The second installments in Lionsgate’s “Divergent” and Fox’s “Maze Runner” series both opened strongly but several million dollars under the first films, and this summer’s adaptation of John Green’s “Paper Towns” severely underperformed compared to 2014’s Green-based breakout hit “The Fault in Our Stars.”īut Hollywood shows no signs of backing away from the genre, filmmakers and studio executives tell TheWrap, because the financial payoff from the box office, merchandising and licensing is massive if they do find the next Harry or Katniss.
The final “Hunger Games” film opens in November and is expected to be a blockbuster, but the next crop of would-be YA blockbusters haven’t really caught lightning in a bottle the way “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” did. Are moviegoers suffering from young-adult franchise fatigue?
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