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With no new wide releases in the U.S. this weekend, Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 topped the box office for the third time in a row with $21.6 million, bringing its domestic total to $257.7 million for a global cume of $560.5 million. Mockingjay is on the brink of passing up Captain America: The Winter Solider ($259.7 million) to become the No. 2 title of the year in North America to date after Guardians of the Galaxy ($332 million), even as it continues to trail behind last year’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, December 7, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, The | Lionsgate | $21,600,000 | 4,054 | 5,328 | $257,726,831 |
| 2 | Penguins Of Madagascar | 20th Century Fox | $11,100,000 | 3,775 | 2,940 | $49,590,536 |
| 3 | Horrible Bosses 2 | Warner Bros. | $8,600,000 | 3,400 | 2,529 | $36,074,766 |
| 4 | Big Hero 6 | Disney | $8,130,000 | 3,168 | 2,566 | $177,548,239 |
| 5 | Interstellar | Paramount | $8,000,000 | 3,028 | 2,642 | $158,656,962 |
| 6 | Dumb And Dumber To | Universal | $4,168,800 | 3,086 | 1,350 | $78,080,535 |
| 7 | Theory Of Everything, The | Focus Features | $2,668,000 | 826 | 3,230 | $13,613,434 |
| 8 | Gone Girl | 20th Century Fox | $1,500,000 | 1,205 | 1,244 | $162,861,026 |
| 9 | Pyramid, The | 20th Century Fox | $1,350,000 | 589 | 2,292 | $1,350,000 |
| 10 | Birdman | Fox Searchlight | $1,150,000 | 738 | 1,558 | $18,919,495 |
| 11 | St. Vincent | The Weinstein Company | $1,085,000 | 1,432 | 757 | $40,766,076 |
| 12 | Nightcrawler | Open Road | $1,075,665 | 1,269 | 847 | $30,021,052 |
