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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Leads Box Office With $45 Million Debut
"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" led box office charts, arriving on the higher end of projections.
Those ticket sales are just barely ahead of its 2021 predecessor, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which earned $44 million to start while the box office was deep in pandemic recovery mode. Franchise veterans Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman (whose father Ivan Reitman helmed 1984’s “Ghostbusters”) wrote “Frozen Empire,” which sees new recruits in the legendary ghost-catching business (Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon and Finn Wolfhard) team up with veterans (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts) to prevent an apocalyptic diety from igniting a second Ice Age. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, who categorized the opening weekend result as “fair.” “They’re driven by the hook: the evil doll, the wicked smile, the invisible or silent presence, the found footage, the possessed child.
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