You could say ‘The Hunger Games’ did well in its debut, but that would be a vast understatement — with $155 million in revenues, the film adaptation of the best-selling novel left the other movies in the dust and moved easily to the top of the charts this weekend.
2011 will be a year quicky to be forgotten by Hollywood studios as they saw a substancial decline in box office revenues from 2010. This year will also go down as the lowest theatre attendance in more than 15 years.
Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert had his say in a recent commentary posted on his website. He pointed to 6 reasons why fewer of us are going to the theater. Among them:
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Tron: Legacy came out on top this weekend in the theaters, with an estimated $43.6 million, which unfortunately, isn't even half of the flick's $170 million budget!