Actor and raconteur Dan Aykroyd had this to say about the "Ghostbusters" remake:
“The
girls are great in it. Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig –
what a wonderful, wonderful players they are – and Leslie Jones,”
Aykroyd told hosts Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer, as seen in the tweet
below. “I was really happy with the movie, but it cost too much. And
Sony does not like to lose money. It made a lot of money around the
world but it just cost too much, making it economically not feasible to
do another one. So that’s too bad – the director, he spent too much on
it. He didn’t shoot scenes we suggested to him, several scenes that were
going to be needed, and he said, ‘No, we don’t need them,’ and then we
tested the movie and they needed them and he had to go back — about $30
to $40 million in reshoots. So, yeah, he will not be back on the Sony
lot anytime soon.”
The
Sony Pictures movie cost a reported $144 million (plus marketing) and
earned close to $240 million worldwide — $128.4 million of which came
from North American theaters. (Ghostbusters later earned a reported $36 million in U.S.
After Aykroyd’s statements, Sony confirmed the movie’s reshoots — but
said the price was between $3 and $4 million, not $30-40 million as
Aykroyd stated.
I like Paul Feig. Love listening to him on a podcast because he does love making movies. And he suffered to get there. But he is a one note player. Cast Melissa McCarthy and stand back. The rest...I dunno, he still loves movies. Which is heartbreaking because I like Dan Akroyd too, which is strange how this seems like a terrible indictment on Feig's emperor label.
Truth, Sony got their butts handed to them over the leaks. Like bad. A lot of insider talk that we, on the fray, always suspected. But Sony took the brunt of it. Every studio has these memos, though most likely not so much anymore. The leaks caused a ton of embarrassment for the studio, and word is that they are suffering to get anything out of the black. I remember when Sony was Columbia pictures. They use to make The Three Stooges shorts. They made a ton of awful movies in the 1980s which more than likely sunk them. And now...they've been marginal ever since the late 90's. "Spider-Man" seem to give them a spark of hope. But really don't hear too much from them anymore. A lot of the big studios are renting out offices and space now to make the rent. The last time this happened they bounced back after summer blockbusters became a thing. Though, I'm not sure the brains that be can lift themselves from the abyss this many times. I really hope they do, simply because I am a nostalgic person who loves the backlots. If they disappear...history goes with it.
Maybe they can get government to declare them historical sites, because...quite honestly our only culture in this town is entertainment.
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