The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Leads For Second Week

Mockingjay part 2 is not getting the box office that was predicted leaving the title for top movie wide open this Thanksgiving weekend. The Pixar/Disney release, boasting an A CinemaScore, earned $39.2-M for the 3-day weekend.

Katniss Everdeen and the folks over at The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 couldn’t be bested by a trio of new releases over the holiday weekend, and the finale of the blockbuster series once again takes the cake at the box office for the second week in a row! In second place was Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, opening over the weekend to a big if not truly spectacular box office, followed by the hard-hitting Creed in the third spot.

Disney/Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur contributed to the overall strong weekend at the box office for Thanksgiving this year, as the Pixar movie raked in $56 million. Pictures shows Michael B. Jordan, right, as Adonis Johnson and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’, Warner Bros. Third place went to the latest installment in the Rocky franchise, Creed, in which Stallone continues to breathe new life into an aging character.

Spectre looks like it’ll have enough to make it to $200 million in the United States, which is disappointing, but it is playing to Europe and Asia market having amassed more than $570 million overseas.

Elsewhere, Creed helped stage a modest resurgence for the Rocky series, posting a 5-day cume of $42.6M, and a franchise-high total of $30.1M over its first three days. The latest James Bond motion picture “Spectre” was in fourth place with $12.8 million and a grand total of $176.1 million for 4 weeks.

The drops are measured in its second weekend.

Meanwhile, for the second time this year and the second time ever, a Pixar movie opened at No. 2 instead of No. 1.

Closing out the top ten was The Martian, bringing in $3.3 million in its ninth week.

It’s a busy week as Tom invents three new Hunger Games related products, we discuss the incredible effectiveness of hoods, and ponder why nobody is talking about what seems to be an incredibly controversial (not to mention topical) ending for this franchise. Fox’s “Victor Frankenstein” was dead on the slab after earning a torpid $3.4 million from 2,797 theaters over its first five days.

In limited release, Focus Features debuted The Danish Girl on four screens to finish with $185k, while the Janis Joplin documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue opened on two screens and made $24k.

But how did the rest of the movies do at the weekend box office?