worldwide gross 173 Million - Very disappointing
By comparison No Time to Die grossed 800 million.
Disappointing for whom??
It will make money in the end, plus the dvd and blu-ray sales.
And apparently a sequel is planned so I guess was not that disappointing for Sony ...
It cost 75 million to make while 2016 cost 144 million, but with marketing and other costs 2016 needed 300 million to break even and half a billion to be considered a success.
Afterlife will probably make even more money on streaming etc.
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Yeah, I think releasing things in theaters around holidays doesn't make sense with covid going around. People are already paranoid about family get togethers. I think this is going crush it streaming.
shareFans excitement over the movie and its small commercial success shows the franchise still has interest, but as mentioned in another thread the film felt like a third movie had to have been made years to create a sufficiently large franchise, there's a reason why it's just 184 million worldwide during the pandemic with just going to theaters, if it came out just before the pandemic maybe, Spiderman No Way Home is already breaking box office records during the pandemic because Spiderman is a more established franchise in worldwide terms.
shareSpider-man and Ghostbusters aren't even in the same league, agreed. Don't overlook SM attachment to the MCU has a huge boost too, but yeah, he's iconic in so many ways. Ghostbusters is a pretty isolated IP, but this was actually a pretty good movie, so I think the streaming will reflect positive word of mouth. I also think the 2016 Ghostbusters put a bad taste in everyone's mouth, and people were reluctant to give money to a perceived dying franchise.
shareThey've been movies that have done better on streaming than in cinemas during the pandemic, streaming is becoming the new China where most movies did better there, Mortal Kombat has done better on HBO Max than it did in theatres.
shareSo it made 173 million from a source thats less than a third of the income. The other two thirds (streaming and syndication) made unknown amount of money because thats secret nowadays. Lets give the box office a very optimistic view and say that the other two will gross only as much - thats 173 *3 = 519 mil. Success.
shareI bet they will string along the idea of a sequel for 6 months and then quietly drop it. The film made its money back, but a sequel would make much less than this one did. It would not have the reboot/remake gimmick "even this one was the second reboot", the original cast won't be in it and if they were no one would really care for a 2 minute cameo, and the kid ghostbusters didn't really work/draw a crowd.
They were expecting franchise making numbers with this film and it did not happen. They will wait a few years and then do another reboot with an older group of guys from whatever is trending at the time.