Box Office: 'Frozen' Beats 'Catching Fire' for No. 1 Spot
Credit: Walt Disney Animation Studios
In only its second weekend at the nationwide box office, Disney's Frozen has taken the top spot from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, bringing in $31.6 million domestically and $30.6 million internationally, helping to push its worldwide total to $190.2 million.
However, despite losing the No. 1 spot, Catching Fire is still a tearing it up at theaters. While it earned just above $27 million domestically, its global total has just reached $673.4 million, bringing it even closer to the $691.2 million worldwide gross of the first installment in The Hunger Games film franchise.
From there, it's a pretty steep drop-off for ticket sales at the box office this week, particularly for new arrivals. The No. 3 spot went to the gritty drama Out of the Furnace, yet the tepid $5.3 million gross constitutes a total bomb for Relativity Media, the studio behind the film. The movie, starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, and Woody Harrelson, received decent reviews, and boasted Leonardo DiCaprio as a producer, along with an all-star cast that also included Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. However, none of these pluses were able to give the film a healthier start. This poor showing marks the worst opening for a Christian Bale film debuting in more than 2,000 theaters.
Yet as the news got worse for Relativity, it only got better for Disney: the studio took the No. 4 and No. 5 spots with Marvel's Thor: The Dark World and DreamWorks' Delivery Man, respectively. Thor 2 raked in an extra $4.7 million to bring its domestic gross to $193.6 million, while Delivery Man earned $3.8 million to bring its total to $24.8 million, recouping its modest $22 million budget.
You can check out the full top 10 below:
1. Frozen ($31.6 million)
2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($27 million)
3. Out of the Furnace ($5.3 million)
4. Thor: The Dark World ($4.7 million)
5. Delivery Man ($3.8 million)
6. Homefront ($3.4 million)
7. The Book Thief ($2.7 million)
8. The Best Man Holiday ($2.7 million)
9. Philomena ($2.3 million)
10. Dallas Buyers Club ($1.5 million)
Via: Box Office Mojo / The Hollywood Reporter