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Or, as Hollywood wants to know, can the dauntless heroine of novelist Veronica Roth’s _Divergent_ trilogy become the anchor of a multibillion-dollar movie series, as her sister predecessors did with _The Twilight Saga_ and _The Hunger Games_? For Lionsgate/Summit, the merged company that birthed the other two franchises, the early returns have to be encouraging. _Divergent_ scored $56 million in its first weekend at North American theaters, according to preliminary studio estimates. That’s the strongest debut for a live-action picture so far this year; the only higher opening, $69 million, was for the animated feature _The LEGO Movie_. So dominant was _Divergent_ that it outgrossed the next five films in this weekend’s top 10 — _Muppets Most Wanted_, _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_, _300: Rise of an Empire_, _God’s Not Dead_ and _Need for Speed_ — which earned a total of $53.2 million. Talk about Girl Power. **(READ:** [**The Cast of** **_Divergent_** **Explains the Lure of Dystopian Stories**](http://time.com/32022/divergent-dystopian-stories-shailene-woodley-interview/)**)** Budgeted at $85 million and starring Shailene Woodley as Beatrice, _Divergent_ didn’t match the 2008 opening of the first _Twilight_ film ($69.6 million, which would be about $81 million in today’s dollars). It will finish nearly $100 million behind the sensational $152.5-million premiere of _The Hunger Games_ two years ago this weekend. But the Divergent opening is strong enough for Lionsgate to greenlight two or three more movies to complete Roth’s story. The early audience — 59% female, 50% under the age of 25 — awarded _Divergent_ a golden “A” in the CinemaScore survey of first-nighters. Those under 18 gave the movie a giddy A-plus. **(READ:** [**Why Hollywood Desperately Needs Shailene Woodley**](http://time.com/27165/why-hollywood-desperately-needs-shailene-woodley/)**)** The CinemaScore for _Muppets Most Wanted_ was a saggier B-plus, a notch below the “A” for the 2011 comedy that relaunched the movie career of the Henson Company’s kid-friendly puppets. _Most Wanted_, produced for about $50 million, scored a disappointing opening gross of $16.5 million, far behind the $29.2 million of _The Muppets_. The audience for the new film was predominantly female (54%) and young (54% under 25, 70% families). Since the last movie did less business abroad than at home, _Most Wanted_ can’t count on a robust foreign market. For Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang, it may be back to the sock drawer. **(SEE:** [**10 Celebrity Friends of The Muppets**](http://time.com/31764/the-muppets-most-famous-friends-10-epic-celebrity-cameos/)**)** While _Most Wanted_ was playing on about 4,600 screens, the evangelical drama [_God’s Not Dead_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMjo5f9eiX8) appeared on just 850, yet earned $8.6 million, or more than half of the _Muppets_ gross. A severely belated, fairly belligerent response to the famous 1966 TIME cover story “Is God Dead?”, the movie sets up a debate on the Deity’s existence between a winsome Christian college student (Shane Harper of the Disney Channel’s _Good Luck Charlie_) and a sneering atheist professor (Kevin Sorbo, considerably bulked down since his days as TV’s Hercules). No Spoiler Alert: the title tells you who wins. **(READ:** [**The “Is God Dead?” cover story**](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,835309,00.html) **by subscribing to TIME)** Produced on the cheap in Baton Rouge, La., the movie expands its targets from atheism to Islam. The daughter of one strict Muslim secretly listens to podcasts by Billy Graham’s son Franklin, the same preacher who [recently found Vladimir Putin’s view of gay people more Christian than Barack Obama’s](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/19/franklin-graham-putin-is-better-than-obama-on-gay-rights/). Whatever the theological skew, _God’s Not Dead_ underlines the niche popularity of fundamentalist movies, which are among the most popular and profitable of all independent films. In 2008, without anyone much noticing, the Bible-thumping _Fireproof_, budgeted at $800,000, earned $33.5 million. **(READ: Richard