The other new release was Weinstein Company’s The Giver. The adapation of Lois Lowry’s beloved “classic” 1993 novel about a dystopian future disguised as a utopia earned $4.74 million on its first day for a likely $13m opening weekend. The good news is that the $25m Walden Media production, which stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, had a better debut than The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones around this time last year ($14m for a Wed-Sun debut weekend). The bad news is that this one is probably going to fade fast. With poor reviews, purists upset about changes to the source material (aging up the young protagonists to allow for a teen romance subplot), and newbies seeing it as a rip-off of Divergent (irony) without any buzz teen-friendly stars,
The Giver will be but a blip on the radar. It will be an answer to the trivia question “Name the movie where Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges got out-acted by Taylor Swift.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmen...ables-3-flops/
Taylor Swift >>>> Meryl Streep