This is definitely worth a watch:
Also of some interest: Ghostbusters has been out for about four weeks, and according to Box Office Mojo has made about $116.7 million domestically, out of a $144 million budget. That’s pretty much “bomb” status. In comparison, Star Trek Beyond, open about three weeks, has made $127.9 million domestically. Which also means it’s more or less a bomb, because of it’s $185 million budget.
However…
Suicide Squad is a movie we were told to hate, what with the Batman v Superman heritage hate and the misogynistic stuff that happens to Harley and what not. It’s only been open for one weekend… and it’s made $135 million domestically. Ghostbusters and Star Trek both have modest foreign receipts, enough to take them over their production budgets… but given advertising costs and Hollywood accounting, they’d both have had to have made several times their box office just to break even. Suicide Squad almost made as much in the foreign market as in the domestic, so that it has made $267 million to its $175 million budget. In THREE DAYS. If another ticket is never sold, it’ll still wind up being fantastically successful compared to Ghostbusters and Trek.
Theatrical Star Trek, I’m sad to say, seems to have run its course for now. They’ve announced another one, but I’d bet that that’ll be the last Trek movie for a good long while. And is anyone saying that the reason Trek flopped was because of misogyny?