Friday, May 22, 2026

“Ghostbusters Frozen Empire” Previews Same as 2016, Rotten Reviews, Soft Audience Interest

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The people who went to previews of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” in 2016 remain the audience for its sequel.

Last night, “Frozen Empire” took in $4.7 million, just $200,000 more than than the 2016 previews.

This was not a stampede.

The new movie has a rotten 44% on Rotten Tomatoes and a soft 86% from the audience last night.

It could be worse, I guess, for Sony Pictures, which is still struggling after “Madame Web” tanked in the last month. If only they could think of a way to get Peter Parker or some kind of Spider Man reference into “Frozen Empire.” That might do the trick.

What happens next? Bad weather is coming to the Northeast tonight and tomorrow, which may keep the Busters at home. The “Afterlife” opening weekend came in at $44 million. If “Frozen Empire” can tie that, the powers that be will satisfied. But much lower would not be celebrated.

Stay tuned…

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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