Thanks 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:
RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
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REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
1 | Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The | Lionsgate | $74,500,000 | 4,163 | 17,895 | $296,556,317 |
2 | Frozen | Disney | $66,713,000 | 3,742 | 17,828 | $93,356,000 |
3 | Thor: The Dark World | Disney | $11,108,000 | 3,286 | 3,380 | $186,712,000 |
4 | Best Man Holiday, The | Universal | $8,490,565 | 1,717 | 4,945 | $63,414,459 |
5 | Homefront | Open Road | $6,970,000 | 2,572 | 2,709 | $9,795,000 |
6 | Delivery Man | Disney | $6,931,000 | 3,036 | 2,282 | $19,453,000 |
7 | Book Thief, The | 20th Century Fox | $4,850,000 | 1,234 | 3,930 | $7,856,177 |
8 | Black Nativity | Fox Searchlight | $3,880,000 | 1,516 | 2,559 | $5,000,000 |
9 | Philomena | The Weinstein Company | $3,789,000 | 835 | 4,537 | $4,754,000 |
10 | Last Vegas | CBS Films | $2,785,000 | 1,854 | 1,502 | $58,722,076 |
11 | Gravity | Warner Bros. | $2,605,000 | 1,016 | 2,563 | $249,747,041 |
12 | Dallas Buyers Club | Focus Features | $2,598,902 | 696 | 3,734 | $10,295,054 |