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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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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

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Thor: The Dark World has taken the number one spot at the US box office for the second week in a row.

The superhero sequel – starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston – took in $38.4m with its total gross now at $146.9m. It debuted in first place last weekend with $86.1m.

Thor: The Dark World saw competition in The Best Man Holiday, which was $8m shy of taking the top spot. The film debuted in second place with $30.5m.

Directed and written by Malcolm D Lee, The Best Man Holiday stars Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Terrence Howard, Nia Long, Regina Hall, Harold Perrineau and Morris Chestnut. It is a follow-up to the 1999 movie The Best Man.

Last weekend’s second place Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa slipped to fifth with $7.6m. Its total earnings are now $90.2m. The film debuted at the number one spot in October, dethroning Gravity.

Sandra Bullock’s Gravity, which remained the top US movie for three consecutive weekends, kept its number six place with $6.2m. It’s total US box office gross is at $240.5mm.

Ender’s Game, which also took first place on its debut earlier this month, fell from fifth place to seventh with $6.2m. Its total earnings stand at $53.7m.

The critically-acclaimed drama 12 Years a Slave slid one spot to eighth place with $6.2m. Its total earnings are now $24.9m.

Last Vegas, Free Birds, Captain Phillips and About Time make up the top ten list.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Thor: The Dark World – $38,454,000
2. (-) The Best Man Holiday – $30,593,000
3. (4) Last Vegas – $8,850,000
4. (3) Free Birds – $8,300,000
5. (2) Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $7,670,000
6. (6) Gravity – $6,280,000
7. (5) Ender’s Game – $6,200,000
8. (7) 12 Years a Slave – $4,700,000
9. (8) Captain Phillips – $4,500,000
10. (9) About Time – $3,462,000

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Thor: The Dark World has dominated the US box office this weekend.

The latest Marvel superhero epic took the top spot on the chart with impressive weekend earnings of $86.1m.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa held strong in second position over the weekend with $11.3m, while Free Birds and Last Vegas were in third and fourth place respectively.

The Harrison Ford-starring Ender Game‘s fell sharply from its victory at the box office last weekend, by dropping to fifth place with $10.3m.

Director Richard Curtis’s romantic comedy About Time entered the top ten with earnings of $5.2m, to finish in ninth place.

Carrie – the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel – and The Counsellor both dropped out of top ten.

The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Thor: The Dark World – $86,109,000
2. (2) Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $11,300,000
3. (4) Free Birds – $11,180,000
4. (3) Last Vegas – $11,100,000
5. (1) Ender’s Game – $10,250,000
6. (5) Gravity – $8,405,000
7. (7) 12 Years a Slave – $6,600,000
8. (6) Captain Phillips – $5,800,000
9. (-) About Time – $5,172,000
10. (8) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 – $2,800,000

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