'Ghostbusters' Heading for $70M-Plus Loss, Sequel Unlikely

>Confronted by tepid box office for the reboot, the studio will instead focus on animated spinoffs.

>As of Aug. 7, Ghostbusters had earned just under $180 million at the global box office, including $117 million domestic. The film still hasn't opened in a few markets, including France, Japan and Mexico, but box-office experts say it will have trouble getting to $225 million despite a hefty net production budget of $144 million plus a big marketing spend. The studio has said break-even would be $300 million.

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>B-but it covers the production budget

Feminazis on sudoku watch

Wah wah wah waaaaaah...

We did it bros!

Shut up you shitlord. It's making dozens of dollars

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Not surprised.

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Anyone with half a brain knew it was shit the moment they announced it. The third movie was in development hell forever. Then they decide to just scrape together a shit sandwich wrapped in a feminism bow and call it a day.

Lazy effort relying on a "movement" is the quickest way to fail.

Well this was obvious.

A trilogy was already green lit you retards. They'll make money by the time it's over. Ghostbusters is a long term franchise play and misogyny is slowly disappearing over time in Hollywood. By the third movie Ghostbusters will be grossing over a billion a film.

1 ticket to movie jail please

>It's a Sony Pictures have already greenlit sequels episodes

CANT WAIT FOR THOSE ASM3, VENOM, AND AUNT MAY SEQUELS AND SPIN OFFS LMAO

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

Honestly, the thing I'm most HYPE about is reading the next round of leaked emails from Sony, post-Fembusters.

It's going to be pure 100% comedy gold.

>"This loss calculation is way off," says the Sony rep. "With multiple revenue streams, including consumer products, gaming, location-based entertainment, continued international rollout, and huge third-party promotional partnerships that mitigated costs, the bottom line, even before co-financing, is not remotely close to that number."

Fucking pieces of shit, they're not even a studio anymore. They're nothing more than a god damn advertising company, every movie they make is choke full of ads and product placement. This movie was probably profitable when you add in all the other non-movie revenue.

Product placement and 3rd world countries will ensure that every turd that Sony drops will be profitable. Why can' this fucking company just die already?

b..b..but that Zuul sequel as mentioned in the after end credits scene...

DAILY REMINDER THAT THE VIDEOGAME STUDIO THAT MADE THE GAME TIE IN WENT BUST LOL.

>The film still hasn't opened in a few markets, including France, Japan and Mexico
Implying the Japanese will spend money on this

Just like how Sony greenlit all those Spider-Man and Fantastic Four sequels lol

RAAAAAAAA STOP BULLING US AND SPEND MONEY YOU SHITLORDS

The Sony rep is obviously talking out of his ass, it was a net-loss and a loss in company reputation. Sony Entertainment already has a shit reputation and has to concede greatly in negations between movie theaters. The only way they finance this and their abyssal failures PS is with their insurance scamming companies in Japan.

> They're nothing more than a god damn advertising company

This shit right here. What they don't want to tell you is that they made money from the get go with the obvious product placement. They won't do more ghostbusters but they'll keep on doing Adam Sandler flicks just as bad and they won't go broke, because the inside ads will pay for part of the production and all the marketing costs will be advertisements for other companies priced in

Daily reminder: For every gross $1, the studios will make $1.75 profit within the next 10 years (DVDs, toys, TV etc).

So the movie is still a success.

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken tendies and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken tendies out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the figures tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is it bombing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so reactionary. I want a future to believe in. I want Ghostbusters to be a box office smash and fix this patriarchal movie industry. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought the toy sales were exceeding expectations???? This is so fucked.

Have you ever noticed that when a webm plays that has something really interesting going on it seems like it is only 30 seconds long? Even if it is actually a minute and a half long is over very quickly.

But if it is so moronic it is actually painful to watch it seems like it goes on for three minutes before it restarts ever when it is way less than a full minute.

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Do any actual human beings work at Sony?

>chicken tendies

Girls don't want Ghostbusters toys
Boys don't want toys with only women
No one is going to buy this as a dvd - the movie was bad
TV? what? No one is going to bankroll/watch anything tv-related about a failed movie

Face it, this movie had no demographic. It is a failure.

You're funny.

>Food and Man living in harmony.

What did they mean by this?

Seriously, what does that mean?

'gaming'

I REEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAALLY hope they're not talking about their amateur-dev pixel-fest that unironically uses 'HERstory' in dialogue and bankrupted the devs.

75 million loss if it reaches 225 million, and that's an upper estimate. Right now it's at 180.

