The Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Failure Thread
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UPDATED: Sunday, June 9, 2024 01:20
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Ghostbusters opened at $16 mill on Friday, it looks like it'll do OK. They believe it'll make around $43 mill this weekend, this will be OK, not great, but OK.
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Ghostbusters opened at $16 mill on Friday, it looks like it'll do OK. They believe it'll make around $43 mill this weekend, this will be OK, not great, but OK.
Really though, it only made $11.3 Million on Friday since they count the $4.7 Million in previews in that $16 Million number.
The good news AND the bad news is that it cost $100 Million to make. (I knew there was no way they were going to keep it as cheap as Afterlife's $75 Million). But at least it wasn't $200 Million.
It's going to need $250 Million to break even now.
As I mentioned earlier, any movie only making 80% to 99% of its production budget on opening weekend worldwide is in a coin-flip situation that it will ultimately break even before it's out of theaters.
What's the appetite for Ghostbusters internationally? If it only brings in $43 Million domestic, will it be able to bring in $57 Million outside of the United States and Canada when China won't be showing it?
I also don't know what kind of competition it's going to be facing in the coming weeks since I haven't been keeping up with movie information like I did last year. Maybe it lucks out and benefits from a weaker than normal box office like a lot of the late movies from last year like Wonka, Migration and Aquaman 2 did. At least they released it several weeks after Dune: Part 2 came out instead of a week before.
I still suspect that this movie loses money in the end. I may change my stance on that when the official international numbers come in on Sunday or Monday though.
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Originally posted by whozit:
Ghostbusters opened at $16 mill on Friday, it looks like it'll do OK. They believe it'll make around $43 mill this weekend, this will be OK, not great, but OK.
Really though, it only made $11.3 Million on Friday since they count the $4.7 Million in previews in that $16 Million number.
The good news AND the bad news is that it cost $100 Million to make. (I knew there was no way they were going to keep it as cheap as Afterlife's $75 Million). But at least it wasn't $200 Million.
It's going to need $250 Million to break even now.
As I mentioned earlier, any movie only making 80% to 99% of its production budget on opening weekend worldwide is in a coin-flip situation that it will ultimately break even before it's out of theaters.
What's the appetite for Ghostbusters internationally? If it only brings in $43 Million domestic, will it be able to bring in $57 Million outside of the United States and Canada when China won't be showing it?
I also don't know what kind of competition it's going to be facing in the coming weeks since I haven't been keeping up with movie information like I did last year. Maybe it lucks out and benefits from a weaker than normal box office like a lot of the late movies from last year like Wonka, Migration and Aquaman 2 did. At least they released it several weeks after Dune: Part 2 came out instead of a week before.
I still suspect that this movie loses money in the end. I may change my stance on that when the official international numbers come in on Sunday or Monday though.
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This is the second of the 3 they want to make, I think Dan and the boys (and girls) want to make up for the 2016 abortion that was, 'Ghostbusters: Lesbians with Lasers'.
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I wish them the best.
I certainly not rooting for it to fail.
I just wish they'd managed to make the budget the same size or smaller than Afterlife's budget was.
Japan can make Godzilla Minus Zero for $15 Million, yet we can hardly seem to make a movie in the US anymore for under $100 Million outside of horror movies.
How much did Paul Rudd and the original cast make here? How much did the Stranger Things kids make?
They're all overpaid. Tom Cruise is the last real movie star. The rest of these people need to learn to start living on a more modest budget before Hollywood just gives up on hiring more well known names and the price tags they're used to charging and resorts to just using the no-name horror genre method of casting actors where they can cut the most corners on the production costs.
I hope they get to make that 3rd movie. But if they don't gross $250 Million + worldwide here I just wouldn't bet on it.
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Leading Weekend Box Office With Tepid $41M-$44M Opening
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ghostbusters-froze
n-empire-box-office-opening-1235858952/
Vulture: Ghostbusters’s Box Office Opening Weekend Is Frozen in 2021
https://www.vulture.com/article/ghostbusters-frozen-empire-box-office-
opening-weekend.html
Afterlife made $44 Million on opening weekend when we were still having much lower box office numbers in general from Covid.
Empire is going to need a big International number this weekend.
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Ughhhhh...
Come on guys... It can't be boring. Anything but boring.
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Oh no.........
They made the main girl lame and gay with her lame and gay little relationship with a lame and gay girl ghost.
Jesus Christ
This movie is going to fail hard.
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Ughhhhh...
Come on guys... It can't be boring. Anything but boring.
Minor spoiler warning...
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This makes me sad, Dave is a guy I respect. If he sez it's dull then I'll take him at his word.
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Yeah. It sucks.
But we can't give them a pass just because we want it to succeed.
It really wouldn't be that hard to please fans, but they don't ever seem to want to do that, even when they're pretending that they do.
They've got two options going forward.
1. Start making stuff that people want to see.
2. Slash the budgets to nothing if you can't bring yourself to do that.
That's Hollywood's only roadmap going forward.
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Rough weekend for the movie biz...
Kung Fu Panda drops to 3rd place and makes $6.2 Million less than Bruce predicted.
Dune: Part 2 gets 2nd place and makes $3.3 Million less than Bruce predicted.
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Frozen Empire will give the market a boost this weekend, but it’ll need to top $40 million if we’re going to have a $100-million weekend overall.
It looks like Frozen Empire made over $45 Million, which is about $7 Million more than Bruce's model predicted.
Immaculate made about half a million more than the prediction.
Despite Ghostbusters doing better than the predictions, there's zero chance this is a $100 Million weekend.
While I don't expect a monster 70% drop for Ghostbusters next weekend or anything, 55% or more is very likely. Hollywood had better start putting out some decent flicks this year.
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$61,600,000 Opening Weekend Worldwide.
Bruce is doing his best to spin this like a top, but it will hardly matter.
Frozen Empire needed to post big international numbers like in the $45 to $60 Million range here if it was going to break even. It made $16.4 Million Internationally.
Even if it doubles that current number worldwide by the end of next weekend, which is entirely possible, that will leave it at $120 Million, which is still less than half of what it needs to break even on a $100 Million budget.
It looks like it's got a staggered opening internationally and will be released in places like Argentina and Japan next week, so it should get some needed help on boosting those numbers.
The only thing it really has going for it is that aside from the Godzilla and Kong trash movie Hollywood is putting out, it doesn't appear to have very much competition in the coming weeks. As mediocre as Frozen Empire appears to be, I doubt very much that anybody is going to be running out to see the racist remake of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter is Dead. But by that point nobody is really going to be going out to see Ghostbusters anymore either and we'll already know one way or another how much money this is going to lose.
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