'Ghostbusters' Drops 63%

>Sony’s Ghostbusters took a tumble on its second Friday. The $144 million comedy earned $6.2m (-63.8%) to give it a new $71.4m eight-day cume. That’s a sharp fall for a comedy


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>'Ghostbusters' Drops 63%
>That’s a sharp fall for a comedy

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NU MALE FEMINISTS ETERNALLY BTFO

At this point, is it even possible for Sony to break even?

TUMBLING DOWN
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Yeah, they just need it to do well in China

oh wait

>entire movie built on already established movie
>gains tons of controversy involving women being the new cast
>finally release trailer that looks pretty much as shitty as everyone was expecting

Did people actually think this movie would do well? Im mean really. Do you think women actually work hard to change things for what they believe? They WANTED more female representation in movies, they never said they would actually go see it.

considering how much they spent marketing this turd, it's impossible

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>sharp fall in America
>banned in China

Is this the dawn of problematic kino?

KIKES BTFO

Sup Forums WINS AGAIN

But what about the internet feminists who proclaimed they'd see it 10 times to stick it to the patriarchy?

Would people do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?

You mean to say that calling the fanbase a bunch of basement dwelling, racist misogynists didn't work?

>the city of sony

Yeah cause Sup Forums is the arbiter of quality cinema, amirite?
Kill yourself.

I saw it last night, my gf works for [generic shitty womens magazine]

This film is fucking shit... there's no threat, there's nothing scary...

They get these women, to flop around like fucking clowns on screen just babbling about nothing, no witty banter or dialog

Chris Hemsworth plays a literal retard with an IQ of 45, that's the joke

>Cover your eyes Kevin
(Kevin covers his ears)

90 seconds later

>(loud noise in scene)
>Oww!
(Kevin covers his eyes)

The joke is he's mentally challenged and has the mental age of a 6 year old, I'm not exaggerating

The villian is shit, GODDAMN there's no fucking threat.

It felt like a sci-fi original movie being shown at 6pm on a Sunday

Worst (studio) film I've seen in years and years

You do know the opening weekend only made as much as it did because of feminuts buying multiple tickets to the same movie right? Feminists on suicide watch.

IT'S OVER WOMEN ARE FINISHED

WHO WANTS TO BE MY CATAMITE?

I hope it doesn't make its budget back. Not because it's a all female, but because it's just another lazy reboot/remake. Maybe they'll change their ways. Maybe. I know it's not likely, but maybe, just maybe.
I'm tired of seeing the same old shit. Why can't Hollywood come up with anything new these days?
Also, tickets are too fucking expensive. See this pic? Fuck you Hollywood.

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stay mad cuck redditor

No, they stuck to their word. The movie would be at 5 million otherwise.

There's no way in hell it'll make the budget back from marketing AND production. I'd be surprised if it makes its production budget back.

remember that Feig said the movie would need to make $500M or he'd end up back in 'movie jail'

>mfw I realised they still have their giant plastic model and slime all over Waterloo station after two weeks
I'm amazed the marketing budget was only 100m considering what they seem to be spending

JIDF pls go

hollywoodreporter.com/news/paul-feig-why-men-arent-449025

>men aren't funny...we only laugh at their simplistic jokes to humor them!
>but here, let me show you the sophisticated humor of grown women
>QUEEF HAHAHAHA, NUTSHOT AHAHAHAHA

I wonder if the cuck will commit suicide

Damn, it really did drop to 5th place on its second weekend like some people were joking yesterday.

I'm so sorry that you're too busy getting caught up in retarded internet arguments about sexism to not realize that the entire feminist representation of the movie was a marketing ploy to get dumb fucks like yourself to make a lot of noise about this shit movie and therefore give it more hype. Sup Forums wins again, amirite? Let's keep kicking a dormant hornet's nest over and over again until we make issues where there are none, and then we're somehow right!
Woo!

