Posted on 08/04/2014 10:20:44 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The director of Bridesmaids, The Heat, and the upcoming Melissa McCarthy/Jason Statham action comedy Spy just had to go and get Sony interested in a female-centric reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise (Variety).
Hollywood makes fewer smaller-scale releases for multiplex audiences, and the conventional wisdom is that the expensive films need white male leads to maximize worldwide box office potential.
We all saw as Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent ended up becoming one of the biggest grossing films of the year domestically ($234 million) and worldwide ($717m) following a year when the biggest film in America (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and worldwide (Frozen) were female-centric. Even Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy, written off after opening weekend as a flop, has earned four times its $20m budget domestically.
A gender-reversed Ghostbusters won’t just be more exciting and potentially more successful than a standard male-centric reboot with whatever big male comic stars will say yes. It’s also a small step in what can only be rightfully called a course correction, a rare chance for women (plural) to play in the now male-dominated big-budget fantasy sandbox.
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You kid, but...
Mel Brooks’ version is one of my favourite...
The agony booth has a porn critic that ripped the adult parody. There isn’t anything explicit shown. It mostly a British guy talking.
The agony booth makes fun of normal movies too. The one of the Cathy Lee Crosby as wonder woman is funny. Different critics.
The agony booth has a porn critic that ripped the adult parody. There isn’t anything explicit shown. It mostly a British guy talking.
The agony booth makes fun of normal movies too. The one of the Cathy Lee Crosby as wonder woman is funny. Different critics.
The agony booth has a porn critic that ripped the adult parody. There isn’t anything explicit shown. It mostly a British guy talking.
The agony booth makes fun of normal movies too. The one of the Cathy Lee Crosby as wonder woman is funny. Different critics.
I guess women can be just as pathetic as any man.
Hey quit being patriarchic, women can be more pathetic
than any man and look good while doing it...
Liberals think the stupidest freaking things are important.
Sadly probably true. Honestly, I think my favorite thing out of that movie that isn’t Sigourney Weaver-related is that it’s the last time the EPA was portrayed poorly in a movie.
x3!
That was actually my initial thought as well. The original had the guys get raped by those female ghosts. Which was pretty funny. Redoing the scene by reversing the genders? Not so much.
“I can drink more liqueur, and get sicker quicker.”
Annie Get Yer Gun.
Planned Parenthood?
true
Women have a very difficult time doing comedy, it always seems to descend into snark.
My wife and I like to watch Zooey Deschanel.
Robin Hood
I didn’t see the need for the /s tag. I don’t know about dozens but I bet there have been at least seven.
“Listen!!! Can you smell that?”
Wheat we need is another Godzilla remake. There hasn't been one of those in almost 6 months!
Or better yet, how (girl)Godzilla vs (girl)Planet of the Apes!
There IS another Godzilla movie in the works, it will have 3 monsters!
I think the line I use most is “I think he can hear you, Ray”.
Did they contact the owners of the contract of the original screenplay, first?
I’m not buying the movie tickets.
I’m not going to run to any downloadable video source at the corner drugstore.
I’m not purchasing the ‘digital’ recording, in either standard OR blugh ray format.
Once again, Hollywood cannot make a decent movie, without screwing up what was previously written as a book, or just to a screenplay.
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