The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeshas flog Disney’sWishat the domestic boxwood office . Wishis Walt Disney Animation Studios ' only animated feature publish during the company ’s centennial celebration in 2023 , and the flick - which features the iconic wishing champion as a character - is chock - full of references to Disney picture show by . It opened just five days afterSongbirds and Snakes , which is a prequel to theHunger Gamesmovies , the last of which premier in 2015 .
PerTheWrap , theBallad of Songbirds and Snakesbox officeis continuing to dominate after taking No . 1 in its opening weekend , trumpingWishover American Thanksgiving . The projection for the domestic box place during the Thanksgiving holiday viewing window show theHunger Gamesprequel grossing a five - daylight sum of $ 42 million . This more than outpacesWish ’s projections of $ 33.5 million .
Wish Continues Disney’s Bad Year at the Box Office
ThisWishbox officestumble look even worse when compared to the fact thatBallad of Songbirds and Snakesis only turn out halfhearted result liken to the previousHunger Gamesmovies . The most late movie , The Hunger Games : Mockingjay - Part 2 , was antecedently the lowest - grossing installment in the franchise . That movie open during the same window , the weekend before Thanksgiving , and had earned $ 198.5 million by the follow Sunday , compared toBallad ’s project accumulative $ 98.4 million .
The highest - grossing movie of the dealership , The Hunger Games : Catching Fire , had grossed $ 296.3 million by the terminal of the same Thanksgiving window .
This show thatWishis perpetuating the box office struggles that have plagued Disney throughout 2023 . Most latterly , their Marvel Cinematic Universe outingThe Marvelshad the lowest - grossing opening weekend of the 33 - movie franchise , followed by the worst second - weekend drop . This one - two punch comes at the tail terminal of a hard yr that includesIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destinylosing the company an estimated $ 100 million andThe taken up Mansiononly making $ 118 million worldwide despite a roughly $ 150 million production budget .
The No . 1 picture benefited from theThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakescastreceiving special dispensation to upgrade the movie during the 2023 Screen Actors Guild smash . However , the ten-strike was over by the time both it andWishpremiered , giving the latter movie a more or less larger promotional push than former mid - strike Disney movies such asThe Marvels(which premiere one daylight after the end of the strike ) orHaunted Mansion(which premiere the first weekend after it began ) . Regardless , this does n’t seem to have helped considerably , giving Disney yet another 2023 disappointment .
Source : TheWrap
