The Hunger Games: broke several records

The Hunger Games: broke several records

Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games opened to the third-best debut of all time and the best for any film opening outside summer. It opened to an astonishing $155 million at the domestic box office and ranked behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 ($169.2
million) and the Dark Knight ($158.4 million). Surprisingly, it debuted above all of the Twilight movies and it also surpassed Alice in Wonderland ($116.1 million) for highest debut ever for non-sequel. 

"It was the perfect storm. Having the first film in a franchise to be so gigantic is amaing. We had a great book and a great director in Gary Ross," said Lionsgate president of marketing Tim Palen, whose
team is credited with a savvy campaign.

The $78 million budgeted is based on novel with same name which is written by Suzanne Collins. It stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.

Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games grossed $155 million and opened at number one in 4,137 theatres. It also bagged $59.25 million from the rest of the world, summing up a total of $214.25 million on its opening weekend. 

The flick only fell 25 percent to $50.4 million on Saturday, which ranks behind Spider Man 3 ($51.3 million). The Hunger Games has passed Farhenheit 9/11 to become Lionsgate’s highest grossing movie ever. 

The majority of the audience of this epic film were women (61 per cent). In comparison, the Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn Part one’s audience were mainly female (80 per cent).

21 Jump Street landed on the second place this weekend with $20.5 million, falling 40 per cent from last weekend. 

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax dipped 42 per cent to $13.2 million in its fourth weekend. 

John Carter grossed only $5.1 million, falling 63 per cent from last weekend. It summed up a total of $62.4 million. 

Act of Valor concluded the top five of the Box Office after bagging $2.04 million.  

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