New Final Trailer for "Divergent" & "Divergent" Sequel to Begin Shooting in May

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:what: Is this crap?

Men really read this shyt?
I don't read any of these books. I have an audible subscription and a digital library. I download the audio books and listen to them at work. Divergent and Hunger Games aren't really targeted at women just "Young Adults" in general. There's romance in them but its very light. Not much of that Twilight style stuff.
Don't be ashamed bro. You might like it :jawalrus:
I tell people all the time but Bloodlines (the sequel to Vampire Academy) is one of my favorite series. I always liked Adrian in Vampire Academy he was such a funny cat and Bloodlines is basically his series. Sidney Sage I could take or leave as a lead character. She's actually come a long way from her beginnings though.
 

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Me and my cousin caught it this afternoon. Its really good. And it stuck closely to the book. They're predicting it to do $50-$60 million over the weekend.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-divergent-nabs-49-690187

Summit Entertainment's Divergent grossed a strong $4.9 million Thursday night as it began rolling out in North America.

Based on prerelease tracking, box-office observers believe the movie could post an opening weekend gross as high as $60 million (Summit is being more conservative and saying $50 million-plus). While neither number will match Summit's Twilight andLionsgate's The Hunger Games, it would break the curse that has plagued nearly every other YA film adaptation and provide a strong launch for what's a planned franchise.

PHOTOS: 'Divergent' Star Shailene Woodley: Outtakes From THR's Exclusive Photo Shoots

Neil Burger directed the $85 million sci-fi adventure, which expands into a total of 3,900 locations on Friday, including nearly 350 Imax locations. Based on the best-selling book series byVeronica Roth, Divergent stars Shailene Woodley as a young woman who poses a threat to society after failing to fit into one of five strictly controlled factions.

"We're off to a great start with strong numbers from all regions of the country, urban, suburban and rural alike,” said Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer (Summit is now part of Lionsgate). “We're confident that Divergent is on its way to becoming another important franchise for us, and we have just greenlighted the second film,Insurgent.

Divergent's Thursday night number paled in comparison to the $19.7 million earned by The Hunger Games, and came in behind the $7 million grossed in midnight runs by the first Twilight.

Summit pointed out that the movie did exceed the $3.6 million grossed Thursday night by last summer's World War Z, which went on to earn $53.1 million for the weekend, as well as the $3.3 million earned Thursday night by The Great Gatsby, which launched to $50.1 million.
 

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Over/under 40 mill opening weekend for divergent?:patrice:
probably just a bit over. I'm kinda upset that some YA books I liked better than Divergent (City of Bones and Vampire Academy) got shyt movies and flopped. would have loved to see the movie franchises continue on those. Divergent is a pretty meh book series. I damn near dropped the last book because it was so bland to me. I'm halfway through the audible file and should really finish it but it just doesn't hold my attention.

ironically as shytty as the last Hunger Games book is I still managed to finish it in a few days.
 

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Girl kinda sorta drug me to see it but I ended up enjoying the movie. Went in thinking the girl was gonna be wooden like Kristen Stewart but her acting actually improved throughout the movie. Its a trilogy so its getting two sequels

This one will do very well and the second one will do better, I just don't know if the female lead will break out like jlaw. She might go the way of Stewart
 

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interesting young adult romance dynamics that even hunger games didn't want to touch, no love triangle, she has to go and save him instead of the other way around, the lead actress isn't as good as Jlaw but she's prettier. worst delivered line in the movie is "why are people always saying that", (you will know it when you see it).

I'd give it a C, on the Hunger Games scale, A-
 

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First Hunger Games movie: B
Hunger Games Catching Fire: A+
Divergent: B-

That's my interpretation. Its about a sliver of a step behind the first Hunger Games move. With HG1. I remember being annoyed with the shaky cam and the fact they kept turning away from the cam when people got killed. Divergent has more action and fighting. I think it was more realistic about teenagers, having them cuss and have fun together. I wanna try some of them stunts. The romance wasn't forced or unbearable Twilight stuff. It felt natural, and the main two characters had better chemistry. I fukked with it. Go see it.



It made $56 million this weekend. The studios who produced Beautiful Creatures, Mortal Instruments, The Host and Vampire Academy looking like :patrice:
 
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just saw this movie

it was ok and 20 mins too long. 45 mins into the movie and the "training" begins....throwing knives, hand to hand combat, etc etc

i kept thinking this was a hunger games knockoff
 
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