Fault In Our Stars shines bright in Phl box-office

MANILA, Philippines - The phenomenal bestselling book by John Green, The Fault In Our Stars, adapted to film starring today’s most talented young actors Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort is now a certified blockbuster film on its opening weekend across the globe.

Like fate, the movie’s success has already been written in the stars when it opened to a lustrous P52M in just four days after it opened (June 5) in the Philippines, likewise, it also earned a brilliant $48M in the US on its opening weekend.

Benefitting from its massive fan base and impressive word-of-mouth, cinemas have noted a repeat in the views, not just twice but as much as reaching a fourth recurrence. This phenomenal draw in the Philippines had Google’s analytics going bonkers as reported in Time Magazine when it found out that not India, not Spain and not even the United States where Green is based had the most voracious of readers but it is actually the Philippines that grabbed the seat. 

As stated in Time Magazine, “According to Google data, it’s actually the Philippines, whose search volume index (normalized as a score of 100, the highest) for the term The Fault In Our Stars is more than double that of the US (44, the second highest). The three next most starry-eyed countries are Singapore (38), Australia (37) and New Zealand (36).”

From its modest 137 screens, The Fault In Our Stars’ admissions have managed to reach 283,680 over its opening weekend. It was Ayala Malls Cinemas’ Trinoma that landed the top spot among theaters with P2.3M in receipts. 

The Fault In Our Stars is still showing in more than 100 screens nationwide.