Hunger Games Box Office. Making history, Lionsgate Films’ The Hunger Games open to a staggering $ 155 million domestic box office, the third best debut of all time and the best opening for any film outside of the summer.
Hunger Games – the big screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young adult novels featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth – also wounded in the biggest opening for a nonsequel.
“It was the perfect storm. Be the first film of a franchise is to be gigantic amaing. We had a great book and a great director Gary Ross,” said Lionsgate President of Marketing Tim Palen, whose the team is credited with a good sense campaign.
Domestic box office revenues increased less than 78 percent a year ago, thanks to the power of The Hunger Games, which changes the fortunes of Lionsgate and gives the studio a franchise tentople instant. Lionsgate will be three more movies by dividing the last book of the trilogy Collins into two films.
Overseas, Hunger Games has produced a more modest performance for a solid arc of $ 59.3 million from 67 markets. Counting foreign, which came ahead of the international debut of the first Twilight movie, put Games Opening hunger in the world of least 214.3 million dollars.
Hunger Games is projected to place No. 1 on almost all foreign markets, but he did better in English-speaking territories, in particular Australia, wehre it debuted to 6.7 million. Hunger Games turned in $ 7.5 million in the UK, despite the unusually warm weather, which often prevents consumers outside.
In North America, the tentpole came not far behind the $ 158.4 million earned by The Dark Knight in its July 2008 debut. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 holds the record for best debut with $ 169.2 million in the summer of 2011.
Among the films shown that Hunger Games has exceeded in its opening weekend were Spider-Man 3 ($ 151.1 million in 2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($ 142.8 million in 2009) and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 ($ 138.1 million last year).
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