‘Thor’, the God of Thunder, was dethroned this weekend\u2026 by a girl! Out of the way, ‘Twilight’. Your $142.8 million November record has been smashed!
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Even without 3D, ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/strong>‘ debuted higher than the franchise’s first installment (which opened to $152.5 million in March 2013), and higher than any other Young Adult book-to-film adaptation yet. The movie’s $161.1 million domestic gross is the fourth-highest opening of all time, behind ‘The Avengers<\/a>‘ ($207.4 million), ‘Iron Man 3<\/a>‘ ($174.1 million) and ‘Harry Potter 7.2<\/a>‘ ($169.2 million). <\/p>\n (Please note that all three of those titles had the added advantage of 3D ticket prices, while ‘Catching Fire’ did not.) <\/p>\n Overseas, ‘Catching Fire’ is also performing stronger than the first film. From 65 international markets, the sequel earned $146.6 million. Worldwide, the weekend yielded $307.7 million, which is pretty amazing when you consider that ‘The Hunger Games<\/a>‘ finished its run last year with $691.2 million worldwide.<\/p>\n With ‘Catching Fire’ stealing away potential attendance, three-weekend-old ‘Thor: The Dark World<\/strong>‘ suffered a big drop of 61.4%. It pulled in another $14.1 million, bringing its 17-day total up to $167.8 million. Honestly, I expected the movie to perform a little stronger domestically than it has. On the other hand, the blockbuster is still killing it internationally, grossing $381 million to date.<\/p>\n ‘The Best Man Holiday<\/strong>‘ fell nearly 60% in its second weekend, but its debut was so strong that the movie is already highly profitable. Shot for $17 million, the film’s $8.2 million second weekend pushed its ten-day total up to $50.3 million. With this success, a third ‘Best Man’ installment already rumored to be in the works.<\/p>\n Vince Vaughn placed the third consecutive nail in the coffin of his career this weekend (the first two being ‘The Watch<\/a>‘ and ‘The Internship<\/a>‘). ‘Delivery Man<\/strong>‘ marks the worst debut for a Vaughn movie opening on more than 1,000 screens. To be exact, from 3,036 locations, ‘Delivery Man’ opened to just $8.2 million.<\/p>\n A $5.3 million fourth weekend helped ‘Free Birds<\/strong>‘ round out the Top 5, and pushed its lifetime gross to $48.5 million.<\/p>\n Making up for Buena Vista’s loss on ‘Delivery Man’ was the one-screen opening of the family-friendly ‘Frozen<\/strong>‘, which opens wide this week. From that solitary screen (the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles), the animated musical earned a very impressive $238,000. You can catch ‘Frozen’ everywhere on Thanksgiving Eve.<\/p>\n The Weinstein Company’s four-screen release of the Oscar hopeful ‘Philomena<\/strong>‘ didn’t place on the box office charts, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t open well. Its $133,700 opening gave the drama a strong $33,425 per-screen average.<\/p>\n 1. ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ (Lionsgate) – $161,125,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Thor: The Dark World’ (Buena Vista) – $14,117,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘The Best Man Holiday’ (Universal) – $12,522,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Delivery Man’ (Buena Vista) – $8,215,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Free Birds’ (Relativity) – $5,300,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Last Vegas’ (CBS) – $4,400,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa’ (Paramount) – $3,450,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Gravity’ (Warner Bros.) – $3,305,000<\/p>\n 9. ’12 Years a Slave’ (Fox Searchlight) – $2,800,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ (Focus) – $2,770,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘Thor’, the God of Thunder, was dethroned this weekend\u2026 by a girl! 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