"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" made an impressive debut and conquered this weekend's box-office with $123 million, making it the biggest opening of 2014. This year's previous record holder was "Transformers: Age of Extinction" which earned $100 million in its first three days. For "Mockingjay Part 1" the result is a bit behind initial projections, but still quite impressive. It ranks as the 15th opening weekend of all-time, but it fell behind the franchise's previous installment, "Catching Fire" which opened with $158 million. Overseas the film earned an additional $152 million.
Still going strong in second and third place are the Disney animated sci-fi "Big Hero 6" with a domestic total of $135 million, and Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" with $120 million domestically and $329 million from foreign markets. Nolan's sci-fi epic is doing very well overseas, but Disney's feature only managed to take $49 million outside the U.S., which is pretty weak.
Last week's No. 1 movie, "Dumb and Dumber To" took a steep dive, falling 62% to No. 4 with $13.8 million over the weekend which brings the sequel's total to an okay $57 million in 10 days.
The Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything" broke into the top 10 in its third week in release after expanding in more theaters and grossing $1.5 million this weekend. The film, an expected awards contender, will expand further in the following week.
New Wide Releases: "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1".
Biggest Drop : "Dumb and Dumber To" (-61.7%)
Smallest Drop : "Birdman" (-24.9%)
Biggest Drop : "Dumb and Dumber To" (-61.7%)
Smallest Drop : "Birdman" (-24.9%)
| Rank | Title | Weekend | Domestic | Foreign | Budget | Days |
1
|
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
|
$123M
|
$123M
|
$152M
|
N/A
|
3
|
2
|
Big Hero 6
|
$20M
|
$135M
|
$49M
|
$165M
|
17
|
3
|
Interstellar
|
$15M
|
$120M
|
$329M
|
$165M
|
19
|
4
|
Dumb and Dumber To
|
$13.8M
|
$57M
|
$13M
|
N/A
|
10
|
5
|
Gone Girl
|
$2.8M
|
$156M
|
$170M
|
$61M
|
52
|
6
|
Beyond the Lights
|
$2.6M
|
$10M
|
N/A
|
$7M
|
10
|
7
|
St Vincent
|
$2.3M
|
$36.6M
|
$0.5M
|
N/A
|
45
|
8
|
Fury
|
$1.9M
|
$79M
|
$59M
|
$68M
|
38
|
9
|
Birdman
|
$1.8M
|
$14.4M
|
$0.7M
|
$18M
|
38
|
10
|
The Theory of Everything
|
$1.5M
|
$2.7M
|
$2.7M
|
N/A
|
17
|
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