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So, would this be considered a success or a failure to you guys? I'm surprised this movie made this much considering all of the empty theaters posted during its premiere. Why is that?

>From Box Office Mojo
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M8 the budget was 144 million
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>>81533074
Tickets cost $12.
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>>81533282
Does that include advertising?
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Technically, it would be considered a failure. Most movies with budgets that high are expecting to recoup a larger chunk in their opening weekend.

Also, given the poor word-of-mouth the film is getting, they can't rely on the audience to increase like many big budget films do. They may break even in 3-4 weeks, but everyone knows that's not actually 'breaking even'.

Big budget films can often bring in 4-5x as much as was spent. Then the toys, soundtrack, and franchise can generate even more money - if they're popular.

Nobody wants the toys. Nobody wants the soundtrack. Nobody wants merchandise. And nobody wants a sequel.

This is a failure.
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not an expert on this stuff but that looks bad compared to budget and it's an actual bad movie that won't have a ton of staying power like other bad movies. seems like a bad performance considering all the publicity (albeit bad publicity) it got

irredeemably shitty movies are rarely huge successes so it had an uphill battle assuming it's as bad as it's supposed to be
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>> $144mil budget (BEFORE MARKETING)
>> $65mil combined gross
>> #2 on opening week

By comparison, Fantastic Four had a production budget of $120mil and took in $59mil combined opening weekend.

So.......
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Asked my chinese ex tonight what she thought of it based on previews as she's a movie connoisseur and she said it looks so stupid and glad it got negative reviews before it aired
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>>81533074

>>Not knowing that directors will personally buy up tickets to ensure a sequel is made and so it doesn't look like a flop.

Who needs actual viewers when you can buy your way to a sequel?
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It's neither.
Not really a flop but not profitable either
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>>81533661

Nope, or merchandising which is already at the clearance price level.
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>>81533074
That is a huge fucking failure m8
>>81533661
It never does
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>>81533074
>4000 theatres.
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I think breaking even is treated as a failure.

Production was $148M and I think marketing was $100M, so only making $65M is a flop for sure.
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Millions of tricked Women went to watch it to show them evil Sexist Men

But quickly word of mouth got around from normal people who tried film out, so lets see how it does in following week
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Won't stop CNN from hyping it though. Gotta keep it in the news. Gotta make it controversial.
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>>81534201
>>81534280

LITERALLY SCARES UP VIEWERS!

You can't make this shit up
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>>81533750
However -- The Asian market may save them, Asians love ghost shit.
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>>81533074
>Star Trek/Ice Age/Bourne are all about to come out
>poor word of mouth

It is over
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>>81534446
Although, they try to sneak a little bit of reality into the bottom of their article. You know, journalistic integrity and all that.
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>>81533861
I have a perpetual motion machine I want to sell you.
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>>81533750
>Nobody wants merchandise.
The funny thing is that old Ghostbusters merch is selling. I was at a toy shop that had these $20 old Ghostbuster figures next to the new ones. I asked them how they were selling and they told me that the old ones were selling okay, just a little here and there but they didn't have a large stock anyway.

But they said they had about 4 times as much for the new film, and hadn't sold a single item. Not one.
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ITT: people who don't understand how movies make money. With the overseas market and DVD sales and premium downloads and all that this this movie will make a hundred million in profit easily. It's performing as they expected it to. And it's apparently mildly entertaining which is all that's required for a good run.
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>>81535038
>With the overseas market

It isn't playing in China
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Flop, didnt open no. Now ticket sales will fall for it after opening weekend. Doubt full to make its $144 plus whatever millions in marketing back.
https://www.quora.com/Movies-How-much-does-it-cost-to-market-a-movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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>>81535311
Hahahahahahahaha
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>>81535038

Let's look back at FF:

>> $25.6 million on its opening weekend, marking one of the lowest openings of all time for a big-budget superhero movie which box office analysts have attributed to poor critical reviews and audience reception.
>> Outside North America, the film grossed $33.1 million on its opening weekend from 43 countries from 8,996 screens, coming at second place behind Rogue Nation at the international box office

