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Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 blasted past Transformers: Age of Extinction to post the top opening of the year domestically, but trailed the first two installments in the YA franchise by a hefty margin. Mockingjay grossed $123 million from 4,151 locations, down 22 percent from the $158.1 million debut of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire a year ago and 19 percent from the $152.5 million launch of The Hunger Games in March 2012.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, November 23, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, The | Lionsgate | $123,000,000 | 4,151 | 29,631 | $123,000,000 |
| 2 | Big Hero 6 | Disney | $20,086,000 | 3,650 | 5,503 | $135,708,069 |
| 3 | Interstellar | Paramount | $15,100,000 | 3,415 | 4,421 | $120,692,067 |
| 4 | Dumb And Dumber To | Universal | $13,819,980 | 3,188 | 4,335 | $57,472,880 |
| 5 | Gone Girl | 20th Century Fox | $2,815,000 | 1,609 | 1,749 | $156,823,212 |
| 6 | Beyond The Lights | Relativity Media | $2,630,000 | 1,766 | 1,489 | $10,123,777 |
| 7 | St. Vincent | The Weinstein Company | $2,354,000 | 1,707 | 1,379 | $36,612,651 |
| 8 | Fury | Sony | $1,900,000 | 1,720 | 1,104 | $79,150,118 |
| 9 | Birdman | Fox Searchlight | $1,855,000 | 862 | 2,151 | $14,407,107 |
| 10 | Theory Of Everything, The | Focus Features | $1,500,000 | 140 | 10,714 | $2,796,177 |
| 11 | Nightcrawler | Open Road | $1,208,303 | 1,102 | 1,096 | $27,169,886 |
| 12 | Ouija | Universal | $952,110 | 1,341 | 710 | $49,546,275 |
