This weekend’s Box Office is no battle, it is a detached win, predicted by some and proven by numbers. If regularly, Box Offices are based on a X movie VS Y movie formula, this is an unprecedented detached win of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. The movie scored a total of $123 million, the best opening of this year. The movies which placed in the next positions are no comparison to the fresh debut which was obviously expected by many (even IMDb ranks the movie as number 4, reaching an increase of 8 places this week).
The figures show that the fight was given between the second and third place, as the first one was an immediate and unbeatable hit. Position number two welcomed animation Big Hero 6, which once again defeated Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (third place): Big Hero 6 gained $20,086,000, whereas Interstellar resumed to $15,100,000. The Sci/Fi adventure movie was followed closely by last week’s favorite, Dumb and Dumber To, a Jim Carry comedy, sequel of 2004’s Dumb & Dumber, which reached a total of $13,800,000.
Even if split per days, the charts are obviously conquered by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, starting with its release date, 21 November 2014, when reached the figure of $55,150,000. The cash in for the following days was lower than the record sum of Friday, but still seemed to mock the following positions. Boxofficemojo reports sums of around $40 million for Saturday and around $27 million for Sunday in the case of the leading position. Even if added, the sums pertaining to the second place movie, Big Hero 6, would not approach the figures of the weakest cashing day by The Hunger Games – Friday $4,484,000, Saturday $9,576,000 and Sunday $6,026, 000, reaching a total of $20,086,000. The third place movie, Interstellar was quite close to reaching a second position on Friday, but figures decided a total of $4,220,000. The following days kept the Sci/Fi in its place, with sums like $6,805,000 (Saturday) and $4,075,000 (Sunday).
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 reunited director Francis Lawrence (Constantine– 2005, I Am Legend – 2007, Water for Elephants – 2011) with his crew of actors in yet another ‘’gaming adventure’’ which centered on Jennifer Lawrence aka Katniss Everdeen, ‘’the symbol of rebellion’’. The release of the movie on 21 November 2014 represented the record of the year in terms of figures and of course, of admirers. A Twitter tracking depicted The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 as a detached leader with a score of 99,099, followed by Jurassic World with the remote number of 26,051.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is the sequel of The Hunger Games (2012) and The Huger Games: Catching Fire (2013). The record established by Francis Lawrence this year could be beaten the following year by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, scheduled for 20 November 2015. Unfortunately, this year’s Hunger Game proved to be a decrease in terms of numbers in comparison to last years’ records: 2012’s Hunger Games opened to $152.5 million whereas Catching Fire to $158.1 million.