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Monday 7 December 2015

‘Hunger Games’ barely fends off spooky ‘Krampus’ film

a “Star Wars” parody trailer “Hopefully the rising tide Mockingjay — Part 2,”
and the hashtag #youcan- of ‘Star Wars’ will raise all $18.6 million.
seethemboth. movies,” Dergarabedian 2. “Krampus,” $16.0 million.
Among other films com- said. 3. “Creed,” $15.5 million.
peting for attention in the Estimated ticket sales for 4. “The Good Dinosaur,”
coming weeks are: “Alvin Friday through Sunday at $15.5 million.
and the Chipmunks: The U.S. and Canadian the- 5. “Spectre,” $5.4 million.
Road Chip,” the Will Smith- aters, according to Rent- 6. “The Night Before,” $4.9
led football movie “Con- rak. Where available, the million.
cussion,” and “Joy,” an un- latest international num- 7. “The Peanuts Movie,”
derdog tale that reunites bers for Friday through Sun- $3.5 million.
stars Jennifer Lawrence day are also included. Fi- 8. “Spotlight,” $2.9 million.
and Bradley Cooper with nal domestic figures will be 9. “Brooklyn,” $2.4 million.
“American Hustle” director released Monday. 10. “Secret In Their Eyes,”
David O. Russell. 1. “The Hunger Games: $2.0 million.q

This photo provided by Legendary Pictures and Universal

Pictures shows Emjay Anthony as Max in Legendary Pictures’

“Krampus.” (Steve Unwin/AP)

RYAN NAKASHIMA is likely to add to the profits
AP Business Writer of what has been a record
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The year for Universal following
“Hunger Games” finale the release of movies like
spoiled an early Christmas “Jurassic World,” ‘’Furious
for the holiday horror com- 7,” and “Minions.”
edy “Krampus” to maintain Meanwhile, the final movie
its top spot at the North installment for bow-wield-
American box office for ing Katniss pushed past
the third week running. $500 million worldwide,
The Jennifer Lawrence-led another hit for Lionsgate,
film took in an estimated which has staked its claim
$18.6 million in the U.S. and on the young adult market.
Canada, bringing its do- It hopes to keep rolling with
mestic total to $227 million, its franchise film strategy
according to Rentrak esti- with “Allegiant,” the third
mates Sunday. film in the “Divergent” se-
The anti-Santa Claus thriller ries due out in March.
from Universal, the only film “Creed,” the boxing film
to debut in the top 10 this where Sylvester Stallone
week, brought in $16 mil- reprises his role as Rocky
lion. Balboa, came third, and
The normally slow weekend the Disney/Pixar animated
following Thanksgiving was tale “The Good Dinosaur”
up 26 percent from a year came fourth. Each had
ago thanks to the fresh around $15.5 million in tick-
material from Universal, et sales.
which slipped in between Overall ticket sales are run-
the release of two huge ning 4 percent ahead of
franchise movies— “The last year and are on track
Hunger Games: Mocking- to top $11 billion in the U.S.
jay — Part 2,” and “Star and Canada for the first
Wars: Episode VII — The time, said Rentrak’s senior
Force Awakens,” which is media analyst Paul Derga-
due out Dec. 18. rabedian.
“Even though it’s horror at Dergarabedian says it re-
its base, you needed to mains to be seen whether
have enough time for the the global excitement
film to open and lead up to around J.J. Abrams’ “Star
Christmas,” said Nicholas Wars” will drown out a
Carpou, Universal Pictures’ bevy of other options com-
president of domestic dis- ing out later this year. That
tribution. “Being the only ranges from director Ale-
wide commercial release jandro Inarritu’s “The Rev-
on this date really did won- enant” to the Amy Poehler
ders for this film.” and Tina Fey-led comedy,
Modestly budgeted for un- “Sisters,” which has know-
der $15 million, “Krampus” ingly marketed its film with