Ghostbusters Set For $70m Loss, Don't Expect A Sequel

[UnicronParticipant 752]

So that’s it then. After the poor box office showing for the new Ghostbusters, it seems Sony are suddenly less enthused by their plans to make a sequel. Nothing was in concrete, but it looked like it was going to happen.

But now, after a $180m global haul (which is eye-poppingly rubbish) – and projections of a final take of less than $225m when it opens on the remaining markets, that’s not going to happen. Sony needed $300m to break even, and they’re now looking at losses of more than $70m.

No doubt the 40-year-old virgins are to blame, if you’re one of the people who actually liked the film. Or maybe it could be the fact that it was utterly, abjectly terrible?

Sony obviously won’t confirm whether the sequel is dead, but THR say a rep has told them that the studio will instead focus on an animated Ghostbusters feature for around 2019 and the upcoming Ghostbusters: Ecto Force TV show.

Here’s how Sony are spinning it: “We’re very proud of the bold movie Paul Feig made, which critics and audiences loved. It has enlivened a 30-year-old brand and put it into the modern zeitgeist. As a result, we have many ideas in the works to further exploit the Ghostbusters universe.”

They also insist the loss figures are wrong too:

“This loss calculation is way off. 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.”

That’s one hell of a lot of merchandising and attraction money.

The problem of course is that Sony can now never make another live-action Ghostbusters film if they don’t do a sequel. They can’t reboot with an all male cast, because it will either be perceived as an admission of failure or it will open them to some heavily politicised criticism and jabs about anti-progressive film-making.

What we need is for Disney to buy the rights, to pay Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and the rest of the supporting cast (ALL of them), to make a legacy movie as it’s supposed to be. Have a second generation of characters, have them related in some way to the first team and annoyed that their fathers’ legacies were forgotten. And make them both male and female.

Oh, and don’t make Slimer so rubbish, and have a compelling villain. It’s pretty simple.

Additionally – and not exactly surprisingly – Paul Feig has also come out to confirm that he’s not going to be rebooting any films any time soon. Asked by Huffington Post if he would, he was pretty clear: “No, no, no. No, I will not, this one was just too tempting because I knew we could do something with it that was exciting”.

He definitely did something with it.

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[The_Mad_PirateParticipant 1278]

I don’t see any of the tv shows. Making any profit until Sony admits defeat and set things right. Wich Hollywood libtards will never do, of course, that would be a betrayal to the progressive feminist cult.

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[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22578]

Do not worry. There is already a quasi-Ghostbusters remake out in theaters. The movie is much better than this one. The movie is titled, “Suicide Squad.” And the plot is basically a psychotic remake of the original Ghostbusters film. Though, in a good way. And Suicide Squad made over $130 million on its opening week.

[Anonymous 11]

It’s no problem. The CIA will eat the loss for Sony when Gloria Steinem asks them to do it. Drug running is highly profitable.

[MadmanParticipant 772]

I will never watch this movie even if they sent me one for free.

[Biggvs_DickvsParticipant 3725]

Unicron wrote:

we have many ideas in the works to further exploit the Ghostbusters universe.”

Universe? Since when did a premise become an entire universe?

Unicron wrote:

What we need is for Disney to buy the rights, to pay Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and the rest of the supporting cast (ALL of them), to make a legacy movie as it’s supposed to be. Have a second generation of characters, have them related in some way to the first team and annoyed that their fathers’ legacies were forgotten. And make them both male and female.

I think you’re on to something there. I would pay to see that.

Unicron wrote:

Oh, and don’t make Slimer so rubbish, and have a compelling villain. It’s pretty simple.

The compelling villain in the original as someone else pointed out in an earlier thread was the government bureaucrats. How about the ghosts of dead (deleted) emails coming back to haunt you and cover you with slime…..?

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[HitmanParticipant]

Didn’t see THAT coming!
Hahaha! !!
Chick’s can’t bust ghosts. .
Every one knows that. ..
Except Sony. ..

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

the Real Ghostbusters cartoon was awesome back in the day. Then it went and cheaped out and cut the budget, which made the show suck. the new cartoons could never be as good.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[sidecarParticipant 35860]

Unicron wrote:

With multiple revenue streams, including consumer products, gaming, location-based entertainment, continued international rollout, and huge third-party promotional partnerships that mitigated costs,

Are they talking about those ghostcunsters toys that stores can’t even give away?

