Paper Towns (film)#Music
{{Short description|2015 film directed by Jake Schreier}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Paper Towns
| image = Paper Towns (film).jpg
| alt = Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff as Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin "Q" Jacobsen respectively
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Jake Schreier
| screenplay = {{Plainlist|
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| based_on = {{based on |Paper Towns|John Green}}
| producer = {{Plainlist|
- Wyck Godfrey
- Marty Bowen
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| starring = {{Plainlist|
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| music = Ryan Lott
| cinematography = David Lanzenberg
| editing = {{Plainlist|
- Jacob Craycroft
- Jennifer Lame
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| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
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| distributor = 20th Century Fox
| released = {{Film date|2015|07|24}}
| runtime = 109 minutes{{cite web | url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/paper-towns-film | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150719053630/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/paper-towns-film | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 19, 2015 | title=PAPER TOWNS (12A) | work=British Board of Film Classification | date=July 16, 2015 | access-date=July 17, 2015}}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $12 million{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adam-sandlers-pixels-john-greens-810216|title=Box-Office Preview: 'Pixels,' 'Paper Towns' Prepare for Battle With 'Ant-Man,' 'Minions'|author=Pamela McClintock|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 21, 2015|access-date=July 22, 2015}}
| gross = $85.5 million{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=papertowns.htm|title=Paper Towns (2015)|work=Box Office Mojo|access-date=November 10, 2015}}
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Paper Towns is a 2015 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by John Green. The film stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne, with Halston Sage, Austin Abrams, and Justice Smith in supporting roles. The story follows the search by Quentin "Q" Jacobsen (Wolff) for Margo Roth Spiegelman (Delevingne), his childhood friend and object of affection. In the process, Quentin explores the relationship with his friends, including his compatibility with Margo.
Paper Towns was released in the United States on July 24, 2015, by 20th Century Fox.{{cite web|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/carol-motsinger/2014/10/27/paper-towns-charlotte-filming/18011609/|title='Paper Towns' will begin filming in Charlotte next week|website=citizen-times.com|first=Carol|last=Motsinger|date=October 27, 2014|access-date=November 14, 2014}} The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $85 million worldwide against a production budget of $12 million. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 20, 2015, and grossed over $9 million in total domestic video sales.{{cite web|title=Paper Towns (2015)|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Paper-Towns#tab=summary|website=The Numbers|publisher=Nash Information Services, LLC.|access-date=15 May 2018}}
Plot
Quentin "Q" Jacobsen lives across the street from Margo Roth Spiegelman in Jefferson Park, a subdivision of Orlando, Florida. She is a childhood friend from whom he has drifted over nine years after they discovered the corpse of a local lawyer, Robert Joyner, who killed himself after his divorce. Unbeknownst to Margo, Quentin has been infatuated with her since they became neighbors.
After reaching adolescence, Margo becomes one of the popular girls, with an adventurous reputation, at Jefferson Park High School.{{Efn|name=fn2|In John Green's novel, the main characters' school is Winter Park High School, but in the film adaptation, it is Jefferson Park High School.}} In contrast, Quentin is kind, unassertive, and unpopular. His friends are fellow outcasts Benjamin "Ben" Starling and Marcus "Radar" Lincoln.
One night, Margo climbs through Quentin's window and recruits him for an all-night, revenge adventure. She has discovered that her boyfriend, Jason "Jase" Worthington, is having sex with one of her friends, Rebecca "Becca" Arrington. After buying supplies, Margo and Quentin pull humiliating pranks on Jason, Rebecca, and their friends, including Margo's best friend, Lacey Pemberton.
Margo believes Lacey knew about but did not tell her about the infidelity. However, it is later revealed that Lacey was unaware until she was pranked. The event gives Quentin hope that he finally has a chance to develop a closer relationship with Margo. He begins to learn how to assert himself and to take chances.
The next day Margo does not come to school and, after a few days, some consider her missing, while others conclude she left for an undisclosed location. Her parents will not report her missing to the police as she has run away from home repeatedly before, and they believe their daughter will return eventually.
