Warcraft, Duncan Jones’s adaptation of the popular video game, bombed in the US, but dominated the Chinese box office chart last month.
Under China’s censorship laws any films suggesting the existence of the supernatural can be banned from distribution.
Known locally as “World of Magic Beasts”, it made more than half of its $430.1 m revenue in China.
Ghostbusters is unlikely to be let loose in China due to its supernatural themes, according to Variety. Paul Feig’s reboot stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon as the spectre-smashing quartet.