Interestingly, the finale series of film franchise usually ends up on a high note. Only Steve Jobs and Sicario have performed better in 2015.
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Catching Fire, the second film, one-upped that with a US$158.1 million debut in November 2013. “They do because of how big a success the first two films were and how big a drop the last two had”. Still, these are hefty grosses that make for profitable films on a worldwide scale.
Reviews were about even with Part 1’s from previous year. The “Harry Potter” pictures were able to stretch out their story lines for more than a decade, but in today’s streaming, sharable, clickable, 24/7, hyper-stimulated media landscape, films and television shows are lucky to capture the zeitgeist for more than a millisecond.
First of all, let’s take a minute to appreciate the wonderful job Jennifer Lawrence did.
He attributed this weekend’s showing to a down marketplace.
With a commitment from theaters to keep Mockingjay: Part 2 in theaters into early January 2016, those earnings will continue to balloon up and eventually so will the earnings.
Compounding issues, “Mockingjay – Part 2” ends on a relatively downbeat note. So Americans are not the only ones losing interest in Katniss.
“Mockingjay, Part 2” raked in $101 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, according to ticket sales tracker Exhibitor Relations. But, as fate would have it, a rough winter ruined what he thought would be an easy shoot, forcing that final scene to be filmed much later than expected – which probably wound up being a benefit. With massive cumes in China and the United Kingdom, Sony’s global tally shot up past $670M.
Mockingjay part 2 has a few competition this week as Disney’s latest movie The Good Dinosaur is set to come out on Thanksgiving.
The raunchy Seth Rogen comedy with a holiday theme bowed with $10 million.
Katniss didn’t have the weekend to herself, either. Drama “Secret In Their Eyes”, which stars the A-list cast of Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor, rounded out the top five with $6.6 million; critics were not kind (42 percent at Rotten Tomatoes), and moviegoers were mixed (B- at CinemaScore).
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“The Secret In Their Eyes” faces fiercer headwinds. “Older audiences take a little more time to come out”. The CBS pic fell 53% in its second frame to an estimated $3.9M lifting the total to a modest $14.9M. She is told to stay behind by Resistance leader President Coin (Julianne Moore), but she’s just so passionate about killing Snow after he oversaw years of Hunger Games, killed hundreds, oppressed millions, and brainwashed her friend Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) into turning against her. She makes her way through the booby-trapped streets of The Capitol accompanied by a not-quite-reprogrammed Peeta, her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth), fellow Hunger Games victor Finnick (Sam Claflin), and a bunch of others who we sense are going to get picked off along the way. Cume is $5.9M and with its strong audience buzz, this one could play well over the weeks ahead with upscale adults. Spies will ultimately become Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s lowest grossing collaboration.
