10 Movie Franchises That Died In 2016
5. Ghostbusters
The Franchise: The iconic 80s comedy series, which Sony rebooted this past summer with an all-female core cast after decades of attempting to get a third film made.
How It Died: This one was doomed from the get-go, with Internet backlash basically torpedoing the movie's admittedly mediocre PR campaign to the point that it was hard to be enthusiastic about the film being any good.
As it turns out, it was neither particularly good nor bad: it was a perfectly OK movie and not really worth all the fuss and hand-wringing either way.
Though director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy) is usually a sure thing when it comes to box office, this wildly over-budgeted $145 million effort only grossed $229 million worldwide, killing any chance of a sequel.
Sony are instead planning an animated movie and TV series, but the McCarthy-Wiig live-action version was dead in the water before it even really had a chance.