After seeing a recently attached Woody Guthrie poster on her bedroom wall, Quentin realizes that Margo deliberately left clues to let him know where she is going. Benjamin and Marcus start searching for other clues in hopes of finding Margo so that Quentin can confess his feelings to her. Quentin bribes Margo's sister Ruthie so they can look for clues in her room.
When Quentin, Benjamin, and Marcus attend a party at Jason's house, Lacey argues with Rebecca over her betrayal of Margo with Jason. Because of her loyalty to Margo and her revulsion towards Rebecca and Jason's affair, Lacey leaves in disgust. Quentin finds her in a bathroom and gets to know her. He discovers that, beneath her superficial exterior, she is an intelligent and compassionate person, and they become friends.
After finding more clues, Quentin and his friends are led to an old gift store at an abandoned strip mall. They find a map that Margo used, and discover that she has been hiding in Agloe, a paper town located in the state of New York. Quentin and his friends, including Marcus's girlfriend Angela, go on two-day road trip to find Margo. The group plans to be home in time for prom after they find her. They bond on the way, as Benjamin and Lacey decide to go to the prom together, and Marcus and Angela consummate their relationship.
When the group does not find Margo where they expect her to be, Quentin stays in Agloe while the others return home with his car. He finds her on the street and admits his romantic feelings for her, but she does not feel the same way. Margo ran away from home to escape her dysfunctional family life and figure out who she is. She left the clues to let Quentin know that she is safe, not to invite him to follow her.
Margo remains in Agloe. Quentin books a bus ticket home, and they share a farewell kiss. Before he leaves, she tells him that she has been in contact with Ruthie since leaving Orlando. Returning to Orlando, Quentin enjoys the company of his friends at the prom. After graduation, he continues spending time with them throughout the summer and learns ambiguous stories about Margo before they all leave for college.
Cast
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- Nat Wolff as Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, the film's lead protagonist
- Josiah Cerio as young "Q"
- Cara Delevingne as Margo Roth Spiegelman, Quentin's childhood friend and the object of his affection
- Hannah Alligood as young Margo
- Halston Sage as Lacey Pemberton, Margo's best friend, she later becomes one of Quentin's friends and Benjamin's prom date
- Austin Abrams as Benjamin "Ben" Starling, one of Quentin's best friends
- Kendall McIntyre as young Ben
- Justice Smith as Marcus "Radar" Lincoln, one of Quentin's best friends
- Jaz Sinclair as Angela, Marcus's girlfriend, and prom date, who later joins Quentin's circle of friends
- Cara Buono as Connie Jacobsen, Quentin's mother
- Griffin Freeman as Jason "Jase" Worthington, Margo's former boyfriend and Quentin's nemesis
- Caitlin Carver as Rebecca "Becca" Arrington, Margo's former friend-turned-nemesis and Jason's new girlfriend
- Meg Crosbie as Ruthie Spiegelman, Margo's sister
- Susan Macke Miller as Debbie Spiegelman, Margo and Ruthie's mother
- Tom Hillmann as Josh Spiegelman, Margo and Ruthie's father
- RJ Shearer as Chuck Parson, Jason's best friend, Lacey's former boyfriend, and Quentin's nemesis
- Jim Coleman as Detective Otis Warren with the Orlando Police Department
- Lane Lovegrove as Robert Joyner, the local man whose corpse was found by Margo and Quentin after he committed suicide
- Ansel Elgort (cameo) as Mason, the convenience store clerk who is infatuated with Lacey
- Stevie Ray Dallimore as Hank Jacobsen, Quentin's father
- John Green (voice) as Dwight Arrington, Rebecca's father
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Production
=Pre-production=
The rights to the film had been optioned since at least 2008;{{cite web |url=http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1833893%3ABlogPost%3A1046902 |title=Paper Towns Movie!!11!! |first=John |last=Green |date=October 24, 2008 |access-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221055807/http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1833893%3ABlogPost%3A1046902 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} Green wrote the first draft of the screenplay himself.{{YouTube |id=v9y0k15ok3k&t=2m48s |title=Lighting Candles for Rwanda (at 2:48)}}
