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[Legend]

Ghostbusters Reviews - Metacritic

Not that bad

[Xevross]

Ghostbusters Reviews - Metacritic

Not that bad

Thank god

[Max King of the Wild]

Ghostbusters Reviews - Metacritic

Not that bad

Roeper annihilated it. He hated it. Everything about it. The positive reviews I read said shame like "sorry guys, women are funny"

[Max King of the Wild]

Ghostbusters bombed

[Legend]

Ghostbusters bombed

Nope.

Did pretty good actually. 'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo

Largest opening for the director and for Melissa McCarthy.

[the-pi-guy]

Nope.

Did pretty good actually. 'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo

Largest opening for the director and for Melissa McCarthy.

Depends on what you are expecting.   It's all relative.  
Relative to Avengers, Star Wars, Batman, Pi-guy, it bombed.  

It's funny how our expectations change on stuff.  
*2007: ____ app gets downloaded 200k times --- "Wow, that's like the biggest success ever!"
*2016: ____  app gets downloaded 400k times --- "Holy wow, that's really terrible.  Biggest failure I've ever seen.  CoD app is getting downloaded 30m times."

[Max King of the Wild]

Nope.

Did pretty good actually. 'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo

Largest opening for the director and for Melissa McCarthy.

They won't profit. Bomba

[Legend]

They won't profit. Bomba

Probably will when all is said and done. Certainly not a flop.

[Max King of the Wild]

Probably will when all is said and done. Certainly not a flop.

244m budget. Nope.

[Legend]

244m budget. Nope.

144m budget.

[Max King of the Wild]

There's supposed to be a bomb there

144m budget.

Plus 100m ad campaign

Let me put how big of a flop ghostbusters is into perspective... The movie needs about 500m to break even at the box office. Next week is star trek. The week after Bourne. Movie tickets are 100% more expensive than they were when the original came out. This movie won't match the original release domestic total which is half of what they need to break even.

As for highest release for director and McCarthy... I'm sure the massive 100m ad budget  and having the ghostbuster name has something to do with it

Oh, and the toys have already been discontinued at stores

[BananaKing]

There's supposed to be a bomb there
Plus 100m ad campaign

Let me put how big of a flop ghostbusters is into perspective... The movie needs about 500m to break even at the box office. Next week is star trek. The week after Bourne. Movie tickets are 100% more expensive than they were when the original came out. This movie won't match the original release domestic total which is half of what they need to break even.

As for highest release for director and McCarthy... I'm sure the massive 100m ad budget  and having the ghostbuster name has something to do with it

Oh, and the toys have already been discontinued at stores

Why does it need 500  million to break even?

[Dr. Pezus]

There's supposed to be a bomb there
Plus 100m ad campaign

Let me put how big of a flop ghostbusters is into perspective... The movie needs about 500m to break even at the box office. Next week is star trek. The week after Bourne. Movie tickets are 100% more expensive than they were when the original came out. This movie won't match the original release domestic total which is half of what they need to break even.

As for highest release for director and McCarthy... I'm sure the massive 100m ad budget  and having the ghostbuster name has something to do with it

Oh, and the toys have already been discontinued at stores

Let's see how it does in other markets first before we declare it a flop.

[Max King of the Wild]

Let's see how it does in other markets first before we declare it a flop.

Lol, 19m so far and isn't releasing in China. Floppity flop

Why does it need 500  million to break even?

Box office tickets are split between theaters and distributers. Distributer gets about half. Therefore times the budget by two to get the break even point

Empty theaters in Ghostbusters opening week, attacking your main audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a good marketing strategy after all.

[Dr. Pezus]

Lol, 19m so far and isn't releasing in China. Floppity flop
Box office tickets are split between theaters and distributers. Distributer gets about half. Therefore times the budget by two to get the break even point

Empty theaters in Ghostbusters opening week, attacking your main audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a good marketing strategy after all.

"More realistically, we're probably looking at a domestic run around $135-145 million. Ghostbusters carries a $144 million budget (net after tax incentives and rebates) and received an "A-" CinemaScore for the under 25 crowd, and an overall "B+", on par with Bridesmaids and Spy and just behind The Heat's "A-".

Internationally, Ghostbusters delivered $19.1 million from three major territories along with a few smaller markets. The opening included $6.1 million from the UK where the film opened on July 11 along with $3.7 million from Australia and $2.2 million in Brazil. Key upcoming releases include Russia and Italy on July 28, Germany (Aug 4), France (Aug 10), Mexico and Spain on August 12 and Japan on August 19. "

'Pets' Slimes 'Ghostbusters' While 'Finding Dory' Swims to All-Time Domestic Record - Box Office Mojo

So, 19m from 3 major markets. Not out yet in most places.

They say net budget is 144m.

I think it can make it to 350-400m or so globally. Not very profitable but not a flop either.