Meanwhile, GB made $19mil overseas. That's...almost literally nothing. This is a trainwreck.
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>>81533896
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/12/toys-female-ghostbusters-movie-already-filling-clearance-racks/

Topkek before it even came out
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>>81533074
thats awful considering the budget. we wont see another big budget sjw experiment for a while
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>>81534504
>>81535038

ITT: People who don't know it's banned in China.
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>>81533074
Why is this place full of Sony marketers?
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>disable Adblock out of curiosity
>nonstop shilling for this movie on Facebook, both from the website itself and from movie theater pages and related pages
>ads for it on YouTube
>turn on TV
>more ads for it
>hop on Rotten Tomatoes/Flixster
>everyone thinks it's trash except for (((critics))) and a minority of women and numale cucks
>IMDB
>just barely at 5/10
Despite shilling their asses off for this movie, the average person still won't see it and thinks it's trash. Great job!
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>>81534504
>it's another poster who doesn't realize nips hate feminism and 3d women
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>>81534504
China has banned the film
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>>81533282
huehuehuehuehuehue
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>>81533074

It's an okay opening, but it definitely won't sustain itself. Between Ice Age and Star Trek expect it to fall to 3rd or 4th, doubt it'll break $20 million through the weekend.
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>>81533074
sorry m8, this is not /tv/
let me help you
>>>/tv/
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>>81536368
/tv/ sucks, easily in the top 5 worst boards
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>>81533803
>FF was more successful than Goybusters
Kek.
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>>81535038
It's not being shown in China. Besides, that's a shitty argument. Even Deadpool, which had all the signs of being DOA, became a huge hit and broke records without China's money.
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>>81534656
That's some impressive double-think.
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>>81533074
Budget was 144million. To get the actual amount spent you double that, and this movie was shilled a lot so possibly more, you're looking at up to 300million spent.
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>>81536806
>all the signs of being DOA
Huh? It's a superhero movie with "adult humor" and they marketed the everloving fuck out of it. It seemed destined to be a hit.
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>>81533074

failure. generally a movie makes about 40-50 percent of its total revenue the first weekend.

no more cuntbusters
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>>81536064

Kek.

Based gooks.
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>>81534191
not all that money goes to the studio. Alot of that gross is cinemas and the like.
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Why is this movie getting so much attention here? I don't get it, it's more than likely shit like nine out of ten movies made.
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>>81536806
To be fair a lot of people weren't sure about the dead pool movie until word of mouth got out that it wasn't completely full of Facebook tier memes.
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>marketing was free
>theatres don't take any money from the tickets
>breaking even = successful
>the intangible damaging of the brand is not relevant to a future sequel
>implying
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>>81537252
It's the blatant agenda-pushing, not to mention the hijacking of a beloved franchise to push said agenda.
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>>81537078
>It seemed destined to be a hit.

Not really since even they were surprised to see it become huge. It was rated R, not being shown in China, and it's a character most people aren't familiar with. At most they were expecting it to be a mild success, not an instant-sequel maker.
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My wife spent my money to go see this trash with her girlfriends. Came back with glowing reviews and even suggested we rent it when it comes out on DVD. Yea, don't think so...

Trigger warning.

She's a basic white bitch. I'm black.
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>>81533074
failure

would love to see their advertising budget total. They even had ads with nt football players during the euro intermissions. They probably spent more on ads than in the movie
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GIRLS RULE GET OVER IT
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>>81537563
>wife walking all over him like a cuck
>"btw im black shes white lel"
Yup, it's bait
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>>81533880
It it's not profitable then it's a flop.
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>>81537563
Be honest, how much longer do you think you're going to put up with her?
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>>81535780
is China a big audience?
I thought they all pirated
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Will it beat Mad Max domestically?
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I checked some historical data and of the top 300 grossing movies, the average total gross averaged 3.3x the opening weekend rake. That puts this abortion at about $150 million, which is midway between actual production costs and net production costs due to incentives, tax breaks, etc.

So factor in that the $144-$154 mil doesn't cover marketing costs, which must be astronomical, and the likely $150 mil total gross is not net of distribution, theater cuts, etc., this one's a bomb.

