They should have removed all the genital jokes and made it about 10 to 20 minutes shorter that way it could have been PG like the first movie and they could have just marketed it towards kids. It would have been slightly more successful at the box office that way. Also I highly doubt it will be any more successful in the remaining overseas markets where it still hasn't opened yet it final overseas numbers are going to be dismal it totally bomb in the UK and that is really the only market where the franchise is remotely as popular as it is in the US and Canada.

My guess is that they'll probably reboot the franchise and move away from the type of marketing and PR that they have done with this one.

Its final box office numbers will be close to being as bad as last years Fantastic Four movie so there is pretty much no chance it will get a sequel.  Also I can't think of any sequels or reboots lately that haven't been successful at the box office and gotten a sequel.  Not by the same company anyway, Termiator Salvation wasn't profitable it was made by Warner Brothers and last years Terminator Genisys was made by Paramount.

The only way this gets another reboot anytime soon is if the IP is aquired by another studio.

Nah, it won't bomb close to as hard as Fan4stic. 167 million on a 120 million budget? Ghostbusters will be looking at 140 million domestically, add international and we're talking maybe 240 million worldwide gross? That's the equivalent of Fan4stic grossing 200 million.

I can't see it coming close to making $100 million overseas it already bombed extremely hard in the UK and that is really the only country where Ghostbusters is nealy as popular as it is in the US and Canada.  Can't really see it making $140 million domestically either it will be in discount theaters in about three weeks its legs are pretty much dead already.  At least 20 Century Fox knew that the had a stinker on their hands they didn't resort to fake reviews to boost Fan4stics box office total.

Nah.  This movie is going to have quite the drop this weekend and will only get worse next weekend.  And it doesn't have China to bail it out, which many flops or only decently performing movies in the US get bailed out by.  I'd be surprised if this hits $200M WW.  And this movie needs about $250M to break even on its production budget.

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Just saw it. It was okay. 5/10 (on a movie scale, not the game scale where scores are inflated).

Some parts were surprisingly spooky for a comedy. In the last act it partly seemed to turn into an action film. I'm pretty sure this was where they blew a lot of the budget (completely unnecesarily imo). So yeah, I have to echo Soundwave, they should've rewritten the last act. Other than that, it had quite a few fun moments. I didn't really see anything that screamed "they are women, in your face!", it wasn't made into a major and important part of the movie.

They completely butchered the soundtrack though. That was easily the worst part imo.

EDIT: Also, I could've sworn I saw a Vaio in the movie. Why are Sony *still* doing VAIO product placement? They sold the bran lol. Didn't the pictures division get the memo haha.

Even though it kinda bombed the biggest bomb of the year is easily The BFG can't see anything else bombing that hard the rest of 2016. Gods of Egypt which had the same production budget as The BFG is a distant second place it bombed harder domestically but it made over $100 million overseas and currently still has made slightly more the twice as much money as The BFG at the box office. But even if the numbers where closer The BFG is a bigger failure since its PG and Gods of Egypt is PG-13.