The New Ghostbusters - Part 10

[bluejake01]

I agree but box office plays a majority of the factor. And again as I said before home video and merchandise sales matter too. But the toys aren't selling well allegedly. The ecto cooler and all that is cool, but you really think they're going to make a direct sequel just to sell ecto cooler? They could've made serious bank off the ecto cooler if they just dropped it and fed into the 90s nostalgia that is so cool now.

Depending on what GB16 makes I doubt it crosses 240 mill overall.
That goes beyond "shakey" but that's speculation on my part

I can't think of a first in a potential franchise movie that got a direct sequel when the box office was as poor as GB16's looks like it will be. Unless the sequel was already in deep production

Austin Powers was a bomb

 

[MadVillainy]

Austin Powers was a bomb

No it wasn't. It was made for 16 mill and made 53 mill in the US alone.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=austinpowers.htm
It wasn't huge in the states and in comparison to the other films it didn't make much at all. But it's not a bomb at all. It's just that it became a phenomenon after the home video sales

And again I've said many times that if the home video sales are good that will help a sequel

 

[Kanon]

Box Office Mojo @boxofficemojo

Wednesday #BoxOffice: #SecretLifeofPets $6.27m; @Ghostbusters $4.25m; @FindingDory $1.6m http://imdb.to/2aeMwzc

https://***********/boxofficemojo/status/756235695182741504

 

[Kanon]

Weekend forecast

1-Star Trek Beyond - $61M
2-Ice Age: Collision Course - $33M
3-The Secret Life of Pets - $25,5M
4-Ghostbusters (2016) - $20M
5-Lights Out - $17M

http://pro.boxoffice.com/weekend-forecast-star-trek-beyond-ice-age-collision-course-lights/

1-Star Trek Beyond - $59 M
2-The Secret Life of Pets - $26.9 M
3-Ice Age: Collision Course - $26 M
4-Ghostbusters - $23 M
5-Lights Out - $14.5 M

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=4208

Also vying for families after seeing a better-than-expected Saturday decline of 5% from its opening day (everyone was expecting -10%) is Sony/Village Roadshow’s Ghostbusters. Many are thinking it will peg a 50%-55% decline ($20.7M-$23M), which is steeper than director Paul Feig and star Melissa McCarthy’s previous collaboration Spy (though for a second weekend, Ghostbusters will be higher than Spy which drew $15.6M). In their second outings, The Heat made $24.8M and Bridesmaids grossed $20.9M.

http://deadline.com/2016/07/star-tr...s-lights-out-box-office-comic-con-1201788846/

 

[NHawk19]

I'd kinda like to see them make a 3, and reference them licensing their story, and this movie being made as a representation of them selling out. Similar to how the original exists in Real Ghostbusters continuity.

 

[Kanon]

More from the usual analysts

Ghostbusters has a lot going for it, including great reviews. Additionally, Paul Feig’s films tend to stick around in theaters a long time. On the other hand, nearly every live-action film with a $100 million or more budget to come out this summer has fallen 58% or 49% during its sophomore stint. A couple of them have done worse (X-Men: Apocalypse and Warcraft) while only The Legend of Tarzan has done better falling just 45%. I don’t think Ghostbusters will do as well as Tarzan did, but I think it will do better than most, down 55% to $21 million.

http://www.the-numbers.com/news/214...Star-Trek-go-Above-and-Beyond-the-Competition

I'd kinda like to see them make a 3, and reference them licensing their story, and this movie being made as a representation of them selling out. Similar to how the original exists in Real Ghostbusters continuity.

You mean like Ray being enthusiast about something and Winston saying "this is like your idea for an all-female ghostbusters movie!" and cut to a storage room full of GB merch and posters, and the sound a wolf crying in the background? (a little Family Guy for my taste )

 

[Mike_D202]

LMAO...there's no trying to look at the upside of this, it was weak for being made for 200 million not including marketing costs.

 

[Sithborg]

Umm, that wasn't the budget.

 

[NHawk19]

You mean like Ray being enthusiast about something and Winston saying "this is like your idea for an all-female ghostbusters movie!" and cut to a storage room full of GB merch and posters, and the sound a wolf crying in the background? (a little Family Guy for my taste )

pretty much yes.

 

[JtheDreamer]

Umm, that wasn't the budget.

$140 million + what has to be at least $100 million in marketing.

There is no way this film recoups its costs. It would need to crack at least $500 million, but thankfully won't.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeesh... this is bad. Well, count me wrong about this one guys. I thought this movie could do something but it just doesn't appear to really be doing anything because it's just either bad or fine. And that's not the type of Ghostbusters movie people want to see. In the end, all this ******** debate and controversy didn't matter because the movie didn't show anything for it. All of this for... nothing? Nobody won here. Turns out it's just another passing movie in this summer of disappointments and will probably just be another unnecessary remake in film history. What sucks it did nothing to stand out, even with this cast. Seems like this movie is just like air.

You combine a cynical corporate idea (or ideas) with a great cast and you're gonna get these results. One bad idea undoes a thousand good ones.

 

[Sithborg]

Good lord, we haven't even seen the second weekend's results yet. And most are already seeing it as a failure.

