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It added $21.6 million to its haul this weekend; its cumulative gross now stands at $257.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Penguins of Madagascar&#8221; repeated at second courtesy $11.1 million, while &#8220;Horrible Bosses 2&#8221; claimed third by adding $8.6 million to its overall take.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big Hero 6&#8221; and &#8220;Interstellar&#8221; earned $8.1 million and $8.0 million to finish at #4 and #5, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 589 theaters, &#8220;The Pyramid&#8221; ranked as the weekend&#8217;s hottest newcomer.  It finished at #9 overall with $1.4 million in receipts.<\/p>\n<p>New release &#8220;Wild,&#8221; which spent its first weekend on 21 screens, earned $630,000 for fifteenth-place.<\/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":[3168,176,3201,3167,2849,3251,1218,3276,3275],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Mockingjay&quot; Wins 3rd Straight Box Office Race, &quot;Pyramid&quot; is Best Newcomer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An absence of high-profile newcomers meant a lack of challengers for &quot;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1,&quot; which cruised to its third consecutive\" \/>\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\/2014\/12\/07\/mockingjay-wins-3rd-straight-box-office-race-pyramid-best-newcomer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Mockingjay&quot; Wins 3rd Straight Box Office Race, &quot;Pyramid&quot; is Best Newcomer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An absence of high-profile newcomers meant a lack of challengers for &quot;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1,&quot; which cruised to its third consecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/12\/07\/mockingjay-wins-3rd-straight-box-office-race-pyramid-best-newcomer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-08T01:07:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Jennifer-Lawrence-MockingJay-e1417065512652.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1469\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"717\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\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\/2014\/12\/07\/mockingjay-wins-3rd-straight-box-office-race-pyramid-best-newcomer\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/12\/07\/mockingjay-wins-3rd-straight-box-office-race-pyramid-best-newcomer\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Mockingjay\\\" Wins 3rd Straight Box Office Race, \\\"Pyramid\\\" is Best Newcomer\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-08T01:07:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-12-08T01:07:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"An absence of high-profile newcomers meant a lack of challengers for \\\"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1,\\\" which cruised to its third consecutive\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/12\/07\/mockingjay-wins-3rd-straight-box-office-race-pyramid-best-newcomer\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; 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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