Movie Ghostbusters 3

[bourbons]

Interesting points mate... then you get an anomily like Dead Pool ( R rated ) spin off, 708 million... GB3 really annoyed me for some reason...

Yep Deadpool was definitely an exception to the rule, but even on that they kinda hedged their bets - reported budget of 58 million, which is really not much these days especially compared to other super hero stuff. Would love to know what the last R rated release was with a budget of 100 million or more, actually it has probably never happened. Disappointed Guillermo del Toro's adaption of Mountains of Madness never got off the ground, that could have given it a real shake.

Anyway, hope Deadpool's success encourages more risks on R rated adult-focussed stuff. Doesn't guarantee a better movie than your typical PG-13 blockbuster of course but there's just so much of that stuff now it's nice to have an occasional alternative.

 

[bourbons]

Who said it was purely a comedy. It's not even remotely.

Of course it is. But it's also so much more, real hybrid of a movie, has probably never been done as successfully since.

 

[jess_1804]

Saw it today. Went in with pretty low expectations, so I think that helped. Not a great movie, just a bit of dumb fun really. I have developed an unhealthy girl crush on Kate McKinnon though

 

[edgie]

... Would love to know what the last R rated release was with a budget of 100 million or more, actually it has probably never happened. ...

Kingsman came close with a 94 million budget and made a tick over 400 million.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

I thought the film really relied on McCarthy & Wigg to carry it, with several weak spots dragging the movie down. Overall it was enjoyable for what it was, but not a comedic classic in it's own right. Ok for a bit of mindless entertainment, but forgettable.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Watched Ghostbusters 2 last night. Some good moments from Murray and Ramis but the new one is better.

 

[King Elvis]

$60M away from break even?

 

[Catastic82]

$60M away from break even?

Is that possible ? Would they still make a sequel if they break even?

 

[Catfish Alley]

It had a pretty strong opening weekend and was only beaten by Life of Pets. I reckon they'll make a sequel. They'll need a stronger villain.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

$60M away from break even?

Add in advertsing costs it is 160 million away at minimum.

This has been a failure on every level and a reason why pandering to feminists, cucked males and sjws is never a good idea.

Sony has pissed away a guaranteed money maker.

 

[Catastic82]

Sony has pissed away a guaranteed money maker.

They have a habit of doing that

 

[FootyJunkie]

Post credits scene suggests a sequel

 

[pantskyle]

Add in advertsing costs it is 160 million away at minimum.

This has been a failure on every level and a reason why pandering to feminists, cucked males and sjws is never a good idea.

Sony has pissed away a guaranteed money maker.

They mentioned ages ago that this movie was just one part of the new planned universe, the next one will like be an male cast or preferably a mix. It'll not be rammed down our throats by Feige, instead a better director will make it and it'll instantly look better and will save the franchise.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Add in advertsing costs it is 160 million away at minimum.

This has been a failure on every level and a reason why pandering to feminists, cucked males and sjws is never a good idea.

Sony has pissed away a guaranteed money maker.

Based on the strength of the trailer I reckon we can assume they cheaped out on the advertising.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Don't think the cast was the biggest issue with this movie. More the direction and a few weak links. Actually, probably the male actors to be honest. If they do a sequel, Hemsworth character should be toned down. A stronger villain would be good. Was talking about this yesterday and thought somebody like Waltz could suit it.

 

[edgie]

Lol, nothing in more flexible in Hollywood than advertising and marketing costs.

They'll bend the figure to suit their agenda, a success or a failure (but not too much of a success).

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[Always Ballin]

73% on RT.. Huge success.

"One of the funniest things about Paul Feig’s all-female remake of the 1984 Ivan Reitman comedy Ghostbusters is the gulf between the acrid reception the new film has received in some quarters—mainly the airless lairs of hardcore fanboys of the original, irked that a classic of their childhood has been slimed by the presence of women—and the unassuming, fizzy lightness of the movie itself. This new Ghostbusters couldn’t be less interested in advancing an ideological agenda or subverting the previous incarnation (to which, indeed, Feig pays loving tribute, with cameos from all the original’s surviving leads and a prominently placed bronze bust of the late Harold Ramis, who died in 2014). The only agenda Feig, his co-screenwriter Katie Dippold, and his four female leads have is to provoke a steady stream of giggles, punctuated by the occasional scream. In the words of the classic Ray Parker Jr. theme song (here delivered in a just-OK cover version by Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott), busting makes them feel good, and us along with them.

