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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire continued to heat up the top of the box office, comfortably holding on to the number one spot. The dystopian blockbuster fell 46%, once previews are removed, to £5.5m and after 11 days in cinemas has an imposing cume of £21.7m. That figure places Catching Fire just £3m behind the first Hunger Games’ £24m final total and it now looks almost certain to reach £30m.
Gravity held on to second place with another strong hold, falling just 27% to £1.7m, for a hugely impressive cume of £22.5m. It should get to £25m, which is a fantastic achievement. This week’s highest new entry was thanksgiving animation Free Birds, in third spot with £1m. That puts it on a par with other animated titles, A Monster In Paris (£1m) and A Turtle’s Tale (£1.1m).
Perhaps this week’s biggest disappointment was Saving Mr. Banks, which opened in fourth with £796k. Big things are expected of Disney’s gentle comedy but it has made a slow start. It does have a strong seasonal feel though so hopefully will perform more strongly throughout December.
Horror remake, Carrie also made made its debut with £663k. That’s less than half of 2013’s other high profile horror remake, Evil Dead's opening weekend total back in April (£1.4m). Overall, the box office was down 42% from last weekend, which benefited from big Hunger Games preview figures, but it was up 8% from the same weekend last year.
In the US, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire had a strong hold over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and with a record $110.1m from Wednesday to Sunday, the blockbuster sequel has earned a huge $296.5m after ten days in cinemas. Not far behind was Disney’s seasonal offering, Frozen. The animation grossed $66.7m over the three-day weekend and $93m from Wednesday to Sunday. The audience was unsurprisingly 57% female.
Thor: The Dark World was in third place, falling 22% to $11.1m and a cume of $186.7m, passing the first Thor in the process. In fourth place, The Best Man Holiday fell 32% to $8.5m and after 17 days has grossed $63.4m. The top five was completed by Jason Statham thriller, Homefront, earning $9.8m for the five day weekend.
