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

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




































































