WEEKEND THREAD | B.O numbers Page 28: Final Divergent movie opens at $29m, Zoo: $38m

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, SchumacherFTW said:

Why are you always so wrong. It's obviously the Original trilogy! 

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I disagree very much but you knew thR

[Asyulus]

R.I.P. Divergent series.

[The Panda]

Just now, Ethan Hunt said:

Which character is Tris a direct rip off of? Is it Harry or is it Katniss?

 

Divergent is a Hunger Games rip-off, yes.  But the big YA wave started with Harry Potter and Twilight and Hunger Games helped mold it into the staleness it is now.  

 

You dont don't have Hunger Games or Twilight without Harry Potter.

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, The Panda said:

 

No child, that was Harry Potter.

That wasn't really YA though (since it started out as children's literature). Harry Potter, along with Lord of the Rings, started the fantasy craze (which also burned out quickly). The YA movement really began with Twilight.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

10 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Age of Ultron was destroyed by Furious 7?

 

 

Yes, it was WW, and the DOM performance for F7 was way more impressive

[The Panda]

Just now, filmlover said:

That wasn't really YA though (since it started out as children's literature). Harry Potter, along with Lord of the Rings, started the fantasy craze (which also burned out quickly). The YA movement really began with Twilight.

 

Harry Potter is very much YA, and Twilight copied much of the logistics of how they released the movies.  Harry Potter kicked off the movement, then Twilight and Hunger Games helped define it.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

3 minutes ago, Asyulus said:

R.I.P. Divergent series.

 

OMG, You're back!

[Bishop54]

Twilight started the YA craze, it's sad but true.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

7 minutes ago, filmlover said:

That wasn't really YA though (since it started out as children's literature). Harry Potter, along with Lord of the Rings, started the fantasy craze (which also burned out quickly). The YA movement really began with Twilight.

 

And what would be the 'YA movement'? Because everything that I know about YA started with HP: crazy midnight previews, a huge fandom taking care of social medias, the Part 1 trend...

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, The Panda said:

 

Harry Potter is very much YA, and Twilight copied much of the logistics of how they released the movies.  Harry Potter kicked off the movement, then Twilight and Hunger Games helped define it.

I'd lump Harry Potter into a different category because it launched a different breed of genre power. Remember all of the fantasy flops that came out in the second half of the 2000s that hoped to cash in on that Potter/Rings success? The only one to break the trend was The Chronicles of Narnia, and even that fizzled after the first movie (mostly because there's only one book in the entire series everyone knows, which was made into the first movie and was pretty self-contained). They all are sorta interlocked though so I agree to an extent.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

16 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

You must change this ASAP. Greatest trilogy of all time.

 

I already watched The Dark Knight

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, Mockingjay Raphael said:

 

I already watched The Dark Knight

I mean no disrespect to lord Nolan. But as a whole the Bourne trilogy is better

[Mockingjay Raphael]

HP didn't start as a YA franchise, but it became one 

[Ethan Hunt]

Alright we'll say THG kick started the dystopian YA trend then

[MCKillswitch123]

But you can only truly say that you've watched the greatest trilogy ever to Ethan if you've seen the Toy Story trilogy.

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, MCKillswitch123 said:

But you can only truly say that you've watched the greatest trilogy ever to Ethan if you've seen the Toy Story trilogy.

Two great instalments and one okayish instalment

[filmlover]

Harry Potter helped kick off the literary movement on the big screen and showed that book franchises can have massive big screen potential too. Heck, even The Da Vinci Code probably benefitted from it all even though that also had a shitstorm of controversy surrounding its religious elements.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

4 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Alright we'll say THG kick started the dystopian YA trend then

 

Let's say that it started the reign of the Queen of world 

[SchumacherFTW]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Harry Potter helped kick off the literary movement on the big screen and showed that book franchises can have massive big screen potential too. Heck, even The Da Vinci Code probably benefitted from it all even though that also had a shitstorm of controversy surrounding its religious elements.

The fact that a mystery drama, no matter how massive the book is, opened to $70m still baffles the hell out of me! 

[a2k]

Look at YA before and after Potter http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=yaadaptations.htm&sort=date&order=DESC&p=.htm

Twilight came way later, after HP5.

I would say HP3, HP4, HP5 was the first big YA blockbusters as the characters were still kids in HP1 and HP2.

HP4 and HP5 also had some romance (and of course the later ones had it).