Ghostbusters Reboot

[sd2416]

70M loss for Ghostbusters reboot

[ComicConnoisseur]

70M loss for Ghostbusters reboot

Yep,talk about destroying a franchise when they cast this!

Ghostbusters (2016) box office= Worldwide: $217,764,512.

 

Know how bad that box office is?

The Lone Ranger movie with Johnny Depp beat it.

 

The Lone Ranger = Worldwide: $260,502,115.

 

A movie about two guys on horses beat it.

 

Ghostbusters had to be the bomb of the year or very close.

 

[NewEnglandGothic]

70M loss for Ghostbusters reboot

Yep,talk about destroying a franchise when they cast this!

Ghostbusters (2016) box office= Worldwide: $217,764,512.

 

Know how bad that box office is?

The Lone Ranger movie with Johnny Depp beat it.

 

The Lone Ranger = Worldwide: $260,502,115.

 

A movie about two guys on horses beat it.

 

Ghostbusters had to be the bomb of the year or very close.

I kinda liked The Lone Ranger.

The musical score by Hans Zimmer and the train sequence was top notch.

Arnie Hammer was well-cast.

 

But, it does feel like 1989 again at the box-office with Batman everywhere and franchises like Ghostbusters II and Star Trek V: The final Frontier disappointing.

[Sauce Dog]

70M loss for Ghostbusters reboot

 

That was actually addressed by Sony in that article and the original article never actually had a source for the numbers that were being tossed around. Also having 0% of the Chinese market does really throw off worldwide sales numbers.

 

"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."

 

There was some other stuff I read that was saying the sales and rentals for all other Ghostbusters movies and merchandise was skyrocketing around this movie release so there was even more income from that.

[NewEnglandGothic]

I rather enjoyed it. Three out of four stars.

[micmack]

Daughter and I enjoyed it very much. We watched it 3 times On-Demand (as well as in theater). Wife not so much but she likes movies based on true events and chick flicks more....

 

I am tired of the people who trashed the film who haven't even seen it.....

[chrisco37]

Rented it this weekend as my daughter wanted to see it (and she had a great report card!). I didn't make it all the way thru it (fell asleep), but what I saw of it was ok. My daughter enjoyed it.

 

Of course, not near as funny as the original. I was expecting it to be worse.

[Gatsby77]

70M loss for Ghostbusters reboot

Yep,talk about destroying a franchise when they cast this!

Ghostbusters (2016) box office= Worldwide: $217,764,512.

 

Know how bad that box office is?

The Lone Ranger movie with Johnny Depp beat it.

 

The Lone Ranger = Worldwide: $260,502,115.

 

A movie about two guys on horses beat it.

 

Ghostbusters had to be the bomb of the year or very close.

 

I know I'm late to the party on this one, but the numbers you post -- while correct -- ignore the context and the fact that Lone Ranger was a _much_ bigger failure than Ghostbusters.

 

For one, Ghostbusters made $128 million domestic against a $144 million reported budget (89%), whereas The Lone Ranger made just $89 million domestic against a $215 million budget (41%).

 

That's significant, because studios net about double the percentage of the domestic take as they do for the international take (i.e., $1 made here is worth about $.65 to the studio, vs. $.40 abroad excluding China -- with China it brings the int'l average down to about $.34).

 

Again, your numbers are not technically incorrect, but contextually _any_ studio would far have preferred Ghostbusters' performance (and loss) to The Lone Ranger's (far greater loss).

 

And among big-budget films this year, Alice: Through the Looking Glass, Ben-Hur, Deepwater Horizon and The BFG all lost their studios far more money than did Ghostbusters.

 

 

[loadstone]

The poor box office numbers don't surprise me.

The only thing I liked about the new Ghostbusters movie were the homages paid to the original cast. I think I laughed once and cringed through most of it. I couldn't tell if I thought the freaky ghostbusters geeky chick was supposed to be funny or cute or both but I wasn't a fan. I watched the original on Halloween night and while some parts seem cheesy to me now that I once thought were cool when I was a kid, I found much of it still far more funny and enjoyable than the new version.

 

Perhaps a big part of it is that the new cast was all female but I feel it had more to do with the writing and character development than the fact they were female. If they had cast the 4 of them along similar personalities to the original 4 or not tried to make them all complete basket cases I might have gotten more into it.

[NewEnglandGothic]

RIP Alice Drummond.

 

The actress who set original franchise's spookier tone (I was nine when I saw it) right off, before Murray and company showed up.