How the hell did it cost 150m to make the movie?

The special effects weren't even that amazing...

Love how people belittle the original to prop this one up.  First of all, Ghostbusters was nowhere near a B-movie.  It cost over $72M in today's money to make.  It was the 2nd highest domestic grossing movie of 1984, barely being beaten by Beverly Hills Cop, and  handedly beating The Neverending Story, Sixteen Candles, Nightmare on Elm Street, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Terminator, Red Dawn, Amadeus, Star Trek 3, Police Academy, The Karate Kid, Gremlins, and Temple of Doom.

The funniest part is that Ghostbusters made almost $300M WW, a total this one won't even come close to, IN 1984 MONEY!!  That would be like $700M in today's money.  So, no, Ghostbusters was not a B-movie.  It was a mainstream movie that became a HUGE blockbuster.  A far cry from this new garbage.

It had a lot of reshoots those are pricey.  Fan4stic doesn't look like a $120 million movie either it also had a ton of reshoots and even more production problems then Ghostbusters. 

Its only done 130 million. This movie will be lucky to break 200 million, so epic flop indeed (and a well deserved one)!

Compensation for the gender wage gap?

Ha! That was well done, bravo good sir. 

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I tried to watch, but it is just sad, I lasted 20 minutes.

Moderated - Miguel_Zorro

no Feig is almost certainly correct. Many studios do not include marketing costs when they mention what the initial 'budget' was. so the 150 million budget was very likely BEFORE a lot of marketing.

a potentially like 200$ million made film will need to make well over 500 million worldwide to be considered a success for the effort and investment by the studio.

The theaters and other things are going to take more than HALF of any revenue from ticket sales and no movie studio is going to invest hundreds of millions into a film and potentially call it a win to make like 50 million off of the film. That's not good at all per the investment

at any rate Ghosbusters is currently at like 140 million worldwide. It is possibly it will not even make more with domestic/international combined than was invested in it. Collosal failure.

Its a poor film too. has nothing to do with women being casted, the jokes just fall flat and it basically disrespects the classic and great film that preceded it. 

hopefully Hollywood learns from this, that they DO need to listen to fans to some degree and should never give that much control to a director who is extremely biased and has went as far as to write articles where he blatantly claimed that (quote) "Men are not funny". This being a blockbuster failure is about as close to justice and fair karma as you can get

I wll mention this fact to: its been reported that a number of the stars of the film (yes, the female stars) were extremely unhappy during production with the direction the film was going and were shushed.

A+ for the joke

It was probably because it looked dated by the time I watched it that I thought it was low budget. It's a good entertaining movie, but it will always look B-movie to me. Probably because by the time I started watching movies I watched it alongside things like terminator 2.