I think a lot of it was appearance fees for celebrity endorsements, that kinda thing. I mean they got Kobe Bryant to shoot a commercial.

Critics aren’t really relevant for genre movies, it’s more about branding and advertising. DC Comics is a much stronger brand than Ghostbusters.

Is it a spinoff? It seems more like a soft reboot. I’m thinking the all-male version is dead.

I think her version of a women-led Ghostbusters probably would’ve been better than Feig’s. Especially if she wrote it.

They’re singling them out because there was a series of high-profile cases, and a law that singles out malnutrition in vegetarian or vegan families makes it look like they’re doing something to target a specific social problem.

Nono, the rest of the 300 mill total they’re in the hole for was probably marketing.

Yeah, I’d forgotten about that. It’s almost like they were trying to bury it. Which wouldn’t surprise me considering how the studio’s treated the film since Amy Pascal left.

Here’s hoping Ocean’s 8 and Captain Marvel do well.

Yeah, I’m seeing her as like, a minor Duchess or something who bankrolls it because she’s bored.

If we’re talking serious guesses, I’m thinking she or Rhianna would be the money. Like Elliott Gould in the first film.

Barb is love, Barb is life.

I wasn’t angry until I read that Michael McIntyre performed at his birthday. You have that kind of budget, and you go for Michael fucking McIntyre?

It had a weak opening weekend, and the domestic box office dropped off quickly due to poor word of mouth. So in order to break even, it would have to be really successful internationally.

According to THR, the film itself cost $144 million, while the rest of the costs were marketing.

It’s a comedy about a group of highschool boys who start an ‘Earth Defense Club’ at their school so they can be in a club with no duties, only for a goofy magical girl-parody storyline to play out.

That’s a bit of an oversimplification, especially since a lot of them are probably just in it in order to use the group’s power in order to advance their own careers rather than for ideological reasons.

She’s a member of a sinister cult that wants to eliminate human rights, roll back the role of women to where it was in the nineteenth century, and end Japan’s postwar policy of international pacifism.

Inviting comparison to Bette Midler is a terrible idea, even if you are Idina Menzel.

What ho, Maxine, old chum!