Hunger Games 2 Breaks Box Office Records with 'Catching Fire' Over First Film From 2012

Hunger Games: Catching Fire released this weekend and has surpassed expectations and had a record breaking opening.

Hunger Games 2 opened to with $307.7 million worldwide (according to THR) which handily surpassed the first Hunger Games film that opened in March of 2012 with $211.8 worldwide opening weekend. 

Thor: The Dark World starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman came in second with a $14.1 million addition to their box office totals. 

Hunger Games: Catching Fire stars: Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee, Jeffrey Wright as Beetee Latier, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, Donald Sutherland as President Coriolanus Snow, Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith, Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair and Jena Malone as Johanna Mason. 

The full budget for the movie was $130-140 million, so they are already making profit through their first weekend. 

Have you seen Hunger Games: Catching Fire? What did you think of it?