Paul Feig’s all-female reboot of Ghostbusters has failed to top the US box office with a lukewarm $46m opening weekend.
The comedy horror, starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, will need to impress international audiences to warrant its $144m budget.
But it wasn’t enough to unseat The Secret Life of Pets which made $50.6m in its second weekend.
It’s a strong summer for cartoons at the box office with Finding Dory becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, beating previous record-holder Shrek 2.