“Hunger Games” Fends Off “Krampus” At Box Office

It was able to $18.6 million for first place, but it is nearly guaranteed to be the lowest grossing movie in the franchise. The $15.51 million earned from 3,749 screens this weekend brings the film’s ten-day total to $76 million, which is roughly $15 million less than what Inside Out brought in during its first three days. The blend of horror and comedy was apparently just what people were looking for in a season of family films and Oscar hopefuls.

James Bond rounded out the top five in his fifth weekend, as Spectre grossed $5.4 million for a domestic total of $184.5 million. Foreign sales now stand at $55.4 million.

BoxOffice.com had estimated $20.5 million for “Mockingjay Part 2”. Dougherty, who also made the Halloween-themed anthology movie Trick ‘r Treat, seems to have a knack for horror comedies and there certainly was an audience for the dark side of Christmas.

Unfortunately, once all is said and done, Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur may go down as one of the studio’s rare missteps. With another 45% drop the animation doesn’t seem to have quite the legs I was expecting and since Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is about to take most of its wind away on Wednesday, I’m downgrading The Peanuts Movie from $150+ to $140 million or less domestically.

There’s no denying that the film’s 17-day $227.1 million domestic and $296.8 million global totals prove this to be another huge win for Lionsgate, but compared to the previous three “Hunger Games” movies, “Mockingjay, Part 2” is a letdown. Although not quite in the top 10 highest-grossing films of the year (worldwide) yet, it should pass Cinderella’s $542.69 million soon. Overseas the CG-animated movie collected $2.2 million from 1,270 screens in 12 markets, lifting its early worldwide cume to $13.2 million and its global haul to$134.6 million. But with a bunch of box office holdovers and no other major wide debuts, the tale that inspired Herman Mellville’s Moby-Dick should be the film that finally supplants The Hunger Games. And Freestyle Releasing’s “The Letters” debuted to $802,000, in 886 theaters. This also shows how Part 2 continues to lag against Part 1 and begs the question as to whether Part 2 will make it to $300 million.

Macbeth based on William Shakespeare’s play and starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.