The abominable “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” grossed $4.7 million in Thursday previews. This film is so bad, I still can’t grasp how the end result turned out this disastrously. Is it because Jason Reitman isn’t directing it?
Deadline is reporting that ‘Frozen Empire’ will require a lot of walk-up business to get to its targeted $44 million opening as presales from some exhibitors have been low. Overseas, the number are actually worse. ‘Ghostbusters’ was never as big a franchise internationally as it was domestically.
The budget for ‘Frozen Empire’ is said to be around $100 million. I don’t think we’ll be getting another ‘Ghostbusters’ movie after this one. Good riddance. I was never that big of a fan of the franchise — the 1984 original is passably watchable, but mostly because of Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray.
Jeremy Saulnier’s mysterious A24 project, formerly “October,” still has no release date. You’d think, given that it has been in post-production for almost a year now.