In this week’s roundup of the global box-office scene:
• Search for successor to The Hunger Games continues, as ossifying formula gives latest YA franchise weak start
• ‘Viagra comedy’ Dirty Grandpa fails to satisfy De Niro or Efron fanbases
• Daddy’s Home hints at global expansion for comedy star Will Ferrell
Never mind the title, The 5th Wave actually arrives as the fourth round of big-budget young-adult adaptations. Twilight broke the market open, The Hunger Games consolidated it, Divergent/The Maze Runner set the formula, and The 5th Wave looks like it could spell YA decline. Surfacing in the wake of Star Wars can’t have been easy for any competing sci-fi film, but $10.7m for sixth place in the US is well below its peers (Twilight, $69m; The Hunger Games, $152m; Divergent, $54m; The Maze Runner, $32.5m). Prudently, Sony haven’t broken the bank for the film, spending $38m on this adaptation of Rick Yancey’s novel, featuring Chloë Grace Moretz searching for her brother in the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion.
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