Ghostbusters (2016)

Doing simple math, if the films budget was $144 m, with an additional $100 m in advertising (although these numbers were probably understated by Sony to save face), that would bring the total cost of the film to $244 m, we'll say $250 m to be safe. Now since theater chains take half of the box office, that means that in order for the studio to make its money back, it would have to gross at least $500 m, which is what Feig originally stated, as if we went with his lower estimate of $300 m, that would mean that the studio would only make back $150 mil, less than half of the film's total production and marketing costs.

Now that this movie has flopped in Japan however, it will be finishing it's worldwide theater run with probably between $210-$215 m. Since the theater takes half, that means Sony will only be getting back at most $107 mil from theater gross, and let's not even act like it has legs on DVD, but we'll throw in $10 million in DVD sales, bringing Sony's money back from the film to $117 million (we'll round to about $120).

That means that out of a $250 million investment, Sony only made back $120, meaning they lost $130 million. (And again, this is being generous considering the rumours that advertising was actually $150 million, meaning Sony actually lost $180 million dollars!!!)

$130-180 million loss for Sony. Jesus Christ. Are you happy with yourself Amy Pascal? You failed your company horribly with this. You and Feig should be blacklisted from Hollywood forever (and take Tom Rothman and Avi Arad with you)

What's wrong with you people? You're talking as if this was a Batman&Robin type franchise destroying film.

It was a fun film. The marketing was shit though.

IDGAF about the film. I do give a phuck when a bytchy studio executive forces the artists who created the product she wishes to exploit off the project even though said artist was waiting years, and then hiring a sometimes-funny director who proceeded to call everyone who criticized the film misogynist basement dwellers and even trying to make seeing the film a political duty.

For the film's quality itself I'm indifferent. Towards all the BS during production and marketing, I am taking great schadenfreudian pleasure in seeing this movie karmically tank.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
What's wrong with you people? You're talking as if this was a Batman&Robin type franchise destroying film.

It was a fun film. The marketing was shit though.

Well you see if the plan was to bring back the franchise and this shitty film nuked that possibility..you see where I'm going bro?

We could change the subject though. You see those people never did show any evidence about the shit about Milo they were claiming a few pages ago.

To be fair Leslie Jones website was hacked recently and nude pictures of her were posted(EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW). So I do feel bad for this poor racist woman.

WTF
Would've been better off not knowing that.

For most fans of the originals, comparing this to Batman & Robin would actually be generous tbh. B&R was considerably a fun film too, albeit a dumb kiddy kind of fun. And hey, at least Schumacher formally apologized for making the film, which is much more than can be said for Feig over this.

My full comprehensive review of just how badly Ghostbusters (and Fan4stic) financially failed:
http://lestov.blogspot.com/2016/08/ghostbusters-fantastic-170-not-75.html

I mean like I said..this was SUPPOSED to be the beginning of a new franchise. They even came out and said it was "very likely" a sequel would happen and of course jumped the gun there.

So not only did they f*ck it up and just leave everyone with a foul taste in their mouth regarding Ghostbusters..but we had to endure people trying to whine and blame all this negativity on..omg girls! At least if they made a shitty remake with men we'd be more free to discuss it without anyone going "woah woah woah guys" because a gimmicky gender swap was attempted.

This thing got sunk by politics. Plain and simple.

Pascal and Feig are the ones who brought politics into it. No reason for Amy Pascal to fire Ivan Reitman and hire known misandrist Paul Feig other than her own selfish feminist agenda.

It got sunk because it sucked and not a lot of people saw it. It wasn't politics that kept a majority of people from seeing it.

I mean I know a lot of people want to think it went down this way, but this wasn't most people going "damn it has girls so no thanks". Nor was it really "damn people whined about girls being in this so no thanks".

People are still talking about the politics of this film? Lol.

It flopped for the reasons Fan4stic did: From the moment it was announced, it was clear that it was a soulless cash grab, the fans got pissed, and the filmmakers (instead of maintaining composure to protect their investment) repeatedly demeaned them for it, only to then try (and fail) lure those same fans to pay to see it.

The lesson is simple: Dont insult the customers you are marketing your product to, or else your product won't sell.

Originally posted by carthage
People are still talking about the politics of this film? Lol.

Have you watched the video series by Midnights Edge detailing this films production?

The amount of stupidity and lack of ethics that went into making this film, and it's subsequent massive failure, is far more interesting than the film itself. This film will be looked on and talked about in film classes for years to come as the textbook definition of "how NOT to reboot and market a potential franchise".

Originally posted by carthage
People are still talking about the politics of this film? Lol.

Yep, and anyone who wants to take the time to go look at the early pages of this thread will see I said that if this movie tanked people would blame it on the "controversy". It's one of these overblown things, like gamer-gate.

Originally posted by Firefly218
This thing got sunk by politics. Plain and simple.

So you're saying it's lack of quality had nothing to do with how poorly it was received?

Originally posted by marwash22

why not? 😬

my only problem is that I think there are funnier women they could have gone with. I like Melissa and Kristen, but the other two choices are not to my liking... one "coons it up" to be "funny", and the other I have never even heard of.

And here we are, a year and a half later, and we've found out exactly "why not".....

Wow, so I just found that, despite forcing Ivan Reitman off the surely-successful Ghostbusters reboot he was planning to subject audiences to Paul Feig's misandrist flopfest and despite promoting the film as a pro-female pre-gender/race equality achievement, Amy Pascal is actually a misogynist and racist.

The Sony hacks proved two things about Pascal, one that she is a racist (saying Obama would like Django) and even worse, that she is a misogynist who purposefully paid actresses less than actors and kept actresses ignorant of the wage gap. After the hack and Pascal's demotion, Charlize Theron used this knowledge to get proper payment for the Huntsman movie.

So yeah, despite being a film supposedly supporting women and egalitarianism, the mastermind behind the whole thing is actually a racist misogynist elitist. I wonder if Paul Feig, Mellisa McCarthy, or Leslie Jones bothered to consider they were working with a misogynist racist. Makes them look pretty damn stupid....

Amy Pascal is like the Hillary Clinton of Hollywood

How bout them Leslie Jones nude leaks

Originally posted by Inhuman
How bout them Leslie Jones nude leaks

Firefly218 fapped.

Originally posted by Inhuman
How bout them Leslie Jones nude leaks

I just can't help but laugh. Oh no I'm not laughing at the nude pictures because I'm pretty sure those are the stuff nightmares are made of. I'm not even laughing that this happened to Leslie. I'm laughing at the response some(a majority) have to it.

Which essentially comes down to: you so brave gurl!!!!!!!!

My favorite kind of response though is the one that goes something like "well you know what they would only go after someone like this who is very talented and beautiful" and right there all those people show they don't understand the internet one bit lol.

You see what this has done though? This is an out and out racist woman who was in a shitty movie and she has come out of this like a damn super hero because people were also racist to her. Now I didn't know racism cancels out racism. Well wait..*remembers affirmative action is a thing*. Sorry nevermind, but still..politics didn't ruin this shit lol. It kept it afloat for FAR longer than it deserved.

The people who made this film need to bow down everyday and be thankful for the politics. I guarantee you that is how this turd even cracked $100 million.