The Hunger Games Devoured Theaters This Weekend

Mockingjay – Part 2” has fallen behind Bill Condon’s 2012 film “The Twilight Saga: “Breaking Dawn – Part 2“. It might be a well-timed farewell for Katniss Everdeen.

Some box office analysts speculate the recent terrorist attacks overseas may have affected the movie’s sales, as some Americans might be less likely to visit theaters as of late.

“Part 2”, which is the fourth and final installment in the series based on the books by Suzanne Collins, had the lowest opening weekend gross of any of the “Games” movies.

Liron Suissa, a marketing executive for the company hanging the film’s posters in Israel, said it was far from the first time his firm has felt this “unofficial coercion” from the haredi community. The Night Before seems to have generally positive reviews and word of mouth, plus it’s the holidays and this time of the year movies tend to hold much better. Once again, commerce trumps art. So, although the “good guys” win in The Hunger Games, the precise opposite might be said of the makers’ regard for the audience.

He attributed this weekend’s showing to a down marketplace.

Lawrence says a prequel series would focus on the world of Panem before the creation of the barbaric Hunger Games. This is why the $101 million opening weekend gross of “Mockingjay” would in any way be counted as less than stellar. Rest assured that while “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” is not as good as the first and second movies, it more than makes up for the third movie and gives the series a satisfying finale. Just two weekends ago, “Spectre“, which fell to second place with $14.6 million, failed to live up to “Skyfall’s” domestic opening, too.

Speaking of Spotlight, the newspaper thriller jumped into the top 10, moving four spaces from 12th to the 8th spot.

As for the Girl on Fire, Jennifer Lawrence agreed that filming the last movie of the franchise was highly emotional for all of them and that “The Hunger Games” films have brought on long-term changes to her life. It cost United States dollars 19.5 million to produce, and is the latest in a string of films pitched at adult audiences such as By the Sea and Steve Jobs, to whiff at the box office this fall.

Sony distribution chief Rory Bruer noted that there won’t be another mainstream comedy in the marketplace until Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Sisters debuts on Dec 16.

Secret in their Eyes, a remake of the 2009 Argentine Oscar-winner, made fifth place on debut with just $6.6m, the lowest opening for a film starring Julia Roberts on wide release at more than 2000 cinemas. “In the coming years, both films will probably merit a “…oh, I remember that movie.

“It’s a great accomplishment”.