Although the novel features a scene set in SeaWorld the location was changed after the release of the CNN documentary Blackfish which was highly critical of the theme park keeping orcas.{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/seaworld-scene-cut-john-greens-763312|title=SeaWorld Scene Cut From John Green's 'Paper Towns' Film|first= Rebecca|last=Ford|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 16, 2015|access-date=January 18, 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150123000412/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/seaworld-scene-cut-john-greens-763312 | archive-date=January 23, 2015| url-status=live}}{{YouTube|id=eCW3YrYXr-0|title=Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations}} On March 24, 2014, Green announced via Twitter that Nat Wolff would be playing the protagonist Quentin "Q" Jacobsen.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/realjohngreen/status/448239354620563456|title=Paper Towns will have the same screenwriters (@iamthepuma and @thisisweber), same producers (@wyckgodfrey), same studio, AND @natandalex.|publisher=twitter.com|first=John|last=Green|date=March 24, 2014|access-date=September 4, 2014}} Cara Delevingne's casting as Margo Roth Spiegelman was announced the following September.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/cara-delevingne-john-green-paper-towns-1201306840/|title=Cara Delevingne Lands Female Lead in John Green's 'Paper Towns' (EXCLUSIVE)|work=Variety.com|first=Justin|last=Kroll|date=September 16, 2014|access-date=September 16, 2014}}
=Filming=
Although the novel is set primarily in Orlando, Florida, North Carolina's tax incentives for filmmakers made it the affordable choice for principal photography according to Green. The crew was encouraged to finish filming before December 31, 2014, the date when certain tax incentives would expire.{{cite web|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/carol-motsinger/2014/09/25/paper-towns-film-north-carolina/16202741/|title='Paper Towns' film adaptation coming to North Carolina|website=citizen-times.com|first=Carol|last=Motsinger|date=September 25, 2014|access-date=October 6, 2014}}
Filming began on November 3, 2014, in and around Charlotte, North Carolina and concluded on December 19, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://instagram.com/p/us0A7DQpA7/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/us0A7DQpA7 |archive-date=2021-12-24 |url-access=limited|title=Camera test. 7 days til day 1. #papertowns|website=instagram.com|first=Jake|last=Schreier|date=October 28, 2014|access-date=October 29, 2014}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news|last1=Lindquist|first1=David|title=Film shoot for John Green's 'Paper Towns' begins today|url=http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/11/03/green-paper-towns-dftba-delevinge-wolff-halston-margo-nerdfighters/18399309/|access-date=November 13, 2014|website=indystar.com|date=November 3, 2014}}{{cite news|title='Paper Towns' has begun filming in Charlotte, NC|url=http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2014/11/05/paper-towns-has-begun-filming-in-charlotte-nc/|access-date=November 13, 2014|website=onlocationvacations.com|date=November 12, 2014}} On November 17–18, filming was due to take place at the Mooresville Arts Depot in Mooresville, North Carolina but due to weather conditions the schedule was moved to November 18–19, when the film was shot on location both days.{{cite news|title=Downtown movie filming delayed by weather|url=http://www.mooresvilletribune.com/news/movie-filming-is-monday-tuesday-in-downtown-mooresville/article_c805c544-6ce9-11e4-a8fb-8b420a820191.html|access-date=November 18, 2014|website=mooresvilletribune.com|date=November 16, 2014}} Production was set to be moved to Wilmington, North Carolina on December 2 to film the high school scenes with extras,{{cite news|title=John Green's 'Paper Towns' is about to move to Wilmington, NC & they need extras for a high school scene|url=http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2014/11/24/john-greens-paper-towns-is-about-to-move-to-wilmington-nc-they-need-extras-for-a-high-school-scene/|access-date=November 26, 2014|website=onlocationvacations.com|date=November 24, 2014}} but the venue was changed and filming took place in Cabarrus County, North Carolina outside of Charlotte instead.{{cite news|title='Paper Towns' is filming in Cabarrus County, NC this week|url=http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2014/12/02/paper-towns-is-filming-in-cabarrus-county-nc-this-week/|access-date=December 3, 2014|website=onlocationvacations.com|date=December 2, 2014}} Between December 2 through 8, the crew filmed at Central Cabarrus High School in Concord, North Carolina, which was transformed into "Jefferson Park High School". Cast members were dressed for warm weather even though it was cold.{{cite news|title=Central casting: High school has starring role in 'Paper Towns'|url=http://www.independenttribune.com/news/central-casting-high-school-has-starring-role-in-paper-towns/article_88c02556-339e-11e5-8fc8-3f98bb1403c0.html|work=Independent Tribune|date=July 26, 2015|access-date=July 27, 2015}}
Release
[[File:Cara Delevingne (19436110131).jpg|thumb|Cara Delevingne at the film's premiere.
