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Hot Topics Jennifer Lawrence Kim Kardashian Rihanna Robert Pattinson Beyonce Justin Bieber Kristen Stewart

Hunger Games Third Biggest Weekend Release Ever; Opens With $155 Million

Truth rating: 10

12:05 pm, March 25th, 2012

(Lionsgate)

The Hunger Games went into the record books this weekend, with a release of $155 million.

It’s the biggest non-sequel film to ever open, beating a slew other films including all of the Twilight movies.

While The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, was expected to open big, this weekend’s box office still exceeded industry expectations.

The film, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel, is now also the all-time third best opener after (sequels) 2008’s The Dark Knight and  2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 , which raked $158.4 million and $169.2 million, respectively.

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  • teachtoloveagain

    Saw it and im very glad i did, the movie was fantastic !

  • guest

    looooved the movie!!!!!!!! JL was soo good!! she was perfect for the part…

  • Damon

    I have not seen the movie,but those numbers are pretty impresive!

  • Rick Yunker

    In a word? No.

    I have a problem with a story whose primary plot device is children murdering children in a gladiatorial contest.

    No. Thank. You.

  • Chloe

    That $155 million includes the estimate for Sunday. It’s not completely correct.

  • Chloe

    ^ so far it’s $68 million for Friday and $51 million for Saturday for a total of $119 million. To get to $155 total it has to make an additional $36 million today.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/K3EYN6STAPMBJMHKQVEH3ENAHQ Luann

    We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  • Lisa

    Maybe the world would get over these stupid Twilight movies …

  • aquarius64

    It sounds like it. I read on another site that people booed the Breaking Dawn 2 trailer. That’s not good, and it doesn’t bode well for Twilight’s three leads. People outside their fans may not be willing to see their non-Twilight movies because they are so burned out on Twilight. The pressure is now on for BD2, the last movie of the series, to have a higher opening weekend than HG 1. Summit would want this cash cow to go out with a bang.

  • Troy

    The BD2 trailer was scenes that had already been released, it wasn’t anything new. That’s why a lot of people were booing. As for the three main actors being overexposed I think that you are incorrect. Taylor Lautner doesn’t really have any films coming out this year but Pattinson and Stewart have two films besides BD2 each. Bel Ami, On the Road, Cosmopolis, and Snow White and the Hunstman are already getting great reviews and exposure. From both fans and non fans. Out of all three I think Kristen Stewart will be the most successful. She had a great indie career before twilight and she seems to be the most dedicated out of the three.

  • lyssia

    arrêtez de mentir et de semer le trouble, le site dont vous parler est une invention de votre part troll…………… regarder les vidéos faites à la sortie du du film THG, les gens étaient tous contents d’avoir vu la bande annonce de Breaking Dawn 2 . si vous n’avez rien à dire alors taisez vous et aller voir ailleurs pour déverser votre venin. KRISTEN STEWART a eu le mérite de dire que THG sera un grand film……………Boire du thé fumer et laisser passer les trolls…..merciiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!

  • Ryan

    Agreed. Kristen gets a bad rep for Twilight but she always get great reviews in every movie she has done. The screenwriter for the twilight series needed to be fired long ago. I can’t wait to see On the Road. The trailer looks awesome and Kristen seems to have caught the very essence of MaryLou. It will be great.

    I saw Bel Ami when I was in London but I didn’t think it was Robert Pattinson’s best performance. He didn’t really seem like he was fully there. If you watch the Bel Ami and Cosmopolis trailers it’s like he is playing the exact same character.

    I haven’t seen any film with Taylor Lautner outside of the Twilight ones. I just don’t think he has very good range. Abduction got horrible reviews. He’s most likely the one out of the three who no one will remember in five or ten years.

    I saw Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone. It was a great movie but not really Oscar worthy. I didn’t see her in Xmen but I heard the reviews were pretty good.

    I saw Josh Hutcherson in Zathura years ago but nothing else until HG. And HG is the only movie I saw Liam Hemsworth in.

    Out of Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games I think Daniel Radcliffe, Kristen Stewart, and Jennifer Lawrence will be the most successful career wise. They seem to have the most talent out of all the rest.

  • Ryan

    I’m actually suprised the movie is doing so well. The movie missed so much from the book and a lot of fans are upset. Hopefully they will do better on the sequel.

  • Ryan

    ^ not a very good translation but it will do

    “stop lying and cause trouble, the site you mention is an invention of vorte hand troll. watch videos made at the exit of the film THG, people were all happy to have seen the trailer of Breaking Dawn 2. if you have nothing to say then shut up and you go somewhere else to dump vorte venom. KRISTEN STEWART had the merit of that THG is a great movie ….. drinking tea and smoking let the trolls …. thank you!”

