✨ Celebrity Leslie Jones

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Lurker said:
Nah, she ain't getting banned. At worst, maybe suspended, but even then I highly doubt that'll happen, since she's a woman of color and all. And, I mean... in Twitter's defense, Milo has been suspended god knows how many times. They were just waiting for him to fuck up again. Although what Milo said to Jones was pretty fucking tame compared to what the trolls said, and I do not agree that he should have been banned because of his comments towards Jones.
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She could say Hitler was right about the Jews and tweet 100 times a day about how she wants to kill them all and being black would guarantee Twitter wouldn't do shit.
 
Von Clausewitz said:
In other words, I think the movie will barely brake even.
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In order to break even, a film has to make back not only its production budget, but also its marketing budget. Its production budget was $150 million. Studios are notorious for keeping their marketing budgets secret, but most estimates I've seen put it at upwards of $100 million. A few days ago, Variety reported that insiders are saying the film will need to make over $300 million to actually break even.

Ghostbusters underperformed on a weekend when it faced no other major new releases. Going into its second weekend, it'll be going up against new films in the Star Trek and Ice Age franchises, and Lights Out, which has been going stronger than anyone predicted.

It might make back what it cost to make and market eventually, but it probably won't do so during its theatrical release.
 
neverendingmidi said:
Given that supposedly they've already greenlit a sequel, I see them doubling down on the :autism:
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I'm sure that bleeding money in that fashion will go splendidly for them.

Also, fucking called it.
 
neverendingmidi said:
Given that supposedly they've already greenlit a sequel, I see them doubling down on the :autism:
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I'm waiting for the headline where sony says the new ghostbusters sequel was threatened due to ISIS talking about how they will use the power of Gamergate and Kiwi Farms to destroy the new movie studio for women and blacks
 
vertexwindi said:
You think this will make companies realize SJW faggotry does not, in fact, sell?
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I don't know. Hollywood is pretty notorious for learning the wrong lesson from stuff like this. Back in the 2000s, Hollywood released a string of left-wing anti-war films that flopped miserably. The lesson Hollywood took from that was that audiences didn't want to see war movies set in Iraq or Afghanistan, not that audiences didn't want to see left-wing anti-war films.

Still, Hollywood is superstitious and really risk averse in a lot of ways, so who knows.
 
Skelter Helter said:
I don't know. Hollywood is pretty notorious for learning the wrong lesson from stuff like this. Back in the 2000s, Hollywood released a string of left-wing anti-war films that flopped miserably. The lesson Hollywood took from that was that audiences didn't want to see war movies set in Iraq or Afghanistan, not that audiences didn't want to see left-wing anti-war films.

Still, Hollywood is superstitious and really risk averse in a lot of ways, so who knows.
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there's a difference between a string of companies thinking their shit don't smell and they got the midas touch
and a single company watching their big movie not making profit but making a sequel because....?
 
vertexwindi said:
You think this will make companies realize SJW faggotry does not, in fact, sell?
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Being proven horribly wrong doesn't stop people like this; it just makes them repeat the same disproven bullshit since dealing with the truth hurts their ego too much.

Either way, I wonder how many more times Sony will decide to throw money down a hole before they realize it's not working? Will it be when they go for Chapter 11?
 
Adamska said:
Being proven horribly wrong doesn't stop people like this; it just makes them repeat the same disproven bullshit since dealing with the truth hurts their ego too much.

Either way, I wonder how many more times Sony will decide to throw money down a hole before they realize it's not working? Will it be when they go for Chapter 11?
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Sony is a massive company and Ghostbusters' losses are a drop in the bucket. They've made their budget backs on a lot of other movies and they're not gonna hemorrhage to death anytime soon. They can afford to keep milking this franchise for those cheap social justice points.
 
Of course, you have a right to be a bigot. You don't have not to be CALLED out for being a bigot. (I hate when people say all kinds of stupid shit, and then get all butthurt when people call them on it. "How DARE you call me a racist!!! You have to tolerate my intolerance!!!!") So technically, both sides were exercising their rights. There's no law against stupidity. (And thank god, or this site wouldn't exist)

Replicant Sasquatch said:
"Traumatic" is a beloved SJWism in the same vein as "problematic". Both words lost all meaning years ago, when they became code for "thing I do not like".
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"Traumatic" cracked me up. Annoying, perhaps.

