Box Office Weekend: Divergent Conforms to Other YA Adaptations and Wins Big Opening Weekend
Divergent may not be impressing critics anytime soon, but the action-packed beginning to yet another young adult-themed trilogy got a good head start on its $85 million costs with an estimated $56 million at the box office, far and away the big winner. In a surprisingly distant second place, Muppets Most Wanted ended up much more favorable with critics, but not audiences, earning only an estimated $16.5 million. Its debut take was comparable to the third week gross of Mr. Peabody & Sherman, which picked up an estimated $11.7 million. While none of the top three are domestic winners, Mr. Peabody & Sherman at least has made money counting worldwide take, while the others still have a ways to go…although still with a chance to do so.
300: Rise of an Empire tops the best of the rest as the grosses drop to single digits, earning an estimated $8.7 million (though the $110 million epic has been a winner worldwide). Just behind is the debut of the Christian God’s Not Dead, which did decent small release numbers with an estimated $8.6 million in only 780 theaters, as does The Grand Budapest Hotel, which opened to wider release (still a small 304 theaters) to seventh place and an estimated $6.8 million. Need for Speed, on the other hand, has fallen short on the domestic side, its second weekend estimate of $7.8 million leaving it less than half of making back its $66 million costs, but worldwide has fallen in more with the likes of 300: Rise of an Empire, making a grand total of $126.5 million.
Finally, Non-Stop continues to plummet with a drop to eighth and an estimated $6.3 million, but the Liam Neeson action flick pulled in enough to be profitable, while there is no denying The Lego Movie’s lasting appeal; at seven weeks, it remains a titan at the box office, not only in weeks of release, but its estimated $4.1 million puts it as the current highest earner in the top ten with a domestic haul of $243.4 million. Meanwhile, Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club trail not only in earnings (estimated $3.1 million), but in critical acclaim and Tyler Perry fandom as well; only Tyler Perry Presents Peeples has fared poorer.
- Divergent…$56 million
- Muppets Most Wanted…$16.5 million
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman…$11.7 million
- 300: Rise of an Empire…$8.7 million
- God’s Not Dead…$8.6 million
- Need for Speed…$7.8 million
- The Grand Budapest Hotel…$6.8 million
- Non-Stop…$6.3 million
- The Lego Movie…$4.1 million
- Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club…$3.1 million
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