'Hunger Games' Box Office: Movie Grosses $68.25 Million On Friday; Fifth Highest Opening Of All Time

Posted: 03/24/2012 11:35 am Updated: 03/24/2012 4:46 pm

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"The Hunger Games" scored huge box office numbers on Friday. According to Deadline.com, the dystopian film grossed $68.25 million in North American ticket sales.

Lionsgate, the studio behind the series, states that those numbers make "Hunger Games" the highest opening Friday gross for a non-sequel, as well as the fifth highest Friday opening of all time. Current estimates have the film bringing in a total of $140 million for the weekend.

Check back Sunday for a complete box office breakdown.

For more of Moviefone's "Hunger Games" coverage, head here.

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It's all happening. "The Hunger Games" scored huge box office numbers on Friday. According to Deadline.com, the dystopian film grossed $68.25 million in North American ticket sales. Lionsgate,...
It's all happening. "The Hunger Games" scored huge box office numbers on Friday. According to Deadline.com, the dystopian film grossed $68.25 million in North American ticket sales. Lionsgate,...
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zenchris
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10:45 PM on 03/24/2012
Real slow mover, Jennifer Lawrence was made for better stuff. Gearing this towards tween girls was the genius of this movie. It's not as gooey as the Twilight Series, and is pretty tame stuff with the violence kept in check, and rarely evokes much drama, or empathy. It's a fight to the death Survivor for teens, pretty meh all around.
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06:57 PM on 03/24/2012
5th highest opening of all time? From the hype we heard on all the media reports the past week (more than likely designed just to get the public out to see it) we expected it to break all records.

5th highest opening of all time isn't even worth the headline.
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06:44 PM on 03/24/2012
Look out vampires,it's a whole new kind of hunger.
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MB1East
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06:26 PM on 03/24/2012
I have never understood why they use ticket sales to measure the success of a movie. Ticket prices go up every year. It should be based on the number of people that go see the movie. I read somewhere that it's too complicated to track or something like that. So they know how much cash they make, but not how many tickets were sold? Box Office Mojo has a neat feature that lets you see movies adjusted for inflation and it's amazing to see the difference.
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06:50 PM on 03/24/2012
I agree. Besides, in order to know if it's a flop or a hit, you have to go see the thing and that means buying a ticket. The proof is in the sales about 2 weeks in. By then, word of mouth will either trash it or elevate it.
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Huah
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10:14 PM on 03/24/2012
I agree, it's hard to track movie ticket money. After first run theaters, movies move to secondary $1 theaters, then to DVD/BluRay discs, then to HBO and its companion networks, then to the networks like TNT who will run them forever. Each one adds more money to the overall take. BTW, BoxOfficeMojo.com is excellent.
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MikeDu
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06:06 PM on 03/24/2012
They better make their money quick on the opening weekend before word-of-mouth deflates the balloon.
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Jill in NYC
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06:01 PM on 03/24/2012
Only the fifth? Why not the first? They've been hyping this films like it was the Second Coming.
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05:56 PM on 03/24/2012
I saw it yesterday. I didn't like it. Definitely not for kids. Children killing children violently is not my idea of good movies for teens. It was slow and even boring in some parts. The costumes and make up were amateurish and downright silly. I love Stanley Tuchy but he should be embarassed by this performance. Plot was predicatble from halfway through the film and the character developement was weak at best. Don't waste your money.
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05:52 PM on 03/24/2012
Now that I know what it's about,I'd like to see it! ......When I first heard the Title I thought it was a Sporting Competition involving Runway Models! .....
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MikeDu
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06:16 PM on 03/24/2012
Talk about runway models, look at the photo fronting this article. The film hadn't come out yet, nobody had seen it, yet the kids in the photo are dressed up like the charaters. Are they mystical savants who can see into the future?
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07:00 PM on 03/24/2012
I understand it is also a series of books. Kind of like going to see Fellowship of the Ring before the movie opened, most fans have already read the books.
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05:51 PM on 03/24/2012
I confess to taking a crew of 'tweens, all of whom had read the trilogy, to the movie last night. Luckily, I had the foresight to purchase the tickets on Tuesday because it was sold out, despite playing on three screens at the theatre.

Certainly not a great movie, but the energy in the theatre was fun and it's been awhile since I've sat thru a movie in a house packed with teens and 'tweens with lots of clapping, and oohs and aahs for the on-screens cuties.
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05:40 PM on 03/24/2012
Fifth Highest Opening Of All Time
Only the fifth? With all the hype I thought it would go to the top.
Guess not.
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iridium species
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05:46 PM on 03/24/2012
Yeah, you're right... out of only several tens of thousands of movies that have been made, only #5 :(
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05:50 PM on 03/24/2012
You miss the point, the hype is disproportionate to the result.
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07:39 PM on 03/24/2012
The 4 movies ahead of it are all sequels. The Hunger Games is the first in the series. Consider this: the three Twilight sequels that have been released so far occupy 3 of the top 4 spots. However, the first Twilight, in comparison, sold 69 million in it's first weekend, only one million more than the Hunger Games sold in it's first day. If THG follows this pattern, its sequels could open even larger than it has.
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08:05 PM on 03/24/2012
Ok.
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05:37 PM on 03/24/2012
P.T. Barnum was right.
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04:47 PM on 03/24/2012
This opening figure will be crushed by The Dark Knight Rises! http://batmanrises.com
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04:38 PM on 03/24/2012
Obamaland in four more years...
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05:02 PM on 03/24/2012
You have to make everything political don't you? But since you started it: No, its a Santorûm fascìst theocrâcy. But remain calm! Rick will never get the nomination let alone the presidency!
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05:44 PM on 03/24/2012
Obama is a known quantity. He is going to put in something like this. Santorum or Gingrich on the otherhand...
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03:32 PM on 03/24/2012
Kind of a depressing view of what can happen when any government is allowed to run the lives of it's citizens.
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04:25 PM on 03/24/2012
I don't need to see a movie to know all about that. Look at all the new laws that have the government dictating rules for medical procedures. I never saw I would see the day when the powers of the government were expanded to such a level
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04:53 PM on 03/24/2012
Agreed, and unfortunatly I think it will get even worse. There are pivitol books and movies that come along now and then that you can sense are truly a peek into our future.
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04:33 PM on 03/24/2012
Opposed to the sheer brutality of anarchy/libertarianism? Does anyone honestly believe those two terrible futures are in any way probable from where we are now? I do not. Both are dystopian views and I believe we will figure out how to have just the right amount of working government.
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