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Chris Hu on 23 July 2016

It's happening it will finish 5th this weekend and should drop two more spots next weekend. Should already loose a fair amount of theaters this week. I'm thinking this could be in discount theaters in about three weeks.



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hershel_layton on 23 July 2016

So how's the box office for ghostbusters?

Reviews don't matter for the company, cash is what matters. Just look at Transformers 4. Horrible movie, managed to get over 1 billion dollars.



 

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Zappykins on 23 July 2016
johnsobas said:

of course they should have made it like bridesmaids, that is who the movie should be marketed to.  That's why it shouldn't even have been ghostbusters, it would have been a better movie and it wouldn't get so much hate.  This is by the guy who made bridesmaids, spy, and the heat which were all rated R.  This movie is the worst of all of those.

Eh, I thought Bridesmaids was an insufferable movie.  It more about hating people than funny.  And oh, so much unfunny poop.

Bridesmaids seemed polarizing too.  People either loved it or hated it.   Not much in the middle.



 

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Teeqoz on 23 July 2016
hershel_layton said:
So how's the box office for ghostbusters?

Reviews don't matter for the company, cash is what matters. Just look at Transformers 4. Horrible movie, managed to get over 1 billion dollars.

90 million worldwide so far, 75 million domestic. It has quite a few more international markets to open in. The movie probably won't breakeven in the box office, especially factoring in marketing. Antihype probably limited the potential of the movie, and the positive reviews only rectify *so* much.



hershel_layton on 23 July 2016
Teeqoz said:
hershel_layton said:
So how's the box office for ghostbusters?

Reviews don't matter for the company, cash is what matters. Just look at Transformers 4. Horrible movie, managed to get over 1 billion dollars.

90 million worldwide so far, 75 million domestic. It has quite a few more international markets to open in. The movie probably won't breakeven in the box office, especially factoring in marketing. Antihype probably limited the potential of the movie, and the positive reviews only rectify *so* much.

Well, that's decent. The budget was probably like 50 million for making the movie plus 50ish+ for advertising



 

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Teeqoz on 23 July 2016
hershel_layton said:
Teeqoz said:

90 million worldwide so far, 75 million domestic. It has quite a few more international markets to open in. The movie probably won't breakeven in the box office, especially factoring in marketing. Antihype probably limited the potential of the movie, and the positive reviews only rectify *so* much.

Well, that's decent. The budget was probably like 50 million for making the movie plus 50ish+ for advertising

Haha, production budget was 140 million



StarOcean on 23 July 2016
Teeqoz said:
hershel_layton said:

Well, that's decent. The budget was probably like 50 million for making the movie plus 50ish+ for advertising

Haha, production budget was 140 million

Not even counting the, I believe, 100+ in marketing



Teeqoz on 23 July 2016
StarOcean said:
Teeqoz said:

Haha, production budget was 140 million

Not even counting the, I believe, 100+ in marketing

Yup. Basically, it was waaaay overbudgeted. Though films have gotten sequels despite the original (or in this case, reboot) being unprofitable. It remains to be seen what Sony wants to do with the franchise.



hershel_layton on 23 July 2016
Teeqoz said:
hershel_layton said:

Well, that's decent. The budget was probably like 50 million for making the movie plus 50ish+ for advertising

Haha, production budget was 140 million

Oh.

 

Well, that surprised me.



 

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Soundwave on 23 July 2016

Franchise is probably dead (in movie form, maybe you'll get something small like a cartoon that'll mostly be watched by 30-year-old guys before get canned after season 2).

The movie isn't *that* bad, but it needed to be considerably better than Ghostbusters II to overcome the casting controversy and the stupidity (from all sides) related to that and it wasn't. It was only about Ghostbusters II tier.

If it's on TV sometime in the future or Netflix, I'll probably watch it again. It's better than Transformers, TMNT, GI Joe, or similar types of franchise properties.

But ah well. I enjoy Ghostbusters a lot but its very hard to make a sequel to the first film, it was just the right time and right mix of everything. Before people give this crew a hard time, you should remember that the same cast/crew/writers of the first film also fell way short with Ghostbusters II.