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

[VGhippy]

thismeintiel said:

VGhippy said:
I actually liked the movie, but I have no idea how the budget ended up in the realm of 150m just for production costs.... I've got a feeling Sony just made a mistake handing this to Feig, who'd never done anything like this before, and he didn't realise how much what he invisioned would cost to turn into CG. Ghostbusters is essentially the reboot of an 80's b-movie horror-comedy and should never have been allowed that kind of budget.

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.

 

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.