Corliss’s** [**review of** **_Fireproof_**](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1847448,00.html)**)** And don’t forget that _Son of God_, the very reverent Jesus story that had played in a longer version on the History Channel, has earned $55.6 million in theaters. Will that impressive number be topped by _Noah_, the $125-million saga that its director, Darren Aronofsky, has called “the least biblical biblical film ever made”? We’ll get the first clues when it opens next weekend, amid some vocal resistance from the U.S. Christian right and from [Muslim countries such as Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates](http://time.com/16935/noahbanned-in-qatar-bahrain-and-uae/), which have banned the movie. (Wait till they see _God’s Not Dead_.) **(READ:** [**_Noah’_** **s Russell’s Crowe Meets the Pope**](http://time.com/30136/russell-crowe-pope-meeting/)**)** On the indie scene, Secular Division, Wes Anderson’s [_The Grand Budapest Hotel_](http://time.com/17897/wes-andersons-the-grand-budapest-hotel-make-that-the-great/) continued mightily, earning $6.7 million on about 600 screens for a $11,300 per-screen average, the weekend’s best among any film playing in 10 or more theaters. (_God’s Not Dead_ pulled $10,100 per-screen.) The documentary _Jodorowsky’s Dune_, about the Chilean director’s mid-1970s attempt to film Frank Herbert’s science-fiction classic, summoned $36,700 at three venues. And Lars Von Trier’s _Nymph()maniac Vol. 1_, despite or because of all the commotion about its explicit sexuality, had a flaccid $175,000 opening in 25 theaters. The film is also available on pay-per-view, for what its distributor, Magnolia, calls “a really great VOD take” — though what that take is, Magnolia won’t say. **(READ: Corliss’s reviews of** [**_Jodorowsky’s Dune_**](http://time.com/30500/jodorowskys-dune-movie-review-documentary/) **and** [**_Nymph()maniac Vol. 1_**](http://time.com/31204/nymphomaniac-movie-review-lars-von-trier-vol-1/)**)** Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by [Box Office Mojo](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/): 1\. _Divergent_, $56 million, first weekend 2\. _Muppets Most Wanted_, $16.5 million, first weekend 3\. _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_, $11.7 million; $81 million, third week 4\. _300: Rise of an Empire_, $8.7 million; $93.8 million, third week 5\. _God’s Not Dead_, $8.6 million, first weekend 6\. _Need for Speed_, $7.8 million; $30.4 million, second week 7\. _The Grand Budapest Hotel_, $6.75 million; $13 million, third week 8\. _Non-Stop_, $6.3 million; $78.6 million, fourth week 9\. _The LEGO Movie_, $4.1 million; $243.4 million, seventh week 10\. _Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club_, $3.1 million; $12.9 million, second week ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/34783/divergent-is-no-twilight-but-starts-strong-while-muppets-are-not-wanted/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/34783/divergent-is-no-twilight-but-starts-strong-while-muppets-are-not-wanted/"},"headline":"Divergent Is No Twilight But Starts Strong, While Muppets Are Not Wanted","datePublished":"2014-03-23T20:19:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:54:53.038Z","description":"The latest Young Adult Girl Power movie registers $56 million for the year's second highest opening weekend behind only The LEGO Movie, while Hollywood may want to retire Kermit and company after Muppets Most Wanted doesn't bring home the green","url":"https://time.com/34783/divergent-is-no-twilight-but-starts-strong-while-muppets-are-not-wanted/","keywords":["Divergent","The Grand Budapest Hotel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b9605585333cb98/6986867dcd804d6036cc9d59/793485_full.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/blt2b9605585333cb98/6986867dcd804d6036cc9d59/793485_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Divergent","caption":"Divergent","creditText":"Jaap Buitendijk—Summit Entertainment","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":"https://time.com/34783/divergent-is-no-twilight-but-starts-strong-while-muppets-are-not-wanted/","name":"Divergent Is No Twilight But Starts Strong, While Muppets Are Not Wanted"}}]}] ```