The Ghostbusters Thread (Old, New, Animated, Whatever)

PS1gamenwatch said:
https://www.slashfilm.com/ghostbusters-reboot-sequel-paul-feig/


Paul Feig Still Wants a ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Sequel
Posted on Monday, April 30th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista




Paul Feig‘s Ghostbusters reboot was a lot of fun, even though some people got very Mad Online™ about the whole endeavor. Sony was hoping the reboot would launch a whole new franchise, but not-so-great box office seems to have killed that. Still, Feig says he’s definitely open to directing a Ghostbusters reboot sequel should Sony give the idea the go-ahead.


I really enjoyed Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot. Sure, it was nowhere near as good as the original, but it was a funny, entertaining film featuring a compelling cast (especially Kate McKinnon). Feig’s film ends with a post-credit scene that teases a possible sequel, but the sequel never materialized. Sony’s dreams for a new franchise were essentially busted after Feig’s reboot failed to do the mammoth box office numbers the studio had been hoping for. So will we ever see a Ghostbusters sequel? Who knows! According to Paul Feig, that’s really up to the studio. But should they require his services for Ghostbusters 2, he’s more than ready to answer the call. Speaking with Yahoo! Movies, Feig said:

“We would love to; it’s really up to the studio to want to do it. We had so much fun making that movie. The movie’s just really built an audience in the two years since it’s been out. I get contacted every day by people who are such fans of it, and so many women who are inspired by seeing women in science. I will go to my grave so proud of that movie, and so proud of what that cast did in that film.”

In case you’ve forgotten, Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot updated the story to the present day, and focused on a team of female ghost hunters instead of male. For some reason, many, many people online were upset about this, and launched an angry backlash campaign against the film. Despite this backlash, the film wasn’t an outright flop. It took in a worldwide total of $229,147,509, per Box Office Mojo. But Sony, who spent a reported $144 million on the film, had hoped for a lot more.

Feig has commented on the film and its surprising backlash multiple times in the past. “It was a great regret in my life that the movie didn’t do better, ’cause I really loved it,” he previously said. “It’s not a perfect movie. None of my movies are perfect. I liked what we were doing with it. It was only supposed to be there to entertain people.”

The filmmaker has also previously expressed similar hopes for a sequel, saying in November 2016:

“That’s up to the studio because they have to pay for it. Nobody’s called me. But I love those characters and I know they are now heroes and mean a lot to a lot of people, so in a perfect world it would be great if we could see them bust more ghosts, kick more ass, and be awesome again.”
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Funny, cause I remember he said before he never wanted to do a reboot movie again.

Also this article is such pandering crap.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Despite this backlash, the film wasn’t an outright flop. It took in a worldwide total of $229,147,509, per Box Office Mojo. But Sony, who spent a reported $144 million on the film, had hoped for a lot more.
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Except it was an outright flop.

Studios only get ~ 50% of the domestic gross from movies and a variable number from 25% to 33% of the gross in the rest of the world. Venues and distributors don't work for free. Plus, the "$144 million" mentioned above is the PRODUCTION budget. This includes no marketing and promotion. The number usually used from advertising and promotion is 75% to 100% of production costs.

Using some very optimistic numbers, Sony took in $100 million for movie that cost them $250 million to produce, distribute and market.

Would love to see how Hollywood Reporter calculated their $70 million dollar loss, since that number seems far too low. But even if that's the right number, it is still a bomb. Possibly it includes merchandise, streaming and DVDs, but the article wasn't clear.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Paul Feig‘s Ghostbusters reboot was a lot of fun
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It's okay, you can stop repeating this now. The movie was a flop that most people hated. You can stop saying you thought it was "kind of fun" any time.

Seriously you can imagine these guys in a living room decked out in posters and toys from the movie, bleating on about how "The fembustahs will answah the call agin!"

Yes, I'm comparing them to neo-confederates.

BrunoMattei said:
Put Adam Sandler in it and have him play a transgender Ghostbuster.
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Jack and Jill 2/Ghostbusters 2 in ONE FILM!

SOLD!
 
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Here's an article from 2016 that didn't age very well... 8)

Sorry, Haters: GhostbustersProducer Says the New Franchise Will Be “Endless”

WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
Sorry, Haters: GhostbustersProducer Says the New Franchise Will Be “Endless”
Start nursing those ruined childhoods now.
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JULY 11, 2016 8:49 AM
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Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment.


The new Ghostbusters movie premieres this week, and so far, its future is looking good. Social media buzz has been building as reviews—many of them positive—rolled out Sunday afternoon. And for her part, the movie’s producer Amy Pascal is feeling very confident.

“I have waited for this moment for a year!” Pascal told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles Saturday. “It’s going to be endless. People are going to love this movie so much that’s they’re going to demand more and more.”

Hear that? Endless! If Pascal's prediction turns out to be true, it’ll no doubt be a huge blow to the Ghostbusters fans (read: man babies) who have been trashing the film and its very existence from the word “go.”

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Despite those premature misgivings, reviews for the film have been largely positive, albeit mixed. The laudatory notices have praised not only the easy manner in which the movie treats its female leads (there are no heavy-handed “messages” here) but the way it allows all four women’s distinct comic sensibilities to shine. Of course, it’s also drawn criticism; some reviewers, including Vanity Fair’s own Richard Lawson, found the movie stiffer than they would have hoped, and thought it seemed too focused on callbacks to the original film.

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What does this debate look like in numbers? The film is sitting on a solid Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 78 percent right now, as well as a 63 on the more calibrated Metacritic. Can those scores compare to what the original garnered? Unsurprisingly, not at all—but the movie is performing a lot better so far than Ghostbusters II did with critics back in 1989.

So, could this new franchise actually be endless? Only time will tell. But if I had to take a guess, I’d advise the haters to start nursing their apparently very fragile childhoods now.
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Nekromantik said:
My mother rented this when it came out on Direct TV. She said she stopped it half way and called the cable company to say the download didn't work so she could get a refund. That was all she would tell me about it.
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I signed up for the Disney Movies Anywhere app and it was free with signing up. I still haven’t downloaded or watched it.

I was kind of offended I couldn’t refuse it.
 
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https://www.cbr.com/paul-feig-shocked-clinton-campaign/

He is actually comparing the reception of the film to Hillary Clinton’s campaign reception.

The film garnered only $229mil, and considering the budget was about $150mil and at least double that amount for marketing and promotion, and the film cost around $300mil-$400mil to make. That is an absolute failure.

The funniest part is that he still cries misogyny instead of looking at the film from an outsiders perspective. In my opinion, the film wasn’t good. The personalities of the four Ghostbusters was boiled down and stripped of what made them great, for example, Egon went from a brilliant yet eccentric scientist who considers all things logically to basically shouting, “hey! Look at this wacky person! Isn’t Egon so weird?!”

RedLetterMedia did a fantastic job debunking the misogynistic reception in one of their videos with Scientist Man (seen below).

So, thoughts on why Feig still continues to beat a dead horse, even after people stopped talking about the film?
 
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