Box Office: 'Mockingjay' Holds Steady at #1 Over Slow Weekend

1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1- $21.6M/$257.7M
The post-Thanksgiving weekend is generally one of the slowest of the year and this was no different. Mockingjay held on to #1 for the third straight week in the face of absolutely zero competition. Soon it will move into the #2 highest-grossing domestic movies of 2014, surpassing both The Lego Movie and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but it has a long way to go to match Guardians of the Galaxy's $331M. Worldwide, the Jennifer Lawrence-led film has earned $560M.
2. Penguins of Madagascar- $11.1M/$49.5M
Dreamworks' animated spinoff Penguins of Madagascar tumbled 56% in its second weekend, well off the pace of the proper Madagascar movies. It may be feeling the effects of the continued strong showings of Disney's Big Hero 6, which was better reviewed and of course has that whole superhero thing going for it.
3. Horrible Bosses 2- $8.6M/$36M
Not even going to come close to matching its predecessor, Horrible Bosses 2 slid a respectable 44%, but still only has $36M domestic, $47M worldwide. By now the first film had earned $60M on its way to $209M. Maybe a spinoff of Jennifer Aniston's deliciously raunchy character is in order? I'd pay to see that, and I bet so would most people.
4. Big Hero 6- $8.1M/$177.5M
5. Interstellar- $8M/$158.6M
6. Dumb and Dumber To- $4.1M/$78M
7. The Theory of Everything- $2.6M/$13.6M
8. Gone Girl- $1.5M/$162.8M
9. The Pyramid- $1.3M
The only new semi-large release of the week is a film you probably never heard of and clearly didn't go see. The Pyramid is just another cheapie found footage horror flick with no marketable stars (although Ashley Hinshaw is pretty awesome), no press screenings, no buzz, and few positive reviews. Even by the meager standards set by the genre a $1.3M debut is pretty sad.
10. Birdman- $1.1M/$18.9M

Released on only 21 screens but nabbing an impressive $30K per site for a $630K total was the Reese Witherspoon walkabout drama, Wild. This one has plenty of awards buzz for her and director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club), so that probably led to the high numbers and bodes well for a larger expansion.

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Go into the Depths of Hell in the New Trailer for 'The Pyramid'

The name Gregory Levasseur may not be a familiar one, but horror fans will recognize his many screenwriting and producing collaborations with Alexandre Aja: Piranha 3D, High Tension, and The Hills have Eyes. Now Levasseur takes his own turn behind the camera (with Aja producing) with The Pyramid, a subterranean thriller that looks like a combination of The Descent and Alien.

Starring Ashley Hinshaw (Plus One), Denis O'Hare (True Blood), and James Buckley (The Inbetweeners), the film centers on a team of archaeologists who unleash something terrible while exploring a pyramid beneath the Egyptian desert. The Pyramid opens December 5th.


The Pyramid (2014) by Sabfun4

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Trailer for Alexandre Aja-Produced Horror 'The Pyramid'

When one thinks of ancient Egypt and horror movies, the first thing that comes to mind are mummies. But there are all sorts of powerful curses, traps, and terrible things going on in the desert tombs beneath the Necropolis, and Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) will bring the terrors to light in The Pyramid.

Produced by Aja and directed by his his frequent collaborator Gregory Levasseur, The Pyramid follows a group of archaeologists who uncover something terrible while exploring a new pyramid found in the Egyptian desert. The new trailer is actually pretty impressive, beginning with a running montage of past discoveries that turned out awful for everyone involved, then jumping to the present where a new team (led by About Cherry's Ashley Hinshaw) ventures into the unknown depths. This is after the pyramid released a cloud of toxic gas, by the way, suggesting these may not be the brightest bulbs on the payroll. Between this and As Above, So Below this is a bad time for cave-dwelling geeks in horror flicks. Actually, it's always a bad time for those folks.

The Pyramid opens on December 5th and co-stars James Buckley, Denis O'Hare, Christa-Marie Nicola and Amir K.


The Pyramid - Trailer by Dread Central

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