Catching Fire Tops The US Box Office Again, With Frozen Also Doing Well

It was always going to be a race between Catching Fire and Frozen for the Thanksgiving US box office top spot. In the end it was The Hunger Games sequel that pulled ahead with $74 million over the actual weekend and $110 million over the five day weekend. It means that in less than two weeks it’s already grazing nearly $300 million.

Frozen still did good business though, taken $93 million since it expanded its screen count from a single screen to 3,700 last Monday. That’s a Thanksgiving holiday record for an animated movie, ahead of Toy Story 2’s $80 million opening. With its wintry theme and good word of mouth, it should continue to do well in the run up to Christmas.

Much of the rest of the top 10 was made up of either new films of those making their first appearance in the top 10 after expanding their screen count. The Jason Statham flick Homefront took fifth spot $6.9 million of its opening, while The Book Thief jumped from 16th to 7th spot with $4.8 million. Black Nativity opened at eight $3.8 million, which is likely to be seen as a disappointment compared to many other recent films with a primarily African American cast. Finally the Judi Dench/Steve Coogan movie Philomena jumped from 27th to 9th spot with $3.7 million.

Take a look below for the US box office top to for the weekend of November 29th-December 1st 2013.