This is getting a little ridiculous: The Hunger Games claimed its fourth straight weekend box-office win on Sunday, mopping the floor with weak-sauce competition including The Three Stooges , Cabin in the Woods , and a brutally performing Lockout . Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. The Hunger Games Gross: $21,500,000 ($337,070,000) Screens: 3,916 (PSA $5,490) Weeks: 4 (Change: -35.1%) Where will it end? One can only presume that Zac Efron and Nicholas Sparks will tag team to knock this off the top next week with The Lucky One , but I’m more preoccupied with The Hunger Games ‘ foreign tally — $194 million and counting, with late European markets (including Spain and Italy) still to come. Is a $650 million global take doable? $700 million? And can you believe how much money Gary Ross walked away from for the sequels? Oy. 2. The Three Stooges Gross: $17,100,000 (new) Screens: 3,545 (PSA $4,918) Weeks: 1 Speaking of “oy”… Not terrible, I guess, for recycled slapstick from the mid-20th century, though it clearly needed more nun-kini . 3. The Cabin in the Woods Gross: $14,850,000 (new) Screens: 2,811 (PSA: $5,283) Weeks: 1 I can only imagine the surprise of Lionsgate accountants this morning as they pore over their box-office spreadsheets, scroll down from the Hunger Games numbers, and quizzically exchange glances about this strange other movie their studio opened last Friday. I think is what they call “gravy” in Hollywood. 4. Titanic 3D Gross: $11,625,000 ($44,419,000) Screens: 2,697 (PSA: $4,310) Weeks: 2 (Change: -32.7%) No, wait — this is what they call gravy. Relatively slight drop, though, for a 3-D film, which could mean a surprising showing next week against top-five hopeful Chimpanzee . Also: I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence. 5. American Reunion Gross: $10,700,000 ($39,900,000) Screens: 3,203 (PSA $3,341) Weeks: 2 (Change: -50.3) Whatever. 9. Lockout Gross: $6,250,000 (new) Screens: 2,308 (PSA $2,708) Weeks: 1 And goodbye, Guy Pearce, action hero . We hardly knew ye. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Weekend Receipts: Hunger Games Slays Lukewarm Stooges and Co.
