Beautiful Creatures: Why It Bombed

First, the numbers.

Beautiful Creatures grossed $7.5 million over this past weekend. Compare that with the first Twilight movie. When that debuted in 2009, it raked in $7 million from its initial midnight showing alone.

Meanwhile, the latest Nicholas Sparks romance, Safe Haven, starring Julianne Hough, earned $21.5 million this past weekend. And A Good Day to Die Hard, which got horrendous reviews, won the weekend with nearly $25 million.

According to experts, you can blame two parties for the ugly end to Beautiful Creatures.

The first party: Beautiful Creatures fans themselves. Before the film launched, it was no secret that the big-screen adaptation differed significantly from the book, with departures ranging from the female lead's coloring to the elimination of entire characters to the way in which characters meet.