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Any updates on the Lesie front? Is she still loosing her shit?
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Sony Pictures has been an absolute trainwreck of a company over the last few years, if the e-mail leaks are any indication. This is a company that keeps pumping money into the wallet of Adam Sandler (his salary is, I believe, $20 million per movie) to release masterpieces like The Cobbler and Pixels.
They believed that Ghostbusters + Paul Feig (proven track record) = Gobs upon gobs of money. Unfortunately, it's not looking that way at all. As I said, it will be lucky to break even right now (which should be about double the budget of the film, maybe more, considering the marketing and merchandising blitz).
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In a perfect world, Ghostbusters 2016 would be the nail in the coffin for Feig's career. But that's pretty doubtful.
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Nahh, if you make one good movie early in your career, you can coast on it for decades; just ask Shyamalan. It's also why I'm pretty sure Harambe is gonna be fine for the most part.
Speaking of future dickings against this film and Sony's wallet though; Star Trek Beyond is probably gonna suck the oxygen out of its box office draw considering how good the film was (Gonna have to say it's the best of the three so far) and considering the theater I went to was half-packed for a morning matinee.
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And I'll bet at LEAST half of those ticket sales are because people want to go and see what all the fuss is about, not because they're really excited to see a remake of freaking Ghostbusters. (So maybe the "PR stunt" theory isn't too far-fetched.)
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It's beyond doubtful. Before Ghostbusters, Feig had a string of hits where he took about $140 million worth of production budgets and turned it into $750 million. That sort of performance would generate a lot of good will in and of itself, but Feig has demonstrated the ability to make all of that money off of segments of the audience a lot of studios had all but written off over the last fifteen years or so.
What's more likely is that executives will come to the conclusion that Feig doesn't have what it takes to do a conventional big-budget summer blockbuster.
It's not about good movies, it's about making money, and to be fair, most of Whattatweest's films have been solid earners. His two financial failures have been The Lady in the Water, which made back its production budget but didn't break even overall, and After Earth, which crashed and burned hard enough that it almost ended his career. But then he took a $5 million production budget and made $65 million, which will keep him in the business. (But don't bet on him doing another movie on the scale of The Last Airbender or After Earth.)
It's not just Star Trek: Beyond. Ghostbusters came in 5th last night, after (in order) Star Trek: Beyond, Lights Out (which is performing way better than expected), The Secret Life of Pets, and Ice Age: Collision Course. This weekend, there's something more appealing for almost every segment of the audience that might be interested in seeing Ghostbusters.
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Maybe, but I'm not so sure about that. If you live in a certain corner of the internet, it's easy to imagine that this has been a raging controversy, but I think for most people it has been more or less invisible.
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If you're a director who's made a well-regarded low-budget film, the first thing Hollywood wants to do is put you in charge of a blockbuster. That formula has brought us such timeless classics as David Lynch's Dune, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, Josh Trank's Fantastic 4, and now Paul Feig's Ghostbusters.
So it's not a career-killer, and it's not entirely his fault; they were asking him to work at a scale he wasn't used to. The question is whether or not he can be humble about it now, and I'm not optimistic.
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Now you have got me worried about Rian Johnson's Star Wars.
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Rian Johnson isn't starting from scratch like those others were. He's got an established story to work from, so it won't be quite the same.
Back on topic, when a director makes a big blockbuster and it flops they typically blame everyone except themselves, so I think it's very unlikely Feig will be humble about it, especially given his current behaviour.
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They kind of already did. Apparently, the Ghostbuster 2016 game is the canonical sequel to the movie. And according to a very angry mexican dude, it sucks just as bad.
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I doubt acting like a stereotypical black woman chimping out will interfere with her future roles as a stereotypical black woman chimping out.
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Impressive. The video's thumbnail both perfectly represents both the game and Buttblasted Jose.
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MY EYES!
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I know it makes me sound really superficial and shallow as a person, but god fucking damn, is there any fucking image where Leslie doesn't look like a special needs kid that has a habit of eating entire sacks of raw potatos with a pound of lard each day?MY EYES!
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Not really.
Does anyone else think of electroshock therapy when they see her selfies or is it just me?
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Feig said anyone who doesn't like this movie is a sexist and a Donald Trump supporter
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Actually, that was Judd Apatow.