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The film was originally supposed to be released on July 31, 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-greens-paper-towns-film-722906 |title=John Green's 'Paper Towns' Film Adaptation Gets Release Date |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |date=August 1, 2014 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=August 2, 2014}} The release date was later changed to June 19 and then to June 5, the day before the first anniversary of The Fault in Our Stars{{'}} film release.{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/12/23/john-green-the-fault-in-our-stars-author-of-the-year/20775795/ | title=Author of the Year: John Green | work=USA Today | date=December 23, 2014 | access-date=December 23, 2014 | last=McClurg|first=Jocelyn}} In March 2015, 20th Century Fox moved the release date to July 24, 2015, which was assigned to the release of Poltergeist. It was released on May 22 instead.{{cite news|last1=Lesnick|first1=Silas|title=20th Century Fox Shifts Dates for Spy, Poltergeist and Paper Towns|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/416235-20th-century-fox-swaps-shifts-dates-for-spy-poltergeist-and-paper-towns|access-date=March 9, 2015|website=ComingSoon.net|date=March 4, 2015}} To tie in with the release of the film, an extra 1.5 million paperback copies of the book were printed.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/11765317/Paper-Towns-author-John-Green-I-didnt-know-who-Cara-Delevingne-was...-but-she-gets-Margo-better-than-I-do.html|title=Paper Towns author John Green: 'I didn't know who Cara Delevingne was... but she gets Margo better than I do'|author=Blanchard, Tamsin|date=31 July 2015|publisher=telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2 December 2019}}
Music
The soundtrack for Paper Towns consists of new and previously released material from Twin Shadow, Santigold, Grouplove, Haim, Vampire Weekend, The Mountain Goats, The War on Drugs, Galantis as well as Nat Wolff and his brother Alex. Atlantic Records' President of Film and TV, and soundtrack producer, Kevin Weaver, and music supervisor Season Kent, (both of whom worked on the soundtrack for The Fault in Our Stars in 2014) served as the soundtrack's producers.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/10/idUSnMKW9TCvca+1d8+MKW20150710|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724072543/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/10/idUSnMKW9TCvca+1d8+MKW20150710|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-07-24|title=PAPER TOWNS - ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK Arrives Amidst Wide Range of Celebrations|work=Reuters}}
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{{Track listing
| headline = Paper Towns – Music from the Motion Picture
| extra_column = Original artists
| total_length = 60:51
| title1 = Radio
| writer1 = Amanda Lucille Warner; Jesse Shatkin; Santi White
| extra1 = Santigold
| length1 = 3:09
| title2 = To the Top
| writer2 = George Lewis Jr.