The number to beat is 215. That's how much GBII made in 1989 money WITHOUT inflation. That it can't beat it's previous film without taking inflation into account is pathetic.

Ahahhahhaha

>Product placement and 3rd world countries will ensure that every turd that Sony drops will be profitable. Why can' this fucking company just die already?

Always remember: Sony Financial makes 50% of their profits. Lots of insurance for old rich people in Japan. It ensures that Sony can never die.

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Yeah but it made a huge ethical profit.
Money aren't everything.

Paul Feig let the actors ad lib constantly. For his 144 million dollar film, many of the scenes are just people goofing off on camera. This is probably why Fem-ergon acts like a spaz through the film.

He found this hilarious. Audiences didn't.

I still don't understand how this cost a $140 fucking million to make

This is fake

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'it made a huge ethical profit'

Well now look, you have to explain what the fuck that means or you look like a moron. That wasn't very smart was it?

>"Feminism was a mistake"
-Paul Feig

>Paul Feig let the actors ad lib constantly
No joke, Feig stated the original cut of the film with all the footage was about 4 hours long.

I hope it wasn't mainly this...

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Literally tax fraud and embezzlement

Every "Tentpole" blockbuster has absurd budgets. They are constantly using green screen and CGI.

The original with inflation cost 69 million. This is literally twice that. Film making has gotten more expensive, not less, and most of the effects don't look better.

Then: Rubbery effects, composite shots
Now: Fake CGI, green screen

How will all those media shills that went on about "Ghostbros" and "Take that, you stupid sexists!!" and harassed Rolfe respond to this?

>Anyone with half a brain knew it was shit the moment they announced it.

since when has that been a sign for low revenues? may I remind you of the transformers franchise? TF4 had literally zero story and look how much that one made

Tbis why was the ghostbusters movie so expensive to make and why such a unsexy cast for a movie that cost over 100 million

>Gaming

YES YES WELL DONE SONY REP HOWEVER PIC RELATED

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Who the fuck though it was a good idea to hire a chick flick director and let him have such a huge budget?

This right here is "We don't get Ghost Busters at all".

They think "Comedy + Ghosts" so that means goofy and silly. That means a big disco dance number.

The Ghost Busters films played the villains and danger totally straight. The humor came from the situations or a snide remark. There's a lot in the 84 film that will legitimately scare children. That's good. By building up Gozer as a serious threat, the Stay Puft joke works so well.

If Ghost Busters had starred a few different characters, it would be a serious end of the world apocalypse film.

Rowan in contrast is literally just "some fucking guy" and acts more like a goof ball than a threat.

this to-be-honest

Reptilians. All of them.

They won't.

"It's a success, we swear."

Ha. Suck it Amy Pascal.

You too, Rothman.

They just move on and pretend it never happened.

These people were either hired shills, or friends with Hollywood people. They band together. Now that the film is bombed no one cares.

Ghostbusters: Footloose Cut

this fag really directs in suits like that?

Amy Pascal. That's why she doesn't work at Sony anymore.

This so much.

Fuck this god damn patriarchy

>Who the fuck though it was a good idea to hire a chick flick director and let him have such a huge budget?

Amy Pascal. She's a retard. All the Sony execs are morons. Amy's gone because of the leak and other issues though. I bet a bunch of other Sony execs are gonna leave too.

I found it strange how the media, who was quite vocal about defending GB, went completely quiet about this movie after it released.

It makes me think all those pro-GB articles/blogs were by shills, and their contract ended at the movie's release.

Yay people losing their jobs! How awesome!

>The studio has said break-even would be $300 million.
Pure damage control, that's literally not possible. Theaters get like half, so that only covers the production budget unless the advertising budget was only 6mil.

> "With multiple revenue streams, including consumer products, gaming, location-based entertainment, continued international rollout, and huge third-party promotional partnerships that mitigated costs, the bottom line, even before co-financing, is not remotely close to that number."

Well no shit. Even Uwe Boll makes a profit after pay-per-view, but nobody is rushing to give him sequel rights.

>Wiig's awkward dancing
too qt

They were shills. Did you read that ridiculous Buzzfeed article? They weren't subtle.

Welcome to modern media.

He may be a huge fag, but what's wrong with wearing a suit?

but i thought they defeated the patriarchy?

So, will Leslie Jones still have work in Hollywood? Did that Twitter drama earn her enough pity points to get other gigs?

If you're as bad in your job as people working with GB we're, you deserve to lose your job and not just lose it but get severely beaten as well.

They really went out for marketing.

