{"id":2206017,"date":"2024-03-25T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ghostbusters-frozen-empire-leads-weekend-box-office\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T19:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:29:21","slug":"ghostbusters-frozen-empire-leads-weekend-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ghostbusters-frozen-empire-leads-weekend-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire&#8217; Dominates Weekend Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fghostbusters-frozen-empire-leads-weekend-box-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206017&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&#8220;Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire&#8221; dominated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-space-jam-bombs-denied-china-opening-despite-groveling-to-communists\/\" title=\"LeBron James\u2019 \u2018Space Jam\u2019 Bombs, Denied China Opening Despite Groveling To Communists\u00a0\">domestic box office<\/a>, raking in $45.2 million on its opening weekend. This latest installment \u2063surpassed its\u200d predecessor, &#8220;Ghostbusters:\u2063 Afterlife,&#8221; amidst the pandemic recovery. The $100\u2063 million production directed by Gil Kenan continues the ghostbusting legacy, attracting a new audience with a star-studded cast including Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Paul Rudd, and Carrie Coon.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGhostbusters: Frozen Empire\u201d led the domestic box office over the weekend after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-box-office-duds-that-became-cult-classics\/\" title=\"9 Box Office Duds That Became Cult Classics\">hit theaters<\/a> on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest film in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ghostbusters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ghostbusting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> franchise scored $45.2 million on its opening weekend thanks to the multi-generational appeal of the film, The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/ghostbusters-frozen-empire-box-office-opening-1235858952\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It just barely beat out \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife,\u201d the last entry in the series, which came out in 2021 after theaters had been closed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and movie companies were struggling to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-must-learn-from-tom-cruise-or-else\/\" title=\"Hollywood Must Learn From Tom Cruise \u2026 or Else\">audiences back<\/a> into seats. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, \u201cAfterlife\u201d had an opening weekend of $44 million. \u201cFrozen Empire\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cost $100 million to make compared to the 2021 film which cost $75 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overseas, the latest film earned another $16.4 million during its debut weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest sequel was directed by Gil Kenan, after he and Jason Reitman, the son of late director Ivan Reitman \u2014 responsible for the smash hit original \u201cGhostbusters\u201d movie in 1984 and the sequel \u201cGhostbusters 2\u201d in 1989 \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> helped resurrect the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-the-355-is-another-woketard-box-office-flop\/\" title=\"Nolte: 'The 355' Is Another Woketard Box Office Flop\">original franchise<\/a> with \u201cAfterlife\u201d and found box office success while inviting a new generation of fans with such stars as Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Paul Rudd, and Carrie Coon.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Light \u2018em up! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ghostbusters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ghostbusters<\/a> Frozen Empire is the #1 Movie. Get tickets to see it Now Playing exclusively in movie theaters: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5XeXoFBnMe\">https:\/\/t.co\/5XeXoFBnMe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NQjVpGiusi\">pic.twitter.com\/NQjVpGiusi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonyPictures\/status\/1772319006902620301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd appeared in \u201cAfterlife\u201d along with original stars Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, and Ernie Hudson. Harold Ramis appeared with the help of CGI in the movie, as he died in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGhostbusters: Frozen Empire\u201d picks up the story where \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife\u201d left off, bringing in the nostalgia again with a return of Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, and Potts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For \u201cFrozen Empire,\u201d written by Kenan and Reitman, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the story focuses on what happens when the Spengler family moves back to New York to the firehouse where the original Ghostbusters started their business, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new generations of Ghostbusters end up joining forces with the original \u201cGhostbusters\u201d crew whose secret lab has helped them take their ghostbusting skills to a new level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt21235248\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">description<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the movie on IMDB reads, \u201cWhen the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The latest flick hit theaters on March 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ghostbusters-director-ivan-reitman-dead-at-75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Ghostbusters\u2019 Director Ivan Reitman Dead At 75<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment &#8220;Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire&#8221; topped the weekend box office with a strong debut, earning $45.2 million. With its multi-generational appeal, the film edged out its predecessor, &#8220;Ghostbusters: Afterlife,&#8221; according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2206018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/Ghostbusters-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/Ghostbusters-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}