Weekend #s on Pg 34. Divergent 56M. Muppets 16.5M. Peabody 11.7M, 302 8.6M, Gods not dead 8.5M

[Claire of Themyscira]

Poor Muppets. Should done double that. Fucking America.

[picores]

Good for Divergent. Meh for Muppets and bad the rest of holdovers, there are some harsh drop. I would say Non Stop is one of the few that avoid a +50% drop from last Friday. 300:RoaE drop is particulary ugly.

[forg]

The Muppets I guess is just not that appealing to kids today

[Empire]

Poor Muppets. Should done double that. Fucking America.

Yes, it really should have. 

 

Americans are really stupid sometimes. 

Edited March 22, 2014 by Empire

[a2k]

Based on a 22.5m Friday, Divergent gets 51m if it behaves like THG, 50m if it behaves like CF and 43m if like Twilight.

Edited March 22, 2014 by a2knet

[Donald]

I hope it keeps on dropping so that they put more effort in the quality of the sequel!

[spizzer]

Based on a 22.5m Friday, Divergent gets 51m if it behaves like THG, 50m if it behaves like CF and 43m if like Twilight.

 

Yeah but the Preview figure of 4.9M represents a smaller ratio of the total opening day for Divergent than for any of the others.  This and the fact that it had Thursday evening shows as opposed to only midnights (as THG and Twilight did) would mean that a direct comparison to either of those three is not entirely valid.

[kayumanggi]

Friday Box Office: #5 '300' (WB - 3085) $2.3M for $7.6M in third wkd and $92.7M cume; #6 'Need For Speed' (DWA - 3115) $2.2M/$7.3M/ $29.9M.

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke)

March 22, 2014

[kayumanggi]

Disney shouldn't have made a MUPPETS sequel in the first place.

[a2k]

Disney shouldn't have made a MUPPETS sequel in the first place.

 

i am glad they did. took them down a peg or two. were flying too high lately.

 

Edited March 22, 2014 by a2knet

[Spidey Freak]

^Muppets was a planned venture to distract those pesky tax collectors.

[IndustriousAngel]

I'm actually sad about this Muppets number (evem if the movie itself seems to be not as nice as the last one). The Muppets always stood for friendly, non-cynical stories, something that I find missing in much of today's productions.

[23IsEverywhere]

Disney shouldn't have made a MUPPETS sequel in the first place.

I think this would have worked better with either a less crowded release date (maybe October there usually isn't much animation then) or better yet using the first movie as a launching point for a show to gain more of an audience pre 2nd movie.  Hopefully it can still make a profit the foreign market plus those tie in commercials leading to another sequel but with that OD unless it explodes OS I doubt it 

[Elessar]

Ugh. The Frozen fandom can be extra.

 

True. It's a fucking cartoon, get over it. I have nothing against the medium, what sucks, however, is the every-cartoon-has-to-be-for-momy-and-daddy-and-kids-and-save-and-funny bullshit. I'd be all game for more cartoons in the vein of Beowulf.

[lab276]

True. It's a fucking cartoon, get over it. I have nothing against the medium, what sucks, however, is the every-cartoon-has-to-be-for-momy-and-daddy-and-kids-and-save-and-funny bullshit. I'd be all game for more cartoons in the vein of Beowulf.

You could say the same for just about anything really, "it's a film get over it", "it's sport get over it", "it's music get over it".Anime has a much broader scope than American animation, so if you want something less kiddy (if that's how you see it), look there.

[Elessar]

Anime has a much broader scope than American animation, so if you want something less kiddy (if that's how you see it), look there.

 

I did. Not thoroughly but i i've seen some of the Miyazaki films or Ghost in the Shell. Good stuff. A lot of anime can be a little weird, though. Japanese are weird people.

[Krissykins]

Solid for Divergent.Gives me hope that audiences are into action heroines now, more than before.

[kayumanggi]

i am glad they did. took them down a peg or two. were flying too high lately.

 

 

The first one wasn't really big and was just greatly helped by the holidays imo.

[Hatebox]

Seems like a good Friday for Divergent to me, although it only means shit if it doesn't drop like a stone from now on.

[filmscholar]

Well the era of Teenage Books being adapted will never end.  Even with lukewarm reviews these teens still came out.  I expect "The Maze Runner" do probably do similar numbers.  But Solid start for "Divergent".  I think "Muppets" is doing decent too.