Pro tip: the only kind of lesbians people don't loathe are the fake ones in porn.
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>>81537823

they zerg rushed warcraft into profitability
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>>81537823

You're thinking of Somalians
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>>81537846
At this rate hell no. Expect lots of "features" on the DVD release to try and cut losses. I'm hoping for some cringeworthy bloopers and deleted scenes.
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>>81537726
Well it's obvious trolling at the end there, but 100% true.

>>81537790
The first time she definitely says no to sex.
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>>81537823
It's 2-0-1-6, senpai.
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>>81534656
Laughably horrible writing in that excerpt.
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>>81537846
>this turd won 6 oscars
amazing times we live in
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>>81538241
But it was the best action movie of the last 10 years.
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>>81537823
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/china/yearly/
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>>81538007

Funny you should say that
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>>81538241
It was good though. Not "deserves 6 Oscars" good, but I can't think of a recent action movie that surpasses it.
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>>81533074
I think I recall from another thread, that both Ghostbusters 1 and 2, adjusted for inflation, made more dough than Fembusters in their opening week. So we'd have to wait for the first week to be done before really calling it, but lets be honest, this movie is not going to make back 144 MILLION burgerbucks.

because literally nobody but feminists and their enablers want this movie.

The movie everyone wanted was Ghostbusters 3, and that would have made serious bank. But that died with Harold Ramis, and people accepted that there would never be a 3, only for this to get announced a year later, and to be a reboot, not to mention trying to play gender politics by being a "gurrrrl empowerment" movie, and shitting over all the accomplishments of the originals. Most egregious being that Winston was in the originals, the straight man to the other 3's oddness. The everyman. The average audience member stand in.

And meanwhile, Patty contributes to that by being a generic black stereotype. And also being just plain unpleasant to look at.

This pissed of about 3 entirely different audience groups that should have been it's target, and then made it worse by playing to the media's feminist angle about how only basement dwelling meninists hate the movie and if you criticize it you are a sexist. Which pisses off more people.
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>>81538428
Those awards were all technical, weren't they?
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>>81538393
>McCarthy's TRIGGERED face
>the sheboon's EXPAND DONG face
o I am laffin
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>>81533074
This movie had an absurd amount of advertising and a fucking huge budget. If it weren't for the "controversy" surrounding it everyone would be calling it a flop by now.
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>>81533074
There was no competition.
Next weekend is secret life of pets and the latest ice age.
Ghostbusters will make another 10 million then goto Netflix.
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Sony said it needs to make back 500 mil to be a success
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>>81533282
fucking how, the catering bill?
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>>81533074
It's not that bad. It's just weird.
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>>81533074
So how long until an article blaming straight white men comes out?
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>>81533661
Nope, they spent another $100M on advertising. Kek
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>>81535703
>ALL of the ballbusters toys are peg warmers, no exceptions

Liberals on suicide watch.
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>>81537911

you should review movies. don't get fat or wear sweatervests, please.
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>>81538739
because when you take away the ghostbusters nameplate, you get the exact same as every other would be franchise.

a would be franchise. tons and TONS of money dumped in big names, advertising and social media fuckery, and the hope to establish a franchise, with probably 2 or more sequels already written/planned. With a side of hopping off of an existing franchise as a reboot to try and get a new audience to feed that new franchise.
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>>81533074
>(Estimate)
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tinseltpwn is a way to launder several.million without so much as a suspicious sneeze their direction.
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>>81533074

Here's what would have LITERALLY happened if they cast this properly (for example):

The Ghostbusters:
>Will Ferrell
>Kevin Hart
>Zach Galifianakis
>Bradley Cooper

The Secretary
>Scarlett Johansson

SO FUCKING SIMPLE.

Biggest movie of the summer, highest grossing comedy of all time, merchandising, videogame/mobile tie-ins, et al.

It would have 100% been the start of a new billion-dollar summer blockbuster trilogy.

How long will the executives continue to hemorrhage money pandering to the SJW movement? Millenial SJW's have no buying power.

Shit, they could have even added a female comedian to an all male cast and still made $350 million from Normie Moviegoer.

