Along with turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie, Americans filled up again on The Hunger Games over this Thanksgiving weekend. Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, the last entry in Lionsgate’s wildly successful four-movie series, made $75.75 million over the five-day holiday period in its second week in North American theatres, reaching a domestic cumulative of $198.3 million. It dropped 50% from its debut frame in the face of stiff competition from The Good Dinosaur and Creed, among others. Jennifer Lawrence, in her final appearance as series heroine Katniss Everdeen, led the film to a strong return frame, though it did come well short of Mockingjay – Part 1’s $83.7 million second outing. At this point last year, the previous Hunger Games entry had already reached $220 million. Mockingjay, Part 2 placed first abroad as well: with sales of $67.2 million, its domestic and international cumulative at this juncture is $440 million.

At the U.S. box office, The Good Dinosaur made $39.1 million in its domestic debut, good for second place. With the upcoming and sure to be historic launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this is a welcome appetizer for Disney. Next, in third place, was Warner Bros.’ Creed, a spinoff of an iconic series that does not seem to go away: Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky. It focuses on the son of Rocky’s old rival Apollo Creed, a fellow heavyweight boxer who was killed in the ring by the Russian Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. The young Adonis Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, struggles to escape his father’s shadow and looks for help from good old Rocky Balboa as he trains for the world middleweight championship. The film earned a strong $42.6 million in its domestic debut

While Mockingjay, Part 2 took the lion’s share on the international chart, there was plenty left to go around. The Martian had a very strong opening in China, taking $50.1 million in its five-day debut. It beat Interstellar and Gravity’s launches in the Middle Kingdom by 39% and 58%, respectively and crossed the half-billion mark along the way. Next on the overseas table was Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, an anachronistic story about the friendship between a cave-boy and an Apatosaurus. It made $28.7 million in 39 markets, with highlights coming from the UK ($4.3 million) Mexico ($3.6 million) and France ($3.2 million.) Originally scheduled for release in May 2014, the film was pushed back due to production difficulties. This marks the first time Disney/Pixar has launched two films in the same year, following the June release of Inside Out. Meanwhile, James Bond’s Spectre keeps attracting audiences worldwide. In the U.S., it added $18.2 million, good for fourth place. 92 other markets generated an extra $30.4 million, for a global cumulative of $750 million; $136 million came from the UK, followed by China with $84 million.

The specialty box office in the U.S. and Canada was particularly salient over this past frame. The Danish Girl, with Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, opened in four New York and Los Angeles theatres, making a very solid $186k, with a per theatre average of $46,250. Redmayne stars as Lili Elbe, a Copenhagen-based artist who became one of the first people in the world to receive sexual reassignment surgery. It will move into a wider selection of theatres in the coming weeks.

The Weinstein Company’s Carol enjoyed a promising start this weekend as well. It features Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as a lesbian couple struggling for acceptance in the U.S. during the 1950s. Like The Danish Girl, it played in four theatres, though it enjoyed a slightly larger share of the box office with a weekend take of $206k over the three-day weekend, and a $50,769 per theatre average.

Lorenzo Soria