This week we had The Hunger Games being pitted against two big contenders, The Penguins of Madagascar and Horrible Bosses 2. A film that’s good for the whole family, and raunchy R-Rated comedy, respectively. It seems that neither were able to come close to the #1 spot this Holiday Weekend, as Katniss and the rest of District 13 stayed ahead with another $56.9million.
Doing less than half of that was Penguins with $25.8million and taking the second spot. Horrible Bosses 2 barely made the Top 5 as it took in $15.7million and continued to ask the question of whether that was a film that even needed a sequel. According to the audience, it didn’t. You can see the rest of the Top Ten below.
1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 $56.9 million
2. The Penguins of Madagascar $25.8 million
3. Big Hero 6 $18.8 million
4. Interstellar $15.8 million
5. Horrible Bosses 2 $15.7 million
6. Dumb and Dumber To $8.2 million
7. The Theory of Everything $5.1 million
8. Gone Girl $2.5 million
9. Birdman $1.9 million
10. St. Vincent $1.8 million
Next weekend, we have the release of two indie titles; Chris Rock’s film, Top Five, and the Alexandre Aja-produced, The Pyramid. I’m not sure that either one of them will be able to usurp The Hunger Games. I feel that Katniss and The Rebels will be able to at least stick around until Exodus: Gods and Kings comes out on December 12th.
Stay Tooned to the next edition of Weekend Roundup to find out!