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Ghostbusters all-female reboot victim of 'anti-Hillary movement' in 2016 claims director Paul Feig

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His all-female Ghostbusters reboot failed to deliver at the box office when it was released in 2016.And now director Paul Feig is blaming Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in part for the film's disappointing performance.'I think some really brilliant author … needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined we were with Hillary and the anti-Hillary movement,' Feig, 57, said on a recent episode of Jess Cagle's SiriusXM show.

It was politics: Director Paul Feig is blaming Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in part for the disappointing performance of his 2016 all-female Ghostbusters reboot 'Everyone was at a boiling point,' he added, as reported by EW.com on Monday,'I don't know if it was having an African American.

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