Didn't see a thread and this may or not be old news but this popped on my twitter feed recently
Report: Jonah Hill and Emma Stone offered Ghostbusters 3
Report: Jonah Hill and Emma Stone offered Ghostbusters 3
Ghostbusters : Afterlife
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Title: Ghostbusters III (2020)
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy
Director: Jason Reitman
Release: 2020-07-10
Plot: A third entry in the original "Ghostbusters" series, focusing on four teenagers: two boys and two girls. Plot unknown.
Title: Ghostbusters 3
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy
Director: Jason Reitman
Release: 2020-07-10
Plot: A third entry in the original "Ghostbusters" series, focusing on four teenagers: two boys and two girls. Plot unknown.
Title: Ghostbusters 3
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy
Director: Jason Reitman
Release: 2020-06-30
Plot: A third entry in the original "Ghostbusters" series, focusing on four teenagers: two boys and two girls. Plot unknown.
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Havent see as many remakes, but sequels are on full steam it seems.
Seems like the focus of Hollywood is shifting from the one movie to the potentialy longer storyline.
Seems like the focus of Hollywood is shifting from the one movie to the potentialy longer storyline.
This wouldnt be a bad thing if we actually got stories worth a damn instead of the shit they constantly put out nowadays.
Lotr trilogy was amazing, marvel movie universe is done right, and a few others have made decent sequals and such. However we tend to get sequals and series that dont deserve it. Grown Ups 2? Star Wars prequals? Ghostbusters with no original cast and Jonah hill? Hollywood is in a pretty sorry state where they value making easy sequals and having a massive merchandising option than to risk making a truly spectacular movie that may or may not be considered a flop.
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this year was a massive failure for hollywood, the worst part is most of those flops were original films. world war z and elysium anyone? lone ranger was a reboot but they rebooted a franchise from 30 years ago, which bombed back then too. sequels are a safer bet, so dont expect those to go away, the original flicks are in danger. biggest bomb of 2012 was john carter and that was original
WWZ ? lone ranger ? john carter ?
they bombed because they are shitty movies, not because they are original
the solution to this situation is to...guess what ?....stop doing shitty movies!
but asking that to hollywood is like asking Lumie to be sane
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my point was they are still making original films but they are bombing, either because the studios dont know how to make great original films anymore or the great directors are too busy making sequels. i think its because studios think shiny things first and story second. these budgets are so fucking overblown because of needless CGI that most are doomed to fail before they ever get released. did anyone expect after earth to be anything but a pile of shit?
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there are exceptions of course,such as gravty. though i doubt the budget for gravity was anywhere close to elysium, lone ranger or wwz
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i just checked the wikis on these flops and seems like they all made profits. even the lone fucking ranger took in more than its 255m budget. worldwide grosses must be saving their asses. john carter made a profit too.
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there are exceptions of course,such as gravty. though i doubt the budget for gravity was anywhere close to elysium, lone ranger or wwz
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i just checked the wikis on these flops and seems like they all made profits. even the lone fucking ranger took in more than its 255m budget. worldwide grosses must be saving their asses. john carter made a profit too.
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Not entirely accurate. Sounds like he'd do it if he really liked the script.
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Original movies still have sources and a fan base that expects certain standards. How smart was it to make a movie about a really old SF series, spruce up the visuals while making the story suck? Is that a good montage for that author? Will it bring in new fans? Hell no. Why bring back a very old western that had failed years earlier and then spruce it up with some CGI and another really poor story? Why make it at all similar to Pirates? To bring in a new fan base with shitty story again? Why didn't paramount know their 'epic' movie's ending before all that wasted time and money? Why did it have carte blache? Stupid decisions made these movies do poorly not the originality.
Matrix came out of nowhere. Avatar and Titanic exploded. Inception = awesome. Etc,etc,etc. It wasn't the CGI, actors, or producers who brought in money. It was the stories that people wanted to enjoy. These stories brought people in, provided strong word of mouth, and second viewing opportunities. The rest was just added benefits. Make a really good story... see money roll in.
Matrix came out of nowhere. Avatar and Titanic exploded. Inception = awesome. Etc,etc,etc. It wasn't the CGI, actors, or producers who brought in money. It was the stories that people wanted to enjoy. These stories brought people in, provided strong word of mouth, and second viewing opportunities. The rest was just added benefits. Make a really good story... see money roll in.
