pic courtesy of www.ghostbusters.com
pic courtesy of www.ghostbusters.com

Well this shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the trailer is officially the most disliked movie trailer in history on YouTube, and the horrendous reception of the  Fall Out Boy remake of the iconic Ghostbusters song, it looks like The Ghostbusters movie lost a ton of money.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie needed to earn $300 million worldwide in order to break even. As of August 7th, the film had earned “just under $180 million at the global box office, including $117 million domestic.” keep in mind the movie still hasn’t opened in France, Japan and Mexico, however experts say it will have trouble getting to $225 million despite a production budget of $144 million plus a big marketing spend.”

At one point Sony was even reportedly hoping to create a Ghostbusters universe.

According to The Hollywood Reporter:

“Sony won’t comment on whether it has banished a sequel to the netherworld, but perhaps tellingly, a rep says the studio actively is pursuing an animated Ghostbusters feature that could hit theaters in 2019 and an animated TV series, Ghostbusters: Ecto Force, which is eyeing an early 2018 bow. Both are being guided by Reitman, who firmly is back in charge of theGhostbusters empire via Ghost Corps., a subsidiary with a mandate to expand the brand across platforms. (It was former Sony film chief Amy Pascal who first embraced Feig’s vision for the live-action reboot, not Reitman or Rothman.)”.

I can’t say I’m surprised.

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