The first “Hunger Games” film, released last year, drew an opening-weekend audience that was 71 percent female, for instance. Many box-office analysts have viewed “The Hunger Games” as a successor to “Twilight” - an extremely popular movie series, but ultimately one with limited appeal to certain demographic categories, particularly men. Hollywood expected “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” to deliver huge ticket sales, and it did not disappoint: North American theaters generated $161.1 million in ticket sales between Thursday and Sunday, according to studio estimates.īut “Catching Fire” also shattered expectations in an important way. LOS ANGELES - The “Hunger Games” movie franchise became a full-fledged cultural phenomenon over the weekend, broadening its appeal by age and by gender with its second installment, and setting a November box-office record.
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