‘Krampus’ fails to scare ‘Hunger Games’ from top of box office

“Part 2” enjoyed it’s third weekend in a row atop the box office.

With two weeks to go before Luke, Leia, Han, and a phalanx of storm troopers and droids descend on multiplexes, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” topped box office charts in an otherwise quiet weekend. The fourth installment in the Hunger Games franchise is the first film to pull a threepeat since Straight Outta Compton in August.

The weekend after Thanksgiving is historically one of the slowest of the year and the 2015 edition didn’t break with tradition. The science-fiction sequel earned $18.6 million, pushing its stateside haul to $ $227.1 million. Creed notched a decent second weekend, edging past The Good Dinosaur to take third place.

It’s rare that a Pixar film doesn’t win its opening weekend, although that was never really expected since the troubled production was opening so soon after Mockingjay.

“Krampus”, a PG-13 offering from Legendary/Universal, collected $6.1 million at the box office Friday, putting it on track for a $15-million weekend, higher than industry observers has estimated. SPECTRE rounded out the top five with a little under $6 million. The animated pic, which follows an early human and a young dinosaur becoming friends, could top $75 million in domestic receipts by the end of the weekend. And Freestyle Releasing’s “The Letters” debuted to $802,000, in 886 theaters.

Spike Lee’s controversial “Chi-Raq” brought in $1.2 million over the weekend in limited release, opening in just 305 theaters.