Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I finished off a three-peat at the box office this weekend. Audiences clearly weren’t interested in seeing movies en masse though, as the film only needed $21.6 million to do so.
Mockingjay I’s slow box office opening seems like a distant memory at this point. After this past weekend, the film is up to $257.7 million domestically. Its worldwide total reached $560.5 million this weekend, after it added $31 million in foreign markets this weekend, according to Rentrak data.
DreamWorks Animation’s Penguins of Madagascar came in a very distant second place with just $11.1 million. Since its release over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, the film has only grossed $49.6 million domestically, so it won’t be the big hit DWA desperately needs.
Horrible Bosses 2 has fared even worse for Warner Bros. It only added $8.6 million this weekend, bringing its total to $36.1 million. It doesn’t look like it will even get close to the original’s $117.5 million domestic total.
Disney’s Big Hero 6 hung around again, adding $8.1 million, which puts its total to $177.5 million. Interstellar added $8 million, so it is now up to $158.6 million.
Dumb and Dumber To added $4.2 million, while The Theory of Everything got a huge boost from a wider release. Despite only playing at 826 locations, the Stephen Hawking biopic with Eddie Redmayne added $2.7 million.
Fox’s micro-budget horror movie The Pyramid grossed just $1.2 million from 589 locations.
Internationally, Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings began its run with $23 million. The film hits theaters in the U.S. this weekend.
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