Monday Morning Box Office Report: The Hunger Games and Frozen Catch Fire, Oldboy Bombs

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Audiences gorged themselves on movies over the Thanksgiving weekend, helping the two biggest releases to set new records even though most of the other new releases suffered as a result. In its second weekend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire set a new five-day record for Thanksgiving, taking in $110 million which destroys the $82.4 million earned by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone back in 2001. Disney’s Frozen also gave Catching Fire a run for its money, pulling in $93 million over the five-day period and $66.7 million over the three-day weekend. That’s still the best opening weekend for a new release on Thanksgiving, even though it came in second. Elsewhere, Thor: The Dark World and The Best Man Holiday fell to #3 and #4, while Homefront opened in fifth. The biggest losers were Black Nativity and Spike Lee’s Oldboy, the latter of which made just $1.25 million over five days. Granted, it only opened on 580 screens, but at this point it will be lucky to make back a tenth of its $30 million budget.

1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — $74.5M
2. Frozen — $66.7M
3. Thor: The Dark World — $11.1M
4. The Best Man Holiday — $8.49M
5. Homefront — $6.97M
6. Delivery Man — $6.93M
7. The Book Thief — $4.85M
8. Black Nativity — $3.88M
9. Philomena — $3.79M
10. Last Vegas — $2.79M



  • I might have seen Oldboy, but I would have had to drive 45 minutes to find the closest theater playing it. Still not sure who the audience is, and all I can hope for is for it to be about as good as “Let Me In”. Saw Dallas Buyer’s Club instead, which was a decent movie with incredible performances.

  • JY

    Saw Olboy on a Saturday night with about a dozen other people in the theatre.

    And rightly so, because it is total garbage. Not sure what Spike is doing…

  • ProCynic

    I bet he’s not saying Yo now! (See previous Spike Lee post)