If you’ve seen The Hunger Games movies, you know that the mockingjay is known for its ability to imitate: Whistle a few bars and the mockingjays will sing it back to you, note for note. So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that the mockingjay’s namesake movie has shown a talent for repetition, too.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 claimed the box office victory for the third straight weekend in a super-slow week, warbling its way to an estimated $21.6 million. Katniss Everdeen’s penultimate film has now earned $257.7 million Stateside, making it the fourth-biggest movie of 2014—and it’ll probably fly by The LEGO Movie ($257.8 million) for No. 3 by the time you’re done with this sentence.
Mockingjay was the only film to crest the $20 million mark, and only Penguins of Madagascar mustered even more than $10 million. This animated lark iced a cool $11.1 million to finish second, even as it lost more than half of its audience.
Horrible Bosses 2 cashed $8.6 million—less than some real-life horrible bosses get in their golden parachute, I’d imagine. It held off Big Hero 6 ($8.1 million) for third place.
Interstellar closed out the weekend’s Top Five, collecting $8 million. Christopher Nolan’s freaky sci-fi epic has now earned about $158.7 million—almost enough to cover its $165 million budget. But don’t write pity checks to Nolan just yet: Interstellar’s been a box-office smash overseas, earning $434.4 million for a worldwide gross of $593.1 mil.
Mockingjay has had a good run, but all good runs come to an end. A certain biblical epic is coming to theaters next weekend, which means theaters hosting Mockingjay may see something of an … Exodus.
Final figures update: 1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, $22 million; 2. Penguins of Madagascar, $10.9 million; 3. Horrible Bosses 2, $8.4 million; 4. Big Hero 6, $8 million; 5. Interstellar, $7.8 million.
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