STUDIO BRIEFING ALERT: MOCKINGJAY FALLS SHORT OF $150M — FAR SHORT

It may not have come close to matching the opening grosses of the first two Hunger Games movies, but with an estimated haul of $123 million, Mockingjay‘s “Part 1” debut nevertheless produced the best box-office opening of 2014.

TheWrap.com: Distributor Lionsgate Entertainment rolled out Mockingjay in 85 foreign markets as well this weekend … bringing in a whopping $152 million and opening at No. 1 in virtually every territory. The $275 million first-weekend global total for Mockingjay is under that of Catching Fire but over the $218 million of The Hunger Games.