Lower score for Hunger Games

“Part 2” did not have the odds in its favor.

The gang’s all here: Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, Natalie Dormer, Stanley Tucci and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (in his final screen appearance), but few have much to do except clench their jaws and furrow their brows – which, as noted before, remain perfectly coiffed throughout. 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.

With $12.8 million, “The Peanuts Movie” finished behind “Spectre” and ahead of the Seth Rogen holiday comedy “The Night Before”, which earned an expected $10.1 million.

Those are obviously low numbers and reviews for both films were not positive.

But my friends and I put our feelings aside and went to see the movie. Of course, but an opening weekend of over $100 million is still nothing to cry home about. Mockingjay, Part 2’s weak earnings even fell short of Liongate’s conservative $110 million prediction, Vanity Fair reports. Still, it just had the fifth highest grossing opening of any movie in 2015, according to Coming Soon.

In addition, movies continue to gross stratospheric amounts.

Despite the weak opening, STX, which bought domestic rights with Route One to the film for $6.5 million, expressed confidence that “The Secret In Their Eyes” would find its audience over the holidays.

Following at the third spot is The Peanuts Movie with $13.20 million.

Since Part 1 came out last November, we’ve seen Avengers re-assemble, dinosaurs terrorize yet another theme park, found out emotions can be adorable and built eager anticipation for a return to a galaxy far, far away.

And since the “Games” movies debuted in 2012, they’ve done so well at the box office that they’ve increased expectations for themselves.

Katniss Everdeen and her bow and arrow are making the Hollywood box office quiver in anticipation this weekend.

So the comparatively lower opening weekend gross of the final “Games” installment certainly stands out.

Ticket sales were off by 10 percent for the weekend compared with previous year, according to Reuters News Service.

The first half of the film was slow, showing there was no need for the Mockingjay novel to be split into two parts. Part 1 had gratifying and moving moments where audiences saw the reality of a revolution for the main characters of the film.

However, the “Games” series has a good history of holding on at the box office.

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” is the final film of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young adult saga.

Here in the United Kingdom, Cineworld, Guy Hands’ up-for-sale Odeon and the film’s distributor, Entertainment One, won’t be sobbing into their popcorn, particularly with Star Wars around the corner.