The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 was released on November 5, 2015 and made for a wholesome meal this Thanksgiving. The movie took the revenue for Thanksgiving box office sharply up from last year. The collection was highly expected, as the holdover, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, dominated overall in its second outing. The movie earned $75.8 million as it enjoyed the Wednesday-Sunday holiday stretch. Though this final installment is still behind its predecessor in terms of earning, its pacing is quite fast compared to its present contemporaries. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 earned $82.7 million over Thanksgiving in 2014.
The Hunger Games leads the pack
Seems like Katniss Everdeen is winning against a lovable dinosaur and an aging Rocky Balboa, although The Good Dinosaur, Creed, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 made for a great feast together and lit up the Box Office. While comparing, it’s clear that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dominated the theaters, both locally and overseas. It ended up grossing another $62 million for a foreign tally of $242.4 million and a global total of $440.7 million through Sunday.
The other two movies, The Good Dinosaur and Creed, were also a part of these fueled up box office collections in North America. Still, one cannot ignore the fact that The Good Dinosaur marked one of the lowest starts for a Pixar title. This trinity opened on Wednesday to a weekend stretched over five days, and the collection struck an estimated $256 million, 12 percent more than last year.
The Good Dinosaur earned $56 million from 3,749 locations. This makes it the fourth best Thanksgiving launch of all time. This Pixar and Disney release was given an “A” cinema score. Families constituted the greatest number of ticket buyers, making up 80 percent of the total, followed by adults at 17 percent and teens at 4 percent. The overseas collections were also promising making $28.7 million from 39 markets. The budget was between $175 million to $200 million. Disney prefers to launch its animated movies on Thanksgiving. In 2013, Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen debuted to $93.6 million, the biggest five-day Thanksgiving opening of all time.
Sylvester Stallone is back as Rocky: older and better
The other movie, Creed, saw the evergreen and ever-handsome Sylvester Stallone returning as Rocky. The movie saw director Ryan Coogler reuniting with his Fruitvale Station leading man, Michael B. Jordan. MGM and New Line partnered for Creed, and the movie boasted rave reviews and an “A” cinema score. Stallone plays the aging Rocky Balboa, who agrees to train the son of Apollo Creed, played by Jordan. The movie outperformed expectations and opened to an estimated $42.6 million from 3,284 theaters for the five days, including a three-day weekend gross of $30.1 million. This was a needed win for Warner Bros., the parent company of New Line.
Creed had a 66 percent male audience, with 62 percent of the audience over the age of 25. Caucasians were 38 percent of the audience, which was followed by African-Americans making up 30 percent of the audience. Hispanics constituted 20 percent of the audience.
All three movies made the Thanksgiving weekend a rich one for the Box Office compared to last year.
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