The final movie of the Hunger Games franchise is out now, so here’s Flickering Myth’s cheat sheet for the story so far. Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay – Part 1…may the facts be ever in your favour. Listen to the audio version below on Soundcloud, watch it on YouTube, follow us on Stitcher or […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens shatters a host of records at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 18th December to Sunday 20th December 2015… This won’t really come as much of a surprise, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens has shattered a host of records at the UK box office. Debuting on Thursday, the film pulled in the biggest ever opening day […]
The Hunger Games tops U.S. box office for fourth weekend
With In the Heart of the Sea sinking at the North American box office, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 remained defiant at the top of the charts for a fourth consecutive weekend. Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch and the rest of the gang pulled in another $11.3 million, according to estimates. That brings the domestic […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 makes it four in a row at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 11th December to Sunday 13th December 2015… The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has topped the UK box office for the fourth week in a row, becoming the first film since Les Miserables in February 2013 to do so. Mockingjay’s £1.29 million haul is […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 makes in three in a row at the top of the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 4th December to Sunday 6th December 2015… The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 made it three weeks in a row at the top of the UK box office this past week, leading an unchanged top four with a third weekend haul of £2,240,723 to […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 fends off The Good Dinosaur at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 27th November to Sunday 29th November 2015… The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 held firm at the top of the UK box office in its second weekend, adding a further £4.53 million to push its haul to £19.32 million after eleven days. Five […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 tracking lowest opening weekend of the franchise
With four weeks to go until its release, box office analysts are suggesting that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is tracking a domestic opening weekend of $121.5 million, just below that of the previous instalment, Mockingjay – Part 1, which debuted with $121.9 million last November. SEE ALSO: ‘Epic Finale’ TV spot for […]
Lionsgate bringing The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and The Last Witch Hunter to Comic-Con
Lionsgate has announced that it will be giving fans in attendance at the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive looks at the studio’s most anticipated releases of this year in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and The Last Witch Hunter, with a Hall H panel on Thursday July 9th which will be moderated by Conan […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 scores lowest domestic opening weekend of the franchise, $247 million worldwide
The fourth and final instalment of The Hunger Games franchise exploded into cinemas this past Thursday, and despite some polls claiming it to be more anticipated than Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has scored the lowest domestic opening weekend of the series, pulling in an estimated $101 million […]
The History of the Multi-Part Film, Part I of I
Pim Razenberg on Multi-Part Film franchising… In the 2015 article The Future of Franchising: The Shared Universe, I discussed the development of franchising strategies within Hollywood. In the 2010s, these strategies cumulated in the dawn of interconnected franchising through “cinematic universes”, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe. Today, as we […]