>They think "Comedy + Ghosts" so that means goofy and silly

they don't think at all. goofy and silly can still mean that the movie can be really good. it's just that those people have no talent whatsoever when writing comedy. 80s and 90s movies aren't funnier than today's movies for no reason. the internet has made everyone think they can be funny when being funny is actually not that simple. modern movies all have that family guy tier humour ("uuuuuh, no.... that's not what that actually does.... nope..... not at all..... yeah, that kills people, I'm pretty sure" or character hurts himself "ssssssssss..... aaaaaaaah.... sssssssssss...... aaaaaaaah") while older movies actually spent time getting an actual joke across to viewers.

>If Ghost Busters had starred a few different characters, it would be a serious end of the world apocalypse film

I agree. most female actresses just don't work in modern comedies. none of the actresses involved have good comedic timing or comedic likability (even wiig).

fuck me, but I would have actually paid to see helen mirren, jamie lee curtis, susan sarandon and c.c.h. pounder star in a ghostbusters movie

It's a damn shame because the movie isn't even that bad. Way better than Suicide Squad that's for damn sure. Say what you want, but at least Ghostbusters had a coherent narrative plot devoid of tryhard quip millennial humour.

TF4 wasn't saddled with feminist bullshit.

Feig and "women" may think it's important to inject their petty politics into these fucking shit movies. But people are tired of it, and not just men who are bored of the shrill den of harpies. Women who are perfectly happy with life hate it EVEN MORE. We just want to see a good movie, and if it's a reboot the fans want to see something and respects the source material. This movie was nothing but hot air, a big "FUCK YOU" to men and fans of the original that crashed with no survivors. It was a glorious, beautiful disaster.

Today, we will sip the champagne of victory. And tomorrow, we will shitpost again.

>unironically uses 'HERstory' in dialogue

really?

saw an interview with him in front of an audience on a theater stange on youtube once

goddamn, that guy had some very interesting points when it came to cinema, especially german tv shows and movies. I kek'd when he told the crowd how he sometimes got funding by chinese or japanese companies

>goes to a convention
>gives the concept for his movies to the companies but leaves out specific details like hardcore action and political themes
>basically cheats his way into getting funding

dude is based as fuck

Yes. See how long you can last:

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>random guy on mongolian board knows more about finances than an executive
Pathetic

>TF4 wasn't saddled with feminist bullshit.

yeah but I was talking about the "shit" aspect. bad movies like TF4 and Alice in Wonderland can make great revenue if the producers don't put politics into the game, like you mentioned

>Pathetic

>implying that anyone not named Amy Pascal couldnt do a better job

How fucking lazy and irresponsible do you have to be to do this. Malick did it because it was pivotal to the film, and because he chose his actors carefully, I guess it worked. I don't know. I don't watch Malick films. But this is a mainstream comedy, one with a plot and plot elements. For the director to just say fuck it and you ladies just do whatever, it's basically throwing them to sea without a life preserver.

Feig is such a dumb fuck. Probably my least favorite director now.

youtube.com/watch?v=5YboIS-ulak

Wait a grand total of 5 seconds.

Most people who watched it did find it funny. Taking the opinions of people who never watched seriously is not something you should do. It got good reviews and had good word of mouth, but Ghostbusters just isn't as big of a franchise as some people thought it was. The big issue was letting the budget get out of control because of mistaken assumptions about the popularity of Ghostbusters. They should go ahead with a sequel but do it with a smaller budget.

>Women who are perfectly happy with life hate it EVEN MORE

I never saw a comment by a woman who hates on the new movie

mostly, it's just "OH MY GOD, I LOVE THIS" or just "what? a new ghostbusters movie?"

Sony made the huge mistake of alienating its core audience (males who grew up in the 80s and 90s), its second core audience (males in general) and females who were annoyed by the feminist bullshit they pulled off. what did that leave them? modern-day feminists who bitch about movies on the internet and most probably don't even like to go to the cinema. I hated on sony for not making amazing spider-man 3 but this is just the goddamn icing on the cake in terms of bullshit and stupidity

I really hope you are happy fucking disgusting inbreed permavirgin pathethic manchildren

legit laffed

I am, actually. This has been a great week. USA has won gold in several events. I got a raise. This movie is tanking. Things are great.

I walked past that to get to my train every day for weeks. My platform is 2/3

>there's something strange.... in the neighbourhood.... here

jesus FUCKING christ

Yup!

you did nothing

This almost looks good, only because it looks like Marvel All-Stars.

There's already a good Ghostbuster game. It's written by Harold fucking Ramis (not his ghost) and Dan Akroyd and has all the original cast doing voice work, it's the perfect tonic after this shit for a sequel.