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Entertainment has targeted Aug. 5 as the street date for the Summit
Entertainment production of director Neil Burger’s film adaptation of Veronica
Roth’s post-apocalyptic novel, Divergent, the first in a planned
series of film adaptions of her trilogy of books (Insurgent is slated for
release in March of 2015, while Allegiant will be produced as a two-parter in
2016 and 2017).
Planned for release are
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and DVD editions (featuring UltraViolet) … the ARR comes
in at 137 days. Ticket sales currently
stand at $146.8 million.
While the results were
good — not that of blockbuster status — the production team going forward must
find better ways to exploit the “uniqueness” of the series if it is not going
to end up being labeled as just another Hunger Games wannabe.
Word is that director
Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, RED, The Time Traveler's Wife and
the failed R.I.P.D. are among his film credits) has been recruited to
replace Burger on the sequel. Only time
will tell how that works out.
Bonus features include
two commentary options — one featuring director Neil Burger (Limitless,
The
Illusionist, etc.) and the second with Douglas Wick (Oscar-winner for Gladiator)
and Lucy Fisher (co-producer with Wick on such films as The Great Gatsby, Memoirs
of a Geisha and Jarhead) — the making-of featurette
titled “Bringing Divergent to Life,” a second featurette titled “Faction Before
Blood” and deleted scenes.
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