BOX OFFICE: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Likely To Earn $90 Million This Weekend

BOX OFFICE: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Likely To Earn $90 Million This Weekend

Early estimates are in for the North American box office this Thanksgiving weekend, and it appears as if The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will stay #1 despite competition from a couple of other big releases. Thor: The Dark World should also do well, although Oldboy is likely to flop.

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By JoshWilding - Nov 28, 2013 07:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: Deadline


According to Deadline's early estimates, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire looks set to retain the top spot this five-day weekend with an extremely impressive $90 million haul (the sequel has already passed $200 million domestically). Frozen will definitely give it a run for its money though, as the animated movie will likely debut with upwards of $80 million. Meanwhile, Thor: The Dark World will likely hold onto third place after earning $3 million yesterday, while Spike Lee's Oldboy remake is projected to earn only $2.5 million. Neither the studio or director are said to be entirely happy with the end result, especially after Lee cut an hour out of the movie for producers to his and Josh Brolin's dissatisfaction. Asked about these changes recently, the actor said "I do have opinions but it’s better I bite my tongue." What are you seeing this weekend?

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Whiteandgold
Whiteandgold - 11/28/2013, 8:23 AM
BOOM! Katniss>thor
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 8:23 AM
Beto
Not sure about 'MERICA but in the UK, it opens on the 26th December
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 8:27 AM
To people saying Catching Fire will beat TDW...

Thor has this in the bag, HG will not pass it's world wide takings
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 8:27 AM
Beto
Isn't that a good thing?
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 8:30 AM
Cosmic
We lay the bait and wait on the DC fanboys to come bitching...
QuestiontheAnswer
QuestiontheAnswer - 11/28/2013, 8:32 AM
I'm sick of Jennifer Lawrence and The Hunger Games, she's an overrated actress and those are overrated teen books.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 11/28/2013, 8:35 AM
@ Beto

Sage has a date with a DC Avatar!
marcel
marcel - 11/28/2013, 8:35 AM
BOOM! Someone's insecure.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 11/28/2013, 8:40 AM
@ Beto

No we have not seen him for the past several days to give him crap about it. But knowing Sage he will pick a fricked up avatar to mess with DC fans!
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 11/28/2013, 8:42 AM
@ SotoJuice

LOL! I would actually be fine with that!
BlkThunderGod
BlkThunderGod - 11/28/2013, 8:44 AM
The original Oldboy is almost classic IMO. I enjoy most of spike lee's movies but he should have left this alone. I wonder if marvel would give him consideration on black panther.....probably not.
marcel
marcel - 11/28/2013, 8:44 AM
I think the mixed critical reception and modest box office for Thor2 speak to the troubled production and bad mojo this one had from day 1. A chink in the otherwise impervious mcu armor
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 11/28/2013, 8:44 AM
@ SlaveMasterFlexXx

Well at this point Thor is running out of steam it will make a few more million, but Hunger Games will surpass it. I would not even be surprised if Hunger Games gets close to 800 million.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 11/28/2013, 8:46 AM
@ marcel

Correct also Thor is not really riding the Avengers High like IronMan 3 did. Do not get me wrong Thor 2 was good not great nor bad. I am curious how the next two movies form Marvel Studios is going to do this 2014.
sikwon
sikwon - 11/28/2013, 8:52 AM
Hunger games was great. and the books are good as hell. Thor at 550mil is a huge success. Thinkn about it, a Norse mythology based comic charecter will probably earn in the neighborhood hood of 600 mil. Not to bad.
jlabatman
jlabatman - 11/28/2013, 8:56 AM
I thought this last HG movie was not all that great. It was good but I definitely liked the first one better! Thor was definitely a better movie!
BlkThunderGod
BlkThunderGod - 11/28/2013, 8:57 AM
The spike lee movies I enjoyed like " Do the right thing " and Malcolm X was more reality to me. I do see anything racist about his movies. But I do agree that marvel wouldn't hire him due to mainstream America's view on his style.
sikwon
sikwon - 11/28/2013, 8:59 AM
My favorite CBM this year by far has been MoS, and im not a DC fan (except for Batman). Maybe that's why I liked it more then most people. I really enjoyed it. IM3 was fun but I hated the kid. And inthought marvel did a great job of modernizing a weak character (mandarin).
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 11/28/2013, 9:05 AM
Of course, chick flicks are going to make a lot of money.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 11/28/2013, 9:10 AM
"modest box office for Thor2"

So, closing in on $600M worldwide for a B-list character is modest? Shut your ass up, fool. You've been hating on this movie since day one.
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 9:11 AM
Has anyone considered Jenifer Lawrence as WW? Not my first choice but she evidently makes money
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/28/2013, 9:14 AM
Can't wait to see this on cable!
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 11/28/2013, 9:14 AM
"around 60's percent of females on the first one... 59% on this one I think... 40% of males do not make this a chick flick."

I guarantee that close to the 40% were dragged by some of the 59% to see the movie. The first HG movie, to me, was chick flick-esque. I almost hated that movie. Not because it felt like a chick flick, but for other reasons. I actually don't mind chick flicks.
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 9:15 AM
Beto
To young in my eyes and missing some sort of edge that WW would have.
Not that studios care, the general public don't have an image of WW in their heads so I wouldn't put it past them
McNyagano
McNyagano - 11/28/2013, 9:15 AM
*sigh*
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 11/28/2013, 9:16 AM
Everyone
C'mon guys, we're all just comic book fans at heart
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