This weekend Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 1 broke record by scoring the biggest opening weekend with $123M at the North American box office. That´s by far more than Transformers: Age of Extinction´s $100M opening weekend. But while it is an impressive number for this year, it is worth noting that it is 22 percent lower than The Hunger Games: Catching Fire´s $158M from last year.
In fact, Box Office Mojo goes to speculate that if the movie holds up just like the previous movies, it is possible that it will end it´s run around $330M, which could leave it below Guardians of the Galaxy, but we have to consider that it has been a weak year for the box office, it doesn't´t have Imax screens and the reception was not as good as the last two movies. This could mean that Guardians of the Galaxy could be the highest grossing movie in the U.S..
Of course not everything is bad news for Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 1 as it opened with an impressive $152M at 85 international markets, that´s four percent up from Catching Fire so it is expected to get over $440M.
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TW |
Title |
Weekend Gross |
Total Gross |
Week # |
|
1 |
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 |
$123,000,000 |
$123,000,000 |
1 |
|
2 |
Big Hero 6 |
$20,086,000 |
$135,708,000 |
3 |
|
3 |
Interstellar |
$15,100,000 |
$120,692,000 |
3 |
|
4 |
Dumb and Dumber To |
$13,820,000 |
$57,473,000 |
2 |
|
5 |
Gone Girl |
$2,815,000 |
$156,823,000 |
8 |
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