Genre: Fantasy
Director: Patty Jenkins
Writer: Willem Mainwright
Based on the novel by Sabaa Tahir
Cast: Lilly Collins, Alexander Ludwig, Cassidy Gifford, Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Sumpter, Blake Michael, Kate Winslet, Robert Carlyle
Budget: $45,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $9,301,772
Foreign Box Office: $17,559,079
Total Profit: -$47,123,451
Reaction: Another young adult adaptation, another box office bomb. Teen oriented fantasy especially has had a rough season between this and The Hazel Wood (losing a combined $105 million fot the studio).
"An Ember in the Ashes feels like a hodgepodge of other young-adult oriented fantasy films before it. The result is a bland forgettable film full of bland pretty young actors not required to anything more than give exposition and occasionally sulk for the cameras." - Ken Hammerschmidt, Washington Post
"After high-quality hits like Wonder Woman and LRF's own Mass Effect: The Shadow Broker, this film is a step in the wrong direction for Patty Jenkins as a director." - Albert Perry, Orange County Register
"You won't see anything you haven't seen in a half dozen other young-adult films from the last decade. I felt bad for Kate Winslet and Robert Carlyle, two wonderfully talented actors who are criminally wasted on this film." - Chris Knowles, TV Guide
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Rated PG-13 for scenes of peril, violence and some sexual references.
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