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Ghost Franchise: Hollywood’s Gender-Swapped 'Expendables' Is Already Dead On Arrival

The latest all-female franchise revision from woke Hollywood sounds awful

May 15, 2026
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Ghostbusters 2016 was an all-female flop that lost $70 million for Sony Pictures

Lionsgate says they will be making an all-female version of The Expendables. The proposed title, Expendabelles, is a terrific dad joke. The positives end there. Yet another gender-swapped ‘boy brand’ is being set up for failure on the wrongheaded assumption that women will t…

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