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Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games opened to an astounding $155 million at the domestic box office, the third-best debut of all time and the best for any film opening outside of summer. Hunger Games — the big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’best-selling young-adult novel starring Jennifer Lawrence,Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth — also reeled in the biggest opening for a non sequel. The movie beat all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies, showing that well-written books do make better movies.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, March 25, 2012, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | Hunger Games, The | Lionsgate | 155,000,000 | 155,000,000 | 4,137 | 37,466 |
| 2 | 21 Jump Street | Sony | 21,300,000 | 71,051,328 | 3,121 | 6,824 |
| 3 | Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | Universal | 13,108,505 | 177,338,515 | 3,677 | 3,565 |
| 4 | John Carter | Disney | 5,014,000 | 62,347,380 | 3,212 | 1,561 |
| 5 | Act Of Valor | Relativity Media | 2,062,000 | 65,941,724 | 2,219 | 929 |
| 6 | Project X | Warner Bros. | 1,950,000 | 51,752,148 | 2,065 | 944 |
| 7 | Thousand Words, A | Paramount | 1,925,000 | 14,925,168 | 1,787 | 1,077 |
| 8 | October Baby | IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films | 1,718,427 | 1,718,427 | 390 | 4,406 |
| 9 | Safe House | Universal | 1,389,850 | 122,569,165 | 1,330 | 1,045 |
| 10 | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | Warner Bros. | 1,373,000 | 97,155,089 | 1,340 | 1,024 |
| 11 | Casa De Mi Padre | Lionsgate | 1,100,000 | 3,948,252 | 475 | 2,315 |
| 12 | This Means War | 20th Century Fox | 1,000,000 | 52,284,737 | 1,188 | 841 |
