The Hunger Games continues to dominate as Jennifer Lawrence’s Serena debuts at 10th place

Actress Jennifer Lawrence had two films in the top ten weekend box office as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 continues to dominate at the box office in its second weekend, whilst drama Serena took $198,603 across 148 screens in its opening weekend to take out the 10th place in the rankings.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 raised $5.772m across 574 screens over the weekend, taking its total Australia box office takings to more than $20m in just over a week. It was well ahead of its closet rival Interstellar with the space movie pulling in $1.651m across 419 screens. To date the movie has made $15.619m at the Australia box office.

The weekend also saw Aussie film Fat Pizza v Housos released, taking $280,604 across 121 screens putting it in eight spot. Nightcrawler was another new addition to the box office rankings, claiming third place in its opening weekend after taking in $572,424 across 96 screens.

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