Ghostbusters could lose Sony $70 million

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Soundwave said:

thismeintiel said:

Lmao. So they have to stretch so much as to include revenue from the game (yea, cause that must have been a HUGE hit and cost nothing to make) AND rentals of the 1984 one just to say it'll break even. Let's just ignore the first two were extremely profitable on their own merit. Just admit it Sony, it bombed. Is it the worst bomb ever? Of course not. But it's still a bomb.

Also, Sony already said the $144M production budget was AFTER all tax incentives were taken into account.

Studios still lie about marketing budgets all the time. For example with Ghostbusters 2016 it's been murmurred about that they're including costs of development from failed previous Ghostbusters movies into the "budget" as well. Inflating budgets is good for movie studios, it means they lose less on back end deals, this is why Warner Bros. tried to argue they weren't making money off Harry Potter movies (laugh out fucking loud). 

Sony is still gonna make a big loss off of the movie - which is what needed to happen.