Box Office: November 22-24, 2013: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

Box Office November 22-24, 2013. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiered in the Number One at the box office over the weekend with $161.1 Million. Thor: The Dark World was Second with $14.1 Million. The Best Man Holiday was Third with $12.5 Million. Delivery Man was Fourth with $8.2 Million. Free Birds was Fifth with $5.3 Million. Last Vegas, Bad Grandpa, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, and Dallas Buyers Club rounded out the top ten respectively.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American science fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins’s novel, Catching Fire, the second installment in The Hunger Games trilogy. The film is the sequel to The Hunger Games, and the second installment in The Hunger Games film series, produced and distributed by Lionsgate. Francis Lawrence directed the film, with a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt (credited as Michael deBruyn). Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen along with Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Toby Jones, Willow Shields, and Paula Malcomson also reprising their roles.

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Months prior to the first film’s release, Lionsgate greenlit the second film and Gary Ross, director of the first film, was expected to return as director. However, on April 10, 2012, he announced his departure from the project due to the tight and fixed production and on May 3, Francis Lawrence was hired as the film’s director. Throughout July and September 2012, the film’s supporting cast was filled out, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Lynn Cohen, Jena Malone, Amanda Plummer, Alan Ritchson, and Meta Golding brought in to portray key roles.

Delivery Man is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Ken Scott, produced by DreamWorks Pictures, and starring Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, and Cobie Smulders.

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Source: Boxofficereport, Wikipedia