Whats Next for Lionsgate Now that Hunger Games are Over?

The stunning performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson bring the movie to life. That may have diffused her identity with her character, Katniss Everdeen.

The animated film “The Peanuts Movie” collected $13.2 million to push its three-week take to just more than $99 million.

The new Seth Rogen film opened fairly weekly in fourth place with $10.1M off of a $25M budget.

It opened No. 1 in 81 markets, led by the United Kingdom with $17.1 million, followed by China, Germany ($14.4 million), Mexico ($8.7 million) and France ($7.1 million), where it wasn’t that far behind the $10 million debut of Mockingjay 1 and Australia and Brazil followed with $6.8 million each, while Russian Federation turned in $6.7 million.

Those are obviously low numbers and reviews for both films were not positive. Granted, the competition was stronger for this comedy than it would have been at the start of December. “It’s one of those movies that you see with an audience and you want to throw up you’re laughing so hard”. “And also to end, after such a long time when we’ve been away from home for so long, with the lines, ‘What now?’ ‘We go home.’ It was really just odd and poignant”.

What did you think “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2”?

In addition, movies continue to gross stratospheric amounts.

The weakness of the new films allowed holdovers “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie” to pad their box office results. The film, loosely based on a 2009 Argentine thriller that won the foreign-language Oscar, garnered about $6.6 million.

But even though there are is no confirmation yet of the Hunger Games film franchise expanding its storyline, some people have already offered their ideas for more films in Suzanne Collins’ saga. Perhaps the popularity of the book series is waning.

So, now everybody must be wondering, what’s next for Lionsgate now that the Hunger Games movie series is over? By contrast, older series like the “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” books are still there. This brings down the franchise by about 11 percent, compared to last year’s “Mockingjay – Part 1″. While monetary reasons were definitely in place when the decision was made, an argument can also be made for creativity towards the plan to split the movie into two parts.

He said the franchise as a whole is projected to break the $2 billion mark at the global box office.

The second film, “Catching Fire”, garnered $158.1 million in earnings.

Easily making up for the failures of “Part 1”, “Mockingjay, Part 2” acts well as a sendoff to the series and gives a nice sense of closure to the world and the characters we have come to know since 2012.