It was a very strong Thanksgiving weekend at the box office as three titles were each able to be clear the $30 million mark. Leading the pack was The Hunger Games: Mockingjay –Part 2 which dipped 49.7% for an estimated $56.9 million and a grand total of $198.3 million. While that number is inarguably fantastic, it is nevertheless $27 million behind what Part 1 was at during this point in its run and a whopping $98 million behind the franchise’s biggest winner Catching Fire. Still, $300 million seems to remain within Part 2’s reach and that’s nothing to sneeze at.
PIXAR’s The Good Dinosaur took second place with $39 million and a $55 million total gross (the film opened on Wednesday). As with Mockingjay Part 2, I must stress that this is a great start (I wish I had $39 million…) before tossing around a few numbers that are somewhat unfavorable.
Even if you count The Good Dinosaur’s opening as a five day weekend, it is still the lowest start for a PIXAR movie since Ratatouille in 2007 which opened on a Friday. For a standard three day weekend, Dinosaur’s opening is PIXAR’s worst since A Bug’s Life all the way back in 1998. Again, $55 million is a great start but PIXAR can do a whole lot better.
The Rocky spinoff Creed opened in third with $30.1 million for the weekend and has taken in a total $42 million since its opening on Wednesday. Technically, this is the strongest opening that the long running franchise has ever had. However, when factoring in ticket price inflation, it’s only ahead of Rocky V and Rocky Balboa. Also worth noting is the fact that Creed will be passing the final gross of star Michael B. Jordan’s last film Fantastic Four ($56 million) sometime within its second week of release. Ultimately, I think this one’s looking at around $130 million or so which would put it up there with the most successful Rocky films (not accounting for inflation). Get ready for Creed II.
And last and most definitely least we have Victor Frankenstein which had the worst opening weekend of all time for movie playing in over 2,500 theaters. The Daniel Radcliffe film took in a disastrous $2.3 million for a Wednesday onward total of $3.4 million. To give you an idea of just how bad this is, Victor’s opening weekend numbers are only about 27% of last year’s Frankenstein disaster I, Frankenstein ($8.6 million). Hopefully Hollywood finally gets the point. Audiences aren’t interested in cheesy Frankenstein “retellings”.
Here’s the top 10:
Source: BoxOfficeMojo