Posted on 11/25/2013 1:03:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The girl on fire is still burning bright! Lionsgate’s hotly anticipated sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trounced the competition over its first weekend at the box office, pulling in an estimated $161.1 million. That gross handily beats the $152.5 million opening of The Hunger Games, which opened in March 2012, and it stands as the best November debut of all time ahead of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which bowed with $142.9 million in 2009.
Catching Fire played to audiences in all four quadrants. Crowds over 25 and under 25 were evenly split, and although the film had more female viewers than males (59 percent vs. 41 percent), more men turned out on opening weekend than for the original Hunger Games. Females made up 61 percent of that film’s opening weekend audience. The passionate moviegoers who saw the film this weekend awarded the film an enthusiastic “A” CinemaScore grade, which will yield great word-of-mouth as the film enters the lucrative Thanksgiving period next weekend. It seems likely that holiday business will help Catching Fire surpass The Hunger Games‘ $408 million domestic total, but we’ll have to wait and see whether that actually happens.
Internationally, Catching Fire is already doing double the numbers of The Hunger Games, which pulled in $283.2 million overseas for a $691.2 million worldwide total. Catching Fire grossed $146.6 million overseas in its first weekend from 63 territories, giving it a dazzling $307.7 million worldwide opening weekend. That’s up 45 percent from The Hunger Games‘ $211.8 million global debut — a whopping $152.5 million of which came from the U.S. and Canada.
Only three films have ever opened higher than Catching Fire: The Avengers ($207.4 million), Iron Man 3 ($174.1 million), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($169.2 million).
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I too was surprised when I watched the first one at how conservative it was. Hard to find mondern day movies that point out the dangers of big government.
I read all 3 books after seeing the first movie.
Only thing that bothered me about the books is that there’s no spiritual aspect to it at all. I don’t know anything about the author, but it was a great opportunity lost, IMHO.
The author is also the author of The Twilight Saga.
The books were originally written with GWB in mind.
They are liberal books, so of course, there was no spiritual aspect.
Disclosure: read all 3, saw both movies in the theater, as did my husband. Enjoyed the books and the movies.
The irony is that the books and moveies are much more applicable to Obama. Power is concentrated in DC, and the states are suffering.
Agreed.
The liberals had no way of knowing, since they were propagandized to death about the evils of W. After being told how fantastic zer0 was and how bright the future under his leadership, how could they have had even an inkling?
She’s a huge pothead, but I think I’d still date her. If she would only return my texts. Or calls. Or emails.
I thought the first movie was good, so I’ll probably go see this one given the positive reviews (Rottentomatoes has it at 89% fresh). The best movie I’ve seen this year so far is ‘Rush’ but I’m looking forward to several upcoming films, especially the Coen Bros. ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’.
I only ask because the only people I know who have read the books have been women. If they are good for men too, I might throw them on my Kindle to read later.
My 14 year old Daughter went on and on about how good the first movie was...
I watched it with her and DIDN’T get it...
It seemed to me they didn’t do enough to build the characters in the movie.
She told me “the book did”.
I reminded her Jaws was a book I didn’t read before I saw the movie and I understood Quint.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a book I didn’t read and I understood in the movie why he would build a model in his living room.
So needless to say I am not going to go see the sequel but eh to each his own.
I listened to the audio books of all three on a cross country trip last year. They better than average, if you can suspend reality and enjoy them for what they are. Yes, the teenage romance angle was a little tedious. But overall they will keep you engaged.
Stephenie Meyer is the author of the Twilight saga.
Not the same person.
“The author is also the author of The Twilight Saga.”
Nah, same target audience, two different authors.
Yeah, you’re correct. Apologies to all. Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight and also The Host, which I watched on Netflix a few weeks ago. Conflated them, I think.
Second one was a snooze feast too. I watched it today. Of course I don’t pay to watch anything so it’s no big deal.
Have you seen this?
Incite Your Passion with the Instigator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC8PqBKHrXA
Have you seen this?
Incite Your Passion with the Instigator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC8PqBKHrXA
That’s funny (coincidence). Hubby and I were just in Cabellas Black Friday. We also had just seen the movie a couple days before. I saw their inside archery range and said I wonder if there is any new interest in archery because of the movies.
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