So I’m going around CNN.com and I come upon this article:

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Opens to Franchise Low $101 Million

Ok, let’s take this step by step:

The last film in the Hunger Games series was split in two.  Mockingjay Part 1 and 2 are both sourced from the third and final Hunger Games novel, a book many fans of the series feel was the worst of the three.  Further, there were many who read the book and who wondered why, other other than to make more money, two films were created out of it.  They felt there wasn’t enough in that third novel that merited making two films out of it.

Second point: Viewer fatigue may be setting in.  As much as we may like a series of movies and/or characters, there inevitably comes a point where we grow tired of seeing them.  It’s part of the reason I’m determined to conclude my Corrosive Knights series.  Though I’ve introduced many characters and there isn’t one “big” central character in the lot and the books’ various settings/stories are vastly different, I’m well aware that there’s danger in treading the same grounds.

To take one example: I loved the works of author Clive Cussler until I realized he was essentially writing the same novel over and over and over again.

Third point: A $101 MILLION dollar opening is considered, based on this article and its headline, bad?!?!  Sure it may be a “low” opening versus the other films in the franchise, but for Gods’ sake, the film scored $101 million dollars…on its opening weekend!

If I could make one one-hundreth of that on my novels I’d be a damn happy camper!

As I said in the headline, sometimes they look for a story where there may not really be any.  Yeah, Mockingjay Part 2 made a little less money than the other Hunger Games movies.

Nonetheless, I seriously doubt the studios are crying over the results.