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Casting a dark shadow over “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” new “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” has officially usurped the November box office record.<\/p>\n

“Catching Fire,” the second film in the “Games” franchise, opened to an impressive $161.1 million at the box office this weekend. Up 6% from the debut “Hunger Games” total, the “Catching Fire” haul also crushes the $142.8 million “New Moon” total, which previously held the record for a November opening.<\/p>\n

Overwhelming interest in “Catching Fire” assured nothing else would register at the weekend box office. “Thor: The Dark World” drew just $14.1 million for second, while “The Best Man Holiday” sank by a larger than expected 58% to just $12.5 million.<\/p>\n

Flop newcomer “Delivery Man” managed just $8.2 million, while “Free Birds” put up $5.3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[1258,1253,1109,1211,1218,1219,1159,1257],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Tops "Twilight"'s Box Office Record<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Casting a dark shadow over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," new "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" has officially usurped the November box office record.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/11\/24\/hunger-games-catching-fire-tops-twilights-box-office-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Tops "Twilight"'s Box Office Record\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Casting a dark shadow over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," new "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" has officially usurped the November box office record.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/11\/24\/hunger-games-catching-fire-tops-twilights-box-office-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-24T19:11:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/11\/24\/hunger-games-catching-fire-tops-twilights-box-office-record\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/11\/24\/hunger-games-catching-fire-tops-twilights-box-office-record\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\\\" Tops \\\"Twilight\\\"'s Box Office Record\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-24T19:11:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-11-24T19:11:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Casting a dark shadow over \\\"The Twilight Saga: New Moon,\\\" new \\\"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\\\" has officially usurped the November box office record.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/11\/24\/hunger-games-catching-fire-tops-twilights-box-office-record\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News & Charts, TV News & Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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