Fox’s “Victor Frankenstein” was dead on the slab after earning a torpid $US3.4 million from 2,797 theaters over its first five days.
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Mockingjay- Part 2, the last installment in The Hunger Games’ franchise, is still a bit behind Part 1, which devoured $82.7 million last Thanksgiving, but with another $62 million in global sales, the highest foreign sales of the week, Part 2 now sits at $242.4 million internationally and $440.7 million globally. In a first, Pixar released two films in the same year as The Good Dinosaur followed June’s Inside Out which bowed to a much more muscular $90.4M over a standard three-day weekend. The Ryan Coogler-directed boxing drama co-starring Sylvester Stallone again and starring Michael B. Jordan, did terrific business; a $30 million three day weekend haul and a $42.6 five day total.
The finale of The Hunger Games series stood firm at the USA box office this past weekend, holding onto the top spot for the huge Thanksgiving audience.
Though the hold was impressive, Part 2 is still running 12% behind last year’s Part 1 which had banked $225.7M at the same point. The film has added $28.7 million internationally so far for a worldwide total of $84.3 million. Perhaps this smaller gap means it’ll do a lot better for a lot longer than most expected.
Part 2 has triumphed over the North American box office for a second week in a row. The rest of the top 10 includes The Peanuts movie and comedy The Night Before, which is out locally this coming weekend. The “Hunger Games” series is getting close to $3 billion in total since it was launched in 2012. The movie debuted at $39.2 million over three days, falling short of what other Pixar movies normally garner over three days (around $60 million).
The drops are measured in its second weekend. It finished the weekend with $3.8 million. Well, the two recent winners are Open Road’s “Spotlight” and Fox Searchlight’s “Brooklyn, ” both of which have cracked the box-office top 10 and are putting up strong numbers. “Trumbo”, a drama revolving around blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, just barely missed making the top twelve, grossing $1.5 million as it also expanded to more theaters nationwide. The attempt to revive Mary Shelley’s monster story cost $US40 million to produce and starred James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe.
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Speaking of the specialty division, Focus Feature might still have some awards-season luck yet with “The Danish Girl”.
