This belated adaptation of the highly popular 1993 children's novel is directed by Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Salt). It stars, among others, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, and relative newcomer Brenton Thwaites, recently seen in Maleficent and The Signal. It comes out August 15th via the Weinstein Company, opening against Let's Be Cops and The Expendables 3.
So, how is this going to fare?
To me, it seems rather fated to flop as The Host and Beautiful Creatures did. Harvey Weinstein and his team are just not handling it right. I do not sense it is generating very much excitement among the core teenage audience. It does have a couple of the YA-hit ingredients, including a soundtrack featuring such relatively "hot" names as Aloe Blacc, Jake Bugg, and Capital Cities, but still.
A generous prediction from me might be 12/39.