| extra2 = Twin Shadow
| length2 = 3:16
| title3 = Search Party
| writer3 = Al Shuckburgh; Tommie Lee McLoughlin
| extra3 = Sam and Samantha Kay Bruno
| length3 = 3:48
| title4 = Swingin' Party
| writer4 = Paul Westerberg
| extra4 = Kindness
| length4 = 3:57
| title5 = Great Summer
| writer5 = Vance Joy
| extra5 = Vance Joy
| length5 = 3:42
| title6 = Taxi Cab
| writer6 = Ezra Koenig
| extra6 = Vampire Weekend
| length6 = 3:56
| title7 = Lost It to Trying
| note7 = Paper Towns mix
| writer7 = Ryan Lott
| extra7 = Son Lux
| length7 = 4:05
| title8 = My Type
| writer8 = Aaron Dale Moore Sharp; Alexander Leonard Jackson; Chondrak Lerdamornpong; Greg Erwin
| extra8 = Saint Motel
| length8 = 3:25
| title9 = Runaway (U & I)
| note9 = Svidden & Jarly Remix
| writer9 = Anton Rundberg; Cathy Dennis; Christian Karlsson; Jimmy Koitzsch; Julia Karlsson; Linus Eklöw
| extra9 = Galantis
| length9 = 3:22
| title10 = Falling
| writer10 = Alana Haim; Danielle Haim; Este Haim; Morgan Nagler
| extra10 = Haim
| length10 = 4:19
| title11 = No Drama Queen
| writer11 = Grouplove
| extra11 = Grouplove
| length11 = 2:43
| title12 = Moments
| writer12 = Isaac Franco; Sean Guerin
| extra12 = De Lux
| length12 = 6:11
| title13 = Be Mine
| writer13 = Alice Boman; Tom Malmros
| extra13 = Alice Boman
| length13 = 3:26
| title14 = Used to Haunt
| writer14 = John Darnielle
| extra14 = The Mountain Goats
| length14 = 2:43
| title15 = Burning
| writer15 = Adam Granofsky
| extra15 = The War on Drugs
| length15 = 5:45
| title16 = Look Outside
| writer16 = Nat Wolff
| extra16 = Nat and Alex Wolff
| length16 = 2:55
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Charts
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{{album chart|Australia|44|artist=Soundtrack|album=Paper Towns|access-date=July 25, 2015|rowheader=true}} |
{{album chart|Billboard200|89|artist=Soundtrack|access-date=July 25, 2015|rowheader=true}} |
{{album chart|BillboardSoundtrack|6|artist=Soundtrack|access-date=July 25, 2015|rowheader=true}} |
Reception
=Box office=
{{Asof|2015|10|15|df=US}}, Paper Towns has grossed $32 million in North America and $53.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $85.5 million, against a budget of $12 million.
In the United States and Canada, the film opened at 3,031 theaters on July 24, 2015, alongside two other films, Pixels and Southpaw. Box office pundits projected the film would earn around $20 million in its opening weekend, facing direct competition with Pixels and the holdover of Ant-Man and Minions. Box office analysts also noted that it could have easily over-performed and had a higher debut, if teen girls – who are its primary target – had embraced the film and word-of-mouth had gone viral.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/box-office-pixels-paper-towns-southpaw-1201544894/|title=Box Office: 'Pixels,' 'Paper Towns' Jump Into Crowded Summer Field|author=Brent Lang|work=Variety|publisher=(Penske Media Corporation)|date=July 21, 2015|access-date=July 22, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/pixels-paper-towns-southpaw-ant-man-box-office-1201482714/|title='Pixels', 'Paper Towns' & 'Southpaw' Vie For A Variety Of Demos – Box Office Preview|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=(Penske Media Corporation)|date=July 21, 2015|access-date=July 22, 2015}} Paper Towns made $2 million from its Thursday night showings, which began at 9 p.m. at 2,500 theaters;{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/box-office-paper-towns-tops-pixels-thursday-1201547870/|title=Box Office: 'Paper Towns' Tops 'Pixels' With $2 Million on Thursday Night|author=Dave McNarry|work=Variety|publisher=(Penske Media Corporation)|date=July 24, 2015|access-date=July 24, 2015}} 500 of the screens had a live-streaming event before the film's screening. It then earned $6.3 million on its opening day from 3,301 theaters.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-pixels-trouble-southpaw-810861|title=Box Office: 'Pixels' in Trouble; 'Southpaw' Could Beat 'Paper Towns'|author=Pamela McClintock and Rebecca Ford|work=The Hollywood Reporter|publisher=(Prometheus Global Media)|date=July 24, 2015|access-date=July 25, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/pixels-paper-towns-southpaw-trainwreck-ant-man-box-office-1201484974/|title=Adam Sandler Wins Friday, But 'Ant-Man' Will Punch 'Pixels' Out Of No. 1 Spot – Late Night B.O. Update|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=(Penske Media Corporation)|date=July 25, 2015|access-date=July 25, 2015}} In its opening weekend, the film grossed $12.5 million and finished 6th at the box office, falling short of industry projections and earning much less than the $48 million opening weekend gross of The Fault in Our Stars, a 2014 adaption of John Green's novel of the same name.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/07/26/box-office-jake-gyllenhaals-southpaw-hits-16-5m-weekend-john-greens-paper-towns-nabs-12-5m/|title=Box Office: Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Southpaw' Hits $16.5M Weekend, John Green's 'Paper Towns' Nabs $12.5M|author=Scott Mendelson|work=Forbes|date=July 26, 2015|access-date=July 26, 2015}}
