It was a big weekend at the American box-office, as another young adult franchise got off to a cracking start, while the latest Muppets flick, came in below expectations.
Divergent was not a hit with critics at all, with our own Gavin Burke not a fan either; but that hasn’t stopped the film from bagging the second best opening of the year after The LEGO Movie. The Neil Burger directed novel adaptation took an estimated $56 million.
The Muppets Most Wanted was expected to pull in around $25 million, but topped out at $16.5 million, while new religious flick, God’s Not Dead, surprised everyone taking $9 million on a limited number of screens.
The good news is that Wes Anderson’s superb Grand Budapest Hotel is continuing to do the most impressive numbers of the bunch. The film pulled in a $21,535 per-screen average for a total of $6.5 million as it continues to expand.
