Ghostbusters budget (150 Million) need 500 million worldwide to be considered successful (NOT BREAK EVEN)

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JRPGfan said:

Peh said:
Never ever will this make $500 million.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ghostbusters2016.htm

The people who wanted to watch the movie already did, and the rest will be just curious to see it. The numbers of people seeing it decreases with time. After 1 month or 2 month. No one will care for it anymore. Probably estimated world wide money will be between $200 and $250 million.

So it wont even flop? It ll earn back more than its production costs? a shame.

I think it does good if something is crap, it flops hard enough for them to realise they made a mistake.

All the trailers for the movie still look crap, and most of the reviewers I trust, all say that the movie was shallow and poor.

No, it won't.  First, I think $250M is too high an estimate, though, it definitely has a shot at $200M.  But, let's say it does make $250M.  After all is said and done, the studio only sees about 55% of the box office gross.  That would mean Sony will only see $138M, below it's production budget AND it doesn't include the millions they spent on advertising.  Like I said earlier, this movie probably needs at least $300-$320M at the box office to break even.