeship. Another title with a very strong fan base is Game of Thrones, which returns to the screen for series six on 24 April. Check out the trailer.

Tom Fletcher, formerly of McFly, loves to record his own family and his latest offering is a timelapse video, Bump to Buddy, leading up to the birth of his second son. Tom says: “We took photos almost every day of the pregnancy ... again! Well, we did it for Buzz so how could we not do it for Buddy.”

Cyclist Oleksiy Mishchenko had the surprise of his life when he and his pals were pursued by an ostrich while on a practice ride on the Cape of Good Hope before the Cape Argus Tour in South Africa. There will also be gasps of shock when you watch an EF-4 tornado make a direct hit on a gynasium at Henryville High School, Indiana, in 2012.

Finally, as the world of music mourns Beatles producer George Martin, we’ve got a history of rock in 15 minutes – 348 stars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, 44 drummers, one mashup – and a tribute to the great man himself.

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