The 5th Wave, the latest play for that teen-friendly post-apocalyptic goldmine, performed in the vast chasm between those two classes, which probably isn't enough to yield a sequel, but is probably enough to not set back the careers of those who made it.
Since the original film launched to blockbuster numbers in 2012, dystopian YA fiction has been all the rage and filmmakers keep hoping the right adaptation can be 'the next Hunger Games.' The like-minded Divergent and Maze Runner movies have succeeded enough to sustain sequels of diminishing returns, which is at least more than can be said for the Twilight-esque one-and-done flops Beautiful Creatures and Vampire Academy. If that's so, then author Suzanne Collins and the creative team behind The Hunger Games films must be feeling very flattered the past few years. They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
