Following Twilight and The Hunger Games, Lionsgate is going to break up
the final entry in the Divergent Trilogy into two parts. So Allegiant - Part 1
will open on March 18th, 2016 and Allegiant - Part 2 will open on March 24th,
2017.
The next installment in the franchise, Insurgent opens on March 20th,
2015.
THIRD BOOK IN VERONICA ROTH’S BLOCKBUSTER DIVERGENT TRILOGY, ALLEGIANT,
WILL BE PRODUCED AND RELEASED AS TWO SEPARATE FILMS
Allegiant — Part 1 To Be Released on Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment
Label On March 18, 2016;
Allegiant — Part 2 To Arrive in Theatres Nationwide on March 24, 2017
SANTA MONICA, CA,
and VANCOUVER, BC, April 11, 2014 – Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a leading global
entertainment company, will produce and release Allegiant, starring
Shailene Woodley and Theo James and based on the third book in Veronica Roth’s
best-selling Divergent trilogy, as two separate films, it was
announced today by Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairmen Rob Friedman and
Patrick Wachsberger. The Company will release a total of four Divergent films
on its Summit Entertainment label, with the next film, Insurgent,
which begins production next month, slated for release on March 20, 2015 and Allegiant –
Parts 1 & 2 scheduled for release on March 18, 2016, and March 24,
2017, respectively.
The first film in
the Divergent franchise is off to a fast start, grossing $117
million at the domestic box office in its first three weeks of release, and it
continues its international rollout this weekend with openings in France,
Germany, Russia, Australia, Scandinavia and other major territories. Book
sales of the best-selling Divergent series continue to
skyrocket with total sales nearing 20 million worldwide and sales of the
three-book boxed set and three-book e-bundle increasing 55% last week.
The three books ranked one-two-three on the USA Today best-seller list for
2013.
“Veronica Roth
brings her captivating story to a masterful conclusion in Allegiant,
a rich, action-packed book with material that is ideally suited to two strong
and fulfilling movies,” said Friedman and Wachsberger. “The storytelling
arc and world of the characters lend themselves perfectly to two films, a
storytelling strategy that has worked very well for us on the two Twilight
Breaking Dawn films and about which we’re tremendously enthusiastic
for the two upcoming Mockingjay films of The Hunger
Games franchise.”
The Company’s The
Hunger Games and The Twilight Saga franchises
have collectively grossed more than $5 billion at the worldwide box office, and The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the 10th highest-grossing
film of all time. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Parts 1 & 2 will
be released on November 21, 2014 and November 20, 2015, respectively.
After the
cataclysmic events in Insurgent, Tris and Four enter a dangerous
new world in Allegiant — Parts 1 & 2 that they no longer
recognize. As new truths are revealed about the past and future, Tris
must face impossible choices about courage, allegiance and love to protect the
people closest to her.
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