Kristen Wiig plays Erin Gilbert, a Columbia physics professor on the verge of tenure who’s mortified when a book she co-wrote long ago on the existence of paranormal phenomena shows up for sale online. Suspecting the book’s sudden reappearance has to do with her co-author and estranged friend Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), Erin seeks Abby out in the tricked-out mad-science lab her old pal now shares with a new partner, an eccentric tech whiz named Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon). Abby agrees to take the remaining copies of their book off the market on the condition that Erin accompany them to a historic New York mansion that’s reputed to be haunted. Their visit provides the first big ghostly set piece, in which the spirit of a turn-of-the-century murderess returns to hover menacingly above them, then vanishes, but not before drenching the prim Erin in a torrent of ectoplasmic green slime.

In their initial glee on finding their paranormal theories vindicated, the three women exit the mansion squealing “Ghosts are REAL!” Naturally, the homemade video of their reaction finds its way onto YouTube, and like her predecessors in the firstGhostbusters, Erin is kicked out of her swank Columbia professorship and forced to hang out a shingle as a freelance ‘buster. She, Abby, and Jillian set up a business together, based not in a dilapidated firehouse this time but above a dumpy Chinese takeout joint (it skimps on the wontons in Abby’s wonton soup). Despite the scorn of a professional debunker played, in a disappointingly wisecrack-free cameo, by Bill Murray, the women remain convinced that all signs point toward an unprecedented convergence of supernatural beings on New York City. This suspicion is confirmed when an MTA worker named Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones) shows up with the story of a glowing blue wraith that’s been chasing her through subway tunnels. Patty also happens to be a student of New York history whose knowledge of the city’s past proves a key asset, and before long she’s joined the crew as the fourth ‘buster, even providing them with a vehicle—her uncle’s hearse, soon to be tricked out in familiar ghoul-chasing style.

When the fearsome foursome show up for the first time in full battle gear—striped jumpsuits, proton blasters, and all—there’s a thrill in seeing an action-movie team made up not only of women, but of women who fall blissfully outside the narrow definition of the Hollywood hottie. As director Feig has pointed out, three of the four leads are in their 40s. Two, McCarthy and Jones, are big women whose body types are seldom seen on-screen at all, much less in action-hero roles. Another, Wiig, is an offbeat, scrawny type whose unglamorous nature is played up here by her extra-mousy costumes. Even McKinnon—at 32, the potential blond bombshell among the four—so completely inhabits her getup of yellow-tinted lab goggles, paint-stained coveralls, and Einsteinian tufts of hair that you never get the sense she’s being positioned as “the pretty one.” (The stereotype is punctured also by the fact that McKinnon, and possibly her character, are gay.)

The setup drags a bit on its way to a pair of big final action sequences, during which the evil machinations of a power-hungry nerd (Neil Casey) cause all manner of undead spirits, including an eerie parade-balloon version of the famed Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, to be released upon the city. But as with the original, the laughs come in the small character moments: McKinnon’s Jillian releasing unhinged cackles of pleasure as she tests the destructive power of her latest proton-blasting device, or the hapless longing with which Wiig’s socially awkward Erin pines after the ‘busters’ dense but hunky office secretary (The Avengers’ Chris Hemsworth, deploying his comic chops with as much deftness as Thor ever wielded his mighty hammer).