They literally just squandered a surefire billion-dollar franchise reboot. Feels great watching it crash and burn.
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>>81538739
the army paid internet shills and "journalists" and I'm not kidding about that
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>>81533750

They're going to "red tails" this. Expect a "BRING YOUR DAUGHTER TO GHOSTBUSTERS" fake viral campaign to commence immediately.
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$144 Million budget? ON WHAT?!
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>>81539323
That list is nearly as unfunny as the people they did hire.
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>>81535602
FF made the mistake of not gender bending their cast. Imagine Mrs Fantastic, rockhard boobs, flaming tits and invisible man.
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>>81539056

This whole GamerGate/SJW nonsense served some purpose - it showed a ton of people who previously identified as "liberal" what kind of meaningless bullshit mainstream liberals try to push.

Goddamn redpill...
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>>81533074
You do realize the studio """""""""only """"""""" gets about 40% of that, right? The rest goes to the theatres, actors, overhead, union dues, ads/marketing department, etc. That's why a lot of directors say they need to make at least twice the budget to consider "breaking even."
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>>81539323
Replace Bradley Cooper and Kevin Hart with James Franco and Dave Chapelle and it would be A+++
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>>81538431
>Ghostbusters 2, adjusted for inflation, made more dough than Fembusters in their opening week
>>81533074
sound like it was a failure, IIRC Ghostbusters 2 was bad and it was the reason of no more sequels
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>>81539323
but nobody would have wanted that anyway. And Scarjo is a terrible meme actress who's only gotten big because of Marvel.

people wanted the original quartet. people wanted a sequel, not a reboot. Or even a sequelboot where the original ghostbusters still exist and new ones take their mantle or something. literally NOBODY wanted a straight reboot.
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>>81539805
agreed
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>>81539856
There are a few fun things in Ghostbusters 2, but it's by and large a worse version of the original.
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>>81539805
You get my point though, a male cast would have made bank.
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>>81538431
At least we got the 2009 game. Itmay as well be Ghostbusters 3.
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>>81538739


they might have aligned interests but buzzfeed aint cheap
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>>81533074
Most studios have this rule. A movie needs to make back its budget in a week or less to be considered successful. Of course they'll make their money back and they'll trot it as another success for them. But worldwide it's gonna tank.
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>>81539326
>attacking AVGN
Leave him alone, he's not a big internet presence anymore and just wants to play his video games and is tired of the whole decade of persona.
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>>81539326
That was the weirdest fucking shit when they went to do that promo at the hospital
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>$144 million budget
>$46 million opening weekend
>exponential drop-off from here on out
>Banned in China

kek it's a flop
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>>81539856
>Ghostbusters 2 was bad and it was the reason of no more sequels

Ackchually the real reason was that Bill Murray is hard to work with and had a falling out with Ramis over Groundhog Day or something.
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>>81539326
>Oswalt getting blasted for being a cuck over his dead wife
POTTERY
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>>81533661
>>81539024
Way more than that. One of the hardest advertised Sony Pictures movies. Feig said the movie would have to make $500M to break even.
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>>81540221

Not with the writing of this turd.

Male cast would have been just as terrible.
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>>81539326
>>81540398
I bet he feels pretty vindicated now, though.
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>>81540512
Yeah, they didn't talk for 21 years until Ramis was in the hospital and Murray realized how much of a dick he'd been. That's why he was so torn up at the Academy Awards.
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>>81540691
>The trolls even made light of my wife's passing, when I merely politely articulated my disagreement with a film critic.

This is how that waste of sperm would tell this story.
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Ghostbusters 2, generally considered the weakest of the 2, still beat Ghostbusters 1 at the box office, and had the best weekend opening in history, topped only by fucking Batman the following week.

it made $29.5 M on it's opening weekend in 1989, on a budget of $37 million, which would translate to about $59.1 M today (on an inflation adjusted budget of $74M)

I mean, im bad at math but thats like, what, almost 78 percent of the budget made back in just the opening weekend?

This film, meanwhile, made $46M on a $144M budget. That's barely above 30%. On the third movie in a universally loved franchise

that shit is BAD.
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>>81539326
Yet he was right and it still fucking flopped
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They just have to turn Extreme Ghostbusters into a live action. Show is already is diverse as fuck. You get a black, hispanic, disabled and a woman.

