The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Victorious Thanksgiving Weekend With
The film earned $2.3 million in its opening weekend, $3.4 million over five days, and garnered a C CinemaScore rating. The total collection of the film so far is $198.3 million.
The new animated movie with a talented vocal cast, “The Good Dinosaur“, was second last weekend with $38.5 million. That’s a solid result and the fourth highest five-day Thanksgiving opening, but it is somewhat disappointing given Pixar’s track record as the most successful provider of all-ages entertainment. It joins fellow Disney titles in the top five, listed in order: “Frozen”, “Toy Story 2“, “Tangled” and “Enchanted”.
Overall, the four films of the “The Hunger Games” franchise have an estimated total gross of $1.4 billion on a global scale to date. Critics also reviewed the movie favorably with an 81% positive rating from those on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Dinosaur’s look and feel were more kid-oriented too so some of the non-family crowd – which Pixar films do great with – skipped this time around contributing to the deficit. The animated film earned $56 million over the five-day period. The $37-million spin-off from the popular “Rocky” movie series pulled in $6 million Wednesday.
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“Creed“, also known as “Rocky 7”, is a film with Sylvester Stallone about an aging boxer coaching the son of his first antagonist. Stallone returns in the role of Balboa while Thompson plays young Creed’s girlfriend, Bianca. It indexed well with a mostly male (66%) and over 25 years old (62%) audience.
“Victor Frankenstein” from Fox joined the list of box-office flops in 2015 with a dismal $2.35M opening across 2,797 locations.
The Good Dinosaur – a charming but perfunctory tale – performed well, raking in $39.1 million on its opening weekend, but it failed to match the success of Inside Out, released earlier this year.
Three new releases couldn’t stop the girl on fire.
While “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 2″ has emerged as the top film for the weekend, it was still topped by “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1″. If it continues to expand solidly and plays well throughout December and the new year, it should finish with around $30 million to $40 million.
Worldwide weekend grosses brought in an estimated $62M with all major markets playing now. The Tom McCarthy-directed drama about the Boston Globe’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of sexual abuse by priests was the only holdover from last week’s top 10 to post a week-to-week increase – 166%.
The Peanuts Movie dropped a little faster than expected, falling to 5 place with $9.7 million.