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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dominated the US box office over the weekend.



The Jennifer Lawrence-starring Hunger Games sequel knocked Thor: The Dark World out of the top spot on the chart by earning $161.1m.

Catching Fire’s opening haul surpasses the previous record set by The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which earned $142.8 million in 2009.

Thor: The Dark World fell to second place with $14.1m, while The Best Man Holiday came in third with $12.5m.

The top five was rounded out by Vince Vaughn’s comedy Delivery Man with $8.2 million and Free Birds with $5.3m.

Dallas Buyers Club – which stars Matthew McConaughey as a drug smuggler – finished in 10th place by earning $2.8m.

Captain Phillips fell out of the top 10 over the weekend.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $161,125,000
2. (1) Thor: The Dark World – $14,117,000
3. (2) The Best Man Holiday – $12,522,000
4. (-) Delivery Man – $8,215,000
5. (4) Free Birds – $5,300,000
6. (3) Last Vegas – $4,400,000
7. (5) Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $3,450,000
8. (6) Gravity – $3,305,000
9. (8) 12 Years a Slave – $2,800,000
10. (-) Dallas Buyers Club – $2,770,000