 

[MadVillainy]

LMAO...there's no trying to look at the upside of this, it was weak for being made for 200 million not including marketing costs.

$140 million + what has to be at least $100 million in marketing.

There is no way this film recoups its costs. It would need to crack at least $500 million, but thankfully won't.

He said 200 mill before marketing

Yeesh... this is bad. Well, count me wrong about this one guys. I thought this movie could do something but it just doesn't appear to really be doing anything because it's just either bad or fine. And that's not the type of Ghostbusters movie people want to see. In the end, all this ******** debate and controversy didn't matter because the movie didn't show anything for it. All of this for... nothing? Nobody won here. Turns out it's just another passing movie in this summer of disappointments and will probably just be another unnecessary remake in film history. What sucks it did nothing to stand out, even with this cast. Seems like this movie is just like air.

Pretty much.

And it reinforces what i was saying days ago how this didn't really wasn't/didn't do anything for feminism at the time. And I dont think it will.

Good lord, we haven't even seen the second weekend's results yet. And most are already seeing it as a failure.

Looking at the weekday results and the competition are enough for people to speculate or draw conclusions.


I'm going on record that I will gladly eat my words if this ends up with a decent hold and goes on to make good money. But a $140 mill movie that only makes 45 mill first week in the states, and that has serious competition in the following weeks doesn't scream "this will be a success" to me.

Just being real

 

[Doctor Jones]

Pretty much.

And it reinforces what i was saying days ago how this didn't really wasn't/didn't do anything for feminism at the time. And I dont think it will.

Now it's true because the movie just doesn't seem to be good. If it was good it would have definitely. In hindsight, I get ASM vibes from this whole thing in terms of decision making. Again, just cynical corporate handling. I don't know why I didn't see this before. Sure I knew a remake was a fundamentally bad idea but this is worse than I thought and I forgot this is Sony we're dealing with here. This movie is neither horrible nor amazing. It's eh. Such indifference which is even worse.

We were all kind of expecting one side to be right or wrong. But everybody was wrong.

 

[MadVillainy]

It also was released at a bad time. I dont just mean summer, although I guarantee a October release wouldve done this better regardless of the quality. This year is just terrible for anything non Disney company related.

 

[Doctor Jones]

It also was released at a bad time. I dont just mean summer, although I guarantee a October release wouldve done this better regardless of the quality. This year is just terrible for anything non Disney company related.

An inch better or so, but it would have flamed out just the same. If the movie isn't good, the movie isn't good. It's all about the fundamental decisions of the film. This year has just really shown just how ugly a lot of these studio decisions are.

 

[MadVillainy]

An inch better or so, but it would have flamed out just the same. If the movie isn't good, the movie isn't good. It's all about the fundamental decisions of the film. This year has just really shown just how ugly a lot of these studio decisions are.

I dont know I think this wouldve stretched better just by being a fun "horror type" movie at Halloween

But we'll never know so it's moot. Can't say anything about the quality because I didn't see this, but the trailers didn't do crap for this either.

 

[EssayM]

I have a feeling that, unless it does record-breakingly bad numbers, the decent reviews and enormous publicity might make it seem more successful to the GA, regardless of actual profits. Whether that would result in a sequel I have no idea. Regardless, I don't think this is going to bomb that hard.

 

[Black Narcissus]

ComicbokGirl19 has a fantastic vid on all of this.

This film was bloody awful.

 

[MadVillainy]

ComicbokGirl19 has a fantastic vid on all of this.

This film was bloody awful.

loved her video on it. Just saw it yesterday.

 

[Kanon]

New Friday numbers and weekend projections

1). Star Trek Beyond (PAR), 3,928 theaters / $23M Fri. (includes $5.5M previews)/ 3-day cume: $60.3M /Wk 1

2). The Secret Life of Pets (ILL/UNI), 4,048 theaters (-333) / $8.8M Fri. (-42%)/ 3-day cume: $29.4M (-42%)/Total Cume: $260.8M/Wk 3

3). Ghostbusters (SONY), 3,963 theaters / $6.6M Fri. (-61%)/ 3-day cume: $22.5M (-51%)/Total: $87.7M/Wk 2

4). Lights Out (WB/NL), 2,818 theaters / $8.4M Fri. (includes $1.8M previews)/ 3-day cume: $20.2M /Wk 1

5). Ice Age: Collusion Course (FOX), 3,992 theaters / $6.6M Fri. (includes $850K previews)/ 3-day cume: $18.5M /Wk 1

http://deadline.com/2016/07/star-tr...rse-lights-out-box-office-preview-1201790073/

Ice Age bombing hard

 

[Drizzle]

New Friday numbers and weekend projections

http://deadline.com/2016/07/star-tr...rse-lights-out-box-office-preview-1201790073/

Ice Age bombing hard

It's about time that franchise took a dive.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

The Ice Age franchise movies got worse gradually but somehow each grossed more than the last one. Good to see this one finally bucking the trend.

 

[MadVillainy]

Ice Age makes buckets overseas.

The latest already made 134 in other countries

 

[Galactus123]

Is there a change for Ghostbusters 3(it doesn't have to have 3 in the title) if this movie fails? Will Sony be stupid and think that people don't care about Ghostbusters or will they try to please the fans next time?