It had a major worldwide release on July 24, 2015, in 34 markets grossing $7.9 million from 3,905 screens in 39 markets.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/international-box-office-pixels-ant-man-minions-inside-out-monster-hunt-terminator-genisys-bhajrangi-bhaijaan-grosses-1201485296/|title='Minions', 'Ant-Man' Grow In Actuals; 'Pixels' Powered By Latin America – Intl B.O. Final|author=Nancy Tartaglione|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=(Penske Media Corporation)|date=July 27, 2015|access-date=July 28, 2015}} It opened in Brazil on July 10, 2015 – the first country to release the film – and earned $2.38 million in its opening weekend, from 630 screens, debuting at third place at the Brazilian box office, behind Minions and Terminator Genisys. However, in terms of admissions, it was second behind the former film.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/international-box-office-terminator-genisys-minions-inside-out-baahubali-results-1201474737/|title='Minions' Henchmen Runs Past $400M Worldwide & No. 1; 'Terminator' Generates $46.5M; 'Baahubali', China See Big Bows – Intl B. O. Update|first=Nancy|last=Tartaglione|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=July 13, 2015|access-date=July 14, 2015}} It had notable openings in Mexico ($1.54 million) and in Australia ($1.53 million).{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/international-box-office-ant-man-bajrangi-bhaijaan-minions-inside-out-terminator-genisys-jurassic-world-results-1201481996|title='Ant-Man' Shrinks A Tick; China's 'Monster' Smash Tops Overseas; 'Minions' No. 1 WW – Intl Box Office Actuals|first=Nancy|last=Tartaglione|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 20, 2015|access-date=July 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720143544/http://deadline.com/2015/07/international-box-office-ant-man-bajrangi-bhaijaan-minions-inside-out-terminator-genisys-jurassic-world-results-1201481996/|archive-date=July 20, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} It was released in 18 additional countries in late July and early August, including Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 20, 2015, and grossed over $9 million in total domestic video sales.
=Critical response=
Paper Towns received mixed reviews from film critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 58% approval rating, based on 141 reviews, with a rating average of 5.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Paper Towns isn't as deep or moving as it wants to be, yet it's still earnest, well-acted, and thoughtful enough to earn a place in the hearts of teen filmgoers of all ages."{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paper_towns |title=Paper Towns (2015) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=November 20, 2022}} On Metacritic, the film has a score of 56 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".{{cite web | url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/paper-towns | title=Paper Towns | work=Metacritic | publisher=CBS Interactive | access-date=September 6, 2015}} In CinemaScore polls conducted during its opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
=Accolades=
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rowspan="4"| Teen Choice Awards
| colspan="2"| Choice Summer Movie | {{won}} | rowspan="4"| {{cite web|url=http://www.teenchoice.com/article/winners-of-%E2%80%9Cteen-choice-2015%E2%80%9D-announced|title=WINNERS OF TEEN CHOICE 2015 ANNOUNCED|work=Teen Choice Awards|publisher=FOX|date=August 16, 2015|access-date=August 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818075858/http://www.teenchoice.com/article/winners-of-%E2%80%9Cteen-choice-2015%E2%80%9D-announced|archive-date=August 18, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} |
Choice Summer Movie Star: Male
| {{nom}} |
Choice Summer Movie Star: Female
| {{won}} |
Choice Movie: Breakout Star
| Cara Delevingne | {{won}} |
Young Artist Awards
| Best Performance in a Feature Film | Hannah Alligood | {{nom}} |
Notes
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References
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External links
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