I expect a lot of those “third-party promotional partners” got seriously burned by ghostcunsters, even more than the poor saps who paid for a theater ticket, leaving a LOT of bad blood for sony to deal with if sony is foolish enough to try to rope them into a sequel.

And speaking of promotional partners and toys, did anyone see any ghostcunster toys being sold with kid meals at any fast food chain? Or ghostcunster collector cups or any of that giveaway crap? A quick internet search gives nothing, which makes me suspect that all the big chains knew better than to jump on the ghostcunsters trainwreck. That should have been a huge warning sign for the studio up front.

[OldBillParticipant]

sidecar wrote:

And speaking of promotional partners and toys, did anyone see any ghostcunster toys being sold with kid meals at any fast food chain?

That’s when I knew the movie would be a bust. Not all the neckbeard whining, not the SJW-infected plot, not the s~~~ty casting, not the studio’s and Hollywood’s transparent attempts to shame people into buying tickets, none of that.

I knew it would bust when I didn’t see McDs, BK, Wendy, or any of the others rushing out with “Happy Meal” toys. Companies like that keep a flinty eye on the bottom line no matter how much lip service they pay to social justice. They’ll push toys belonging to some mindless kiddie flick because they know the little bastards will flock to see it no matter how bad it is – the interminable Land Before Time series anyone?

Real movies, however, don’t get “Happy Meal” toys automatically. They’ve got to be a no-brainer slam dunk before the fast food biz will fork over 8 figure merch fees.

No merch meant the guys who earn their pay figuring this s~~~ out year after year knew Ghostbusters would flop. They aren’t the experts for nothing.

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[the roadParticipant 3125]

I just posted something in another thread here the other day. It was about the director, Paul Feig, stating that the movie would need to pull in over 500 million worldwide to truly break even.

If that is true, this movie will never come close.

Am I happy about that? Hell yes I am. I like movies, I want good movies to come out. Not a bunch of s~~~ty anti male SJW movies.

Hopefully Marvel will rethink its SJW reboots that they have been leaking out over the past several months. Because I won’t be going to see any of those either.

#MANOUT

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

OldBill wrote:

sidecar wrote:

And speaking of promotional partners and toys, did anyone see any ghostcunster toys being sold with kid meals at any fast food chain?

That’s when I knew the movie would be a bust. Not all the neckbeard whining, not the SJW-infected plot, not the s~~~ty casting, not the studio’s and Hollywood’s transparent attempts to shame people into buying tickets, none of that.

I knew it would bust when I didn’t see McDs, BK, Wendy, or any of the others rushing out with “Happy Meal” toys. Companies like that keep a flinty eye on the bottom line no matter how much lip service they pay to social justice. They’ll push toys belonging to some mindless kiddie flick because they know the little bastards will flock to see it no matter how bad it is – the interminable Land Before Time series anyone?

Real movies, however, don’t get “Happy Meal” toys automatically. They’ve got to be a no-brainer slam dunk before the fast food biz will fork over 8 figure merch fees.

No merch meant the guys who earn their pay figuring this s~~~ out year after year knew Ghostbusters would flop. They aren’t the experts for nothing.

Once Mcdonalds/Burger king decides to not cash in on a film then you have a real problem on your hands. If they decided to make the ghostbuster toys then the only thing that would happen is most kids would throw it away then in 50 years once the kids are old bastards the ones that sill have it will sell it on the internet for hundreds of dollars.

Either this or all the toys will try to be sold off with multiple/extended promotions or be thrown in a warehouse for a few decades.

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[Anonymous 11]

They could dump the toys in the ocean and see where they beach themselves just like those yellow rubber ducks from that container ship that became an experiment.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22578]

uchibenkei wrote:

the Real Ghostbusters cartoon was awesome back in the day. Then it went and cheaped out and cut the budget, which made the show suck. the new cartoons could never be as good.

With the Real Ghostbusters, we got a good five solid seasons, and then a decline which ended in season seven.

Though, I believe one of the best Ghostbuster’s episode was season six, episode one, “Janine, You’ve Changed”, which turned the animation error of why Janine kept looking different between seasons into a fridge brilliance for an episode with one of the best endings of all the Ghostbuster’s franchise.

