Hunger Games Monkingjay Part 2

Jonathan Levine’s holiday comedy, which stars Rogen along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie, is on the fourth place, opening to around $10.1 million from 2,690 theaters.

At the time of his death, Hoffman had almost completed all of his work in “Mockingjay – Part 1″, released in November 2014, but one key scene toward the end of the final installment between his character and Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen remained to be filmed. With Hunger Games stealing away theaters this weekend, it did have the worst drop of its entire run at 45%.

Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2 generally performed below expectations.

Mockingjay Part 2 cleared $100 million but still underperformed relative to the rest of the franchise, according to studio estimates released today.

However, compared to other films, the Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2 is the big victor.

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Worldwide, it grossed another $147 million overseas. Also, the Hunger Games franchise has made box office history in that each of the four films has grossed more than $100 million on its opening weekend.

“Mockingjay – Part 1″ opened on this weekend previous year to $121.9 million.

Part 2 got off to a decent start with $16 million on Thursday, the film finished the weekend with $101 million. Its $14.6 million weekend brought the film’s domestic 21-day total up to $153.7 million, which is nowhere near where ‘Skyfall’ was at this point. Suzanne Collins last book didn’t curry much favor after her first two books and many are questioning whether the last part should have been divided into two parts like the earlier franchises like Harry Potter and Twilight saga had.

“Secret In Their Eyes”, a murder mystery starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman, scored $6.7 million in its first weekend. The film, loosely based on a 2009 Argentine thriller that won the foreign-language Oscar, garnered about $6.6 million.

Two holdovers the “Peanuts” movie and “Spectre” are on the second and third place respectively.

Fellow Fairfax reviewer Jake Wilson was more impressed, saying for for a film aimed at a young audience it was “impressively bleak, complex stuff, and a strong argument against the claim that fantasy blockbusters invariably present moral issues in simplistic black and white terms”.

Unlike many awards hopefuls this fall, the investigative journalism drama Spotlight fared well in its national expansion grossing an estimated $3.6M from 598 locations for a solid $6,025 average. After Katniss leaves to return to her district, the film never goes back to Panem, a flaw that may be unsettling to a few viewers.

“25” is predicted to break N’SYNC’s “No Strings Attached” industry record of 2.42 million sold in a single week in the Nielsen Soundscan era (post-1991).