“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2”: Movie dominates box office with $247m

Only 34 movies in history have opened at over $100 million, including all four in “The Hunger Games” series.

Relative to the series’ trailblazing success, analysts deemed the film’s opening performance to be a disappointment, with Mockingjay – Part 2 now standing as the lowest-ranking installment of all four films based on its opening box office weekend.

The Hunger Games trilogy, which propelled Jennifer Lawrence to worldwide fame, is hailed as one of the highest-grossing film series of all time, with an accumulated gross of $2 billion.

The franchise, starring Jennifer Lawrence, kicked off with a bang in March 2012 with a massive 152.5 million dollar (£100.6 million) weekend – one of the highest openings of all time.

Third was the computer-animated 3D cartoon “The Peanuts Movie”, which pulled in $13.2 million. In third was The Peanuts Movie, which brought in about $12.8 million. Seth Rogen’s R-rated Christmas story “The Night Before”, which scored a 63 percent approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an A- at CinemaScore, could only deck the halls with $10.1 million. The movie, which broke box office records over the summer, was Walker’s final film and ultimately became a kind of send-off to him.

Mockingjay – Part 2 sees Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen continue her assault on the Capitol and the evil leader of Panem, President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

If you want to know what the mathematical opposite of suspense looks like, take a look at Mockingjay – Part 2. In addition, “Night” will face holiday comedy competition when the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler film “Sisters” debuts next month.

This photo provided by STX Entertainment shows, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Ray and Nicole Kidman as Claire in a scene from the film, “Secret in Their Eyes”.

Lionsgate opted to split Suzanne Collins’ final book into two films, akin to the case of “Harry Potter” and “Twilight”.

The 25-year-old actress reminisced on the last five years working on the films, saying at the time she started, Mockingjay: Part II “seemed so far away”.

Universal had more trouble finding its audience for Legend.

“The overall marketplace is down this weekend and has been for the past few weeks, because it is overly crowded and there are a lot of distractions in the world”, he added. “There’s too many movies, too many distractions, and so much going on in the world right now”.