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That’s an impressive figure for a movie with a minuscule $12 million production budget. And you can’t feel sorry for a little drama that earned nearly $20 million more than [Tom Cruise’s _Edge of Tomorrow_](http://time.com/2822587/edge-of-tomorrow-movie-review/), whose cost was nearly 15 times that of _TFIOS_. Cruise’s sci-fi action thriller also will finish behind the $33.5 million earned by [Angelina Jolie’s Disney fantasy _Maleficent_](http://time.com/136170/maleficent-movie-review-angelina-jolie/) in its second week. Headline for another story: Tom Terrific Loses to Two Ladies. (A second headline: _Edge of Tomorrow_ Earns a Cruise-tastic $111 Million Abroad, Including $25 Million in China.) But the _TFIOS_ haul is a little disappointing for industry forecasters who only yesterday were predicting a weekend haul as high as $57 million. Those estimates were fueled by the gangbusters $26.1-million Friday opening, which includes $8.2 million for Thursday evening previews—some charging a $25 ticket price for the movie plus a satellite hookup with Green and his young stars. **(READ:** [**How the stars aligned to give** **_Fault_** **a fabulous Friday**](http://time.com/2841342/fault-our-stars-box-office/)**)** How to explain the big balloon of attendance for _TFIOS_, and then the needle that let the air out? First, the movie had a large fan base eager to see it, and second, most of them saw it the first day. The social media blitz spearheaded by Green, which herded the _Fault_\-heads into theaters, remained a cult phenomenon. The fever didn’t spread sufficiently to customers not in on the Absolute Necessity of Seeing This Movie Now. The CinemaScore survey of first-night attendees garnered _TFIOS_ a perfect “A” rating. (_Edge of Tomorrow_ pulled a B-plus.) And of course it would: Early on, the Green faithful were out in force. But the demographics are telling. An astonishing 82% of ticket buyers were female, and 80% were under 25\. These numbers suggest that girls went in packs, without their boyfriends or parents. And not many of those groups went on their own. Maybe the infidel majority thought: Ewww, cancer. Or, even more toxic in this jaded age, Ugh, sentiment. There’s no crying at the multiplex. **(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_The Fault in Our Stars_**](http://time.com/2822847/the-fault-in-our-stars-movie-review/)**)** Look at the eight other films that earned at least $30 million their first weekend and amassed at least half their gross by Friday night, as tabulated by [the Box Office Mojo website](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/percofwknd.htm?page=Fri&p=.htm). All were aimed at teens and tweens: four _Twilight Saga_ entries, the final _Harry Potter_ movie, two horror sequels (_Paranormal Activity 3_ and _Insidious 2_) and a Miley Cyrus concert film (_Hannah Montana the Movie_) back when she was a Disney Channel star. The _Twilight_ and _Potter_ entries all reaped much more money than _TFIOS_, most of them more than $100 million. But the John Green movie, if current numbers hold, will have the peculiar distinction of the all-time biggest fall-off from Friday through the rest of its opening weekend. _TFIOS_ is on track to score the ninth-largest opening weekend of 2014, below eight expensive fantasy films and [the Seth Rogen-Zac Efron comedy _Neighbors_](http://time.com/88967/neighbors-movie-review-zac-efron/), at $49 million. That frat-boy farce, which cost just $18 million to produce, attracted healthy percentages of men and women, teens and the geriatrics over 25\. If _TFIOS_ is to break out of its golden ghetto, it will have to corral the ordinary moviegoer whom Green’s social-media savvy somehow missed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2845147/fault-in-our-stars-john-green-edge-of-tomorrow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2845147/fault-in-our-stars-john-green-edge-of-tomorrow/"},"headline":"The Fault in Our Stars Falls to Earth","datePublished":"2014-06-08T17:40:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:17:02.318Z","description":"The cancer romancer based on John Green's best-seller took a Saturday hit on its way to a $48-million weekend","url":"https://time.com/2845147/fault-in-our-stars-john-green-edge-of-tomorrow/","keywords":["movies","Box-office","Angelina Jolie","Shailene Woodley","The Fault In Our Stars","Maleficent","ansel elgort","john green"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aa1afca7edc13e8/6986969f06f2c13cc932f5f1/fault-in-our-stars11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4aa1afca7edc13e8/6986969f06f2c13cc932f5f1/fault-in-our-stars11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Fault in Our Stars","caption":"The Fault in Our Stars","creditText":"20th Century Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2845147/fault-in-our-stars-john-green-edge-of-tomorrow/","name":"The Fault in Our Stars Falls to Earth"}}]}] ```