RichC2

Ha I made a punny... or just a really obvious joke.

$55m, not shabby but easily the lowest opening in the franchise. By comparison:

The Hunger Games: $67.26m en route to $408m domestic
The Hunger Games - Catching Fire: $70.9m en route to $424.7m

The obviousness of the money grab may have hurt a little, who knows, but it's still a solid opening.

Friday-to-Friday:
Interstellar is down 49%, due in part to losing a chunk of those "deluxe" screens to Hunger Games (not IMAX, but the other knock offs).
Dumb and Dumber To is down 69.8% Friday-to-Friday, worth a note, Friday was its highest grossing day last week, so its drop should be around the high 50s.
Big Hero Six is down about 44%

TheMovieman

But the fact that it made far less than the first, and coming off of good reviews on Catching Fire, is surprising. Speculation out there is Lionsgate dropped the ball in advertising.

hanshotfirst1138

Or maybe people are sick of paying for half of a film? I can hope. I've seen tons of ads for it.

TomOpus

Deathly Hallows Pt1 did tons better than Half Blood Prince in less theaters. One would think Mocking Jay wouldn't need that much advertising since the audience is built-in and should be aware of when it's coming out.

Maybe it's just the crappy weather.

Ash Ketchum

The reviews I've read for MOCKINGJAY are pretty horrible.

TheMovieman

That could be it. Never thought about it since here (in Oregon), it's rainy but that's the norm for this time of year.

Matthew Chmiel

You realize Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince made MORE domestically overall than Deathly Hollows: Part 1, right? Deathly Hollows: Part 1 was extremely front loaded whereas Half Blood Prince had legs and up until that time was the second highest grossing entry.

Deathly Hollows: Part 2, on the other hand, was the highest grossing entry in the franchise as it was literally the last Harry Potter film audiences were getting.

I assume we'll be in a similar situation for Mockingjay, but I think this will have legs as we move into Thanksgiving. It also doesn't help the northern east coast of the United States is also covered in snow at the current moment.

TomOpus

Yeah but I thought the current conversation is about opening numbers.

resinrats

Remember HG opened Thursday night so many people that would have seen it Friday went the day before.

islandclaws

Those numbers were rolled into the opening day figure for HG. I think it's just franchise fatigue coupled with mediocre reviews and the WOM that it's half a movie with no satisfying closure.

Jaymole

Or maybe it is because everyone saw Jennifer Lawrence's pink taco on the internet

robin2099

Probably doesn't help that everyone I know who have read the books all say the third is the most boring and worst of the trilogy.

Spiderbite

I am sure there will be some who actually try to spin that as an excuse.

RichC2

Grossed $124m, not bad for half a movie.

1). The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part I (LGF), 4,141 theaters / $56M Fri. /$41.6M Sat. (-26%)/ $27.2M Sun. (-35%) / 3-day cume: $124.8M/ Wk 1

2). Big Hero 6 (DIS), 3,650 theaters (-123) / $4.4M Fri. / $9.5M Sat. (+116%)/ $6.1M Sun. (-36%)/3-day cume: $20M/ Total Cume: $135.7M /Wk 3

3). Interstellar (PAR), 3,420 theaters (-141) / $4.2M Fri. /$6.8M Sat. (+62%)/ $4M Sun. (-41%) / 3-day cume: $15M / Total cume: $120.6M / Wk 3

4). Dumb and Dumber To (UNI), 3,188 theaters (+34) / $4.3M Fri./ $6.2M Sat. (+44%)/ $3.7M Sun. (-40%)/3-day cume: $14M (-61%)/ Total Cume: $57.1M /Wk 2

5). Gone Girl (FOX), 1,609 theaters (-350) / $803K Fri. /$1.3M Sat. (+62%)/ $711K Sun. (-45%)/ 3-day cume: $2.8M/ Total cume: $156.8M / Wk 8

6). Beyond the Lights (REL), 1766 theaters (-23)/ $794K Fri. /$1.2M Sat. (+51%)/ $639K Sun. (-47%)/ 3-day cume: $2.6M (-58%) / Total Cume: $10.15M /Wk 2

7). St. Vincent (TWC), 1707 theaters (-625) / $645K Fri./ $1M Sat.(+55%)/ $640K Sun. (-36%)/3-day cume: $2.28M/ Total cume: $36.55M / Wk 7

8). Fury (SONY), 1720 theaters (-662) / $540K Fri. / $848K Sat. (+36%)/ $508K Sun. (-40%)/3-day cume: $1.89M / Total cume: $79.1M / Wk 6

9). Birdman (FSL), 862 theaters (+5) / 506K Fri. /$849K Sat. (+68%)/$509K Sun. (-40%)/3-day cume: $1.86M / Total cume: $14.4M /Wk 6

10). The Theory Of Everything (FOC), 140 theaters (+99) / $398K Fri. /$672K Sat. (+69%)/$431K Sun. (-36%)/ 3-day cume: $1.5M/ Total cume: $2.8M / Wk 3

I don't recall seeing Lawrence's outside of a few fake shots that have been on the internet for a couple years now. I'll have to recheck that catalog.

Jaymole

I have not seen all the photos myself, so if I am wrong, replace pink taco with windshield wipers.

TomOpus

Don't forget the brown eye.

My Other Self

I'd look at that over Hope Solo's floppy piece of meat any day.

RichC2

I'm kind of surprised Big Hero 6 isn't doing a bit better, though with Thanksgiving coming up, it should match (or be damn close) to Wreck-it Ralph ($189m domestic)

Spiderbite

I thought Big Hero 6's trailer was a Big Zero. It inspired no interest in myself or my 10 year boy to see it. He said that none of the kids were talking about it at school.

Why the hell was the budget $135 million? Add publicity with that and that movie is severely over budget for what it is...at least going by the shitty trailer.

Defiant1

All the big animated movies have mega budgets. Tangled is one of the most expensive movies of all time.

fumanstan

I thought Big Hero 6's trailers were excellent and won me over right away Of course, i'm not a little kid or don't have kids of my own to judge how well it marketed towards them, but the opening weekend was consistent with other Disney animated movies of late.

It's doing better then both Tangled and Wreck it Ralph at this point, so I think it will do fine overall.

http://boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/c...imationnov.htm

Matthew Chmiel

Tangled has an abnormally large budget as:

1. The film was in pre-production for years. It was originally envisioned to be traditionally animated like The Princess and the Frog.
2. Disney may or may not have included upgrading the Walt Disney Animation Studios in that budget.

For Disney and PIXAR, all the 3D work is done in-house. IIRC, Tangled was the first Walt Disney Animation Studios flick where the 3D was done within the studio and not outsourced to a third-party like their past animated films.

hanshotfirst1138

Wasn't the total budget the combined figure for the budget of all of the false starts too?

Solid Snake

I think so.

superdeluxe

I saw people saying they were surprised this wasn't doing better like frozen, I don't think anyone at WDA is going to be disappointed at a 200 million original animated film. Plus the merch potential of this movie is going to be high.