The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (12A)

The first film “Hunger Games” earned $19.7 million from midnight shows.

Joanna Dodd Massey, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement that the latest movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence, grossed $46 million on Friday, including “previews” on Wednesday and Thursday. The finale of the Hunger Games saga is now in theaters and just waiting for you to come watch.

But the audience will never know how she could have built upon her relationship with Plutarch Heavensbee, whose character had to be diminished after Philip Seymour Hoffman’s drug-induced death before Mockingjay Part 2 was finished shooting. While all of the films in the franchise had delivered on the action-front, “Mockingjay – Part 2” really amps up the stunts, the visual effect and the fight sequences in a way that will leave fans of the book series and fans of action flicks in absolute heaven. The Hunger Games franchise has been pretty thorough in its examination of the human psyche when placed under intense, overwhelming survival situations, and he would need to find a new way to tell such a story.

“Mockingjay – Part 1” opened on this weekend a year ago to $121.9 million, considered at the time to be a necessary and expected dip, while fans awaited the final installment, which, if it mimicked “Twilight” or “Harry Potter”, would have snared the second highest (if not highest) opening in the series. In addition those accomplishments, the director notes, the movies’ imagery and spirit of resistance have also galvanized real people fighting for very real causes, from Ferguson, MO.to Bangkok, Thailand.

Spoiler Alert!Have you seen Mockingjay – Part 2 yet?

“Mockingjay, Part 2” tops the weekend box office.

“We have had endless vandalization, and clients prefer not to take the chance”, Liron Suissan, vice president of marketing at Nu Star Media, the company that handles the film’s posters, is quoted as saying by Entertainment Weekly. Variety notes that the Mockingjay Part 2 box office is down 50% from where it was for Part 1 previous year in the French capital.

Third was the computer-animated 3D cartoon “The Peanuts Movie”, which pulled in $12.8 million. The R-rated film cost about US$25 million to produce. Then later in the week I saw this movie and it was also dark.

Josh Hutcherson does well with the tough job of taking Peeta through the long, slow recovery from his brainwashing, a combination of grief, desperate fear, and a few tendrils of hope that’s nearly painful to watch at times.