Box office actuals are in and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 slipped a bit, dropping $1.2 million from estimates to finish its opening weekend with $121.8 million, which is still enough to be the highest opening of 2014. Considering The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug only opened to $73.6 million last year I don’t expect The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies to come close to besting Mockingjay‘s number leaving no reason to assume it won’t remain the highest domestic opening of 2014.
Ironically, it’s still looked at as a disappointment as it is well below the opening weekends for the previous two films — The Hunger Games ($152.5m) and Catching Fire ($158m) — though once Mockingjay – Part 2 rolls around I expect things to take off again… you know, once they make a movie where something actually happens.
Otherwise, the top five consist of Big Hero 6 dropping only 41.9% for $20.1 million in its third weekend tota. Also in its third frame, Interstellar dropped 45.8% for $15.3 million and Dumb and Dumber To face-planted, dropping 61% in its second weekend and $14 million.
When it comes to the Box Office Challenge, I’ve listed the current top ten from the points and accuracy leaderboards directly below and you can find the full leaderboard here. For the complete box office top ten and points awarded for this weekend specifically click here.
Points Leaderboard Top 10
- J T (78 points)
- Abraham Sánchez (73 points)
- Alan Smithee (69 points)
- PJ Edwards (62 points)
- austinjoel (58 points)
- Matt P (55 points)
- Arthur Carlson (53 points)
- Nathan (53 points)
- Stephen Jay (51 points)
- Exxdee13 (50 points)
- Vaus (50 points)
Accuracy Leaderboard Top 10
- J T (81.553% accuracy)
- Return of the BT (78.599% accuracy)
- Exxdee13 (75.874% accuracy)
- Ryan Jayden (75.668% accuracy)
- Rob (74.145% accuracy)
- Andrew13 (73.282% accuracy)
- jonjon (72.261% accuracy)
- Jimmy B (71.01% accuracy)
- Jack Tyler (70.993% accuracy)
- Abraham Sánchez (70.358% accuracy)
