'Mockingjay' box office is best of the year, worst of the franchise

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LOS ANGELES — A little Hunger Games fatigue was to be expected, but a 23 percent slide? That was not.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 bullseyed the biggest U.S. box office opening of 2014, with the June 27 release Transformers: Age of Extinction trailing safely behind at an even $100 million. By any measure, Mockingjay was a hit — except one.

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That would be The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, which streaked to $158 million last year, and still stands as the 6th largest U.S. opening weekend of all time. That was just a shade better than the inaugural Hunger Games, which announced a new mega-franchise in 2012 with its staggering $152 million opening weekend. Read more...

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