And to be fair, Ghostbusters Extreme was very good. I really liked the female character, Kylie. She was an strong female character. She was intelligent and nice. But, she worked with the team she was on. One episode even point out she was not physically strong. But, she pulled her weight.

You want to talk about Legacy series. Both Ghostbusters Extreme and IDW Ghostbusters both do the legacy series of the original Ghostbusters films and animated series very well.

[ExpendableYouthParticipant 381]

They should have left Ghostbusters alone. R.I.P Ramis.

[sidecarParticipant 35860]

OldBill wrote:

That’s when I knew the movie would be a bust.

I figured that out when I heard it was going to be a reboot, not a sequel. Then I heard it was going to be some all female social justice circle jerk and well, that put the writing on the wall.

OldBill wrote:

I knew it would bust when I didn’t see McDs, BK, Wendy, or any of the others rushing out with “Happy Meal” toys.

I avoid eating at those places, much less give a f~~~ about the kiddy meals they sell, so I didn’t notice anything ahead of time.

But you’ve confirmed what I suspected: no ghostcunsters happy meal toys.

McDs and BK and whatnot are far too market savvy to have fallen for the ghostcunsters hype. Feminists kool-aid doesn’t pay the bills, and despite the huge size of those corporations, fast food runs way too close to the margin to make mistakes on obvious failures like ghostcunsters.

[OldBillParticipant]

sidecar wrote:

I figured that out when I heard it was going to be a reboot, not a sequel.

I’d heard there was going to be a new movie, but didn’t catch the reboot/feminazi/SJW bit until much later.

I avoid eating at those places, much less give a f~~~ about the kiddy meals they sell, so I didn’t notice anything ahead of time.

Grand-cousins. “Uncle Crazy Bill” is always fun to visit because you go places and do things instead of sitting in front of the TV. He buys occasional kiddie meals because it’s the fastest way to keep the little buggers busy during a road trip.

McDs and BK and whatnot are far too market savvy to have fallen for the ghostcunsters hype. Feminists kool-aid doesn’t pay the bills, and despite the huge size of those corporations, fast food runs way too close to the margin to make mistakes on obvious failures like ghostcunsters.

Exactly.

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[sidecarParticipant 35860]

OldBill wrote:

I’d heard there was going to be a new movie, but didn’t catch the reboot/feminazi/SJW bit until much later.

Yeah, my first thought was: “How are they going to do that with Ramis dead?” My second was: “I wonder if this is what will bring Moranis back to making films.” I’m still waiting for Strange Brew Part Two.

Then I heard it was going to be a reboot instead of a sequel and thought: “So that’s how they’re getting around Harold Ramis being dead. Has that ever worked?”

Then I heard it was going to be an all female SJW reboot and thought: “What the f~~~ is Sony thinking? Who the f~~~ greenlighted this? They are going to lose sooooo much money.”

And they did.

[the roadParticipant 3125]

I saw a few women on my facef~~~ page posting pictures of themselves going to see it. They don’t normally post about that type of stuff so it kind of makes me think that they went to the movie on purpose… almost like a defiant act to *shove it in the face of the patriarchy!* Not a single one returned to post about it. No positive mentions, nothing.

I wonder if the box office numbers were somehow exaggerated as well.

#MANOUT

[OldBillParticipant]

sidecar wrote:

Who the f~~~ greenlighted this?

Who greenlighted Heaven’s Gate? Ishtar? Howard the Duck?

Hollywood has pumped out huge turds in the past and will do so in the future. There always are any number of excuses after the fact, but the real reason is that one person with enough weight can push a project along until the point where the studio in question pretty much has to complete and defend it.

Only “small” budget films get canned. The more money involved, the more “institutional inertia” created – “It cost $150 million so it has to be good…” – and the more desperately the studio flacks polish the turd.

If anyone didn’t notice how desperate Sony was about this film months ago, they’ve been living under a rock. Even I, a guy who tries to actively avoid “infotainment”, was aware of their desperation.

the road wrote:

I wonder if the box office numbers were somehow exaggerated as well.

I’ve read that Sony passed out free and complimentary tickets for the first weekend in numbers rarely seen before. I don’t know how true that was or the numbers involved.

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