The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Tops Box Office After 2nd Week

“Mockingjay, Part 2” tops the weekend box office.

The final Hunger Games movie is still holding firm at the top of the Box Office. The animated film earned $US56 million over the five-day holiday. Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” had a five day gross of $55 million and a three day weekend gross of $39 million. The finale of the young adult series led for a second week since its opening, topping “The Good Dinosaur” and “Creed“. The five-day holiday gross did not even reach half of the $8.6M opening weekend for last year’s I, Frankenstein which bowed over a standard three-day period. “This dude gets better, and better, and better as he’s in movies”, Jeremy Jahns said. The movie has so-far received good (but not great) reviews, and was most likely overshadowed by The Hunger Games in the eyes of audiences.

MGM and New Line’s Creed, boasting rave reviews and an A CinemaScore, out-performed expectations in opening to an estimated $42.6 million from 3,284 theaters for the five days, including a three-day weekend gross of $30.1 million.

Pixar’s new animated film, The Good Dinosaur, earned the second place spot but did so while under-performing compared to previous Pixar titles.

Coming in at No. 3 is the newest “Rocky” film, “Creed”. Pictures shows Michael B. Jordan, right, as Adonis Johnson and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’, Warner Bros.

Another decades-old franchise having good luck in November is James Bond and its latest installment, SPECTRE, claimed fourth place with $12.8M over the Friday-to-Sunday span. The 15% dip was nearly identical to Skyfall’s 14% slide when it was a holdover on Thanksgiving weekend in 2012. Starring Daniel Radcliffe of “Harry Potter” fame and James McAvoy, the movie finished significantly lower than projected, with only $3.4 million.

The Peanuts Movie hasn’t been a blockbuster, but it’s still hanging in there landing in fifth place this week with $9.7M for a new domestic total of $116.75M off a $99M budget.

Awards hopeful “The Danish Girl”, starring Eddie Redmayne as the transgender artist Lili Elbe, also opened in four theaters with a solid $185,000.

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.

The Martian comes in at number 10 and its opening in China pulled down another $50, making it the 9th biggest film of the year at over $545 million. Brooklyn followed close behind with an estimated $3.8 million.