![]() ![]() ![]() Such results would’ve been disappointing under any circumstances. Worse, the worldwide haul of $179.2 million was nowhere near enough to recoup a budget that reportedly reached $142 million. The film’s $66.1 million domestic take was only slightly ahead of the North American opening of the original Divergent. What was surprising was how enormously Allegiant missed the mark at the box office. The worst reviews of the franchise greeted its debut, but that wasn’t a shock given that none of the Divergent films was all that well-liked. A few months after this director announcement, Allegiant was unleashed into movie theaters. Initially, just a hiccup on the road to a June 2017 bow would, in hindsight, be a harbinger of problems to come. Later that year, it was announced that Insurgent and Allegiant director Robert Schwentke would be stepping down from helming Ascendant, with Leo Toland Kreiger coming on board to direct instead. Still, plans went ahead for the Divergent series to wrap up on a two-part finale, with the first half of this project starting filming in 2015 for a March 2016 release date. Initially, this plan seemed to be a sound one financially, if not exactly the best idea creatively (the Allegiant book is roughly the same length as the Insurgent book, making it hard to parse out why it needed two movies to adapt). RELATED: Why the YA Movie Franchise Trend Has Died Off ![]()
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