Holy hell. We all knew The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was gonna have an amazing weekend debut, but not this amazing. The film sequel of the popular young adult novel series’ adaptation opened to an astounding $161 million weekend opening. The amount sets the film as the highest-grossing November release of all-time. To give it even more of a perspective, Thor: The Dark World, the top film for the past two weekends, has only made close to $168 million domestically. Aren’t box office statistics so interesting?!
The rest of this weekend’s box office numbers are below.
1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $161,125,000
2. Thor: The Dark World – $14,117,000
3. The Best Man Holiday – $12,521,535
4. Delivery Man – $8,215,000
5. Free Birds – $5,300,000
6. Last Vegas – $4,400,000
7. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $3,450,000
8. Gravity – $3,305,000
9. 12 Years a Slave – $2,800,000
10. Dallas Buyers Club – $2,769,989
[via Rentrak]