The downward trend of revenue for the sequels has got to be a concern for the studio, though. Allegiant couldn't outgross Zootopia which (while a big success) was in it's third week of wide release.
Lions Gate was banking on YA book series adaptions being "sure things" but clearly that is not the case, at least for this series. They caught lightning in a bottle with The Hunger Games and I don't blame them for trying to repeat it. On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 2:54:50 PM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: > > Easy answer as to why they exist- they made money. We can argue on their > merits and the sad decline in the public's tastes, but if they don't > generate revenue they'd stay as trashy ripoff paperbacks. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 22, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Divergent-Franchise-Just-Needs-End-Immediately-119747.html > > And no, "because the books are awful" is not the point the article is > making. > > If I didn't know that this was a major studio release, I would have > assumed that Allegiant was a DTV ripoff of The Hunger Games. And that's a > shoot. I saw the trailer for Divergent when my wife and I saw Catching > Fire, and I thought it looked ridiculous. Then we saw the trailer for > whatever the second one was called, Insurgent (???) when we say Mockingjay, > Part 1, and somehow it looked even worse. And *then *we saw the trailer > for Allegiant when we saw Mockingjay, Part 2 (notice a trend here?) and it > looked like a Full Moon DTV feature. > > Just let it GO Lions Gate. The Mortal Instruments has seemingly made a > more successful switch to TV over features, maybe that is the route for > Divergent? I don't know. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