One of the local rags described Ghostbusters as:
However, if you’re looking for some mindless entertainment in an air-conditioned room, a two-hour respite from smart-phone notifications endlessly chirping out news of fresh real-life horrors, the new Ghostbusters should fit the bill. It’s not a great movie (neither was the original, in my opinion), but it’s amusing in a low-impact, silly way, mostly due to the charisma of its actors (ditto, the original).
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As I said before: your typical summer popcorn movie. Which is what made the fuss so stupid in the first place.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
Sony is a massive company and Ghostbusters' losses are a drop in the bucket. They've made their budget backs on a lot of other movies and they're not gonna hemorrhage to death anytime soon. They can afford to keep milking this franchise for those cheap social justice points.
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People are even more turned off from the series after seeing the new movie and deciding it was shit.

What's the point of making a sequel which is guaranteed to sell even less?
 
The Grimace said:
People are even more turned off from the series after seeing the new movie and deciding it was shit.

What's the point of making a sequel which is guaranteed to sell even less?
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It makes the studio look progressive, which in their mind translates to better public image.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
It makes the studio look progressive, which in their mind translates to better public image.
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Seems to me there'd be cheaper ways to do that. Drama films with minimal budgets that can be shot in Toronto to avoid taxes, shit like that.

Also the thing they can't seem to realize is that there's no point increasing your public image with people who don't spend their money on anything but hair dye and thick-rimmed glasses.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
Sony is a massive company and Ghostbusters' losses are a drop in the bucket. They've made their budget backs on a lot of other movies and they're not gonna hemorrhage to death anytime soon. They can afford to keep milking this franchise for those cheap social justice points.
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Sony has actually been doing pretty poorly over the last couple of years. They've had a lot of mid-level bombs like The Interview and The Brothers Grimsby, and last summer their attempt at a big-budget summer blockbuster was Pixels, which crashed and burned. It's no secret that since the collapse of the cinematic universe they were looking to build around The Amazing Spider-Man (they canceled two sequels and two spin-off films), they've been desperate for a major franchise that can put asses in seats in the summer and move toys and other merchandise.

Sony didn't make Ghostbusters their big summer release because that approximately $300 million is a drop in the bucket for them and they wanted some cheap social justice points. They pumped that money into Ghostbusters because they wanted to make a lot of money. Paul Feig's Bridesmaids (starring Melissa McCarthy) pulled in almost $300 million against a $30 million production budget, his film The Heat (also starring Melissa McCarthy) pulled in $230 million against a $45 million production budget, and his film Spy (also starring Melissa McCarthy) pulled in $235 million against a $65 million production budget.

I guarantee that, to executives, handing a beloved but stalled franchise over to Feig with McCarthy and one of her Bridesmaids co-stars attached seemed like a really safe bet. They were expecting a film that would pull in $400-600 million, kick off a franchise, and sell toys and other merchandise.

Whatever they end up getting when the dust settles, it's clear that they're not getting that.

It's extremely unlikely that Ghostbusters will get a sequel. Yeah, I know that an executive said that they would definitely do a sequel, but that was before the opening weekend totals were even in, and what would people expect a Sony executive to say during opening weekend? "Well, the numbers aren't in yet, but the opening looks pretty soft, so we're just going to cancel the franchise and call the whole thing off. Back to the drawing board, I guess."

Nobody associated with the film or studio is going to say something like that. That's ridiculous.

Remember last year when The Fantastic Four flopped so hard that the director sabotaged his own career by blaming the studio? The sequel had been greenlit before the release of the film, and while the film was in theaters, Fox insisted they were going ahead with the sequel. In fact, the sequel stayed on the release schedule for several months, until around the time the first film came out on home video.
 
Skelter Helter said:
I guarantee that, to executives, handing a beloved but stalled franchise over to Feig with McCarthy and one of her Bridesmaids co-stars attached seemed like a really safe bet. They were expecting a film that would pull in $400-600 million, kick off a franchise, and sell toys and other merchandise.
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Instead they got a screaming asshole insulting the very people they wanted to sell tickets to, a shit movie, and no excuse for it.
 
AnOminous said:
Instead they got a screaming asshole insulting the very people they wanted to sell tickets to, a shit movie, and no excuse for it.
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Don't forget coming in second in an effectively dead field. Seriously, this is incompetence on par with Mighty Waste of Time, and I love as they slowly deny/deal with the reality.
 
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