"Hunger Games" tops box office for fourth straight week

Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2" topped the North American weekend box office for the fourth straight week, according to industry estimator Rentrak.

The final installment of the young adult blockbuster franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence took in an estimated 11.3 million U.S. dollars this weekend in the United States and Canada, down 40 percent from last weekend. The film has brought its total box office haul to 244.5 million dollars in North America.

The second place this weekend was Warner's "In the Heart of the Sea" starring Chris Hemsworth, grossing 11 million dollars from 3,103 theaters.

The audience breakdown for "In the Heart of the Sea" skewed toward male moviegoers (54 percent) and heavily toward moviegoers over the age of 35 (68 percent). First-night moviegoers ranked a respectable "B+" rating on CinemaScore, while the critics gave it a 43 percent approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes.

"The Good Dinosaur" came in third with 10.5 million dollars. The 3D computer animated film from Disney and Pixar was down 31.5 percent from last weekend. "The Good Dinosaur" has grossed 89.7 million dollars in 19 day since released.

The other 10 most-popular movies this week were "Creed" (10.1 million dollars), "Krampus" (8 million), "Spectre" (4 million), "The Night Before" (3.9 million), "The Peanuts Movie" (2.6 million), "Spotlight" (2.5 million) and "Brooklyn" (1.9 million). Endit