Box-Office Analysis: Why the 'Ghostbusters' Reboot May Haunt Sony

hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-analysis-why-ghostbusters-911836

>Sony executives were in full spin mode as they declared Paul Feig's all-female Ghostbusters reboot a triumph
>"We are ecstatic with this opening. We have successfully restarted an important brand," ((Josh Greenstein)), president of worldwide marketing and distribution
>But box-office analysts and rival studios are skeptical that Sony has indeed relaunched the storied franchise
>The big-budget franchise comedy opened to an estimated $46 million in North America, a problematic start for a movie with a net production budget of $144 million
>Feig's previous female-skewing comedies were extraordinarily successful but they cost a fraction of what Ghostbusters did and they were stand-alone offerings, not a franchise comedy designed to revive a 30 year-old marquee film series
>When factoring in marketing costs the price for promoting a summer tentpole globally can be upwards of $150 million, Ghostbusters may need earn $375 million-$400 million worldwide to break even
>it needs to do sizable business overseas, since it could top out in the $130 million
>Sony insiders counter that the break-even number is $300 million
>China is not allowing Ghostbusters into the country.
>"The more I ponder it, the worse this scenario plays out. Curiosity played a big factor in the $46 million debut and, as such, I doubt it will hold like a typical Feig comedy. In fact, I think it's going to drop big time - next week," says box-office analyst Jeff Bock.
>"I know Sony is crowing about it being a great opening for a comedy, but the entire Ghostbusters legacy is what's at stake here, and it's not looking good. This was supposed to be a blockbuster"
>"Sony definitively did not launch a franchise, and seemingly they might be the only ones that don't know it"
>"If foreign grosses don't pick up the slack, this will go down as another big disappointment for Sony, who based their entire summer on this brand" says Bock.

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We actually are winning

Kikes dont care about money, but only their propaganda.

Remember how much money Passion Of The Christ made from all the Christian movie goers in this country? Imagine if the kikes in Hollywood continued to churn out Christian films year after year- they would probably be Bill Gates-tier rich by now.

But they dont- why? Because it doesnt fit their narrative.

>anti-SJWism
>wounds Japanese company
Kek

Yeah you couldn't be more wrong. They're making a SEQUEL to Passion of the Christ. Let that sink in.

They would put hot poop on the screen if they thought you would pay $14 to see it. Jews ONLY care about money. They have no other meaningful ideology.

Sony is as kiked out as it comes.

Pretty much this. Its for the brain washing, not the money.

>problematic

Mel Gibson's nowhere near "kike", lol

What is it, the mohammed episode?

Critics are cowed by political correctness. People will go see the film just to say they did, or just because they were dragged by their friends. DVD and merchandise sales are going to tell the story of the success of this film. It's likely that Sony will have to reboot this reboot just like the Incredible Hulk franchise, first with Eric Bana, and then with Ed Norton. This film may be a "success" just barely, but it won't be enough to justify a sequel.

This could have been like BSG, Batman, or Star Trek. A complete re-imagining that is dark and original.

I wish I screencapped my prediction for how this will go down. Basically it was something like
>film gets mixed reviews.
>minor commercial success, making a small profit.

People go on and on about ghostbusters supposedly being a beloved classic franchise but in the real world it was 2 mediocre films with a cult following. Bill Murray is the only thing it had going for it.

are you both retarded kikes didn't make that movie or support it.

>DVD and merchandise sales are going to tell the story of the success of this film

They said that about Dredd, at best it meant the film saved face, but they were never going to be able to make more Dredd films.

People in Europe too busy getting culturally enriched by Muslims to go see movies.

I don't know, porn is dying and hemorrhaging money, yet (((they))) keep producing it, especially interracial

Mel Gibson definitely browses Sup Forums when he has his night cap.

>dark
How the fuck would that work for fucking Ghostbusters?

To ever be anywhere as great as the original you would to somehow get a gaggle of the best comedians of our time like maybe Louis C.K., Thomas Middletich, Ben Schwartz, and Milana Vayntrub to shut up the feminists (and I want to impregnate her jewish pussy). Now Its unlikely something as great as that would ever happen though as long as they keep it apolitical and put more effort in it then fart jokes I'd probably still watch it at least.

Milena is literally the most fuckable woman on the planet

She's all fucking natural also. Not even a whore either. Also among the few women that I find funny. If she wasn't a leftist she'd literally be perfect.

I just want this movie to be leaked already so we can have a livestream for it and shitpost about it.

>problematic

>China is not allowing Ghostbusters into the country.

CHINA IS SO FUCKING BASED

It's not allowed into mainland China because it has ghosts in it.

rottentomatoes.com/m/ghostbusters_2016/
rate this shit

This thing was a deliberate destruction of the Ghostbusters franchise. They knew what they were doing. Sony always knows what they're doing with their 'flops'. They're always deliberate spoilers for some theoretical may-be product by another producer. Their ENTIRE modern X-Men line is a perfect example. Sony is a bitter old man painfully aware of his own fast-approaching end. Sony only lives to fuck things up for everyone else.

Wait for PSVR, then deny it.