    Well said!

  • Nick

    Indeed, it’s a device, but a device that casts light on important social issues in the world today: exploitation of the third world, war, and dehumanizing consumerism, which is more than I can say for twilight or harry potter movies, entertaining as they may be.

  • aquarius64

    I have not seen any reviews of the complete movies since they have not been released yet. The positive feedback is based on a trailer. But a trailer is not a 100% guarantee that the whole movie is good. Studios will put the good stuff in a trailer to hook you in, but once you sit through 2 hrs. you find it stinks. For me, plunking down $10 to see an actor or actress I like is not enough; all parts of the movie have to be good: story, acting, action, emotion, etc. For Kristen, she still has to prove she can open a big budget movie that doesn’t have a vampire or a werewolf in it with good numbers. Critical acclaim is fine, but if you can’t bring home the box office bacon your stock goes down in Hollywood.

  • aquarius64

    to lyssia – this is not a Robsten fan site. Different opinions are allowed here. You can’t tell anyone to shut up because you read an opinion you don’t like.

  • Ryan

    Why single Kristen out? Except for HP Daniel Radcliffe has had one film be a box office success. Robert Pattinson’s Water for Elephants was a success but all his other movies flopped. Bel Ami is getting indie distribution in the US and has only made $600k in international sales. Emma Watson’s only post HP movie didn’t do terribly well at the box office. Rupert Grint’s post HP movies have bombed. Same with Taylor Lautner post Twilight. Grint and Lautner don’t even have any projects in the works. Most of Jennifer Lawrence’s films were bombs except for Xmen which already had a built in fan base. Hardly anyone has seen any movies starting Josh Hutcherson or Liam Hemsworth. Out of everyone Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence have got the best reviews. Most of Stewart’s films were indies but they all got excellent reviews. Salles and Sanders wouldn’t have cast Kristen in OTR or SWATH unless they didn’t think she was fully capable of handling it. And On the Road is already getting Oscar talk. That wouldn’t happen this early unless the film was spectacular.

    So a lot of these actors are in the exact same position but you choose to single Kristen Stewart out. Why?

  • Ryan

    Lyssia didn’t say this was a robsten fan site. She said that what you posted before was taken from a troll site. Meaning it was made up crap.

  • Anonymous

    She singles Kristen out because she has irrational hate for her due Rob dating her for the last 3 years. That is all it is. Look at her posting history.

  • Ryan

    The Harry Potter and Twilight series each have their own lessons in the books. While the Hunger Games books delve into the social issues you explained, the movie did not. And critics agree. Roger Ebert said that the screenwriter and even Suzanne Collins seemed to want to show kids fighting eachother instead of the issues underneath.

  • Ryan

    @Chelcp- I’m sorry, I’m not very familiar with gossip cop. I take it though that she usually puts Kristen Stewart down?

  • aquarius64

    I’m glad it’s doing well. As for my comments about Kirsten, I’ve made no secret that I’m no fan of hers. Unfortunately chelcp and the rest of her (?) coven believe if you criticize KS you secretly want to have sex with Robert Pattinson. Check our chelcp’s posting history and you’ll see chelcp lobs that grenade at anyone who doesn’t worship the ground KS walks on. I only mentioned KS because I agree with the points you made about RP & TL.

  • Anonymous

    Twilight entertaining?? Please lol
    The movie was fantastic! Also have people forgotten its based on a NON FICTION novel. Take it easy lol. I’m glad the movie is breaking records…the adaptation was great!

  • Lindsay

    You call what you say critizing? No, you troll. You stalk every single one of her Gossip Cop and Hollywood Life articles. Even when you are proven wrong in what you say you keep posting your crap. Whether it anything to do with Robert Pattinson or not, your hate for Kristen Stewart goes well beyond simply criticizing or disliking her.

  • Ryan

    What abot the others? I also mentioned the Harry Potter and Hunger Games actors but you didn’t say a word about them. It’s just a little suspicious that out of all those actors mentioned you ony targeted Kristen Stewart.

  • Ryan

    Did you read the book at all? The movie missed several important things. If it was just a movie that stood alone it would have been fine. But compared to the book? People who have read the books are complaining left and right.

  • Chloe

    Actually, it does get into the social issues you have to wait until movies 2 and 3 to fully get it.

  • Linda

    I’d like to know how this thread about Hunger Games turned into a free-for-all roasting of Kristen Stewart by the nonstens. Shut up – this is not the place to do it!

