12 Biggest Box Office Flops Of 2017 (So Far)
11. The Space Between Us
It wasn’t too long ago that YA movies were all the rage, with
series like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games consistently drawing huge
audiences and grossing hundreds of millions in box office takings. But judging
by the dwindling popularity of the Divergent Series and the critical flop that
was last year’s The 5th Wave, the YA genre might be finally running
out of fuel.
The Space Between Us – a sci-fi romance mashup about the first boy born on Mars and the relationship he develops with an Earthling girl while trying to discover the identity of his father – seems to have caught the tail end of YA’s wave of success.
By its third week in circulation, the movie was pulled from all but 317 of its 2,758 cinemas which according to Box Office Mojo ranks it as the seventh biggest theatre drop in a movie’s third weekend in recent cinema history.