The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Fends Off Good Dinosaur, Creed

“Mockingjay Part 2” is still trailing the first “Mockingjay”, which earned $82.7 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend a year ago. Unless it has an incredible hold and Mockingjay struggles next weekend, The Good Dinosaur may be the first Pixar movie never to reach first place at any point during its run.

The biggest disappointment for new titles has to be Victor Frankenstein headlined by James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe.

Pixar Animation studio executives and lead story supervisors had earlier presented to lifestyle writers and bloggers how an animated film like “The Good Dinosaur” springs to life from drawings, sketches and storyboards via a tour of the studios located in Emeryville, California.

Lionsgate has owned the turkey session over the past five years with its Twilight and Hunger Games sequels which all opened huge on the weekend before Thanksgiving and then held the top spot again over the holiday frame.

The movie grossed $198 million after 10 days in theaters whereas “Mockingjay – Part 1” grossed $225.7 million in nearly the same time frame. It seems Katniss Everdeen’s efforts have been paying off in the long term.

The Good Dinosaur debuted to $56 million from 3,749 locations for the five days, the fourth-best Thanksgiving launch of all time.

The “Rocky” reboot, “Creed”, came beyond expectation, opening to approximately $42.6 million from 3,284 theaters.

According to Boxofficemojo.com, THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 was the number one film in the USA over the weekend, taking in over $39 million dollars.

Creed, a continuation of the Sylvester Stallone Rocky series, opened in third place with a $30.1m (£20m) haul. After two weeks of release, the “Hunger Games” finale has nearly grossed $200 million domestically and worldwide the film already stands at $440 million.

Reviews were not as glowing as for recent original Pixar films, but they were still very strong.

On the limited side, Spotlight grossed $4.49 million and Brooklyn added $3.8 million. Spectre is now the second highest grossing bond movie ever after Skyfall. Its $3.3 million was only a 14% drop from last weekend’s take, bringing its total to a robust $218 million. The film did earn an “A” CinemaScore grade and there aren’t any other new family films hitting theaters for another few weeks, so the film should be well off. The film is following the pattern of strong holiday comedy releases and will continue that; it has a total of $24.1 million thus far and should have no problem topping $40 million to $45 million.