Mockingjay Part 2 Tops Weekend Box Office

Part 2 won the box office for the third weekend in a row, with a $18.6 million gross! The previous largest drop was 60.3% for Cars 2, however due to that film’s higher opening, it still managed to gross $26.3M in its second weekend. It’s actually one of the best starts for a horror film this year, behind only Goosebumps and Insidious Chapter 3.

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.

Budgeted at $15 million, the Universal/Legendary feature Krampus surprised many with its $16 million debut from 2,902 screens. Still, it does provide us with something we don’t usually see during the post-Thanksgiving date on the calendar – success. Night earned $4.9 million and only fell 42% from last weekend. “Spectre, ” $5.4 million ($23 million international).6. Its domestic 12-day total sits at $65.1 million. “But along comes something like ‘Krampus, ‘ which is a fresh take on a holiday movie, promising horror and bit of fun and comedy, and audiences respond”. Off 58%, the Daniel Craig film has earned $184.5 million in domestic sales and an additional $607 million from foreign markets. Rounding out the Top 5 was another franchise juggernaut, as Spectre made it a full month in the Top 5 with this weekend’s $5.4 million gross.

The Good Dinosaur is looking like slim pickings compared to previous Pixar outings, and a significant drop in revenue from the week before (an estimated $15.5 million), but a decent worldwide outing is adding up and may prove more boom than bust in the long run. From four locations, Fox Searchlight’s ‘Youth’ debuted to $80,000 and a very healthy per-screen average of $20,000. 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. It earned $67,868 during its release with a five location average of $13,574, including the NY and Los Angeles theatres. Spotlight and Brooklyn are two movies tipped to be potential Oscar contenders and they stayed put at eight and nine.