The Hunger Games owned the box office in April, beating out just about every new release that tried to steal its thunder! It will be interesting to see how we do in May! See excerpt from Box Office Mojo below!
After the overall box office set records in February and March, business slowed down considerably in April. At around $721 million, it was down nine percent from last April’s record $793 million, and it was also a bit off from 2010’s $753 million. April 2012 did see higher revenue than every other April on record, though it probably didn’t crack the Top 10 in ticket sales. None of the month’s new releases made much of a dent, so the fact that the box office didn’t take a bigger hit was due mostly to The Hunger Games‘s incredible ongoing performance.
Even after making over $230 million in March, The Hunger Games dominated April box office with $139.4 million. It held first place for the first two weekends before dropping down to third place for the last two frames (it even remained ahead of three out of four newcomers on its sixth weekend). The box office sensation has now made $372.7 million, which makes the highest-grossing movie so far in 2012 by a large margin.
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