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  • Ryan

    Yes, like I said the books do to a point. But the film did not. Roger Ebert mainly blamed the screenwriter for not bringing enough of the book’s social issues into the movie but he also blamed Collins for it as well. I completely agree with him.

  • Kjl

    Saw The Hunger Games tonight… It was really great. It followed the book as much as it can with the time constraints.. I didn’t see much ‘added’ that was not part of the book. As far as book to movie goes, they did a really accurate job..Jennifer Lawrence was a good choice for this role.. Loved Donald Sutherland as Snow.. (Gary Oldman could have been evil enough too)
    I can’t wait for DVD to come out and for Catching Fire to hit the screen!

  • Anonymous

    Of course I have! Even though there were parts missing from the book I thought oveall the adaption to be great. HP6 also missed A LOT from the book (big fight scene where Dumbledore is killed) and dont get me started on the Twilight series lol where all but the last film missed A LOT and there hasnt been any character development.

  • Anonymous

    @Ryan- Yes, she does.

  • Anonymous

    THG was good but not great. I agree with Roger Ebert for the most part. I think a lot of the subtext was missed, unfortunately. Lawrence was really good but she had no chemistry with Josh Hutcherson. I felt bad for Josh…He just looked like a little boy compared to Liam and Jennifer. I was surprised by how good Liam was…It was obviously a smaller role, but he held his own. The shaky cameras distracted me like crazy. Overall, B/ B+ in my opinion.

  • http://twitter.com/MileysTheHBIC Memi Forever

    I Loved The Hunger Games… I read the books as well, but I read them over a year ago. I think the mistake a lot of people made was reading them within the past few weeks in order to have read them before the movie came out. You can’t really compare a book to a movie. They are totally different. Especially a book that is written in the first person point of view. It was obvious that there was no way everything that was captured in the book would be able to be captured in the movie for the simple fact that there are limitations to how far the movie could bring you inside of Katniss’ thoughts.

    At the end of the day, if you were to rate the movie as just a movie, standing alone from the book as though you hadn’t read the books, it strongly deserves an A- at LEAST in my opinion. It was a powerful movie & whether you felt it or not, it touched on a lot of the parallels that the book did IMO. My friends who had not read the book, were able to see these parallels as well, so I don’t understand what people mean when they say that it doesn’t. There is only so much you can do in 2&aHalf hours, and I think THG did a damned good job with their constraints.

    In comparison to the book, well, the book is always better. I’ve never seen a film that has surpassed it’s book, and I know that we never will. It’s not possible, so I don’t see why people are so baffled by that. On another hand, it was one of the best book-to-movie adaptations I’ve seen in a while, when comparing it to other movies like such. Especially when you consider that Lionsgate was on a tight budget.

  • me

    Go hang yourself and die.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget this aquarius64 low life spews her propaganda against Kristen on JustJared as well. This goes beyond dislike….more like psychotic hate. And lol at aquarius…this is meant to be about HG…how did Kristen get into this conversation?

  • stark

    she tried to fire up the chemistry thing by stating in one her interviews that she prefer josh than robert pattinson. duh!? i know i shouldn’t bother but did she really think were buying it? jeesh, i just hope that she shut up then and have a bit of integrity.

  • Xyz

    Because this person’s specialty (aquarius64) is to provoke all Kristen & Robsten’s fans. Even her comment is out of the context that makes her ridiculous & stupid, she doesn’t care because she is a saddist & a massochist. Her IQ is 99% from being idiot. Therefore, braindead !!!

  • aquarius64

    The fact you call people troll who disagree shows your silliness. Go back to the daycare, have someone change your Huggie, and put a binky in your mouth.

  • aquarius64

    I know more about Lawrence than about Huthchenson or Hemsworth. Don’t know Grint’s work either so I can’t comment there. Lawrence earned her stripes with an Oscar nod and my respect for not being a tabloid regular like Stewart.

  • insat

    People you do have some issues here, don’t you? Give it a rest. There was Harry Potter, there was Twilight, there is Hunger Games franchise. They have all been making millions, enetertaining people, teaching lessons in love/trust/friendship and so on. Then there will be something else. If you really care for them as fans, the only thing you should be worried about is for your leads to get out of these kids/teens characters and have proper careers in film industry. And even then, there’s nothing YOU can do about it so why going into these love-hate ‘debates’ on every website?!

  • Gossipdivasupreme

    i just watched this exclusive interview on Out There with Jennifer Lawrence, She’s so pretty !! and i love how in the interview she explains how she felt about playing Katniss, and how people would react to her playing the role; http://youtu.be/WQmlhEgSK2I.

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