Fellow YA tale Beautiful Creatures didn't earn such a Warm reception on its opening weekend.
Mr Ford said such "beautiful creatures" deserved all the help they could get.
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Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind The Blind Side, was hoping that Beautiful Creatures might launch their first franchise.
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Adapted from the popular YA novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, "Beautiful Creatures" is lushly pictorial and not-too-badly acted.
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Beautiful Creatures is about a coven of witches living in the deep South and co-stars Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson.
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But "Beautiful Creatures, " more than the "Twilight" films, lacks danger and momentum.
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Misses include Broken City, Beautiful Creatures and The Last Stand.
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They had a rough first quarter, with films bad (Bullet to the Head), allegedly halfway decent (Jack the Giant Slayer) and unexpectedly great (Beautiful Creatures) bombing pretty hard.
The genders have been reversed but the supernatural, star-crossed teen angst remains firmly intact in "Beautiful Creatures, " which clearly aims to pick up where the "Twilight" franchise left off.
Audiences issued Beautiful Creatures a lukewarm "B" CinemaScore grade.
And with the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host, The Moral Instruments: City of Bones (August 23rd) unfairly bears the burden of proving that female-friendly young-adult literary adaptations can in fact succeed aside from The Hunger Games and Twilight.
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Not only has The Twilight Saga begat Snow White and the Huntsman and The Hunger Games, genuine mega-action franchises fronted by Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence respectively, but the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host were not held up as proof that Twilight was a fluke.
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Sky today continues to strengthen its leadership in movie content by agreeing a new multi-year deal with the UK's leading independent film distribution company, Entertainment Film Distributors, to bring Sky Movies customers exclusive access to hit movies including The Master, Silver Linings Playbook, Beautiful Creatures and The Host, alongside a wide range of classic titles.
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