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  • ‘Catching Fire’ Lights Up the Box Office This Thanksgiving Weekend

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire may be even more popular than originally thought, if that’s even possible. Not only is the sequel to the also wildly successful The Hunger Games about to break some impressive records, but is on track to do even better than expected.

    Eight days after its release on November 22, 2013, this second movie in the Hunger Games trilogy raked in more than $250 million. Only The Avengers and The Dark Knight have ever made $250 million faster. However, the film is currently on pace to make $75 to $80 million over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which would mean it could be the second best, second weekend earnings of all time, trailing The Avengers.

    When all of the numbers are added up, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is on course to make $290 to $300 million so far. Not too shabby.

    If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, or just haven’t had any interest in this hugely popular series based on the young adult novels by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, follows heroine Katniss Everdeen after she wins her country’s 74th annual Hunger Games.

    It seemed like just about everyone on Twitter was cheering for Katniss this weekend:

    Another movie that has done better than initially anticipated this weekend is Disney’s Frozen, which is expected to make $100 million since its November 27, 2013 opening date.

    Both films beat the Thanksgiving weekend box office record of $82.4 million, set by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001.

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  • Man of Steel Breaks Summer 2013 Box Office Records

    Though critics can’t decide whether Zach Snyder’s Superman movie franchise reboot is good or not, fans of the superhero have spoken.

    According to Reuters, Man of Steel has set a new record for June opening weekend box office totals. The movie took in $113.1 million on its opening weekend, giving it this year’s second-largest opening weekend haul, right behind Iron Man 3. The previous June opening weekend record belonged to Toy Story 3, which took in over $110 million during its first weekend in 2010.

    Man of Steel was written in part by Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan and was directed by Zach Snyder of 300 and Watchmen fame. While some critics have panned the movie as being shallow and too serious for a Superman movie, others have connected with Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent and Amy Adams’ Lois Lane.

    Moviegoers, on the other hand, have praised the movie for its special effects and cast, which includes Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as Jonathan and Martha Kent. Fans of Superman have also praised Man of Steel for deferring somewhat to the decades-old lore established by DC Comics.

  • The Avengers Makes Almost $200 Million Overseas

    The Avengers Makes Almost $200 Million Overseas

    If you’re living in the U.S. and just can’t wait any longer to see The Avengers, there’s an alternative: you can always dust your passport off an head out to somewhere like France or Australia and catch it a few days before your friends. That’s right, as part of their strategy to combat international piracy, American movie studios have begun releasing tent-pole titles to foreign markets before their U.S. release date.

    The latest blockbuster to get the foreign release red carpet treatment is the highly-anticipated Avengers movie, from Marvel Comics’ movie-making department; and according to reports, The Avengers is in the process of breaking a number of foreign box office records. Deadline.com reveals:

    Still more countries are reporting grosses, and the superhero super-blockbuster opened #1 in every foreign market… Overseas, Disney is reporting $185.1M box office in the film’s first 5 days of release in 39 territories… The Avengers scoored the biggest opening days in New Zealand, Taiwan, Iceland and Malaysia.

    Not only that, but in the United States, ticket pre-sales for The Avengers are doing better numbers than all of the other Marvel movies combined:

    …Avengers is selling 3,995% more tickets than Captain America, 1,034% more tickets than Thor, 114% more tickets than Iron Man 2, and 1,406% more tickets than Iron Man at the same point in the sales cycle…

    Another good thing about The Avengers coming out is it will finally put an end to all that “Think Like A Man is still number one at the box office!!!” excitement, as if there’s something substantial about that nugget of information. Not to be a killjoy, but here’s something to keep in mind about TLaM’s box office success. To date, the Twitter-friendly movie has made $60 million. Now, with a only a $12 million budget, that’s nothing to shake your head at. Clearly, the movie has succeeded in making a substantial profit. All of these are good things.

    With that in mind, The Avengers is on pace to make $125 million during its opening weekend, clearly indicating there are levels of success (woo) and then there are levels of success (WOO HOO!!!!). The Avengers is clearly heading for the latter level, something the foreign box office receipts indicate quite nicely.

    To further build the hype surrounding this Friday’s release, Marvel released a new teaser short for your consumption: