The odds were definitely in the favor of Lionsgate and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which opened with a huge $161.1M, breaking the record for a 2D release and making it the highest-grossing November debut ever. With the help of $12.6M in IMAX-exclusive screenings the film ranks fourth on the all-time list, just ahead of The Dark Knight Rises. Pile on an extra $146M internationally and the total jumps to $307M, setting it on a course to surpass the $691M worldwide haul of The Hunger Games, but probably not by much.
2. Thor: The Dark World- $14.1M/$167.8M
3. The Best Man Holiday- $12.5M/$50.3M
Tumbling 58% from last week is The Best Man Holiday, and it appears those who were waiting 14 years for the sequel all turned out for the opening weekend. Not that it matters since it's nearly tripled the $17M production budget and has Universal cooking up a sequel.
4. Delivery Man- $8.2M
Vince Vaughn's sperm donor comedy Delivery Man was impotent competition against the might of Catching Fire. There's little surprise here that the remake of French-Canadian comedy Starbuck failed to make much of a splash considering its load was spent on Vaughn's name alone. Yet he's proven to be a name that studios can no longer bank on for a sure money shot at the box office.
5. Free Birds- $5.3M/$48.5M
6. Last Vegas- $4.4M/$53.9M
7. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa- $3.4/$95.4M
8. Gravity- $3.3M/$245.5M
9. 12 Years A Slave- $2.8M/$29.3M
10. Dallas Buyers Club- $2.7M/$6.4M
