Ghostbusters bombed as hard as Independence Day: Resurgence did Independence Day: Resurgence was widely acknowledge as a gigantic bomb at the box office.

Its budget was $165 million and it only opened with a domestic $41 million, it did very poor internationally as well.

[Independence Day: Resurgence](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=id42.htm)

Ghostbusters budget was $145 million (how in the hell...) and it opened with $45 million, also doing very poor internationally.

So basically Ghostbusters bombed slightly less hard than the new Independence Day movie.

Next week a new Star Trek and Ice Age movie open and Ghostbusters will likely sink to #4 at the box office with about $15-$20 million.

If it's lucky, this new Ghostbusters MAY top just $100 million domestic. The rule of thumb is that a movie needs to make 2.0x its budget to be profitable (which for Ghostbusters would be about $300 million). Given the piss poor merchandising sales, it's clear Sony will lose money on the whole fiasco.

It's not going to go down as a historic bomb or anything, just a small one.

The biggest reason it's going to lose money is that the budget is absolutely absurd for the type of movie it is. I have no idea in hell how they managed to blow $150 million on such a movie. This is the type of movie that should have cost 60-80 million, and if they had done that they would have made a decent little profit.