WAKE ME UP
youtu.be/FOIheDZLzB8

>They're making a SEQUEL to Passion of the Christ
Well there is some shit that happens afterwards, and Mel's ex-wife is a fucking bloodsucker.

and because China accepts only 20 non-chinese movies a year. Probably don't want to loose one movie for this shit.

They consider blacks subhuman and there hasn't been a woman in power since Wu Zeitan. I'd move there tomorrow if the air wasn't 40% cyanide and chlorine.

...

>Ghostbusters film
>not single Ghost is busted
>not a single Ghost is successfully captured and held
>nothing is set up, literally jumps in
>pointless scenes and characters
>fart jokes every 5 mins
>queef jokes
>dick jokes
>shit (pun intended) jokes
>literally the best bit is Chris Hemsworth improv a pun joke
>Niggress 2000 is the most '''(((natural)))''' one of the group
>it's like Fieg just threw them in a camera and went "BE FUNNY LOL XD"

It's total crap. There is nothing to link it back to the original. The trailer starts with "30 Years Ago... 4 Men Saved New York", but in this setting, that never happened. Or seemingly never happened. There is no explanation on anything. Who did what, why did they do what, there is no explanation on why they're becoming Ghostbusters. I'm not even sure if everybody in the setting knows about ghosts, or if is in a setting where it hasn't happened. As in, original never happened. If so, why the trailer going "30 years ago..."?

It's just total shit guys, it would have been fine if it was like a Ghostbusters parody, maybe, MAYBE, but it's pretending to be one and just spitting in the face of what made it good.

It's got nothing to do with the leads being women, som of the best franchises of all times have women leads (Alien for example). It's just a poorly paced, shitty explained, toilet humour (to the degree that Family Guy is fucking comedy gold in comparison to the amount of fart/queef/shit jokes or jokes mentioning genitals) and TERRIBLE acting. There is no relationships, there is no reason. It's literally "CUZ WE CAN LOL". It's.. It's terrible.

>loose
Don't do this

What's with film critics these days? They seem almost as bad as video game critics. Did you see how much they TFA's cock? (I didn't hate it as much as the rest of Sup Forums did, but I certainly didn't think it was as good as the critics were saying).

Isn't that comic have a girl and a lesbian and a talking racoon? I can't remember.

But, Sony isn't doing that, right?

>Kikes dont care about money
Man, that seems so funny to read...

>Isn't that comic have a girl and a lesbian and a talking racoon?
lesbo is a minor character, she appeared maybe 2 dozen panels in like 800 strips
and yeah, there is a racoon

it's a funny comic when it does topical stuff

pic is the subtle brexit comic, i think the comic writer might be slightly red-pilled

Jewpanese.

>Kek
BTW the kek thing isn't just fags that got bored with lel, it's fag satanists and their ignorant tools who want pain and suffering because they're pathetic shitbags. Don't buy in, watch youtu.be/XXRC4TfmHEs?t=15m and youtube.com/watch?v=215uknUDJLs and make up your own mind. Also look into Albert Pike's freemason plan for 3 world wars, with the 3rd being to instigate war between islam and christianity.

JapaJews.

...

Isn't this from the Hollywood based film division of Sony?

>They have no other meaningful ideology.
Besides Communism.

It's pretty clever. But a Brit would say "cheque", not "check". I'll overlook it this time.

I had always hoped for some porn with the lesbo, R34 or whatever...

>They would put hot poop on the screen if they thought you would pay $14 to see it.
They often do.

>"We are ecstatic with this opening. We have successfully restarted an important brand," Josh Greenstein

>Greenstein

You know kek just comes from WoW right? It's what lol becomes if someone on the opposite gside says it

Oy vey, Sony (((America))), Mr. Greenstein knows what's best for us.

>It's likely that Sony will have to reboot this reboot just like the Incredible Hulk franchise
Then they replaced him again for the Avengers movies and now Hulk is incapable of getting another solo film.

>look up showings at theaters that let you reserve a seat
>all empty friday night at 7pm and 10pm

>women leads

Can't Peen the Greensteen

the guy in that comic looks pretty girly, he should get with a good man that'll take care of him

Madam Sec is alright

It's pointless, user. The film was just pure undistilled shit.

It didn't explain why they became Ghostbusters. In the original, they get kicked out of college and they say it's fate to start a business. They have money problems until they capture a Ghost and get popular catching more. They all have different reasons for being there. Egon for example does it for the science. In 2016, there is no reason. They do it just because. There is barely any justification. There isn't even a 'i told you so' moment. They go to a rock concert, captured a ghost, then end up in the mayors office as heroes. The ghost then escapes (or is released).

In the end, they fight the ghosts like a capeshit film, they don't capture them, they just shoot them.

It's just pure shit. It's stereotypical tripe. Cliched. Poorly paced. Poorly acted. Poorly written.

The reason it's bombing is cause it's 100% shit, not because womyn.

wut

artist can't draw men for shit desu

>a problematic start for a movie with a net production budget of $144 million

>problematic

Irony.

>GHOSTBUSTERS 2016 IS SHIT LET'S KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT

Consider my eyes opened.

