`Hunger Games` crosses $300m mark at box office to top Easter weekend

New York: The Hunger Games continued to reign at the weekend box office for a third straight time, grossing an estimated 33.5 million dollars. The ensemble action-adventure flick with 302.8 million dollars in the domestic bank, is the second-fastest nonsequel to reach the 300 million dollars mark. Meanwhile, the Titanic 3-D rerelease was left not only looking up at the year’s biggest blockbuster, but Stifler’s mom too in ‘Pie’ sequel. American Reunion took second place with a strong 21.5 million dollars Friday-Sunday debut. Titanic 3D settled for third with 17.4 million dollars, an amount that at once isn’t bad for a 14-year-old movie, and isn’t great for an Oscar-winning classic that earlier ruled as Hollywood’s all-time moneymaker. Titanic fell short even among 3-D rereleases. The Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet movie failed to challenge the opening-weekend record posted last year by The Lion King (30.2 million dollars), and it failed to match this past winter’s debut of Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (22.5 million dollars), E! Online reported. The complete rundown of the weekend’s top movies, per Friday-Sunday domestic estimates as reported by the studios and BoxOfficeMojo.com is as follows: `The Hunger Games`, 33.5 million dollars `American Reunion`, 21.5 million dollars `Titanic 3D`, 17.4 million dollars `Wrath of the Titans`, 15 million dollars `Mirror, Mirror`, 11 million dollars `21 Jump Street`, 10.2 million dollars `Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax`, 5 million dollars `Salmon Fishing in the Yemen`, 975,000 dollars `John Carter`, 800,000 dollars `Safe House`, 581,000 dollars ANI