Stars is a love story of two witty and engaging teenagers, Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), who have cancer. Tweets from local cinemagoers suggest there were few dry eyes when the film was released in Australia on Thursday. Stars took $US26.1 million at the US box office on Friday, and is projected to exceed $50 million for its opening weekend. Critics are divided but users on film website Rotten Tomatoes have given Stars a big tick, with an approval rating of 82 per cent. Green's book, his fourth young adult fiction novel, was a New York Times bestseller and he himself has been placed among Time's 100 'most influential people'.
The year is shaping up nicely for both of the film's young stars. Five films to make you cry
The Notebook - Nick Cassavetes' 2004 drama is a slow-burn tearjerker. Watch with ice cream; lover.
Watch with the family, maybe.
Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky star in this 1991 drama from director Howard Zieff. The movie adaptation of a heartwrenching love story is already winning in theaters
The film, which earlier this week broke pre-sales records for a romantic drama, could make over $40 million in ticket sales this weekend and has a strong shot at edging out its main competitor, Edge of Tomorrow, according to Deadline.
The Fault in Our Stars is based on a best-selling novel by John Green, who probably contributed to the box office earnings when he quietly watched the film at an Indianapolis theater.
The Fault in Our Stars author John Green is used to hordes of young-adult fiction fans clamoring for his novels. Now, the highly anticipated movie adaptation of his latest novel, The Fault in our Stars, starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, is rocking the box office as it hurtles toward a whopping $60 million opening weekend, according to early estimates.
Paper Towns was picked up by Fox 2000 studio and will star TFIOS' Nat Wolff. Four months before Green's daughter Alice was born last year, Google+ hosted a "Fire-side Hangout" session to discuss President Obama's most recent State of the Union address. During the chat, Green's wife, Sarah, asked the president if he preferred the name Eleanor or Alice.
