Movie seems to be bombing hard.
Meh, I honestly would pay to go see it but money wise, I don’t want to spend money on a middling movie. From all accounts I have heard, the movie is solid at times but has problems that keep it just ok, which is honestly the line I draw for myself and hope that it comes to Amazon Prime or Netflix so I can eventually watch it.
I’m honestly surprised it’s that empty given the whole “even bad press is good press” adage–idiom? whatever–and given how much undue attention it got. It’s nice to see Feig and McCarthy’s idiocy seemingly back-firing on them this hard, but it is legitimately surprisingly to see it happening on even opening weekend, especially since there’s basically like no competition this weekend when it comes to new movies that come out in wide-release. The only other new movie is that Infiltrator movie with Bryan Cranston; I think even that Lights Out movie is in Limited release at present. Guess the majority of people at the movies this week just chose to see a (supposed) “kids” movie instead like Finding Dory or The Secret Life of Pets or The BFG, which is fittingly ironic given Feig and McCarthy’s stupid asses were treating any critics like children.
Oh well. We all know that its failure is going to be blamed solely on misogyny anyway, so might as well brace for impact there. 
Impact? We can blame Dixie Carter on this?
(I have no idea what Dixie Carter is a reference to, honestly.)
No, I meant “brace for the impact caused by McCarthy’s fat ass (figuratively) hitting the floor and throwing the verbal equivalent of a tantrum with (at least thinly veiled) insults should the movie actually bomb, especially this hard.” You know, like the Deep Impact a meteorite causes, only squishier.
Apologies. I should have been clearer given how pedantic I usually am.
Hollywood keeps destroying my childhood
i’m quite surprise people cares this much about the movie.
Unfortunately, yes.
Supposedly, this movie needs to make $500 million to be a success. I need to hunt down a source for this. If that’s true than I’m writing this off as a bomb right now. No fucking way it’s gonna make that much. It will be on lucky to reach $100 mil once Star Trek drops next weekend.
I think it’s expected to make at least over 100 million but someone would have to confirm this.
Also this isn’t exactly trying to set up a conspiracy but it is funny.
https://twitter.com/a_man_in_yellow/status/754750936858460160
(Wait, Star Trek Beyond drops next weekend already? Yeah…this movie is fucked then, objectively speaking, and that would been the case even before Anton Yelchin’s unfortunate demise probably made more people interested in seeing Star Trek Beyond.)
Ha. “Go back to movie jail.” Who was stupid enough to let you out in the first place if you feel that way about your far more successful movies and no one really forced your hand on saying “yes” to this anyway, Mr. Feig?
Please then do not pass Go and do not collect $200 on your way back to the movie slammer. From what we’ve learned about Mr. Feig as of late, I’d gladly be among those to throw away the key and watch any of this idiot’s future movies either.
Out of your own volition? Or did you get dragged to it by someone else?
$500 million just to be a success!!! :o
Shhiiiiiid, it’ll barely hit $100 million this month alone.
Eh, as someone who almost did movie economics full-time, I think $500 million is an exaggerated number. The released production budget is $140 million, and that might be slightly inflated.
P&A (press and advertisement) is probably around $100 million. Given that movies receive about 55-60% of box office revenue, and the high value of ancillary rights (DVDs, deals with TV channels to broadcast it), I think $400 million worldwide box office gross would certainly be enough to make a profit.
Paul Feig is a Social Justice Warrior, and we know SJWs always lie. So why should this be any different?
Obviously, I hope $400 million doesn’t happen, and based on the poor opening weekend estimates, it likely won’t.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=ghostbusters2016.htm
It looks unlikely it will be a profitable film. I think it got beat out on its opening weekend too if I’m not mistaken.
We know SJWs are liars but I don’t think the director of the movie would lie about how much money his film needs to make in order to be profitable.
Well, his statement a moment later, in that same interview about being in “movie jail” is observably a lie. A completely bald-faced lie. The most consistently successful comedy director of modern times is going to have a hard time because of a single movie that loses money? Nonsense.
Feig’s other lie, about the financials, can simply be seen as a ploy to make people feel sorry for him, virtue-signal, and galvanize supporters. The standard SJW tactics.
Again, by my numbers (and granted, I don’t have access to all the data), being an economist who almost decided to do this for movies, I would be shocked if $400 million won’t give him a profit. Very possibly less.
Luckily, that appears to be unlikely. I also think it will do poorly internationally, and if China doesn’t release it, then game fucking over. We’re talking a major bomb in that scenario.
The “movie jail” comment has to do with Feig believing his career will be derailed if this movie bombs. He has himself to blame for that not his shitty movie. It’s impossible for him to not rub someone the wrong way.
It’s already been reported that China ain’t showing it because they never got the first two movies. International box office won’t save them.
(Yeah, just breaking even for the $140-$160 million that was supposedly spent on this movie is going to be difficult after checking IMDb to see what’s coming out in the near future, much less getting to $400-500 million when you can’t count on China’s stupidity and just America’s.)
Besides Star Trek Beyond coming earlier than I realized and this having to compete with the doubtless better The Infiltrator movie also came out this weekend, apparently a lot of other “mainstream” movies are coming out sooner than I had realized in the coming weeks. In addition to Star Trek Beyond, both Ice Age: Collision Course and the arguably mainstream Lights Out also come out on July 22nd, the umpteenth Jason Bourne movie and Bad Moms come on the July 29th, and Suicide Squad is coming out on August 5th rather than late August as I had thought. This means that Ghostbusters: SJW Edition will have to deal wait all the way until August 12th for potentially non-mainstream movie competition, and even then Sausage Party is coming out, to say nothing of the fact that I’ve only been counting the most mainstream movies and not the plethora of better movies that have already come or not-so mainstream movies that are also coming out that I’d personally rather see.
Almighty Anubis, at this rate, Ghostbuster: SJW Edition might not even still be out in most theaters by August 12th.
Secret Life of Pets took the top spot. Animated films have been running the box office this year.