User blog:ARTaylor/Big Hero 6 Still Number Two

In its third weekend, Walt Disney Animation Studios's latest feature Big Hero 6 stayed in second place behind once again only being beaten by the newcomer The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. On Friday the movie earned $4,484,000 while the weekend total came to an estimated $20,086,000, bringing the movie's total gross to an estimated $135,708,000. It lost one hundred twenty-three theater screens making an average of $5,503 per screen. Internationally, Big Hero 6 is currently the thirty-fifth highest grossing film of the year.

This coming weekend, the film will face its first true competition with the family-oriented The Penguins of Madagascar. If estimates hold up, it should finish with about $200 million.