Thats the problem with this progressive shit. Instead of just making a film with women, the entire premise of the film becomes "hey look were girls and we kick ass". Problem is, you literally cant criticize this shit without being labled misogynist or racist.

Thx for exposing the satanists in the vids I linked.

>sonic '06 was a shit reboot
>ghostbusters '16 was a shit reboot
what will be the 2026 shit reboot lads?

>man baby no like

A better Example would be 'The Descent'. Seven women (apart from a man who dies in the first 2 minutes) make up the entire cast and it was great. Not a comedy though, it was a horror film.

Harry Potter

[spoiler]jk that's 2022[/spoiler]

That's bullshit. China made up that excuse because they didn't wanna get blasted for really banning it because it features women and especially an ugly ape female.

China has had no problem with every other demonic, supernatural or ghost horror film being released there.

In the original, they become entrepreneurs. In the remake, they go from government funding from the University to government funding from the city itself.

That was an interesting detail.

or it's just a shitty film you autist

"They" aren't. Mel is.

fuck me why are we discussing movies on this board

y'all got me confused

>When she keeps hallucinating the sudden jumpscare of those metal rods from the car in front of hers' killing her husband and daughter.

I swear it happens twice in the middle of nowhere before she goes into the cave. So watching it with my buds we couldn't stop expecting the damn metal spikes to just fly and impale her again out of nowhere before she'd wake up and realize it was a dream.

it will be shrek, just watch.

Just looked at my local theater. The showing is in one and a half hours has only sold 5 seats.

Last Tuesday, I saw Finding Dory and it was 90% full despite being out for a while.

The theater is literally losing money showing this especially since it's the special AVX theater.

one of you better be right

>Hulk is incapable of getting another solo film

I think that has to do with distribution rights. Like Marvel could make another Hulk movie but Universal would have to be the distributor and would get a cut of the profit.

Netflix considers "Crazy Exgirlfriend" a "strong female lead." The premise of the shit Hollywood makes us watch. Not too dissimilar from the poorly-rated "Ghostbusters" reboot, which had to be cloaked around feminism to give it some redeeming quality. Because the movie's production and artistic values were reportedly lacking, Hollywood had to give it a veneer of identity politics.

Subtle.

Hol up. So you sayin the Jews at Sony milked the female mind to get as much money as they could find?

>Like Marvel could make another Hulk movie but Universal would have to be the distributor and would get a cut of the profit.
True, another big problem is the only real Hulk stories that would be worth doing are either Planet Hulk or World War Hulk. World War Hulk wont work (yet) cause no Illuminati, and Planet Hulk is (allegedly) being partially worked into Thors next movie.

That's exactly it, they'd never share. Marvel has always been a bunch of soulless New York jews, getting bought by Disney was nothing but an amplification. They've spent the last decade tanking the X-Men franchise because they don't have the film rights, it's obvious they'd rather ruin it for everyone else than give up a slice of the pie.

>kikes dont care about money

>porn is dying and hemorrhaging money

[citation needed]

Future Imperfect would be pretty dope but time travel confuses and annoys people. Something original would be neat but expecting that from Hollywood is a short road to disappointment.

To be fair they've been tanking everything they own, even the properties they have film rights for.

They would make more money if they actually gave a fuck about the consumers. They lost billions with their push for white genocide.

No, they don't, they care about gold

people discovered they could just fuck and take pictures. Without the mafia or a 16 year old runaway from Nebraska.

Two head-kickers, arguing in the same thread.

I wasn't saying that, exactly, but since you put it that way : of course "Ghostbusters" was dumbed down to appeal to women as an audience. Sony deliberately made this move this way to appeal to women. This movie was not made for (You).

It's not even what they said. China said they weren't interested in it. Just no interest. It didn't even go to the approval process. Probably because it's a comedy, it doesn't have any stars China would recognize, and the ghostbusters name means nothing there. It would definitely make it through the censorship because it's a foreign film and it deals heavily with science fiction. "No ghosts" is a meme

America.

Can we start a petition to boycott Sony ?

I haven't been to the movies since Iron Man 2 was released. What kind of fancy ass movie theatres have numbered seats? Do they all do this now and if so how long have they been doing this? What happened to sitting wherever you wanted? That looks like an airline.

That's just slop work, they're actively fucking with X-Men and FF. The Richards family has been MIA since Secret Wars and after Civil War II they're nixing all the X titles except for the subtly titled Death of X.

Can't we just meme them to death?

It's pretty great, gramps. No more scrambling for seats or getting to the theater an hour early.

If you have a copy of the ghostbusters, you can edit it and make it look even stupider.

We can but we need to start a legit petition to bring them down and show them we will not tollerate this kinda crap and show them we are sick of political correctness.

The problem with this movie is it's attempt to shove political correctness down peoples throats. SJW's ruin everything and I'm sick of them. Yes changing the characters to women caused a problem but it's not because we hate women it's because they CHANGED THE CHARACTERS for a forced PC agenda.

It's like remaking Terminator and replacing Arnie with a midget and then calling anyone who doesn't like the movie a bunch of midget haters.


If we really hated women why would we watch other movies with lead women roles.

So who want's to boycott sony and stick it too em ?

Tell that to Blizzard