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"Hunger Games" tops box office for third time

Xinhua, December 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" took in an estimated 18.6 million U.S. dollars to lead the box office in the United States and Canada for a third weekend in a row.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, the young adult blockbuster was down 64 percent from last weekend. With a 17-day take of 227.1 million dollars, "Mockingjay, Part 2" is currently running 12 percent behind the 258.2-million-dollar 17-day gross of "Mockingjay, Part 1."

The only big release of the week, Universal's horror-comedy "Krampus," based on a traditional European Christmas mythology, opened at 2,902 locations in the United States and Canada with a solid 16 million dollars.

The "Rocky" sequel "Creed" was in third place with 15.54 million dollars, which dropped 47.6 percent from last weekend.

In the fourth place was Disney and Pixar's 3D animation film "The Good Dinosaur," which dropped 60.4 percent for an estimated 15.51 million dollars. "The Good Dinosaur" currently grossed just 75.9 million dollars in 10 days.

Compared with the same weekend period last year, ticket sales increased by 26 percent in this weekend.

The 10 most popular movies this week were "Spectre" (5.4 million dollars), "The Night Before" (4.9 million), "The Peanuts Movie" (3.5 million), "Spotlight" (2.9 million), "Brooklyn" (2.4 million) and "Secret In Their Eyes" (2 million). Endi