Chris Hu said:
Soundwave said:
The cast was fine I wouldn't have minded seeing them continue but with a better script. But Ghostbusters as a reboot was always an iffy proposition since it's such an old property, it'll likely be moth balled forever now.
Kinda funny that $46 million as an opening isn't good enough anymore either, but you can't expect a 30+ year old franchise to come back, you need to be able to build an audience first.
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$46 million is actually a pretty good opening but not for a movie that had a $142 million dollar production budget. I'm thinking that Sony will sell off Sony Pictures/Columbia eventually since the only successful franchise they have right now is Bond and they don't completely own that. The most likely buyer is Fox since they recently tried but failed to buy Warner Brothers.
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They also own the film rights to Spider-Man, one of the largest Marvel properties. Now that they are allowing Marvel some control over the films, they may become huge hits, again. Though, even the worst performing Spider-Man movie still pulled in over $700M WW.
And true, this year has been a quiet one for them and last year was the first one in awhile where they hadn't crossed $1B in gross (still made over $950M), but they are not in any rush to sell their studios. They make too much money off of them. The past couple of years really can be blamed on Amy Pascal's poor decisions, which is mostly the reason they got rid of her. Hopefully, now they have someone at the helm who will get them back on the right track. The track they were on WAY back in 2014.
