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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has won the US box office for a third week.

The Peter Jackson-directed fantasy sequel fought off competition from Disney’s Frozen, earning $29.9m.

Frozen finished in second place, making $28.8m in its sixth week of release. It now becomes Disney’s most successful film domestically since The Lion King.

Meanwhile, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues came third with takings of $20.2m.

Christian Bale’s American Hustle remains at four in its second week of wide-release, while The Wolf of Wall Street is a new entry at five after taking $18.5m.

Other new entries in this week’s top ten are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty at number seven, earning $13m, and 47 Ronin at nine, with takings of $9.9m.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – $29,850,000
2. (3) Frozen – $28,845,000
3. (2) Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues – $20,150,000
4. (4) American Hustle – $19,550,000
5. (-) The Wolf of Wall Street – $18,510,000
6. (5) Saving Mr. Banks – $14,021,000
7. (-) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – $13,000,000
8. (6) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $10,200,000
9. (-) 47 Ronin – $9,869,000
10. (7) Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas – $7,400,000

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has won the US box office for a second week.

The Peter Jackson-directed fantasy beat out the debut of Will Ferrell’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, earning $31.4m.

Anchorman 2 came in at second place, making $26.7m.

Christian Bale’s American Hustle and Tom Hanks’s Saving Mr Banks both leapt into the top five after opening into wide-release following small runs in New York and Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, animated feature Walking With Dinosaurs debuted in eight place with $7.3m, while Bollywood film Dhoom 3 made history by premiering at number nine with $3.3m.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – $31,455,000
2. (-) Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues – $26,776,000
3. (2) Frozen – $19,163,000
4. (15) American Hustle – $19,100,000
5. (18) Saving Mr. Banks – $9,321,000
6. (4) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $8,750,000
7. (3) Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas – $8,510,000
8. (-) Walking with Dinosaurs – $7,300,000
9. (-) Dhoom 3 – $3,305,000
10. (5) Thor: The Dark World – $1,328,000

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has knocked Frozen off the top spot at the US box office.

The Peter Jackson-directed sequel to last year’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, based on the book by JRR Tolkien, debuted at number one this weekend with $73.6m.

While Frozen continued strongly this week with $22.1m at number two, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas premiered in third place with $16m.

The top five was rounded out by Jennifer Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Thor: The Dark World.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – $73,675,000
2. (1) Frozen – $22,184,000
3. (-) Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas – $16,000,000
4. (2) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $13,150,000
5. (4) Thor: The Dark World – $2,700,000
6. (3) Out of the Furnace – $2,320,000
7. (5) Delivery Man – $1,872,000
8. (9) Philomena – $1,756,000
9. (7) The Book Thief – $1,675,000
10. (6) Homefront- $1,637,000

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Frozen has knocked The Hunger Games: Catching Fire out of the top spot at the US box office.

The Kristen Bell-starring Disney animated movie – which is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen – came in at number-one over the weekend with $31.6m.

Jennifer Lawrence’s The Hunger Game: Catching Fire continued strongly in its third week of release by finishing in second place with $27m.

Out of the Furnace – starring Christian Bale and Casey Affleck in a story of two brothers sucked into the crime world – debuted in third position by taking $5.3m.

The top five was rounded out by Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World and the Vince Vaughn comedy Delivery Man.

Black Nativity and Last Vegas both fell out of the top ten over the weekend.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (2) Frozen – $31,641,000
2. (1) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $27,000,000
3. (-) Out of the Furnace – $5,300,000
4. (3) Thor: The Dark World – $4,740,000
5. (6) Delivery Man – $3,775,000
6. (5) Homefront – $3,384,000
7. (7) The Book Thief – $2,700,000
8. (4) The Best Man Holiday – $2,673,000
9. (9) Philomena – $2,282,000
10. (-) Dallas Buyers Club – $1,459,000

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire broke another US box office record over the Thanksgiving period.

Catching Fire‘s Friday to Sunday screenings amassed $74.5 million, bringing the sequel’s overall total to $296.5m.

Despite landing one place behind Catching Fire, Disney’s latest release Frozen celebrated a record of its own. The Kristen Bell-voiced animation brought in $93m over the long weekend, breaking the Thanksgiving record for highest debut – previously held by Toy Story 2 in 1999 with $80m.

Overall the US box office achieved an all-time high over the holiday weekend, taking in around $294m and beating last year’s record-breaking $291m.

Elsewhere in the chart, Homefront made its debut at number five pulling in $6.9m, while Black Nativity opened at number eight with $5m.

Several movies fell out of the top ten this week, including Gravity after eight weeks.

The US weekend box office top ten in full (studio estimates:
1. (2) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $161,125,000
2. (-) Frozen – $93,000,000
2. (4) Thor: The Dark World – $11,108,000
4. (3) The Best Man Holiday – $8,491,000
5. (-) Homefront – $6,970,000
4. (2) Delivery Man – $6,931,000
7. (4) The Book Thief – 4,850,000
8. (-) Black Nativity – $3,880,000
9. (2) Philomena – $3,789,000
10. (4) Last Vegas – $2,785,000

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