The Hunger Games storms to $9m at weekend box office
Following on from a huge opening day on Thursday, The Hunger Games has completed the opening weekend on top, grossing $9m.
Australia offered the adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel the biggest opening outside of the USA, ahead of the UK’s $7m and Russia’s $6.2m.
Opening across 471 screens nationally, the film took an average of $19,218 per screen, according to the Motion Pictures Distributors Association of Australia.
About a dystopian world where teenagers must fight each other in a series of games to survive, The Hunger Games is the first in a trilogy that is expected to be as big as the Twilight series. The film is directed by Gary Ross and produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik.
In second place was The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a comedy about British retirees who move to India. The film took an impressive $3.4m across 258 screens for a screen average of $13,197.
Starring Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Tom Wilkinson the film is directed by John Madden and produced by Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin.
Opening this weekend in limited release were two foreign language action films. Indian action/spy film Agent Vinod, which took $116,000 across 16 screens for a screen average of $7,277 opened in first place, and 10th overall while Indonesian action/kung-fu film The Raid, about soldiers storming a high rise run by a drug king pin, took second place on the limited release table, 11th overall, taking $116,000 across 42 screens for an average of $2762.
The screenings of The National Theatre Live’s The Comedy of Errors opened across 20 screens, taking $48,082 for a screen average of $2,404.
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Amazing and I wonder how much in iPad / iPhone app downloads
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Wouldn’t mind seeing this movie, although I’ll wait for the hype to die down first so I can get a less crowded viewing. Wouldn’t mind seeing more of these dystopian movies being made (even an update on 1984 or BNW).
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