Only person who won in all this is Kobe "they paid me 10 million dollars for one tv spot" Bryant

>only the rapist wins
rly maeks u tink

he wrote the movie. If we're using him as the representative of all men, then his passive aggressive little article is correct.

That internet hype didn't translate to good box office returns. This movie followed in Snakes on a Plane's footsteps.

get star trekt

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I'm glad this is the case, hype should not translate to sales if the product is bad, but still, imagine if everyone had just shut their mouths about this movie and not made a huge fuss about it, none of this would've happened and it probably would've made less than half of what it did.

This

Seeing a Paul Feig movie fail is sweet enough. That it's a major Sony picture is even better

>Ghostbusters will make manbabies piss themselves
>/tvpol/ btfo
>look at this article about how you're all neckbeard virgin trump voters
>review embargo doesnt mean anything lol
>it's just opening night, wait until the weekend
>it's just a bad weekend
>who cares, it's the second week you need to look out for
>m-merchandising will save it
>blurays will save it
>please clap

HOW is this a Sup Forums issue?

>make a movie
>marketing focuses on insulting the potential customers

Sony fail at basic marketing and deserve every last cent lost. And hopefully Feig's career takes a dive too.

>imagine if everyone had just shut their mouths about this movie and not made a huge fuss about it

Sony used one of the most antagonizing, aggressive marketing strategies ever for this movie and you seriously blame people calling Sony out for it and creating a backlash? Just fuck off.

redditors think Sup Forums, /r9k/ and Sup Forums are all the same board

Sup Forums and /r9k/ are redditor boards though
this is a known fact especially for the latter

>That’s a sharp fall for a comedy

THEN WHY AM I LAUGHING SO HARD

Let me correct myself, the problem isn't with the fact that people complained about the fact that this movie looked like someone shitting on the grave of the ghostbusters franchise (which it was) but rather that a subset of people complained that the movie was being lead by women. We've seen this kind of shit happen way too many times in recent history, where people end up taking the effective route of "look at all these misogynists" to get people to like and defend their movie. It's not that complaining about 4 scientists is not okay, it's that complaining that the movie is being led by women is a dumb thing to do and it's counterproductive.

Well, r9k is pretty much a zoo board, where you can gawk at weirdo autists who are in their natural habitat, while Sup Forums is the most popular board that's about a popular topic and not about posting gore/porn/ylyl pics you've seen a billion times before, so it's no surprise.

Yeah I'm laughing at the drop way harder than I was laughing at anything in the film

> the effective route of "look at all these misogynists" to get people to like and defend their movie

THE MOVIE IS FUCKING BOMBING

Seriously this, what the fuck were they thinking?

Will they blame it on piracy?

Where do you get your movies now that kat is down?

TORRENTS ARE MISOGYNIST

I'm surprised they aren't frantically leaking it so that they can.

release websites

Stop falling for this retarded media narrative. They had to go through thousands of youtube comments just to find a handful of "women suck!" comments and half of them were ironic anyway.

The fact that they had to portray James fucking Rolfe as the antagonistic misogynist manbaby because they couldn't find any real misogynist outside of anonymous comments says everything.

Is that a reference to the latest Expendables?

>Movie is a pile of garbage, but it generated controversy, so people who want to hate it will go see it, and people who want to tell others that they saw it will go see it
>Both groups come back with negative review, kill all desire for undecided people to see it
>Massive drop in attendance

You see that shit all the time in the entertainment industries, especially with video games.

Yeah, apparently insulting your potential customers and turning them off of your product is a bad business decision. Who would of known?

>potential customers
this movie wasn't for you redditor.

There's still Canada and Sweden.
Ghostbusters will be very profitable in these countries.

well the first camrip did just come out thursday, conveniently before this weekend's inevitable drop in sales...

I suppose you're right, that mudslinging attempt at James was some pathetic shit.

They thought attacking one group would mean getting the support of another.

