Stanley Tucci plays Caesar Flickerman, the energetic host of the Hunger Games who interviews the tributes before the deadly competition begins.
LionsgateThere’s no slowing down the voracious appetite for Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games.
Lionsgate’s film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult novel grossed $10.8 million on Monday — the best showing ever for a Monday outside of holidays, the Christmas stretch and summer.
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Hunger Games has amassed $163.4 million in only four days of play at the domestic box office, suggesting the film could easily gross $350 million or more in North America.
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The pic, opening to $152.5 million during the weekend, shattered a number of records in scoring the third-highest debut of all time behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($169.2 million) and The Dark Knight ($158.4 million), as well as the top opening outside of summer and the top opening for a nonsequel.
Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, should benefit next week from spring break and tweens and teens being out of school.
