To date, Mockingjay – Part 2 has grossed almost $450 million worldwide over the two weekends, and the entire franchise has now crossed $2.7 billion in gross all time. WOW!!! If it can hold out for a strong second round next weekend, Creed may end up hitting $100 million before it closes, making it the first Rocky movie to do so since Rocky IV in 1985.
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According to Boxofficemojo.com, THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 was the number one film in the US over the weekend, taking in over $39 million dollars. The final chapter in the “Hunger Games” saga earned a hefty $52 million, bringing its domestic total to $198.5 million. Still, “The Good Dinosaur” earned a strong A Cinemascore, and animated tooners for kids movies tend to stick around throughout the holiday season and beyond so presumably Pixar’s dino pic won’t be going extinct anytime soon. The R-rated holiday comedy, which co-stars Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie, capitalized on the lack of risque comedies in theaters right now with a drop of just 17%.
According to audience polling firm CinemaScore, “The Good Dinosaur” received an A grade from moviegoers.
“Philadelphia is on fire and it has been since opening day”, Jeff Goldstein, a distribution executive vice president at Warner Bros., the studio that is distributing the film, told Variety. It falls short of Ratatouille ($47 million) and Cars ($60.1 million), and way outside of Inside Out’s $90 million opening weekend. The $37 million spinoff of the popular “Rocky” franchise from director Ryan Coogler (“Fruitvale Station”) beat its $35 million projection. It took in $39.19 million over the weekend, which isn’t bad for this time of year but makes it one of the lowest earning openings of all time for Pixar.
Fox released “Victor Frankenstein”, starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, during the holiday weekend. On Thanksgiving weekend it increased its theater count by an additional 50 percent and came in with almost the same per-screen.
Critics and audiences have agreed, raving about Jordan’s performance as Adonis, son of Rocky Balboa’s opponent-turned-friend Apollo Creed.
Awards hopeful The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as the transgender artist Lili Elbe, also opened in four cinemas with a solid US$185,000. The James Bond movie added another $12.8 million in its fourth weekend while the Charlie Brown movie garnered around $9.7 million in its fourth weekend. 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. Spotlight ($4.5 million) and Brooklyn ($3.8 million) followed, and The Martian still held a spot in the top 10 with $3.3 million.
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Meanwhile, the third newcomer, Paul McGuigan’s “Victor Frankenstein”, couldn’t even crack the top 10. In June, Inside Out opened to a rousing $90.4 million after earning $3.7 million in Thursday-night previews.
