Mockingjay Part 2 Stays in First for Third Week
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 was in first place this past weekend for the third week in a row. The film earned $18.6 million to bring its domestic total to $227.1 million.
The film fought off some competition that came close to toppling it. Krampus debuted and brought in an estimated $16 million. With a budget of $15 million, that’s a solid debut.
Other new films Chi-Raq and The Letters didn’t do as well. Chi-Raq was in 13th place earning an estimated $1.25 million and The Letters earned $802,000.
For the rest of the top five, Creed was in third earning an estimated $15.54 million, The Good Dinosaur was fourth at $15.51 million, and Spectre was fifth with $5.4 million.
Here’s this year’s top five films domestically and worldwide so far as well as how “comic book movies” have done:
Domestic
- Jurassic World – $652.2 million
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
- Inside Out – $356.43 million
- Furious 7 – $352.79 million
- Minions – $335.87 million
Worldwide
- Jurassic World – $1.6689 billion
- Furious 7 – $1.5148 billion
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
- Minions – $1.1571 billion
- Inside Out – $851.6 million
Comic Adaptations Domestic
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
- Ant-Man – $180.09 million
- Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
- The Peanuts Movie – $121.44 million
- Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
- Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million
Comic Adaptations Worldwide
- Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
- Ant-Man – $518.52 million
- Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
- Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
- The Peanuts Movie – $134.67 million
- Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million