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‘Catching Fire,’ ‘Frozen’ Serve Up Box Office Records For Thanksgiving

Catching FireThanks to a pair of shrewd female heroines, Hollywood enjoyed its most prosperous Thanksgiving on record as holdover The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and new animated tentpole Frozen turned in ferocious performances, each earning more than any previous holiday title. Catching Fire grossed $110.2 million from 4,163 theaters over the five-day holiday (Wednesday-Sunday), becoming the top Thanksgiving title of all time after sailing past the $82.4 million earned by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, December 1, are as follows:

RANKTITLEDISTRIBUTOR NAMEWEEKEND REVENUECUME REVENUE
REVENUE# OF LOCATIONS*LOC AVG
1Hunger Games: Catching Fire, TheLionsgate$74,500,0004,16317,895$296,556,317
2FrozenDisney$66,713,0003,74217,828$93,356,000
3Thor: The Dark WorldDisney$11,108,0003,2863,380$186,712,000
4Best Man Holiday, TheUniversal$8,490,5651,7174,945$63,414,459
5HomefrontOpen Road$6,970,0002,5722,709$9,795,000
6Delivery ManDisney$6,931,0003,0362,282$19,453,000
7Book Thief, The20th Century Fox$4,850,0001,2343,930$7,856,177
8Black NativityFox Searchlight$3,880,0001,5162,559$5,000,000
9PhilomenaThe Weinstein Company$3,789,0008354,537$4,754,000
10Last VegasCBS Films$2,785,0001,8541,502$58,722,076
11GravityWarner Bros.$2,605,0001,0162,563$249,747,041
12Dallas Buyers ClubFocus Features$2,598,9026963,734$10,295,054

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