Opening Night Numbers Fuel Lionsgate to Green-light 'Insurgent'

'Divergent' initiates are responding positively with great fan reactions and buying tickets at the box office. Last night racked in $4.9 million for Summit Entertainment owned by Lionsgate. That was enough $$$ to get 'Insurgent' OFFICIALLY made.  It's greenlit, let's party, we are getting a second movie!
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According to Reuters:
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp will move ahead with plans for a second movie in its new "Divergent" dystopian thriller series, the company said on Friday after the first film debuted with $4.9 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales from Thursday night showings.
"Divergent" stars Shailene Woodley in the story of a futuristic society that divides people into factions based on single personality traits. Woodley's character, teen heroine Tris Prior, has multiple dominant traits that make it difficult for her to fit in, and she becomes a threat to the government's faction system.
Lions Gate had tentatively scheduled "Divergent" sequels for March 2015 and March 2016. On Friday, the company said it gave the official green light to the second installment, "Insurgent".
"We're confident that Divergent is on its way to becoming another important franchise for us," Lions Gate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer said in a statement.
"Divergent" is expected to sell between $50 million and $68 million worth of tickets at U.S. and Canadian theaters through Sunday, according to pre-opening estimates from Wall Street and box office analysts.
DIVERGENT is a thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader (Kate Winslet) to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four (Theo James) and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late. Based on the best-selling book series by Veronica Roth.



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