The blockbuster movie “The Hunger Games” topped three new films over the weekend to earn its fourth straight box office title.

 

The survival story about an oppressive society's teen death match brought in $21.5 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters.

 

Fox's comedy “The Three Stooges” finished the weekend in second place with 17.1 million. Third place belonged to the horror film “The Cabin in the Woods”, which pulled in 14.9 million.

 

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp released “Hunger Games” and “Cabin in the Woods.” News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio distributed “Three Stooges.”

 

 

(Reuters)