The smash success of The Hunger Games set off a rush to buy up and adapt dystopian YA novels; unfortunately, none of them has come anywhere close to being anywhere near as good or successful as The Hunger Games. The only half-decent wannabe of the lot, 2014’s Divergent, got a very long and boring sequel in this year’s Insurgent, which has none of the political smarts or visual production values of any Hunger Games movies, not to mention a certain Oscar-nominated lead actress. – Jordan Zakarin (Photo: Everett Collection)
As filmmakers and actors will tell you time and time again, it is extremely difficult to make a great movie. There are so many factors that need to jibe together, from hiring the best director to finding the right tone to establishing believable chemistry between the leads. For 10 recent examples of how these things can easily go so gloriously wrong, look no further than the following list of our picks for this year’s worst of the very worst.
Former New York Yankees left-hander Fritz Peterson died at the age of 82. He is probably best known exchanging wives with teammate Mike Kekich in the 1970s.