![]() ![]() ![]() Mockingjay Part I ($337 million domestic and $767 million global) and Mockingjay Part II ($282 million/$648 million) suffered comparative drops from the first two films as the movies moved further away from the whole “pretty girls and cute boys looking stylish and then killing each other for televised sport” gimmick. Moreover, they wanted to see Katniss kicking ass and saving the proverbial day, to the point where audiences declined when the films moved away from the actual “hunger games” and started to really dig into the politics and entertainment/media critique merely implicit in the first two movies. Folks showed up for the marquee characters more so than the IP or the plot, although an easy to explain plot ( “kids forced to kill other kids for televised entertainment,” “a vampire and a teen girl fall for each other,” “a young boy goes to a boarding school for wizards”) translates better than the convoluted plots of Divergent and the Maze Runner sequels. ![]()
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