Ghostbusters heading to #5 at the box office in just 2nd weekend Star Trek Beyond Lights Out The Secret Life of Pets Ice Age: Collision Course All will finish ahead of it this weekend. This is a movie that opened against NO competition and finished 2nd to a movie that had been out 3 weeks. It fell behind every single new release this week. To contrast, the original 1984 Ghostbusters spent SEVEN WEEKS at #1 in the box office. It finished as the 2nd highest grossing movie of the entire year (just barely off the #1 spot). It did this playing in HALF as many theaters. Its domestic gross was $230 million on a $30 million production budget (a factor of x7.5). $230 million in 1984, today's dollars that is the equivalent of $530 million. This new movie, despite playing in twice as many theaters and having the established franchise name already built for it, will likely finish with just over $100 million domestic... on a $140 million budget (a factor of 0.71) Make no mistake about it, this movie was a financial disaster.