TOW #11 "Mockingjay- Part 1" (article)

                In this BuzzFeed article, Adam B. Vary talks about how low the debut of the newest Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay: Part 1 is in relation to the other two movies. Outlining the claim with facts such as the 22% drop in the price of Mockingjay from Catching Fire. So far Mockingjay has made a total of about $123 million, while Catching Fire had made $158.1 million by this time last year. It is still the highest debut of 2014, but is a great deal less than the others. This grabs people’s attention because so far the debut values have been rising for the series, then they suddenly dropped. That is something unexpected. Most would expect the prices to keep on rising like usual, but instead they plummeted. Though, it is still quite impressive that it has only been a few days and Mockingjay: Part 1 has already made $123 million dollars in American box offices. More numbers are then added to sugar coat the slight disappointment. On the international stage, Mockingjay is doing much better. In international box offices, the movie has made a total of about $152 million this past weekend. So, that’s good news, right? Maybe if it was not still lower than the others. Still below the first film’s $283.2 million and the second’s $440.2 million, the oddity still prevails. All of these facts make a fan wonder why this newest movie is not selling as well, or at least as quickly, as the rest. We’ll just have to see if this downward trend will continue with the final movie, Mockingjay: Part 2 that comes out in theaters November 20, 2015. Let’s hope we get some answers to our question of why.