Fucking Pascal and Feig for their agendas.
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>>81539326
This actually upsets me more than anything. James Rolfe is such a chill dude and didn't deserve getting lambasted like that.
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>>81539712

It also showed how much of a SJW hivemind is the internet "indie" media, see >>81539326
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>>81539805
8.5/10 would watch once and again drunk as shit
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>>81541328
Yeah? But he won. By not fighting. It's fucking hilarious.
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>>81533830
It's actually banned in China because of the ghosts.
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>>81533074
>Finding Dory is majorly successful
>it features a female protagonist with flaws
>nobody seems to care though
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>>81537823
Chinks are one of the main things propping up modern Hollywood.
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>>81539326
I like how they referred to it as boycotting the movie, he was just telling his fans that he wasn't going to see it and why because they might want to know why a ghostbusters fan like he is wouldn't go see it.
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>>81541444
I thought it was bones and skeletons they had issue with
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>Look what those assholes did... They ruined it.
How do you think he personally feels about being threatened with legal action to take part of it and watching his past work being sullied?
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>>81533750
>sountrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQ44nPrRTM

I can't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already have cancer.
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>>81540501
Why did chinese ban it? Thats major source for income for any movie Warcraft made like 200milions in china alone.
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>>81534504
It's banned in China and I have literally not seen a single advertisement for it here.
I'm seeing a shit ton of ads for that movie that has the girl stuck on a rock with a shark circling it though
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>>81541639
>Why did you do this? Why? Couldn't you just leave it alone?
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>>81541446

Funny, it's almost as if female protagonists don't prevent a film from doing well!

Hmm better guilt people into seeing one with heavy-handed social commentary, just to be safe. What could go wrong?
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>>81541802
Chinese are afraid of spooky stuff
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>>81541424
There shouldn't have been a battle in the first place, is what I'm getting at. This has somehow lowered my opinion of journalism even further.
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I don't really know how the typical movie revenue timeline goes (I'm a terrible Jew I know). Is it on track to making a profit or not?
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>>81539693
>rockhard boobs
underrated post
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>>81541869
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>>81541446
because female leads ARE successful. Feminists just ignore them because they dont fit the narrative, and then discard them on some bullshit reason. usually for being "overly sexualized pin ups" or similar.

One of the biggest fucking female icons of the 90's was fucking Xena. Who, despite being fairly sexy, kicked ass like noone else, had a female sidekick, with a bumbling male friend that feminists should by all means love, and turned out to be lezzy with the sidekick.

but nope. she's a sexy pinup fantasy for boys so she doesnt count

also Tomb Raider, particularly the Jolie Movies, which were basically kickass femdiana Jones

feminists dont actually care about female characters. they aren't about female empowerment, they are specifically anti-male and anti-masculinity of any sort.
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>>81541967
There's that interview where Feig said they need 500M to profit.

They are currently 46M and no chinks to boost sales, they're turbo fucked.
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>>81541802
skelingtons
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>>81538343
>But it was the best action movie of the last 10 years.

Aside from practical effects the movie wasn't very engrossing. It started off with a non-character Max destroying his interceptor right away. Then it was good for 30 minutes when the main character was the War Boys, with Furiosa being the villain and Max being a hood ornament that got too much camera time. After that it was a bunch of pointless action scenes that I had no reason to care about.
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>>81542029
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>>81541446
>Children's fish movie is majorly successful
>Female protagonist with flaws

Thank you. I genuinely laughed out loud. Good troll, bro.
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>>81542184
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>>81539769
Compensation for the workers aren't included in the budget?
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>>81535038
Thanks for explaining that, Ms Wiig.
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>>81537563
Fuck off race mixer
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>>81534656
>Solid start

No. That isn't a solid start.
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>>81538343
LOL Not even close.
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>>81542184
>>81542396
Why can't we get a Dinner with Andre remake with Rick Moranis and Ernie Hudson?
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>>81542116
the thing with xena, it wasnt feminist power fantasy, Xena had dumb moment, hard moments, needed help, etc, etc. So it was actually genuintly funny show back in the day when i was kid, i used watch the shit out of Xena and Hercules.
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>>81534656
>Women will literally throw away a 100 million dollars and call it a spiritual win.
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>>81533880
>Not really a flop
>98 Million dollar loss for an organization
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>>81542116
I agree with you. I also want to add that even successful MALE leads need to have a certain sex appeal, not for male fans to gawk at, but rather to make them appealing as a strong protagonist.

