This year's Thanksgiving box office is estimated to have reached $172 million. Lionsgate's "Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" held the top box office spot with around $42 million The original Hunger Games franchise grossed $3 billion at the box office across four movies, released between 2012 and 2015. Lawrence directed the final three – Catching Fire , and Mockingjay The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes had a disappointing box office opening, possibly due to mixed critic reviews and a shift in focus to villain Coriolanus Snow. Limited press due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and a long gap since the last Hunger Games film may have impacted the prequel's box office performance. The prequel's longer SUNDAY AM: WRITETHRU after Saturday update Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes won Black Friday and Saturday at the box office, respectively with $11.4M and $11.2M November 19, 2023 @ 7:53 AM. It’s a weekend full of mixed results for the box office, as Lionsgate’s “ The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is leading the charts with a Box Office: ‘Hunger Games' Prequel Lands on Top With $44 Million, ‘The Marvels' Collapses With Historic 78% Drop. It's a standalone film in the $3 billion "Hunger Games" franchise, which The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1â â â â is the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2014, surpassing the box office totals of every superhero film that year other than Guardians of the Galaxy All three sequels to 2012’s “The Hunger Games,” based on Suzanne Collins‘ series of young adult novels, opened in mid-November following the first movie opening in March and grossing over See full company information. Opening $121,897,634. 4,151 theaters. Budget $125,000,000. Release Date Nov 21, 2014 - Mar 19, 2015. MPAA PG-13. Running Time 2 hr 3 min. Genres Action Adventure Sci Overall, the 2023 Thanksgiving box office was up a hefty 40 percent or more from last year but still trailed pre-pandemic times (revenue was down 34 percent from 2019). The Hunger Games prequel easily topped the domestic chart with an estimated $42 million for the Wednesday to Sunday corridor, including $28.8 million for the weekend. KORG.