Made for $75 million, the film has earned $203.2 million domestically in two weeks.
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After months of debate, Sony Picture’s “Ghostbusters” reboot arrived in theaters as neither a massive success nor the bomb some predicted, opening with an estimated $46 million in North American theaters, second to holdover “The Secret Life of Pets“.
This weekend revenue of “The Secret Life Of Pets” showed a 51.5 percent drop from last weekend. Having said that, Ghostbusters hasn’t done too badly… people seem to love it – just not enough for it to have topped the weekend.
The audience for the film skewed female, with women making up 54 percent of ticket buyers.
Ghostbusters, though, has been weathering Internet backlash for updating the 1984 classic, and some bloggers and fanboys took offense to the reboot becoming a female-centric affair starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon.
While the company is trumpeting what it sees as a very successful opening weekend, some analysts believe Sony is overselling the success of this new “franchise jumpstarter”.
Down one place, “The Legend Of Tarzan” takes #3 with $11.1 million. It cost more than $140 million to make the film. The Infiltrator is based on the true story of Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston), a federal customs and excise agent who lived the high life of Colombia’s most powerful cartels while using his undercover alias “Bob Musella”, all the while recording damning evidence that culminated in a major takedown at a staged wedding. Woody Allen’s 1930s Hollywood drama “Cafe Society” opened in limited release with $355,000 in five theaters.
The film will also face plenty of competition next weekend when three new wide releases hit: 20th Century Fox’s animated Ice Age: Collisions Course, New Line’s horror flick Lights Out and Star Trek Beyond, which early tracking suggests could open to around million.
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The bottom line is that Ghostbusters will need to pull out a strong showing at the worldwide box office to be considered a hit, which will be tough to do.