I don't want to watch George Costanza or Patton Oswalt solving crimes and bumbling around women. Even the super awkward protagonist from Mr. Robot fucks his neighbor.
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>>81542648
and yet she was a good character. she had every reason to be a feminist icon. I couldnt really say if she really was or wasnt back in the 90's, probably because people didnt really think about those things back then like they do now
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>>81542688
isnt 140mil just production costs (including salaries)? With all the shilling that goes on RL, TV and online about this shit movie i bet it costed 3times more.
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>>81541802
Anything related to the dead is banned in China. You can't do it, it's disrespectful. To them at least.

So it's fucked, anon. They need $500m apparently, and they have $65m.
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>>81542403

It ain't bait.

Max wasn't even a character for the first 45 minutes, barely one afterwards, the interceptor was gone, no doggy, stupid flashback visions, the plot going nowhere, action scenes that went on until I lost interest, Max taking out the Bullet Farmer off camera.

Not a great movie, other than the practical effects and visuals.
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>>81542648
If I were to put on my feminist robot hat and imagine what their reply to Xena would be I think they would take issue with the plots all revolving around men, and with Xena often being assisted by men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
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>>81541802
sony didnt bribe them enough
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>>81535762

Thank God. The first step in the SJW movement unravelling is for its big backers to see there's no money in it.
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>>81533880
>needs $500m to make a worthwhile profit
>has made $65m

'no'. it is a flop.
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>>81534504
no one here wants to see it, and its banned in the mainland.
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>>81541623

Anything that has to do with the afterlife, time travel, rebirth, etc. The list is pretty damn significant and writing a film that can actually play in China is a huge hassle.
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One good thing about the ghostbusters propaganda film is that China won't play it, at least not heavily edited, and so the traditional way for shit movies to recoup some costs won't work for them.
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>>81543104
Come back to Britain, bro. We love you. We miss you. Macau can come too. Portugal wouldn't mind.

Love Hong Kong. Really wish it was still British clay...
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>>81542157
It was no Shawshank Redemption, but the practical effects ruled and it was true to its source. Best exclusively action movie since 300.
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>>81542116
>Gabrielle lost her girly fat and got swole
>still got a butterface

that's sad
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>>81541903
Dory is a literally retarded female protagonist fish and she still has more brains and heart than the entire cast of fembusters combined.

>>81541305
>Goth girl gets captured all the time yet BTFOs her captors without fail
>Cripple is the most athletic of the team
>Nigger perfectly fills audience surrogate role
>Spic works for a fucking living

XGB was a show about how minorities should have been handled. They even handled a crossover with the original cast with respect.
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>>81533074
>10% of the way to turning a profit after opening weekend.
>Won't be screened in China (1/7th of the entire world cannot pay to see it by law)
>Came in 2nd, behind a week old movie from Universal.
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>>81543104
what's the reasoning behind the ban?
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>>81543359
Spoopy as fug
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>>81542029
F
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>>81543359
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China#Film

China is really bad about movie censorship.
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>>81533830
What does your wife's son think of it?
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>>81543293
>butterface

I always thought she was cute desu
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All they had to do was steal the all female Ghost Buster team from the comic books and replace the guy that hired them with Bill Murray

>Wants to make super marketable ghost busters team so he just gets 4 hot post-grad girls without looking into their backgrounds
>They all turn out to be really good at their jobs because you can be both pretty and smart
>Movie is actually a positive role model for girls instead of teaching them you have to be a geek/social outcast to be a scientist
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>>81533074
>Direct Paul Feig said that Ghostbusters haters must be Donald Trump fans

Looks like we already won the election, lads. Seems like most of the nation is voting Trump.
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>>81538343
>>81541305
>>81543216
>best action movie
lol /pol/ can't into kino action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-HSoOFdJ3s
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They spend around 230 mill on it this includes advertisement.

