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.