‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ was the clear juggernaut this weekend as the film pulled in a whopping $161 million and claimed the top spot at the box office. The film posts the fourth biggest opening weekend total ever only behind ‘The Avengers’ ($207 million), ‘Iron Man 3’ ($174 million) and ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ ($169 million) respectively. ‘Catching Fire’ easily bested its predecessors opening weekend of $152 million and set the record as the biggest November debut ever. The previous holder was ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ which brought in $142 million.
‘Thor: The Dark World’ spends its third week in second place by finishing with $14.1 million bringing its total to $167.8 million. The film is set to pass 2011’s ‘Thor’s domestic $181 million finish next week and looks to finish barely pass the $200 million mark.
In third place is ‘The Best Man’s Holiday’ which brought in $12.5 million. The film cost just $17 million to produce and has already generated a $50 million total. The studio has already ordered another installment to the franchise.
‘Delivery Man’ was the only major new release this weekend and it looked like a suicide mission. The film only brought in $8.2 million and will join Vince Vaughn’s earlier comedy ‘The Internship’ as an under performer.
Rounding out the top five is ‘Free Birds’ which earned $5.2 million.
Next week Disney’s animated family film ‘Frozen’ hopes to cool down ‘Catching Fire’ at the box office while ‘Black Nativity’ and ‘Homefront‘ hope to fare well.
