‘The Hunger Games’ sets box office record
Posted March 26, 2012 6:55 am.
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The highly-anticipated drama The Hunger Games opened with a staggering $155 million US in ticket sales at the North American box office – making it the third-highest opening in history.
The movie was only behind the 2011 Harry Potter finale Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 and the 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight.
The Hunger Games, set in a future dystopia in which young teenagers are forced to fight to the death on live television, officially opened at midnight on Thursday.
“Usually we don’t expect much from a blockbuster film, but it has a really high pedigree. This is a terrific movie,” Maclean’s film critic Brian D. Johnson said last week.
The movie is based on the first in a set of three bestselling novels by Suzanne Collins. There are already plans to adapt the other books in the trilogy, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, for the big screen.
The number-two movie at the box off this weekend was 21 Jump Street, which earned $21.3 million.
And rounding out the top three was The Lorax, which took in $13.1 million.
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