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In response to "With $25 million from midnights? Um...uh-oh. -- nm" by Tim

Initial reports were $65 million. Its performance is not mirroring the original.

Posted by David (aka David) Nov 23 '13, 10:15

The Hunger Games had lower earnings on Thursday night, higher ones during Friday matinees then lower grosses on Friday night. Hunger Games grossed $67.26 million on Friday, so this is 4.8% improvement overall. Hunger Games grossed $47.6 million on Friday proper. Catching Fire's total is about $45.5 million. The debate is whether it holds better over the weekend. Since The Hunger Games had an IM of 2.267, it should but nothing is guaranteed. The factor Catching Fire has working "against" it that its predecessor did not is that a lot of people may be waiting for Thanksgiving. The Hunger Games was at $248.5 million after 10 days. Catching Fire should smoke that total yet I doubt it approaches the final take of The Hunger Games, at least domestically.

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Also, one thing that notfabio said on the other board was that fewer screens per theatre were available due to commitments for Thor and Thanksgiving - Roger More Nov 23, 10:50 5
- Fwiw, I wasn't saying the performance was good or bad, just oddly different. - David Nov 23, 11:38 1
  - Sure. Moving the first shows to 8pm to midnight probably had an impact. Families didn't have to wait until Friday to see it. - Roger More Nov 23, 12:07
- I have never heard of this being a significant box office factor for a film in over 4,000 theaters. -- nm - Tim Nov 23, 10:58 2
  - I'm not sure I buy it either - if shows were that limited we'd have heard of massive sellouts. But it's what he's saying. -- nm - Roger More Nov 23, 11:31
  - It would have had 6,000. -- nm - Spawn Nov 23, 11:29
Why would the Hunger Games audience be waiting for Thanksgiving when the Twilight and Potter audiences didn't? -- nm - Roger More Nov 23, 10:45
I had a theory that some were waiting for next week. - Tim Nov 23, 10:23

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