Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 tops box office again

Ultimate film: Liam Hemsworth, left, Sam Clafin, back left, as Finnick Odair, Evan Ross, back right, as Messalia, & Jennifer Lawrence, right, as Katniss Everdeen, in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Audiences had their decide of genres over the crowded Thanksgiving weekend. Like “The Good Dinosaur”, “Creed” also received a healthy “A” rating on CinemaScore. That movie scored $90.4 million on its opening weekend in June, making it the largest opening ever for a totally original film.

The opening was slightly sluggish for Pixar’s usual releases – they typically do more than $60 million on weekend opens – but it still was good enough for second place over the holiday. Third place went to the latest installment in the Rocky franchise, Creed, in which Stallone continues to breathe new life into an aging character. Considering the number of Ice Age movies there have been, not to mention the mega successful Jurassic World, a $39 million weekend seems small, and it is for a Pixar movie.

According to studio surveys, the film did well attracting its target audience of older women: 58 percent of the audience was female, and 67 percent was older than 40.

While the film failed to match the box office or critical success of Pixar’s last offering, Inside Out, it still found favour with the critics. It grossed 42.6 million dollars in five-day frame. The film is enjoying a major amount of awards buzz and thus far has banked $12.3 million domestically. The fourth and final “Hunger Games” movie shrugged off lukewarm reviews to rule the North American box office for the second straight week over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, industry figures showed yesterday. It brought in an estimated $75.7 million in the U.S. Both made an estimated $4.5 million with Secret having the edge by $7k. The Martian is now on the 10th place with $3.3 million and Lionsgate’s “Love the Coopers” ranked 11th at $3.0 million. “Brooklyn”, starring Saoirse Ronan as a young Irish immigrant in NY in the 1950s, earned $3.8 million over three days.

The weekend box office was $179.6 million, up 10% from last year’s $163.8 million. Its $198 million total is still lagging $27 million behind Part 1 through the same point, but it could close that gap in the coming weeks. Where available, the latest global numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.