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Box Office Weekend: Mockingjay a Three-Time Winner

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has certainly dropped in value, an estimated $18.6 million was all it had to show for this weekend, but it was enough to hold off all comers for a third week in a row. At $227.1 million in total gross, it is still likely a box office smash, but still the least-performing entry in the series. Compare that to Krampus, the horror/comedy about a The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Postercynical family terrorized by a folkloric monster, which made a good head start against its $15 million budget with an estimated $16 million opening. Creed remained in third, but picked up steam during its weekly run as an estimated $15.5 million has brought its total to $65.1 million and counting.

The Good Dinosaur is looking like slim pickings compared to previous Pixar outings, and a significant drop in revenue from the week before (an estimated $15.5 million), but a decent worldwide outing is adding up and may prove more boom than bust in the long run. Spectre, in the meantime, and its estimated $5.4 million is still looking wimpy in its domestic run, but the film has long since tripled its costs in worldwide earnings and yet another megahit for the Bond franchise. And falling in sixth again, The Night Before still struggles for relevance as an estimated $4.9 million is still not enough to give the flagging comedy much hope for theatrical box office gold.

Suffering from high praise and low finances, The Peanuts Movie will likely bust out before making bank at the box office, an estimated $3.5 million adding to a worldwide total gross of $134.7 million on a $99 million budget, leaving Charlie Brown and the gang looking forward to their biggest home, the small screen, to make up the losses. Meanwhile, Spotlight (estimated $2.9 million), Brooklyn (estimated $2.4 million), and The Secret in Their Eyes (estimated $2 million) all sit below the $20 million mark in domestic gross, and with unreported numbers (and their decent casts and independent studio release status), all three could be minor hits or major losses.

Weekend Box Office (December 4th – December 6th)

  1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2…$18.6 million
  2. Krampus…$16 million
  3. Creed…$15.5 million
  4. The Good Dinosaur…$15.5 million
  5. Spectre…$5.4 million
  6. The Night Before…$4.9 million
  7. The Peanuts Movie…$3.5 million
  8. Spotlight…$2.9 million
  9. Brooklyn…$2.4 million
  10. The Secret in Their Eyes…$2 million

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."
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