Kicking off a new franchise based on a YA novel series, Divergent [DVRGN] led the weekend box office with an estimated $56.0 million. The sci-fi film attracted an audience that was 69% female and 50% over the age of 25.
Muppets Most Wanted [MUPE2] opened in second place with an underwhelming $16.5 million.
Last weekend's top film Mr. Peabody and Sherman [MRPBS] finished third with $11.7 million to bring its total to $81.0 million.
Need for Speed [NFSPD] was down 56% in its second...
Lionsgate/Summit hopes lightning strikes thrice with Divergent [DVRGN], their next young heroine film franchise based on a YA novel series after Twilight and The Hunger Games. Set in a dystopian future Chicago, the PG-13 rated, sci-fi film stars Shailene Woodley [SWOOD] as a teenager whose personality doesn’t fall into any five factions defined by society. The Veronica Roth book series are popular, but sales are nowhere near the phenomenal The Hunger Games, which opened to $152.5 million...
Relativity has released the second trailer for the actioner Brick Mansions [BRCKM] set to a cover of B.B. King's 'Stand by Me'. The late Paul Walker joins parkour innovator David Belle in the American remake of District B-13. Brick Mansions hits theaters on April 25th.
Summit has revealed the teaser trailer for the fifth film in the dance series Setp Up: All In [STUP5]. Stars from the previous installments have reunited with their crew to battle in Las Vegas. Setp Up: All In drops in theaters on July 25th.
The Weinstein Co. has debuted the teaser trailer for the sci-fi film The Giver [GIVER] based on the 1993 Lois Lowry novel. Set in a seemingly perfect, utopian society, Brenton Thwaites plays a young boy who is chosen to be the "Receiver of Memory" to learn from an elderly man, "The Giver" played by Jeff Bridges [JBRID], about the past and thus the true meaning of the life in the real world. Meryl Streep [MSTRE] and Katie Holmes [KHOLM] co-star in The Giver, set to open on August 15th.
Relativity has released the full, theatrical trailer for the family, sci-fi film Earth to Echo [ECHO]. Basically, it's Super 8 updated for the digital, found footage era.
After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. When everyone around them refuses to take the...
Sony has dropped yet another trailer, the final one for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [SPID5]. The sequel looks to be filled with all-out action as the friendly neighborhood webcrawler takes on at least three super-villains in Electro, Rhino, and the Green Golbin. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swings into theaters on May 2nd.
Disney has unfurled the full-length trailer for the fantasy Maleficient [MALEF], a live-action prequel to the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty. Told from the point of view of the title villainess played Angelina Jolie [AJOLI], the story delves into the origin of her "evilness" and why she cast her sleeping curse on the young Princess Aurora, played by Ellen Fanning [EFANN]. Maleficient lands in theaters on May 30th.
Fox and Blue Sky have unveiled the teaser trailer for the CG-animated Peanuts [PENUT] based on the comic strip by the late Charles Schulz. Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang will make their feature debut in theaters on November 6. 2015.
Fox has unleashed the teaser trailer for the latest sci-fi film set in a dystopian future, The Maze Runner [MAZER], based on a best-selling young adult novel. A group of boys are sent to a massive maze set amongst the ruins of an old city. Each day, they try to find an escape route. Dylan O'Brien stars as the new kid who may hold the key to unraveling the mystery, if he can only unravel memories of his past. The Maze Runner reaches theaters on September 19th.
