THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART I (Lionsgate) stabilized on Saturday, according to preliminary box office figures at Deadline. The Day 2 drop was 23%, slightly better than the 25-26% Saturday drops for The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. However, at $42.1M, Mockingjay‘s Saturday was still considerably below the $50.4M/$52.6M of its predecessors, and it’s headed for a $125M weekend that, while possibly the 14th largest opening ever (nosing out fellow next-to-last chapter Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I), is still far from the #6-7 launches of the first two installments.
BIG HERO 6 (Disney) and INTERSTELLAR (Paramount/Warners) have the 2d and 3d slots, far back from Mockingjay. Big Hero had a Saturday-to-Saturday drop of 43%, down to $9.3M and a weekend that should approach $20M. Interstellar was down about 50% from last Saturday to $6.3M, heading for a $14-15M weekend.
DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) fell 55% from last Saturday to $6.2M, on its way to a $14M weekend. It’s worth noting that D&D 2 cost about 25% as much as Interstellar and will likely have a US total that’s more than half the one for Christopher Nolan’s epic, a far from shabby result. (Interstellar, though, will far outstrip it overseas.)
The unstoppable GONE GIRL (20th) rounded out the Top 5, down 38% from last Saturday to $1.3M, with a $2.5-3M weekend in sight.
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