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Why A Girl-Powered 'Ghostbusters' Matters
forbes ^ | 8-4-2014 | Scott Mendelson

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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Who's gonna get slimed?
1 posted on 08/04/2014 10:20:44 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

I’ll be brief. No.


2 posted on 08/04/2014 10:21:42 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Citizen Zed

the first GB was great, the second lame...i fear for a third


3 posted on 08/04/2014 10:22:17 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Citizen Zed

Why not call it something else? Why must it be called “Ghostbusters”?

Then how about “Ghostbusters Generation 2”


4 posted on 08/04/2014 10:23:08 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Citizen Zed

Probably be as successful as women’s basketball.

Go for it


5 posted on 08/04/2014 10:25:38 AM PDT by chesley
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To: Citizen Zed

Nobody respects copycats...lol


6 posted on 08/04/2014 10:26:35 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Citizen Zed

I am tired of the Reboot fetish. Yes, Hollywood has been making remakes of movies since the beginning of the motion picture industry, but it seems that what we get are more and more “reboots.” Why not try something altogether new?


7 posted on 08/04/2014 10:27:42 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GeronL

How about...

Poltergeist Patrol!


8 posted on 08/04/2014 10:29:16 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Citizen Zed

9 posted on 08/04/2014 10:29:39 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Citizen Zed

How will they destroy the ghosts and monsters? By nagging them?


10 posted on 08/04/2014 10:29:49 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Orwell's writings were meant as warnings, but to the left they are instruction manuals.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I thought these broads didn’t like being called girls?

Count me out. I loved the original, but that’s it.


11 posted on 08/04/2014 10:30:13 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Army Air Corps

Hollywood, as with all liberals has run out of original ideas.


12 posted on 08/04/2014 10:31:00 AM PDT by Patriot365
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Good grief. This is stupid.


13 posted on 08/04/2014 10:31:37 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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How will they destroy the ghosts and monsters? By nagging them?

Melissa McCarthy could eat them.

14 posted on 08/04/2014 10:31:49 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: GraceG

One of them will end up having sex with a ghost.

We all know this.

Hollyweird.


15 posted on 08/04/2014 10:34:56 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s going from Ghostbusters to Ballbusters.


16 posted on 08/04/2014 10:36:46 AM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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To: GeronL

[ One of them will end up having sex with a ghost.

We all know this.

Hollyweird. ]

I thought they already did that in Ghost....


17 posted on 08/04/2014 10:42:28 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: GeronL

“One of them will end up having sex with a ghost.”

Hey, that was the best episode of Baywatch, ever.

Haunted Hotel Del Coronado and blond bimbos. Fantastic TV!


18 posted on 08/04/2014 10:46:24 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Citizen Zed

The male Ghost Busters were comically pathetic. I guess women can be just as pathetic as any man.


19 posted on 08/04/2014 10:48:28 AM PDT by DManA
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To: RightGeek

Bingo !!!!


20 posted on 08/04/2014 10:52:30 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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