Gigantic failure they likely won't even hit 100 mill, so they lost an insane amount of money on this movie.
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>>81540411
Going to a hospital to bust ghosts is just being proactive anon.
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>>81542978
>Max wasn't even a character for the first 45 minutes, barely one afterwards

Have you seen Road Warrior or Thurnderdome? He's never been a character except in the first movie. He's just the mysterious wanderer who gets into adventures.

>the interceptor was gone, no doggy

Were you expecting a remake of Road Warrior for some reason?

>stupid flashback visions

"I wish Max and verbally explained that he was haunted by memories of his past and regrets."

>the plot going nowhere, action scenes that went on until I lost interest

What do you mean the plot went nowhere? What scene in the movie didn't advance the plot?
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>>81541802
the original movie never came out in China and they don't have SJW there, so this wouldve been an absolute flop
they prefered to cut the losses and not show it
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>>81543637
She was cute enough but her personality was nails on a chalkboard
Not quite as insufferable as Xena herself though
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Don't let hate win.
Just remember brohs and brahs

Pic related
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>>81539370

What is "red tails"?
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>>81543119
Why don't they like those things? Don't they have this whole xianxia-genre shit?
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>>81542681
100 million dollars were wasted on worse things
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>>81540411
>That was the weirdest fucking shit when they went to do that promo at the hospital
Dumping, starting with the obligatory one that started it all

>post yfw you realize the kid is actually flat-lining
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG83qBuQ_A8
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>>81543837
Also culture clash in both directions, communist China bans belief in spirits and ghosts while traditionalist China is appalled at disrespecting the spirits of the dead

but mainly money
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>>81543920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVMVtuN9FY
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>>81543972
>inb4 somebody says "respawn camping" for the 500th time
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>>81543201
Meh, britain needs to get rid of all the dindus you guys have been importing.

We'll have to see how brexit works out.
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>>81537563
>Came back with glowing reviews
>I'm black
Well, it's obvious she has bad taste.
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>>81543359
Mainlanders are stupid and superstitious.

They literally believe in ghosts, ghouls, and other nonsense. Like, you go to buildings in the mainlands, and the elevators don't have certain floor numbers
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>>81544167
Party pooper
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>>81543729
Hollywood's accountants are very good at making every movie show a profit. A couple of small production or FX studios who assisted on the movie might eat shit, but the bottom line at Columbia Pictures will show a profit.
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>>81533661
No. It'll need to make about half a billion just to break even.
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>>81541225

Yeah it's bad. What's funny though the political bias around it. Facebook Trending is so bias and trying to be subtle about it. It has this big "GHOSTBUSTERS MADE 46M in box office" but of course that doesn't sound bad when you don't know how much of a weak metric that is. It just sounds like it opened up and made money!
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>>81540398
He has 2 million subs so Sony clearly saw that as a threat.
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>>81543980
Lost at the chimp scream. I should have expected it, but it's still effective.
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>>81540411
>That was the weirdest fucking shit when they went to do that promo at the hospital
PR is strong indypendant womyn, she saw no problem in sending in a ghost bustin' squad to a terminal childrens ward lmao
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>>81533074
Anyone who knows anything about movies and budgets will tell you that it's a failure.

It's not a gigantic failure, but still a failure.

>>81533282

Budget is not the whole story..They have marketing costs, merchandising etc. Then studios don't get all the money from the gross they get a percentage of it
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The director himself said it needs to make $500m to be considered successful.
Sucks to be him.
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>>81542598
Rick Moranis hung up his hat after his wife died of cancer so he could take care of his kids.
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>>81544480
>Happy Stem Cell Day Jayden
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>>81544616
JUST
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>>81537396
to be fair, the vast majority of theater revenue comes from snack sales
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>>81544572
What? Really? That's why we don't see anymore?
Fuck, m8. You just made me sad.
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>>81534504
>it's another "I don't know gooks and zipperheads hate ghosts, references to superstitution, and kulturkampf via liberal western ideals" episode
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>>81535038
we dont want your kike film
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>>81544572
He did, but he has said (recently) that he's open to working again but isn't going to take shitty unfunny movies.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/rick-moranis-reveals-why-he-829779
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>>81543726
fantastic taste

I really hope those guys do more action movies, (besides John Wick 2) because as former stunt coordinators, they clearly know whats up.
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>>81543879
I never quite understood why Igon was blonde in this
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>>81537823
They brought the Warcraft movie back from the dead.
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>>81544930
Same reason anime characters have pink hair, it's to differentiate the designs.
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>>81541725
oh god this cant be real.
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>>81545033
>>81545055
Double dubs

Got these images off the hospitals facebook page that these fools visited in their cosplay outfits
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>>81545033
god that she boon nigger is a fucking ape, huge nostrils, forward skull profile, horse teeth, literal monkey.
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$65 million world wide is off to a good start.

