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'Ascendant' Budget Slashed as 'Divergent' Franchise Fizzles

“The core of the story is being hollowed out by splitting the final novel [into two parts] and spiraling out of control,” says one box-office analyst as the Shailene Woodley series shrinks rather than grows in its third installment. In the wake of the weak box office of Allegiant, the third picture in the Divergent franchise based on Veronica Roth’s young adult novels, sources say Lionsgate will cut the budget of the fourth and final movie in the series, Ascendant, due to start shooting this su