Storywise, this new Ghostbusters matches the first one nearly beat for beat, minus a romantic subplot and plus a significantly increased special-effects budget. But the real reason to see it—as was the case with the original, and with the past two Feig/McCarthy collaborations, Bridesmaidsand Spy—has to do with the universally excellent cast who establish an easy tone of camaraderie and loopy banter. These women are having fun just being together and getting to don matching jumpsuits and whale on undead spirits, and their evident joy makes us happy to hop in the hearse for a ride-along. Midway through the movie, checking the comments on one of their YouTube postings (always a mistake), one of the ‘busters reads aloud to the others: “Ain’t no bitches gonna bust no ghosts.”Ghostbusters refutes that sexist sentiment not by hopping on a feminist soapbox to fulminate against the haters, but by strapping on a proton pack and taking care of business."

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2016/07/ghostbusters_2016_remake_reviewed.html

 

[pantskyle]

Not sure how you can call it a success when it has basically bomb at the box office.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

They mentioned ages ago that this movie was just one part of the new planned universe, the next one will like be an male cast or preferably a mix. It'll not be rammed down our throats by Feige, instead a better director will make it and it'll instantly look better and will save the franchise.

why would you reboot the sequel and then change the cast?

I haven't seen the film because i can't stand any of Paul figs movies, but surely changing the cast will risk pissing off the people who actually liked this film, whilst everyone else will be more apprehensive towards seeing the next one with or without casting changes.

i mean i knew this film would be crap, the deliberately shitty CGI used in a failed attempt to get access to the Chinese market. McCarthy playing her usual obnoxious self and the complete meltdown from sony and feig when people finally realised feigs idea of comedic gold is post 90's adam sandler flicks.

and yet despite the fact one of the cast members and the director are the main reasons i won't even pirate this film, i still have absolutely zero hope that the franchise can be saved at this point.

 

[pantskyle]

why would you reboot the sequel and then change the cast?

I haven't seen the film because i can't stand any of Paul figs movies, but surely changing the cast will risk pissing off the people who actually liked this film, whilst everyone else will be more apprehensive towards seeing the next one with or without casting changes.

i mean i knew this film would be crap, the deliberately shitty CGI used in a failed attempt to get access to the Chinese market. McCarthy playing her usual obnoxious self and the complete meltdown from sony and feig when people finally realised feigs idea of comedic gold is post 90's adam sandler flicks.

and yet despite the fact one of the cast members and the director the main reasons i won't even pirate this film, i still have absolutely zero hope that the franchise can be saved at this point.

No idea, it's just what they announced when this cast was announced.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

No idea, it's just what they announced when this cast was announced.

oh i know they plan to make it some sort of "universe" but surely they'll back in the talent at least. axing feig can only be a good thing, but surely you back the cast?

i mean how can you create a ghostbuster universe without the actual ghostbusters? in this Universe McKinnon, McCarthy, Jones and Wiig are the ghostbusters. changing that up would basically require either killing them off (thus taking the film in a serious and more mature direction they clearly have no intention of doing) or hamfisted excuses to explain the absence of characters like so many failed cash in sequels (which usually kills the films rather then making them better) its not like the ghostbusters are a small part of a larger IP, they are the IP, it would be like james bond film, without everybody's favorite MI6 agent.

 

[pantskyle]

oh i know they plan to make it some sort of "universe" but surely they'll back in the talent at least. axing feig can only be a good thing, but surely you back the cast?

i mean how can you create a ghostbuster universe without the actual ghostbusters? in this Universe McKinnon, McCarthy, Jones and Wiig are the ghostbusters. changing that up would basically require either killing them off (thus taking the film in a serious and more mature direction they clearly have no intention of doing) or hamfisted excuses to explain the absence of characters like so many failed cash in sequels (which usually kills the films rather then making them better) its not like the ghostbusters are a small part of a larger IP, they are the IP, it would be like james bond film, without everybody's favorite MI6 agent.

I don't think they intend to change the cast, just would do a spin off with a different cast set somewhere else I suppose. Would likely crossover.

Probably unlikely now that this movie bombed.

 

[bourbons]

The idea of a Ghostbusters 'cinematic universe' is one of the most stupid I've ever heard

 

[pantskyle]

The idea of a Ghostbusters 'cinematic universe' is one of the most stupid I've ever heard

#HighHopes