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Update: Disney is reporting Frozen 2‘s Monday at $12.77M which is still the best ever for November, breaking the record set by Lionsgate’s Hunger Games: Catching Fire.  Previous AM: Exhibitors continue to thank the movie gods for Disney’s Frozen 2 after an awful month at the box office. Yesterday the Jennifer…

While it didn’t quite catch fire, Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part I had enough of an appetite to eat up the weekend box office, providing an anemic year with its biggest debut yet at about $124m, though the pic may have left scraps on the table. By almost any measure, the penultimate installment of the Y.A. juggernaut…

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet will keep fans from braiding their hair, donning archer unitards and lining up for Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. After a languid box office year that has dogged 2013 by 3.6% through this past Sunday, exhibs and even competitive distribs are looking to Katniss as their…

Frozen, already the all-time animation box-office champ and an Oscar winner, has added another jewel to its icy crown: Rentrak says the Walt Disney Animation feature topped the charts for the first half of 2014 in digital movie purchases and rentals on VOD and electronic sellthrough. Nearly all the other films in the…

AwardsLine Deputy Editor Anna Lisa Raya provided on-scene coverage tonight. UPDATED WITH ALL WINNERS AND SPEECHES: 12 Years A Slave's Patricia Norris and Hunger Games: Catching Fire's Trish Summerville nabbed top film awards tonight at the 16th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. Norris won the Outstanding Period…

THIS WEEKEND OPENERS: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (PAR, wide) THURSDAY, 8:09 AM: Since Christmas fell on a Wednesday this year and New Year’s Eve on a Tuesday, the studios are enjoying a long holiday run at the box office that will continue through Sunday. Through the New Year’s holiday, The Hobbit: Desolation…

CHRISTMAS DAY OPENERS: The Wolf Of Wall Street (Paramount, wide) sliding down to No. 5 in 3-day, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (Fox, wide), 47 Ronin (Universal, wide) bomb, Grudge Match (Warner Bros, wide), Justin Bieber's Believe (Open Road, moderate), The Invisible Woman (Sony Pictures Classics, ltd), Lone Survivor…

Driven by the phenomenal success of its blockbuster franchise Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me — the sleeper hit heist film which grossed a whopping $235M internationally — Lionsgate announced this morning that it has grossed more than $1 billion at the domestic box office and…

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has grossed $18 million in IMAX theaters worldwide and $12.6 million in 347 screens in North America since its Friday release. That’s the best three-day domestic opening for November in IMAX history, topping the previous record set by Sony's Skyfall in November 2012, IMAX said today…