'Krampus' Scores Strong Opening While 'Mockingjay' Takes First for Third Straight Week

6 December 2015 10:06 AM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

Universal's Krampus had a wonderful opening as the Christmas-themed horror comedy managed a second place finish, just behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, which took first place for a third weekend in a row. Creed held strong as it finds itself in a neck-and-neck battle for third place with Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which is really struggling to find a foothold, becoming only the second Pixar film to drop more than 60% in its second weekend. Mockingjay 2 took #1 with an estimated $18.6 million domestically along with another $32.4 million internationally. The film's international cume now sits at $296.8 million, which tops the first Hunger Games as its global cume climbs above $523 million. In second is where I must own my wildly inaccurate projection for Krampus, which stormed the box office to the tune of $16 million. The film nearly beat my $6.5 million weekend prediction on its very first day and held on very well on Saturday. »

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