To break even in Hollywood you actually need to make two and a half times your budget.

So they need to make 360 million worldwide for this to be officially called a success
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>>81545033
I know Adam Sandler looked depressed, but I didnt know he was that bad
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>>81545183
Forgot pics
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>>81541725
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>>81533074
Its enough for SJW's to feel good.

The foreign numbers are surprisingly low
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So they a bunch of actors who portray people who vacuum up souls of the dead into a children's hospital for a photoshoot? You really can't make this shit up.
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>>81545122
"lanky with round glasses and a pompadour" wasnt enough?
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>>81541725
wtf is this shit
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http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/07/ghostbusters-no-china-release
>Director Paul Feig told New York Magazine that the movie needs to make at least $500 million to be profitable—”and that’s probably low.”
>no china release
>made 46 million on opening weekend
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>81533074
all those tickets were bought by ticket master
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>>>/tv/
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>>81533074

Films need to usually double the budget just to break even.

So, 144 million needs 290 to break even before taxes in most places, and really in terms of opportunity cost for the industry needs to beat that by 10%. So the film is a major loser and likely cost Sony 120 million directly and perhaps as much as 200 million in sales from other more profitable movies they could have made with that money.
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>>81545323
>So they a bunch of actors who portray people who vacuum up souls of the dead into a children's hospital for a photoshoot? You really can't make this shit up.
I thought it was the work of a saddistic kike who enjoys the perverted thought of it...

But after investigation, it seems it was just a result of womens' incompetence - Their PR manager being a strong 21st century independent womyn and all

>insert_cast_&_crew_pic_of_them_holding_their_role_on_signs.png
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>>81545222
not of the director said it needs to make 500M, which means hes probably counting in the marketing, which is usually what accounts for a large chunk of the budget in things
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>>81545448

Hey gaylord >>81545222
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>>81538007
The bluray will cone with 1080P versions of the original 2 films plus the entire GB cartoon series, plus a 20$ coupon off a 25$ purchase of *insert garbage snack item* all at the low low MSRP of 19.99, but act now and get an instant rebate of 15$!!!
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>>81543970
Fucking brutal.
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>>81545515

The "two and half times" the budget usually includes marketing.

The ad buy for this movie has been really, really, really small
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>>81545545
>the entire GB cartoon series

For anyone who is a fan, Sony is actually releasing the series in a massively over priced multi volume collection.
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>>81537846
No.. Mad Max had great reviews. If its good politics goes out the window

WITNESS MY DUBS
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>>81545448
>>81545351

Yeah, sorry I didn't count in advertising and the full foreign release line.

It probably needs 400-450 to break even and then 500-550 to justify its cost.
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>>81545222
So essentially its like a armless kid doing the jungle gym
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>>81545222
Simply breaking-even is not considered a 'success' in the movie industry.
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>>81545500
>>insert_cast_&_crew_pic_of_them_holding_their_role_on_signs.png

Pic related
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>>81545667
off by one
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>>81545656
Damn, how overpriced is overpriced?
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>>81545753

Yes it is.
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>>81533074
To be considered a successful movie it's world gross must be double the cost to produce.
In this case you'd be looking for a world gross of 288 Million
So no.
This is not a success
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>>81545519

Yeah you're leaving out advertising and foreign release costs.

The opening was much lower than needed. This needed 72 domestic and 105 worldwide for the opening weekend.
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>>81543726
This was a fucking great action movie unless you're one of those faggots who care about plot.

Though I still think a better title would have been "Keanu Reeves' dog dies and he kills 77 people over it."
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