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

[Jessie]

Mel Gibson said the crucifixion was more violent than what was shown in the film, but was afraid that if he made it even more violent and disturbing that nobody would get anything out of it and that people would walk out of the movie.

I don't care what he said, it was still torture porn, and I don't believe someone could have been put through much more than that without bleeding out anyways.

[kaijukurt]

Wonder what made Divergent open big unlike lots of other past YA releases?

[The Stingray]

Mad Mel might have overdone the crucifixion, but The Passion is still a great movie.

[grim22]

Wonder what made Divergent open big unlike lots of other past YA releases?

A concentrated marketing campaign, great release date and awesome positioning by Lions Gate - they kept reinforcing the message "If Divergent flops, all YA adaptations are finished". The movie being decent was a bonus. It didn't get absolutely trashed by reviewers .

[AniNate]

They sure milked the Hunger Games similarities for all they were worth

[kaijukurt]

A concentrated marketing campaign, great release date and awesome positioning by Lions Gate - they kept reinforcing the message "If Divergent flops, all YA adaptations are finished". The movie being decent was a bonus. It didn't get absolutely trashed by reviewers .

 

Interesting to read, thanks!

[ban1o]

Interesting to read, thanks!

also the books were very popular, more so than all of the other YA flops. 

[Jack Nevada]

What the hell is God's Not Dead?

[Kalo]

What the hell is God's Not Dead?

It's a film based on the book of the same name. about a college professor, who wants his class to write an easy called "God is Dead" one of the students, says he can't do that because he is a christian, so the professor says if he doesn't want to write he has to come up with a rebuttal to try and prove God's existence.

[Jessie]

Wonder what made Divergent open big unlike lots of other past YA releases?

I'm guessing it had something to do with people going to see it.

[BadAtGender]

Did this get posted, yet?

 

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Divergent	LG/S	$56,000,000	-	3,936	-	$14,228	$56,000,000	$85	1
2	N	Muppets Most Wanted	BV	$16,514,000	-	3,194	-	$5,170	$16,514,000	$50	1
3	1	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	Fox	$11,700,000	-46.4%	3,607	-344	$3,244	$81,002,000	$145	3
4	2	300: Rise of An Empire	WB	$8,665,000	-54.9%	3,085	-405	$2,809	$93,753,000	$110	3
5	N	God's Not Dead	Free	$8,564,000	-	780	-	$10,979	$8,564,000	-	1
6	3	Need for Speed	BV	$7,781,000	-56.4%	3,115	-	$2,498	$30,404,000	$66	2
7	8	The Grand Budapest Hotel	FoxS	$6,750,000	+85.5%	304	+238	$22,204	$12,961,000	-	3
8	4	Non-Stop	Uni.	$6,346,000	-40.2%	2,945	-238	$2,155	$78,621,000	$50	4
9	6	The LEGO Movie	WB	$4,115,000	-46.6%	2,501	-539	$1,645	$243,352,000	$60	7
10	5	Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club	LGF	$3,100,000	-61.6%	1,896	-	$1,635	$12,910,000	-	2
11	7	Son of God	Fox	$2,650,000	-52.1%	2,139	-851	$1,239	$55,600,000	-	4
12	10	The Monuments Men	Sony	$975,000	-52.7%	938	-656	$1,039	$75,709,000	$70	7
13	9	Frozen	BV	$734,000	-65.8%	1,069	-397	$687	$397,743,000	$150	18
14	13	Ride Along	Uni.	$608,000	-55.9%	650	-374	$935	$133,101,000	$25	10
15	12	3 Days to Kill	Rela.	$587,000	-66.1%	752	-814	$781	$29,733,000	$28	5
16	34	Bad Words	Focus	$500,000	+341.3%	87	+81	$5,747	$656,000	-	2
17	11	Veronica Mars	WB	$490,000	-75.4%	347	+56	$1,412	$2,855,000	$6	2

 

Pretty harsh drops for everything except GBH and Bad Words. Nothing under 40%?

[CJohn]

 

Pretty harsh drops for everything except GBH and Bad Words. Nothing under 40%?

Lego, Frozen and Peabody suffered from the arrival of the Muppets. And the rest suffered from the arrival of a 55M+ OW.

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7 8 The Grand Budapest Hotel FoxS $6,750,000 +85.5% 304 +238 $22,204 $12,961,000 - 3Can we get a comment from baumer on this?

[BadAtGender]

Lego, Frozen and Peabody suffered from the arrival of the Muppets. And the rest suffered from the arrival of a 55M+ OW.

 

I wonder... did Son of God suffer due to God's Not Dead? Is there competition among Christian films.

[CJohn]

I wonder... did Son of God suffer due to God's Not Dead? Is there competition among Christian films.

Probably that happened too.

[Plain Old Tele]

They should make a sequel called SON OF GOD'S NOT DEAD. And then the third one can be BRIDE OF GOD'S NOT DEAD.

[Deep Wang]

Passion of the Christ was violence porn.

I imagine most people who are not Christians think this way.

[Deep Wang]

I don't care what he said, it was still torture porn, and I don't believe someone could have been put through much more than that without bleeding out anyways.

This was the movie Jesus Christ who was crusified and three days later rose from the grave, and you can't get past him not bleeding out?

[Hernan Gonzalez]

Lego, Frozen and Peabody suffered from the arrival of the Muppets. And the rest suffered from the arrival of a 55M+ OW.

Frozen suffered from the arrival of Frozen on DVD :-(

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I imagine most people who are not Christians think this way.

I love that movie, and I'm not Christian.