Step aside Star Lord and the other Guardians of the Galaxy. Katniss Everdeen has officially bumped off the Marvel Heroes with the highest grossing movie of 2014. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 has racked up $333.2 million as of Wednesday barely sliding passed the misfit super heroes who earned $333.17 million in the U.S. box office.

Looks like Lionsgate's risk to break the Suzanne Collins' dystopian young adult novel into two parts has paid off big time. The first part of the conclusion to the movie franchise has yet to open in theatres in other big markets, like China (release date on Feb. 8) and the special edition Blue-Ray boxed set will go on sale on March 6.


According to the numbers, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 has already brought home $700 million in worldwide ticket sales. The franchise as a whole is a gold mine, with $2.2 billion box office totals.

However, the first installment of Mockingjay debuted to a somewhat rocky start with only $121.8 million in ticket sales on its opening weekend. The previous years, The Hunger Games brought in $152.5 million and Catching Fire's opening weekend sales were $158 million. In addition, Mockingjay Part 1 did not have the benefit of an IMAX screening which past top grossers at the movies had.

Although it did not go off with a big bang, the slow, steady climb that the movie had kept it going strong until it surpassed Guardians of the Galaxy as the highest-earning film of the year.

The company is looking forward to the film continuing to bring in the big bucks with the sales of the DVD in March which will include special features, deleted scenes, and a tribute to the late actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

"The No. 1 theatrical release of 2014 is poised to become one of the biggest home entertainment events of 2015," said Lionsgate Home Entertainment president Ron Schwartz.

The final installment of the Hunger Games will not be released until Nov. 20 but already Lionsgate is hoping that the odds will ever be in their favor that the movie will also be greeted with the same success as the first three films in the series.

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