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I know it's sarcasm, but literally everyone saw this coming, it happened so many time in other industries. How the fuck is this still happening with established franchises ? There's two other recent movies that had female protagonists but respected the old fans of the work, and integrated the new characters with the old, and made them more or less seamless : The Force Awakens and Fury Road. Both of which are major successes, even if you can argue about some small issues with them (Rey being a mary sue and the ultra testosterone warboys stealing the fucking show).

>Hey, should we make the new Ghostbusters movie for actual Ghostbusters fans?

>Naw, fuck that. Let's get the feminists to latch their cause onto it like it's important or something, because they don't have anything better to do

the only thing more pathetic than this thread is the sersha fag who created it

nobody cares about youre shitfu, give up already

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Fuck off back up Melissa Mccarthy's fat ass Paul you desperate nu male beta

>actual Ghostbusters fans

There aren't that many of them

I actually think it made sense to have Feig and his regular cast redo ghostbusters. The original movie was just a bunch of comedians from SNL doing their thing with a goofy concept, and the new movie is the same, with Feig who was a proven comedy director taking the Helmsworth.
I mean, people here may not have liked Bridesmaids or The Heat, but they did well with women and did well enough at the box office.

The proof is in the pudding though, and Ghostbusters is shit pudding.

>it needed to make $500 million
>couldn't even break $100m

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yup

>chris hemsworth is the best part of the movie, actually managing to be funny at times despite playing a fucking retard parody character
>even being box office poison and a mediocre actor, he's better and funnier than 4 "comedian" """actresses"""

It made sense in the sense that they tried to have an ensemble of comedians together and make a campy ghost movie out of it. But the first ghostbusters had actual jokes and didn't expect the humor to just come naturally just because they hired comedians.

Was he right?

Not many hardcore fans sure, but there are millions of people who grew up with the cartoons and had the toys and would have watched this for nostalgia reasons. Same reason why Michael Bay can make a fortune with Transformers and TNMT (at least the first one). Not because of hardcore fans of those franchizes, but because of millions of people who were casually into it as kids.

Wait, it was banned in china? Why?

Because it has ghosts in it.

Sony is a jap company

they don't want horrible bombs smuggled into their country

Ghosts are banned in China.

That's the actual reason.

Do you even need to ask

Black actor and its considered witchcraft.

Pretty poor business model if you start at the outset trying to not to appeal to the widest audience. Nothing appeals to everyone of course, like my steak business that butchers the cows right in front of you won't do well with vegetarians, naturally, but I can still sell a salad and not hang signs on my wall that says: Genocide vegetarians.

China has weird hang-ups about the undead.

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kek, FIFTH on its second weekend.

and it was second on its first weekend yeah? LOL

Be honest, would an apatow-directed Ghostbusters with Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, James Franco and Craig Robinson have been any better?

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>millions of people who grew up with the cartoons and had the toys and would have watched this for nostalgia reasons

Why couldn't they watch this? Because it has women in it? All the tech looks pretty faithful.

We ain't afraid of no Ghosts. Chinamen are though.

Only if Danny Mcbride was in it

only if it had will smith or idris elba

chinese look at ghosts in a different way

I wish I had Sonys money to burn

>I'm so sorry that you're too busy getting caught up in retarded internet arguments about sexism to not realize that the entire feminist representation of the movie was a marketing ploy to get dumb fucks like yourself to make a lot of noise

Do you really have no idea that everyone has been saying this for months and it's the primary narrative about the drama surrounding the movie? Is this your first post on Sup Forums?

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We know their eyes are shaped different, but you don't have to keep bringing it up.

Assuming they actually cared, yes. Paul Feig is a joke of a director and he's basically a wannabe Judd Apatow.

The arsehole agrees with Katherine Heigl's (which she has recanted recently, trying to give herself a more amiable image) comments about Knocked Up being sexist and making her look like a bitch.

>chris hemsworth is the best part of the movie
He sure was

This is what happens when you don't do proper market research and instead listen to whales on tumblr and SJWs on twatter.
Hopefully others will learn a lesson from this and stop catering to all these dumb leftists.