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# 'The Hunger Games' prequel outlasts its competition while 'The Marvels' falls to No. 3
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-the-hunger/
- Published: 2023-11-20T12:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T15:35:03.000Z
- Description: 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' didn't live up to the lofty box office goals of its predecessors but still outdid 'Trolls Band Together' and 'The Marvels.'
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, The Hunger Games

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of Nov. 17-19, 2023.

### Programming note

**Popculturology** will be off this Friday for Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a great holiday this week.

## 1\. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

**Weekend gross:* $44M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $44M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

The *Hunger Games* franchise returned to theaters this weekend with *The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes*. The briskly named film is a prequel to the original *Hunger Games* movie, but its debut fell far behind where the franchise historically opened.

After *The Hunger Games* opened with $152.5 million in 2012, *The Hunger Games: Catching Fire* ticked up slightly for $158.1 million the following year. While the two-part *Mockingjay* finale didn’t quite live up to that level ($121.9 million in 2014 and $102.7 million in 2015), all four original *Hunger Games* movies cracked the $100 million barrier.

While [there aren’t any plans for another](https://people.com/will-there-be-a-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-sequel-8404000?ref=theomnicosm.com) *Hunger Games* movie at the moment, The *Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes* might give Lionsgate pause on greenlighting another one.

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### 2\. Trolls Band Together

**Weekend gross:* $30.6M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $31.8M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

It’s hard to get a full sense of how a *Trolls* box office debut should play out since *Trolls: World Tour*, the second film in the animated franchise, was made available for digital rental instead of having a full theatrical release during the pandemic. Going back to the first *Trolls* movie, *Trolls Band Together* fell short of the $46.6 million that one opened with in 2016.

### 3\. The Marvels

**Weekend gross:* $10.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $65M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 78*

Speaking of falling short, it was another awful weekend at the box office for *The Marvels*. I really hoped that the positive word of mouth around the movie along with **Iman Vellani**’s charming visit with **Seth Meyers** on *Late Night* and [the video of ](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marvels-video-shows-first-time-235446175.html?ref=theomnicosm.com)[**Teyonah Parrish**](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marvels-video-shows-first-time-235446175.html?ref=theomnicosm.com)[ celebrating](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marvels-video-shows-first-time-235446175.html?ref=theomnicosm.com) her first time seeing her super suit would’ve boosted *The Marvel*’s second weekend, but instead the bottom fell out of whatever oomph the film had left.

A 78 percent fall is even worse than the 70 percent drop that *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* suffered its second weekend earlier this year.

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## 4\. Thanksgiving

**Weekend gross:* $10.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $10.2M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

**Eli Roth** hasn’t released a movie that he directed since we got both *Death Wish* and *The House with a Clock in Its Walls* in 2018\. I guess the market isn’t ripe for a Thanksgiving horror film?

## 5\. Five Nights at Freddy’s

**Weekend gross:* $3.5M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $132.6M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 16*

*Five Nights at Freddy*’s joins *The Marvels* as the only holdover from last week, with *Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour* falling out of the top five in its sixth weekend of release.

*Box office numbers via* [*The Numbers*](http://www.the-numbers.com/?ref=theomnicosm.com) *based on Sunday estimates.*

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