How Ghostbusters Went From Low-Budget '80s Flick to Scary-Big Franchise

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It'll take a few days before we know how Ghostbusters (the much-discussed flick slated for release this Friday) will perform at the box office, but it's easy to get a read on what the public already thinks of it. Head over to Sony Pictures' YouTube channel, click on the trailer and behold: Some 260,000 watchers have given it the thumbs up. And the hater camp? That's just north of 904,000.

 

 

By now, that number shouldn't surprise anyone.

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