What do Suzanne Collins, Stephenie Meyer, and J.K. Rowling all have in common?\u00a0 In addition to being authors who have been financially successful in selling books to a young adult audience, these women have also taken a leaf from Dickens’ book and have released their stories in multiple parts.\u00a0 While each of the novels were released one by one, when\u00a0Collins, Meyer, and Rowling have sold the rights to their books for movies, the last movies\u00a0 in each series\u00a0have been released in two parts.\u00a0 For example The Hunger Games most recent movie Mockingjay Part II came out this past year, while Breaking Dawn Part II and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II\u00a0came out a few years ago.\u00a0 There are many different advantages to having a\u00a0blockbuster work split in two.\u00a0 The first is that you would have two movies, which means that people purchase twice the amount of tickets they normally would for one story.\u00a0 Another advantage is that screenwriters can fit in twice the amount of material that the would normally be able to because of the time limits.\u00a0 The audience can get four hours of a story without sitting through four entire hours\u00a0of a movie.\u00a0 While this means that twice the amount of money would probably have to be spent for production purposes\u00a0, every time that a part of a movie comes out, the audience gets extremely excited and goes out to purchase things like\u00a0Halloween costumes, posters, toys, and all sorts of other items.<\/p>\n
Having releases in multiple parts keeps the reader on the hook.\u00a0 Nothing keeps them wanting more than a good cliffhanger.\u00a0 However, even though\u00a0most of the audience has probably read the entire series beforehand, these people are probably most likely to go out and purchase things as fanatics of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What do Suzanne Collins, Stephenie Meyer, and J.K. Rowling all have in common?\u00a0 In addition to being authors who have been financially successful in selling books to a young adult audience, these women have also taken a leaf from Dickens’ … Continue reading